Showing posts with label Scheduling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scheduling. Show all posts

21.9.12

Tips to Utilize Google Calendar for Scheduling Tasks

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Ever wondered how to make settings in your Google Calendar to enable functionalities that will help you utilize it better? Here are a few tips that will help you gain better control of Google Calendar and create functions that will enhance your experience with it.

Offline Calendar availability

It is not always possible to have access to internet online and so it becomes difficult to view the scheduled events in your Google Calendar. This problem can be solved with an offline availability of Calendar. Chrome users with HTML5 can avail the synch option to view the details of events that are listed in the calendar. These can be easily viewed offline, now you need not connect to the internet to find out the specific date scheduled for a meeting or an event. Chrome has the ability to store the data for offline viewing and has the capability to synchronize it whenever you log in back.

For viewing your offline schedules apply the following steps:

• Open Chrome
• Click Gear icon> Offline> Install Google Calendar> Install from Web Store option
• A new tab will appear with Google Calendar icon
• Go to Google Calendar> Gear icon> Offline
• A green icon will appear with a tick mark to confirm the sync
• The syncing will be indicated by an icon that is spinning
• A tick marked icon is indicative of synched content in Calendar

Suggested Time for scheduling events

The hardest part of creating a schedule meeting is finding the right time for people involved in it. At this time you can utilize the functionality of Suggested Times that comes along with Google Calendar. This feature suggests the time that might be convenient to the people involved in a specific event together.

This is how it is done:

• Add the attendees
• A link appears by the name of Suggested Times
• Click open Suggested Times
• Suggested time for attendees will appear
• Select the best time when all are available
• If in case you are not able to find the suggested time for attendees then search again for the time

How to Dim Insignificant Events

Scheduling each event throughout a day is a habit with some. This serves as a reminder of what activity is scheduled next in line for the day. However, often this habit of scheduling the whole day overshadows the most important events that are listed in the given day. This creates confusion and most likely to miss the event. To avoid all this you can choose to dim the events that are not significant. Using the functionality of Event dimming helps you get the most important update of the day. Following steps can be applied to enable this utility:

• General Tab> Settings> Event Dimming
• A list of events will be given for the day
• Select the events that you want to dim

How to Receive a Daily Agenda

Viewing the events of the day is something that does seem cumbersome to a few. Therefore, to avoid it all you can use the option of obtaining an e-mail to glance it through. This option is called receiving an Agenda; let us find out how it is done:

• Go to drop down calendar menu
• Go to Notifications> Choose how you would like to be notified> Daily Agenda
• When you are done Save

Applying the above given tips to Google Calendar will enable in turning on the full functionality of calendar events, scheduling daily tasks and organizing meetings effectively.

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31.1.12

Expanding your business successfully with Shift Scheduling Software

With all your hard work and dedication your business is going to be a success. You have put a lot of hours and hard graft into your ideas and you have created something to become proud of.

What happens then you reach the effort when you can't manage everything on your own. You employ staff of path. This will alleviate some of your problems letting you concentrate on expanding and growing your company further. Unfortunately employing staff can produce problems of their own, mainly with regard to scheduling and organising your people. You need to make sure you are covered constantly and you might even need to work out shift patterns so your clients don't suffer a drop in service.

How do you go concerning organising your schedule? Well you use Shift Scheduling Software of course.

Shift Scheduling Software can assist you set your shift patterns, set breaks and lunches for your staff and automate the overall staffing process reducing the need to micro manage everything and providing the space and time to enjoy on more important aspects to your business.
The main aim of any business is always to keep your staff happy. Keeping your staff happy keeps your customers happy and eventually your bank balance as properly. The software is online meaning it is possible to communicate easily with your staff constantly without having to leave your own property or even if you are on the road you can keep in touch to make sure they know how important they are to the company and you personally.
Any potential issues can end up nipped in the bud quickly and often keep staff updated as to shift patterns and even text message staff when there is a problem or urgent change to their work load, breaks or schedule.

Most people enjoy working if they have a structure to their lives, if you set break rules they know right after they have lunch or tea and they can plan their day and in many cases their diet if needed accordingly.

Shift Scheduling Software is easy to arrange and use and will help you save so much time ultimately. It is also very cost effective and is priced according to how many staff you have. This means that any start up companies will not have to pay a lot of money for a small amount of staff so they really only pay more if their own business and staffing levels increase. After all if their staffs do grow dealing indicate how successful they are and that their business is drawing in the type of income which could easily overcome the fees on offer.


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