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How to Embed a Video in PowerPoint and Elevate Your Slides
Have you ever sat through a dull PowerPoint presentation that left you struggling to keep your eyes open? Static slides crammed with text and bullet points aren’t enough to captivate your audience. You can turn a monotonous presentation into an engaging one by embedding videos into your slide deck. Not only do they attract attention, […]
How To Do a Screen Recording: Desktop and Mobile
Stuck on a tech issue, but explaining it over text messages or calls feels like a game of charades? You describe the error message in detail, but your colleague is still missing the picture. In a different scenario, you share a crystal-clear recording of your screen, highlighting exactly what’s happening on your screen and making […]
How to Screen Record on Windows: A Step-by-Step Guide
Sometimes you can’t find the right words to convey an idea or technique. What started as a quick note to explain your color choice for a recent design prototype ended up turning into a full-blown, 500-word email. After spending more time than you wanted to on writing and editing your email, it might hit you […]
Top 7 Remote Training Software: Your Guide to the Best Tools
A team in Chicago chimes in on a lively discussion in a real-time chatroom, brainstorming solutions with colleagues in London who are just starting their workday. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, another team member uploads a video tutorial they created to the shared workspace, instantly accessible to everyone. This isn’t just a vision—it’s the potential that your […]
Top 10 Video Conferencing Platforms of 2024
Faces frozen in wacky positions, weird audio glitches, and the dreaded “Hello, can you hear me?” If you recognized these as hallmarks of a horrible video call, you’re right. For remote and hybrid teams, these issues aren’t just minor annoyances, they’re productivity killers. After all, video is the primary way for distributed teams to communicate, […]
Guide to Managing Remote Teams: 11 Tips and Tools for Success
It’s the launch day for your new app. The website countdown ticks down. Your team members around the globe—one refreshing a faulty browser, another battling a flurry of unclear messages, a third feeling a pang of isolation—all struggle with a sense of disconnection. The dream of a smooth launch hangs in the balance. But it […]
5 Remote Onboarding Strategies to Start New Hires Off Right
It’s your first day at a new remote job. You excitedly hustle through your morning routine, then finally plop down at your desk and log into your new email account. You’re greeted by an inbox brimming with new-hire training alerts, meeting invites, and account setup tasks—and there’s no rhyme or reason to what you should […]
6 Ways to Improve Team Design Feedback: Template Included
After pouring creativity, ideas, and effort into a design, it can be discouraging when bad or surprising feedback comes knocking at the door. Your team members have likely experienced every kind of feedback throughout their career: the good, the bad, and the ugly, the kind of feedback that feels like an attack, and the type […]
How to Use Design Reviews for Cross-Team Collaboration
Design reviews are great for refining and leveling up your designs—until you’re stuck waiting on feedback. Or trying to dig feedback out of an email chain that deserves a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for length. Not only are you trying to summarize 500-word emails, you’re also trying to understand text-based inputs […]
8 Pipeline Generation Tactics for Sustainable Growth
Without leads, there are no deals to close. But while lead generation is crucial, it’s only one component within your overall sales process. Broadening your lens to take in the view of your entire sales pipeline—pipeline generation—can drive more lead traffic and foster long-term growth. You’re more likely to find areas for improvement, which serve […]
Team Meetings: 6 Ways to Kick Unproductivity to the Curb
“Let’s get started,” says the team leader. “How’s everyone doing?” Random cough. “Great. So, it’s the weekly meeting. And, um, well…” Awkward silence. Ever been there? Your team meeting starts, and no one knows what to talk about. Maybe the subjects are all over the place. By the end of the meeting, you are back […]
6 Surefire Ways to Run More Effective Meetings and Save Time
Being in a meeting and not knowing what you’re there for is never a good use of your time. Especially, when there’s pressing work waiting to be done right when you get out of a very ambiguous meeting. Many meetings are unproductive and end without reaching a consensus or clear decisions. In fact, a Bloomberg […]
7 Employee Engagement Metrics That Determine Success
It’s time to log in for the day at work. As you sit down with a fresh cup of coffee, your mind is brimming with ideas you want to explore, and you can’t wait to get started. You work at a company with values and a mission that you love. You know exactly what’s expected […]
5 Tips to Foster Effective Communication in the Workplace
If you find coworkers don’t receive your messages as intended or that you’re not getting the information you need from others, you’re not alone. Thirty percent of employees reported increasing challenges when communicating with coworkers and clients, and 70% say they’ve wasted time trying to mend communication issues at work. Even if your teams communicate […]
21 Common Sales Objections and How to Handle Them Like a Pro
If you work in sales, you’ve probably heard “We’re not interested” or “Let me think about it” more than a few times. Converting a prospect into a customer is tough work, and with the wrong tools, it’s even harder. For a sales team, these sales objections can feel like an insurmountable wall between them and […]