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how to unleash staff creativity
Office Harmony

5 (Science-Backed) Strategies for Unleashing Staff Creativity

Whether you’re the manager of a team or working on a project with a group of staff, there are times when creativity is needed.

And the more of it you can tease out from everyone, the better the results are going to be.

Now, let’s not be mistaken here… creativity is not just a thing for artistic pursuits. It’s about generating fresh ideas, thinking laterally, coming up with unique ways to solve complex problems… regardless of the field you work in.

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Macnamara Content Team 27 February 2020
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Office Harmony

How (and Why) to Get Everyone Excited About Your Business Mission

It’s one thing to have a business mission. It’s another for your staff to live and breathe it. 

Because getting them on board isn’t exactly a walk in the park. 

In fact, less than half of workers in any industry feel strongly connected to their company’s mission, according to Gallup research. 

So how do you communicate your mission in a way that makes your whole team want to jump up and fly the flag? And is it really that important anyway?

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Macnamara Content Team 25 December 2019
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Office Sanctuary

How to Cut Down the Number of Telephone Calls You Have to Deal With at Work

If there were a soundtrack to your workday, what would it be?

We can rule out Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5. (Clocking off at 5? You should be so lucky…) 

Stayin’ Alive? Barely. 

No… If there were a soundtrack to your workday, it would be the sound of your phone ringing. Because that thing just doesn’t seem to shut up. 

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Macnamara Content Team 28 November 2019
Security

How to Spot a Fake Email, Part 2: The Anatomy of a Scam

In our previous post on how to spot a fake email, we covered some easy ways to identify the spams, scams and spoofs that inevitably land in your inbox.

But it’s not easy to write one post covering everything. And it’s not uncommon for us to receive a few reports a day from our clients of scamming. There’s a lot of it out there, much of it increasingly hard to identify.

That’s why we’re going to break it down further today and take you through the anatomy of a scam email.

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Geoff Courts 4 November 2019
how to tame your inbox
Office Sanctuary

How To Regain Control of Your Inbox

Remember the days when your inbox was all shiny and new and empty? When every email arrived with an excited “ping” and you enthusiastically dove in to read and reply? 

Us neither.

Let’s face it, most inboxes nowadays are more like tentacled sea-monsters. They have you in their grasp, not the other way around. They’re uncontrollable. They’re scary.

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Macnamara Content Team 29 October 2019
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Security

Why Use Multi-Factor Authentication?

As we move increasingly towards online services, securing your account is more important than ever.

While computer viruses still exist, they’re no longer the route of choice for hackers to get control of your data. Instead, the prevalence of online services means that the bad guys are targeting your cloud services, such as your email and file storage.

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Geoff Courts 8 October 2019
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Office Sanctuary

Hitting Refresh: How To Take Effective Work Breaks

What do your work breaks look like?

Do you gobble down a sandwich with one hand while typing with the other and call it a lunch “break”?

Do you get away from your desk but stay glued to your phone?

Because here’s the thing: not all breaks are created equal.

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Macnamara Content Team 8 October 2019
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Best practices

How Safe Is Your Fish Tank?

What on earth is this one about, I hear you ask? The Internet Of Things, that’s what; those millions of things that connect to the internet, like your home central heating, your toaster, webcams, children’s toys and yes, even fish tanks, allowing them to send you messages and alerts, or to be controlled and managed from your smartphone.

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Geoff Courts 9 September 2019
Best practices

Better Web Privacy – Browsers, Trackers & Blockers

Surfing the web in private is a minefield.

Everywhere you go, something is watching you, tracking your search results and the pages you visit.

And more often than not the goal is to target you with advertising based on the things that you’re probably interested in (probable because hey, that’s what you’ve been looking at isn’t it?)

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Geoff Courts 9 September 2019
travel booking apps for business
Next Level Office Managers

Trip planning? Try these 5 must-have travel apps.

If you’re in charge of booking staff travel, you know all too well how time-consuming it can be. 

How do you find a flight that gets there on time and in budget? How do you search multiple airlines and booking platforms at the same time? 

How do you avoid sneaky fees, confusing information and misleading quotes? And how do you keep track of all the travel details once everything is booked?

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Macnamara Content Team 29 August 2019
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Security

Is it ever a good idea to share office passwords?

At first glance the answer is obvious. No, of course we should never share our passwords, why would we? 

I agree and yet, here’s an oddity: we often encounter small companies where password sharing is common. It may not be obvious at first but with a little digging the practice turns out to be the norm. 

In fact, anecdotally, I would say offices in which some degree of password sharing goes on are more common than those that absolutely ban it.

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Ciaran Kenny 29 August 2019
Cyber Essentials 2023
Best practices

Cyber Essentials: Is It Worth It?

For some companies, Cyber Essentials or Cyber Essentials Plus certification is a must-have. Usually this is because their position in the supply chain — e.g.

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Ciaran Kenny 2 July 2019
office snacks productivity
Office Harmony

Let’s Talk About Snacks, Baby

It’s time to talk about your office snack situation. Granted, the contents of the level 3 vending machine are probably not high on your agenda.

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Macnamara Content Team 25 May 2019
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Cloud Services

AWS vs Azure vs Google – Which Cloud Service is Best?

The ability to store, edit, and access data around the world has revolutionized the way people and companies operate — Cloud services are no longer considered a luxury — they’re the cornerstone of a firm’s coherent and competitive IT strategy.

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Macnamara Content Team 18 March 2019
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