It’s not unusual to think the best way to empower your employees is to adopt a hands-off approach. After all, no one in the history of work has ever said, “I really like it when my boss checks up on me 30 times a day.” So, micromanaging is obviously not the right approach. You also… Continue reading Empower Your Team with TRC Services
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Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions with TRC
Here’s a fun fact about New Year’s Resolutions: they date back 4,000 years to their origins in ancient Babylon. The historical record does not tell us how many of those resolutions were kept or broken over the millennia, but we can guess, based on our own experiences. This year could be the year you hit… Continue reading Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions with TRC
Flexibility and Convenience The Records Company Way
The Records Company platform is designed to provide the flexibility, adaptability, and convenience organizations need during this time of flux. Our secure portal is easy to access from anywhere, and our login features make for easy collaboration and file sharing among authorized users in your firm, office, or practice. We have the power to go… Continue reading Flexibility and Convenience The Records Company Way
How We Work: Many Users, One Account
Did you know you can add multiple users to a single account through our secure portal? Our portal is built for speed and convenience, so this feature saves you the hassle of creating a separate account for each member of your team. Everything you need is contained in one centralized location. Because everyone on your… Continue reading How We Work: Many Users, One Account
The Power of Positive Language
If you have 100 interactions with other people today, probably 95 of those interactions will be positive—or at least neutral. However, the world is a stressful place, none of us is perfect, and sometimes small things can turn a routine interaction volatile. Here are three simple word-choice changes you can make to help keep those… Continue reading The Power of Positive Language
Multitasking: Break the Cycle (Part 2)
Multitasking, in the sense of doing two or more tasks at once, isn’t really possible, and it isn’t good for us. More correctly known as task-switching, this practice creates the illusion of productivity even as it’s slowing us down and sapping our efficiency. It’s so easy to fall into the multitasking trap as we live… Continue reading Multitasking: Break the Cycle (Part 2)
Multitasking: Let Go of the Illusion (Part 1)
Multitasking might be the most commonly used word we use to describe our working lives here in the 21st Century. Our identities are wrapped up in that word. We like to describe ourselves as multitaskers. We like to think of ourselves as people who are successfully juggling our responsibilities and Having It All. We like… Continue reading Multitasking: Let Go of the Illusion (Part 1)
How to Get Organized and Stay That Way
For some people, getting and staying organized comes naturally. These are the people with the spotless desks, whose desk calendars are immaculate. At the other extreme are the people who don’t remember what the surfaces of their desks look like. In reality, most of us fall somewhere in between these extremes. Wherever we fall on… Continue reading How to Get Organized and Stay That Way
Why You Need a Vacation
It’s already the middle of August. You have a little more than two weeks until Labor Day, aka the unofficial end of Summer, aka peak vacation season. If you haven’t taken a vacation yet, we get it. More than half the United States workforce doesn’t use their vacation days at all, mostly because they fear… Continue reading Why You Need a Vacation
Find Inspiration in Everyday Life
Inspiration and creative thinking aren’t just for artists, designers, novelists, and the like. Whatever field we’re working in, we all need a boost of inspiration from time to time. Creative thinking allows us to generate new ideas and innovations in response to the challenges of our work and daily life. You might be looking for a… Continue reading Find Inspiration in Everyday Life