| As HR practitioner, are you a Cost-Center or | | | | Then I realized; if only I knew this skill when I was yet a |
| Profit-Center? How do you contribute to the bottomline | | | | manager, life could have been easier and more |
| results of your organization? | | | | productive. With that realization comes the desire to |
| By the way, this is not just for HR people but also for | | | | help fellow HR practitioners, that you may have the |
| non-HR managers who understand that human | | | | short-route and avoid the road less traveled. |
| resource management is a line function. | | | | One of the most valuable office skills you can learn is |
| So what? We tend to justify, but deep inside we dont | | | | how to effectively use Microsoft Word. You may not |
| feel good about it. Oh yes, it necessary for the | | | | know it, but MS Word has a lot of excellent and |
| functionality of an organization. And I personally hate it | | | | underutilized features. It will take us a whole book to |
| when they tell me it is a necessary evil. Because no | | | | discuss details, so I decided to give you a |
| matter how necessary it is, the perceptionremains that | | | | complimentary copy of an e-book The Secrets of |
| it is evil. | | | | Microsoft Word. It is actually sold at $14.95 but I got |
| This is the path Ive chosen, and I love HR no matter | | | | permission from the author to give it to you for free, |
| how others call it. In fact, paper-pushing is just one of | | | | only if youre interested. Please send me an email so I |
| the myriad of activities an HR is expected to do. I had | | | | can reply and attach the e-book. |
| so much aversion to paperworks and administrative | | | | Hope you learned something of value today. Stay |
| duties during my time, and was never really good atit. | | | | tuned for our next lessons! |
| However, it was one of the measures of the | | | | If you want to fast-track your development, Im giving |
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| justification can change that reality, even until now. | | | | learn pc basics from the perspective of a newbie: |
| Reminiscing . . . | | | | Its not just about MS Word. Its everything about your |
| Before the advent of computers, we only had that old | | | | pc and the internet. Enjoy! |
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| computers dominated the world, people have difficulty | | | | an email away. |
| trying to adopt. There was one, for example, who tried | | | | Please feel free to email me your comments, |
| to erase wrong spelling using a correction fluid | | | | reactions, or suggestions so that others may also |
| (which we called white ink back then) on his computer | | | | benefit. It is one way where we can help our fellow |
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| looked like with so many erasures. I dont know if this | | | | super-complicated field of people-management. |
| really happened, but the story spread across the | | | | "I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today |
| country that it became the joke of the day. | | | | than he was yesterday." |
| When I stopped working and decided to go consulting | | | | - Abraham Lincoln |
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| through practice. | | | | |