Tina Lewis Rowe

Category: Training, Technology, Blogs, A/V etc.

  • Joe Tichio’s Inspirational Quotations Book

    Joe Tichio has created Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 Days to more Happiness, Success and Motivation. It would make a wonderful and very inexpensive ($2.99) gift for yourself and others who have a Kindle or a Kindle reader on their computers. I have free Kindle readers on my laptop and desk computers, so I can read electronically…

  • Free Law Enforcement Assessment Center Material

    One of the most fun aspects of being the author of A Preparation Guide For the Assessment Center Method is that I receive emails and phone calls from all over the country–and occasionally I’m thrilled to hear from other countries–the UK, South Africa, France, Australia and once from Russia! That book, which I wrote in 2005 or…

  • It’s 2011. Learn To Use Routine Technology

    Two pages of instructions for this new concept. I found this article and some similar ones, in a 1934 issue of Ladies Home Companion. (Enlarge the page to read the text if you can’t do so. It’s interesting!) Thermostats on gas and electric ranges were still relatively new and many cooks resisted using them. When…

  • Back Up All Of Your Data. Today!

       The Empty Hard Drive of Death You’ve probably heard about the Blue Screen of Death and the Black Screen of Death, but until you’ve experienced the Empty Hard Drive of Death which produces the Blank Screen of Misery, you won’t fully understand the gut-wrenching experience it can be.  Think about this catastrophe: Everything you’ve…

  • Messages On Mobile Devices

    Another potential barrier to clear, complete, courteous communications. There’s been a huge increase in the use of smart phones (mobile phones that offer advanced technology not available on standard phones) or semi-smart phones (not quite so advanced but still capable of sending and receiving emails, communicating on social networks and a few basic applications.)  Email was…

  • Administrative Professionals and Sitting On the Boss’s Lap

      Leading up to Administrative Professional’s Week, the last full week in April, I thought this would be a good reminder of how technology–and a changed society– has improved many aspects of the way we work. This article is from a circa 1945 magazine, touting the advantages of magnetic wire recorders. The recorder cost almost $400. The divorce was probably…

  • How Did You Get So Smart?

    To Improve Your Credibility, Cite Your References • Most serious conversations are peppered with opinions, ideas and general thoughts, but rarely with verbal footnotes.   • Most casual conversations are about interests and activities but rarely include even a hint about how the participants learn anything new–if they do. • At work, we are often quick to say how things should be done…

  • Time To Change Your Greeting Message

    Think of how many voice messages you have received in the last year. Consider that every time you get a voice message, someone has listened to your recorded greeting. Start your new year with a fresh greeting message and keep it fresh. Correct mumbles and misspeaks. When some of the same people call you repeatedly, they…

  • Make Your Knowledge, Skills And Understanding A Blessing Instead Of A Curse

    In the book, Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive And Others Die, authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath talk about the curse of knowledge. They explain it as being the condition in which we know something so well we can’t remember what it was like to lack the knowledge. As a result, the better we…

  • What Are The Best Tests For Hiring and Promotion?

    Can you tell by looking? In 1917, William F. Kemble, an engineer who was engaged in introducing standardized hiring and promotional tests for business and industry, wrote Choosing Employees By Test. (Industrial Management Library, The Engineering Magazine Company. New York.) Kemble was a strong advocate of the scientific and mathematical approach to business and industry. This was at a…