Entries by Brenda Valades

Benefits of the DeskAlerts Mobile App

Benefits of the DeskAlerts Mobile App. When you build a strong internal culture within your organization, you’re putting down rock-solid foundations that you can build the rest of your business around. Without a stable foundation, things can collapse or fall apart fairly quickly.   Good internal communication practices are critical to ensuring everyone on your […]

Top Workplace Safety Hazards

Top Workplace Safety Hazards. You don’t need to have employees operating dangerous and/or heavy machinery or working at great heights to put their own safety at risk – there are issues that can arise in any industry, in any workplace setting.   As an employer, you have a legal and moral obligation to provide safe […]

How to Create an IT Budget

How to Create an IT Budget. So it’s time to prepare a budget for your IT department. Perhaps this is the first time to do it, or maybe it’s an annual task that you dread.   The main aim is to cover everything that is essential, while also avoiding any really expensive surprises in the […]

5 Top Tricks for Internet Security

The global cost of cybercrime damage is tipped to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021 according to Cybersecurity Ventures. 5 Top Tricks for Internet Security. With this in mind, it’s important that you understand the risks to your business and take precautions to protect it from the ever-changing, ever-evolving threats posed by cybercriminals when it […]

How to Build Your IT Department’s Reputation

Quite often other areas of the business have a negative perception of the IT department and the staff who work within it, considering them to be inflexible, unhelpful, obstructive, and rude. Learn How to Build Your IT Department’s Reputation.    The IT department can often suffer from what is known as an “outsider reputation” where […]

Tactics to Manage Your IT Help Desk

In order to have a successful help desk you need to create cohesion between your internal processes and the expectations placed upon your staff by your customers. Having the right tools for the job, as well as well-honed processes and the right people will help you to achieve this balance. Learn the Tactics to Manage […]

Communicating with a Team that Has a Big Generation Gap

Communicating with a Team that Has a Big Generation Gap. People from different backgrounds and experiences bring a range of skills, knowledge, and viewpoints to your organization to make it competitive and agile.   One of the ways your organization may have diversity is its workforce ages spanning actual generations. While generational diversity is great, […]

How Video Communications Help in the Workplace?

Are you using videos for the internal communication of your company? Or have you decided to just not use it? Maybe you think that it needs a lot of time and effort, or that it’s too expensive. How Video Communications Help in the Workplace.   Many organizations also simply ignore the use of videos. This […]