Good News! Alibaba Netpreneur Training(ANT) program is open for all local Malaysian digital entrepreneurs and business owners an opportunity to learn and explore how to harness digital technology to positively transform their businesses and the local economy. Read the Training Schedule and Curriculum Framework below: ANT Online Course Class #1
Applications from businesses from Malaysia for this program are open from 4 Dec 2020 until January 31, 2021. We are now in the last quarter of 2020. It has been a challenging and tough year. We have seen and heard from many who rose above this unprecedented circumstances.
Nobody is prepared for this global pandemic. What initially thought to be an outbreak in a city called Wuhan had in no time spread throughout the world. City after city are in lockdown. Lives, businesses, economy and many aspects are impacted. Like it or not, we have to make new adjustments. I oftentimes find myself forgot to put on my mask when I got out of my car. So, I decided to put it on the moment I leave my house, get in the car and get out of the car. Instead of "when can I meet you?", the new question is "when can we zoom?" Instead of planning for our weekly grocery shopping, we find ourselves reviewing every available merchant online to decide where should we purchase our meat, vegetables, fruits and other essential items from. So, how about our work? Will it ever be the same again? How many of you have been attending meeting after meeting over zoom just to get updates and realign with your team? Is this the effective use of your time? What are keeping your team from being productive? How can you automate the work processes to free up time for your team to do higher value works? The massive shift to remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had a wide range of implications on businesses. Employees are also drown in coping with change and new way of doing work. Are your team empowered to win in this new world of work? Whether your team is working remotely or back to office, it is important to engage them and empower them to optimise their effectiveness. Here are a few tips on how you can do it. You want to get more out of your workday so you can achieve everything you set out to do. But with never ending email, multiple chat apps, and impossible-to-find information, it’s hard to know whether you’re working on the most important things — or if you’re even getting anything done. You need a way to work that works for you — and that can adapt as your tasks, projects, and programs change. One that enables real collaboration, gives you the information you need to be successful, and frees you up to innovate and drive better results. Download this free report to learn how you can take control of the way you work and achieve more by solving for these common issues at work:
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Notifications were created to help keep us on track and in the know, but as with anything in life, they can be too much of a good thing. Being interrupted with a constant stream of notifications can often derail productivity. After a notification forces a worker to switch between tasks, it can take them about 23 minutes to get back to the task at hand, according to Harvard Business Review. It can be challenging for teams to weave through the noise and make sure they are paying attention to the key information related to their work. Use these four tips to help improve your experience with automated alerts and requests from Smartsheet: 1. Personalize the Frequency 2. Add Context to Subject Lines 3. Only Include Relevant Fields 4. Choose How You Want to Receive Them The short-term benefits of automating repetitive, manual workflows are well known: saving time, saving money, and increasing efficiency. But there are lesser-known, long-term benefits of automation, too, and they can have a profound and lasting effect on the success of your business. Here are three ways in which automating processes can transform your business for the long haul. 1. Focus Employees on Innovation 2. Reduce Risk 3. Make Better Decisions It’s important for workers to have the opportunity to improve work processes and increase efficiency so that businesses can consistently move faster and innovate. Automation can help free workers up to focus on more valuable, high-impact tasks that help propel their teams, departments, and organizations forward.
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