So Helpful Sundays: Colorful Paper Easter Eggs
From Two Straight Lines, a tutorial on making watercolor Easter eggs that look beautiful all year long!
So Helpful Sundays: Facebook’s COO Works Less Than You
In an article by Mashable, Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, has always gone home by 5:30pm from work.
Wow.
Cal over at Study Hacks explains why this is so helpful. Don’t you ever work harder when you have a deadline?
So Helpful Sundays: Paper Pyramid Gift Boxes
These boxes are too freaking adorable!
If you have any small gifts (like necklaces or bracelets) that need a cute wrapping - this is it. Try it out!
So Helpful Sundays: 5 Ways to Stay in Touch With Your Old Boss
Keeping in touch with an old boss is so helpful. These are some ways to KIT:
1. Holiday cards
2. Major life events (personal & professional)
3. Articles of interest
4. Social media
Cornflower Blue brings a easy, rotating list you can fill up and change up as you like!
What you need:
- Post-it notes
- Pencil/Markers,
- Ruler
- 11 x 14 inch piece of bristol board or heavy card stock
So Helpful Sundays: Tips for a More Fun (and Productive) Meeting
Ian’s Messy Desk brings us another great (and productive) set of tips - for meetings!
Some of my favorites:
- Social Time (starting meeting 10 minutes earlier with a social activity)
- Bread Winner (bringing food to meeting, rotation-based)
- Ideas To Go (presenting an idea for attendees to think about at the end of each meeting)
Additionally, here are some things that I love to see for meetings:
- Creating/collaborating a meeting agenda
- Rotate the speaker/moderator
- Estimate time for each portion of the agenda
(Source: 26 Ways to Make Meetings More Fun (…and productive))
Kate over at minieco.co.uk brings a lovely craft tip.
All you need is:
- Paper
- Card
- String
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Tiny brads/split pins (the heads of the brads I used were 3mm in diameter)
Super easy, super gorgeous!
