Pantry Audit:

A survey of consumers about grocery brands, products, and quantities in their homes at any given time. Packaged goods manufacturers employ this research technique to gather data for new product development and packaging strategies. In conducting a pantry audit, a random sample of the advertiser's target market is first selected. Questionnaires are then mailed or telephone solicitations are completed to determine what items are stocked in a consumer's kitchen. For example, if the pantry audit revealed that the majority of pantries sampled had half a box of spice that was a year old, it might result in a decision to package the spice in smaller quantities.

Indianisms: The way we use English:

Let us look into some of the Indianisms and see how to correct them.

The Use of ‘Only’
We are like this only
I am like your brother only
Pune is like this only

Correct Usage:
This is how we are
I am just like your brother
This is how Pune is
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The Use of ‘ing’
I am loving it
I am having a headache
I am not understanding this
I am having a BMW
Are you having a pen?

Correct Usage:
I love it
I have a headache
I don’t understand this
I have a BMW
Do you have a pen?
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The Use of ‘too’ instead of ‘very’
The food is too good
The film was too interesting
Hritik Roshan’s dancing is too good

Correct Usage:
The food is very good
The film was very interesting
Hritik Roshan’s dancing is very good
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The Use of redundant word ‘up’
Let’s meet up
There is always so much to cope up with

Correct Usage:
Let’s meet
There is always so much to cope with
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Use of ‘there’
Rani is there
Birayani is there
A meeting is there today

Correct usage:
Rani is here
There is Birayani
There is a meeting today
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Repetition of words to indicate increase in intensity
The car was going fast fast
It is very very hot
Morning morning the phone started ringing

Correct usage:
The car was going very fast
It is extremely hot
The phone started ringing early in the morning
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The use of ‘Just’, ‘actually’ and ‘basically’ as fillers
Actually, I am from Mumbai
Basically, I am an Engineer
Just, I am telling you

Correct usage:
Originally, I am from Mumbai
I am an Engineer
I am telling you
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Counting unique values in a List:

Problem:

Counting the number of unique numeric values or unique data in List1, disregarding blank cells.

Solution1:

To count the number of unique values use the SUM, IF, and FREQUENCY functions as shown in the following formula:
= SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(A2:A13,A2:A13)>0,1))

Solution 2:

To count the number of unique data use the SUMPRODUCT and COUNTIF functions as shown the following formula:
=SUMPRODUCT((A2:A13<>"")/COUNTIF(A2:A13,A2:A13&""))

Management Skills Pyramid:

To be successful, there are many skills a manager needs to master. A pyramid structure shows the increasingly difficult management skills you must master at each level and to also display how these management skills build on each other to help you achieve success in your management career.

The Management Skills Pyramid, Level 1
Level 1 of the Management Skills Pyramid shows the basic skills a manager must master just to get the job done. These are the fundamentals of the management job:
• Plan
• Organize
• Direct
• Control
The Management Skills Pyramid, Level 2
After you have mastered the basic skills in level 1, you need to move on and develop your skills on Level 2 of the Management Skills Pyramid. These are the management skills that you use to develop your staff. There are many specific skills required, but they are grouped into these categories:
• Motivation
• Training and Coaching
• Employee Involvement
The Management Skills Pyramid, Level 3
When you have become skilled in developing your staff, it's time to focus on Level 3 of the Management Skills Pyramid, improving your own development. These management skills are grouped as:
• Self Management and
• Time Management
Time management gets its own category because it is so important to your success in all the other skills.
The Management Skills Pyramid, Top Level
The peak of the Management Skills Pyramid, the single skill that will help you the most in developing success in your management career, is leadership. As you develop your skill as a leader, as you make the transition from manager to leader, you will achieve the success you truly want in your management career.

Go Back…Go Forward:

Have you ever thought... "I was just looking at that document" and wanted to get back to it quickly, but to do so you had to go to your workspace or bookmarks, open the database again, choose a view, and then reopen a document?

Lotus Notes makes it easy to "Go Back" and to "Go Forward" to views and documents.

On the Navigation Toolbar, you will see an arrow pointing left (for back) and one pointing right (for forward). Each time you click on arrow itself, Notes will reopen the last document you opened. If you click on the "little triangle pointing down", Notes will display a list of the last documents and views that you visited, and you can choose which one to "jump back to".



If you prefer your keyboard to the mouse, you can use ALT+LEFT ARROW to go back, and ALT+RIGHT ARROW to go forward.

Leased Inventory:

An accounting method used to finance the opening inventory of a new retail store. Product is leased to the operator and secured by the wholesaler's lien on daily cash receipts.

Types of Speeches:

Before you can write and deliver an effective speech, you need to know what type of speech you're giving. Then you can make sure that the content and organization meet the needs and goals of the speech.
There are 4 types of speeches:
• Persuasive: Tries to convince the audience to accept your view or take a recommended action. Sales presentations are a typical example, but there are many others
• Informative: Provides the audience with new information or insights on the topic. A lecture by a professor to a class is informative.
• Inspirational: tries to uplift the audience. May have a spiritual theme.
• Special occasion: Offers appropriate content for a toast, award presentation, acceptance, introduction, eulogy, etc.