James D. Peros C.A. C.P.A

MANAGEMENT  Workplace Literacy  Improved employee literacy is essential to meet the challenges of changing markets.  Literacy  Literacy: “The ability to understand and employ printed information in daily activities, at home, at work and in the community — to achieve one’s goals and to develop one’s knowledge and potential” (Definition provided by the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey) We live in a country where we take literacy for granted. After all, we spend millions on our education system and pride ourselves in having some of the best universities in the world. And yet, 42% of Canadian adults between the ages of 16 and 65 have low literacy skills. What is considered literacy? Studies focus on three categories: Prose literacy : the ability to understand and use information from texts such as editorials, news stories, poems, and fiction. Document literacy : the ability to locate and use information from documents such as job applicat...

Business Apps You Must Have  These apps may help you optimize your work when you are mobile.  TeamViewer  Two similar and occasionally underrated tools for business are remote control of other devices and screen sharing. Screen sharing is a critical tool, not just for one-way meetings and presentations, but also for interactive collaboration among colleagues in different locations. Remote control is useful not only for troubleshooting and technical support, but also as a convenient way of using multiple separate computers or devices from a single workstation, regardless of where the computers are physically located. In the screen-sharing camp, tools such as GotoMeeting, join.me and Skype for Business are also popular. For remote control, in addition to built-in or bundled options such as Windows Remote Desktop, Chrome Remote Desktop, and Mac OS X Screen Sharing, more feature-rich or cross-platform tools are also available, such as various VNC-based tools like Re...