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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or what about an elegant restaurant that has a dress code prohibiting shorts? Instead of turning someone away, a restaurant staffer escorts him to a private closet that has “loaner pants.” A couple of hours later, the happy patron pays his $200 tab; he will return to the restaurant nine times the next year.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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Many crew members found work at grocery stores and restaurants. Crew members fulfill these needs from nonPareil Institute’s accommodating environment while gaining job and project management skills, working with others, meeting deadlines, earning a check and strengthening their resume and portfolio.

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One Meal at a Time: How Christine Ha Defied Vision Loss to Become a MasterChef

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In 2012, she became the first blind contestant on cooking competition MasterChef —and won. Now, Christine owns two Vietnamese restaurants and has written a cookbook, Recipes from My Home Kitchen. Lonely and missing her independence, Christine taught herself to cook all over again, this time relying on her other senses.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

For example, a project room for intense activity amongst three to six people could feature a high seating position to support movement and active brain activity, with whiteboards and technology to share digital content. She joined Steelcase in 2000, covering different roles both within the corporate and the regional offices.

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Review – Mail Pilot 2 for iOS

Productivityist

Mail Pilot has been a popular email management application since it was released as a Kickstarter web application in September 2012. This may seem superficial however when you order a meal at a restaurant, you are told that ‘the first bite is with the eye’ and I expect the same standards with the applications that I use.

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Company Perks and Showing Appreciation

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For Dec 2012 and January 2013, I wrote a couple of posts you that you will find helpful. What are the first things you have done at a new EA job? A: Congrats on the new job! I've answered similar questions in the past here and on my blog as well. The below is the link to my blog.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. I had a great birthday lunch with Anne at a restaurant in our inner harbour. Cal Newport’s Deep Work , Steve Kamb’s Level Up Your Life , and Chris Bailey’s The Productivity Project. After all, Asana carries more of a workload now.” I turned 41.

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