The Office Professionals Place

JULY 16, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. You are already on the right track by reading this blog – Thanks! Learn something new. Lets grow together!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

  Today you will learn about 12 business productivity tools that they can't live without. Power Periods Make For Great Productivity My favorite is: Power Periods Because: Set aside one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon for un-distracted, uninterrupted time to knock out a big project.

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 19, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Take charge of your life, own up to your mistakes, learn from them, and grow to be a better person! Lets grow together!

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 1, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Break the project down in parts and decide how you can complete each part. Lets grow together! Set internal deadlines for yourself.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

» Top 9 Mistaken Organizing Statements There are a number of statements that I have heard people say over the years with regard to their organizing projects.  "   Wanting to do a good job on your projects is admirable.    However, the drive for perfection has ruined the success of many projects. 

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The Office Professionals Place

MAY 21, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. I will manage the tasks and projects set before me appropriately so that deadlines are met. Lets grow together!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I turned off my email notification a long time ago (about 15 years) because I did not want to be taken out of the important state of concentration when working on projects.    Share your thoughts in my comments section (If you are reading this in email, click on the title to this post to be taken to my blog to comment.)

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity? Our lives are increasingly hectic and we are bombarded by so much stuff on a daily basis that learning to be productive, so as to handle the stresses of modern life, is a wise move.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 4, 2009

  I'm calling regarding the X Project.    The project is on hold until I get your input on these items.  " Note that in the second message Sam has much more incentive to call if he wants X Project to continue.  Sally Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  She liked what she heard so she went to my blog to check out more.    She found my blog because I have it linked in my Cinch profile and I mention it in every Cinch I do!  If I had not taken the time to complete my profile, we probably would not be doing the project in January.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 8, 2010

.  Keep reading to learn more! Make a #project w/ do-able sized parts   AllisonDGraham   @ StephCalahan make a list.   Keep reading to learn more! Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! Then I take a step back from all of the little things that can seem to overwhelm me.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. This is frustrating because you have other projects you need to accomplish and you don’t like working last minute.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What you’ll learn Explore the Evolution of Remote and Hybrid Work to Unlock New Opportunities and Flexibility in Your Career Path. My first office didn’t have a copy machine or a fax or anything like that. And I think learning and development is kind of overseen. But then alongside that, can I do a passion project?

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Lets grow together! Turn off the computer when you leave for the day.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

AppleEve   @ StephCalahan a trusty desk diary and pens (colour coded for different types of appointments) roguereporter   @ StephCalahan Microsoft Project.   Share your thoughts in the blog comment section below (or if you are reading in an RSS reader or email, just click on the article title and then make your comment!) 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

  Get rid of the activities and projects (and sometimes even people) that don't fit.    Do you let other people encroach on your time when you had planned to work on an important project?    Learn more: www.CalahanSolutions.com or www.ProductiveAndOrganized.net , or call 309.826.5263.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Ask yourself whether or not those documents will be relevant to your work in the coming year – completed projects and last year’s receipts should not be living in your active files! Or did you just have a hard time getting started on those bigger, more important projects? Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

Do you have a large list of abandoned projects all sitting at various levels of incompletion? Do you have a list of projects that do not reflect your best work? After conducting a survey of about 4000+ of my Twitter followers, I learned that people have a real challenge figuring out where to pay attention and how to figure it out.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

However, even if she'd jumped onto that project, the lost productivity associated with the original distraction would still creep back into her day when she returned to the task we were completing. You can learn more about Paul and his practice at [link]. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today!

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. And youve been following all the best career advice and job search tips youve read, heard, learned, and developed.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

Also consider color-coding the index cards by project. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! Network with Stephanie or Connect with Your Smart Phone Become a Fan Follow this blog Categories News & Updates! . -- All Rights Reserved Want to use my content in your ezine, newsletter or blog?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What are the key projects to be completed this year?   We learned back in pre-school that trying to fit a square peg into a round hole just does not work.    It would be nice if the world was that simple, but as we all know, people have different thinking and learning styles.  What are you building?

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Productivityist

AUGUST 21, 2014

You can learn more about the event here. What I found I wanted most was to trust myself; to not give over my power to one system, but to learn how to trust my internal compass to direct me to how I was meant to move, shift and create in the world each day. Things like: Creation (writing, and projects such as this one).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

  By grabbing a small project (for example, an article that you want to read) and working on it for a short period of time, you take a few minutes away from the work that was putting you into an afternoon coma-like state.    You also release serotonin/happiness/excitement as you finish a project. 

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. In other words, provide them frequent updates before they have to ask where you are on the project. Lets grow together!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 28, 2011

Work With Stephanie « 6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual Teams | Main | Monday Motivation - Michael Jordan on Failure » My first Twitterview with @marciahoeck - Decisive Productive Action Taken A little while back, I wrote to you about my theme for this year: decisive productive action. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 22, 2010

"To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you have a big project due, break down the steps necessary and write those on each card. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665   Re-ordering is generally faster than re-writing an entire list. 

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 20, 2012

For example, if your boss is on a business trip for 2 weeks, how will signature approvals be taken care of - fax, a signature stamp, by the 2nd in command, or will things have to wait? This way they can focus on the bigger projects. There is no perfect answer, and sometimes there is no answer, except learning to cope better.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

afreshspace   @ StephCalahan I just use a legal pad for daily to-do's but keep bigger or future projects in my outlook task list declutterlady   @ StephCalahan Hey, Stephanie, it's iPEP for me; 1 workspace/project w/ability to keep all in 1 place! I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 14, 2010

A - True B - False 4 -- You got side tracked in a project and have forgotten lunch with a colleague/business associate.  There are many unwritten and written rules and guidelines for etiquette, and it is a good idea as a business person to learn them.    You feel terrible and know he’s furious. 

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

And you can become visible by getting involved in your professional community, attending trade association meetings, entering industry contests and award shows, writing articles, giving speeches, publishing an informative blog , generating news about your business, and staying in touch with former clients. The key is to respond promptly.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Keep reading to learn what my colleagues and friends had to say about the "Great Calendar Debate."   If you aren't particularly tech-savvy, you might feel more comfortable using a paper planner, rather than having to learn the ins and outs of an electronic diary system. say, to heck with that.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. The most important fact to think about is 'what do I need to do next' By short-sighting yourself, you can take each step one-by-one without the chaos of the bigger project in your sights.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

And you’ll learn why right here in this valuable interview with a pro copywriter. I’ve turned down a few projects because I knew they were scams or they used unethical tactics. As a rule, I can work for about 3 hours on one project before getting a little loopy, so I move on to something else in the afternoon.

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