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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. Organizations are working to help them size up. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." Do you think.

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It’s also beneficial if you set up volunteer opportunities — within the company or around the community — so employees can feel more involved. Make sure your employees have an adequate amount of vacation, and create policies to limit after-hours work and communication that can disrupt employees’ time away from the office.

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Organizing an office gift exchange can be an opportunity to create meaningful memories with your coworkers, or, as a recent article on The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) blog makes clear, a potential minefield of stress and unintentional offense. Holiday gift baskets.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Memory Makeover: Tips to Spruce Up an Absent Mind Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 20, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. So hang up the phone, find a quiet place and focus. Stay organized.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

While this makes sense, it doesn’t mean you should ignore behind-the-scenes business administration tasks, such as setting policies. Policies that outline how you run various elements of your business, and why you do it that way, set boundaries and create a foundation for the business. Will you work on weekends and holidays?

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. In no time, we’ll be into the annual holiday season. Here are links to Christmas and holiday related posts at Ian’s Messy Desk. Here are links to Christmas and holiday related posts at Ian’s Messy Desk. Thanks for visiting!

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APRIL 9, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 5 Ways to Free Up Room on Your Brain’s Hard Drive Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 9, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Oh, don’t worry,” Bob replied pointing to his head, “it’s all right up here.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Here’s a simple checklist to help you organize your Christmas holiday celebrations. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting! Comments No comments yet.

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 9, 2009

These’ll getcha, just like a change up in baseball. Kids home for the summer or holidays. Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:08 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Life of the Virtual Assistant There are many scenarios that can derail your well-oiled SOHO operation. Illness or death.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Follow up with creditors if bills don’t arrive on time. Thanks for visiting! Thanks for showing it.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. If you want to reduce the stress associated with the holiday season, get an early start on holiday planning. If you want to reduce the stress associated with the holiday season, get an early start on holiday planning. Thanks for visiting!

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 18, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Schedule tasks appropriately – After lunch is not the best time to read the long, lulling policy eport. Try a “pick-me-up&# – Listen to high-energy music, so long as it doesn’t disturb co-workers or workflow. Thanks for visiting!

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MAY 24, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Some of the commonly held myths and the corresponding reality checks are as follows: Family-Friendly policies are soft HR issues, mainly for women. Many companies offer their work-life balance policies to employees at all levels. Thanks for visiting!

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MAY 25, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Read: The Best To-Do List You’ll Ever Make Crumple up your to-do sheet and throw it away. Comments Trackbacks Personal Organizer | Ians Messy Desk Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. The audience is giving up work or personal time to listen to you, but it’s because you’re going to have something to say. Thanks for visiting! What’s the first thing you do? Make it worth their while.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Or I could share my heartfelt excitement over working into the wee hours, creating homespun (handknit) holiday gifts. Whatever the explanation, I acknowledge that I abandoned ship on my blog and social media participation for a month, and that all the reasons are related to living this life, in the best way I know how, in times like these.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 25, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Make an appointment - Don’t just hope you find the time to clean up, set a calendar entry and stick to it. Thanks for visiting! Use the right tools: Set a timer for the length of time you have decided to work on this project.

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MAY 21, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Lighten up… if you can – Humour can go a long way to keeping the listener’s attention. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Five Tips for Great Speeches Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on May 21, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 7, 2010

Service Untitled The blog about customer service and the customer service experience. Their low prices lead the industry, but their policies toward the public most likely defies any basic rules of customer service no less customer satisfaction. This holiday season infrequent fliers will be the most affected by all of the changes.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Too many objects add to the clutter and eat up valuable work space. Set up a good filing system. Don’t allow things to pile up. Thanks for visiting! Be reasonable about what you really need to keep out. Don’t go overboard with personalization.

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JULY 6, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Celestine Chua of The Personal Excellence Blog has posted 20 time management tips , over at Stepcase Lifehack. Planning really enables focus, and saying “No&# frees up time to actually do what was planned. Thanks for visiting!

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MAY 26, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You don’t want papers to build up to the point where you look at it and you get discouraged. The easiest way to avoid that is to keep up to date. If you do keep stuff, keep it in a way so that it doesn’t jam up your life and you can find it again.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 14, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. In the run-up to the launch we worked closely with some of our favorite blogs and publications to launch the new Notebooks category. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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JULY 26, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Suck it up. It can be as simple as going to a new restaurant for supper, but more likely to be as terrifying as taking up sky-diving. Follow these four steps and pretty soon you’ll unleash your creative thinking and making others sit up and take notice.

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Ian's Messy Desk

APRIL 14, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Those personal distractions can eat up a lot of time. Just write down for a day every little thing that distracted you and whichever one took up the most time get rid of that first. Thanks for visiting! Block interruptions – close the office door.

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MAY 10, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. This handbook automatically leaps ahead of other Notes/GTD options available as it takes you through setting up a GTD system using a basic Notes installation; no need for add-ons to make it work. Thanks for visiting!

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JULY 16, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. The Quotations page ( pop-up alert ) – The oldest quotation site on the Web, with more than 25,200 quotations from over 3,000 authors. Thanks for visiting! It’s been said that a facility for quoting others can cover a lack of intelligence or original thought.

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JULY 12, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Louis found that people who sleep after storing a memory end up following through on their intentions much more effectively than people who jump right in without sleeping. Thanks for visiting! To-do list getting a little long? Take the list to bed with you.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 28, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Test you telephone skills with this simple quiz: How quickly should you pick up a ringing phone? Set up your voice mail to answer after the third ring. Get the information up front. Comments Nice blog. Thanks for visiting! Answers after the jump.

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AUGUST 27, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. The process of thinking up the images and making the connection will fix them into your memory. Thanks for visiting! With Look, Snap, Connect Do you want to know how to remember names and faces? What would it be like to never forget a person’s name again?

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting! Take inventory of your strengths One of the first things to go, when our self-esteem is low, is our perception of our strengths.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 7, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. You pull up the spreadsheet , print off your boss’s e-mailed comments, dig out your notes from the last meeting and settle down to work. Stand up for visitors. If a visitor comes into your office, stand up to greet them and don’t invite them to sit down.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets One day she just up and quit. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. There’s a lot of common sense wrapped up in these steps. And thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on my blog. Thanks for visiting! The following eight points summarize her findings. Comments This is a great list. Being grateful is good for the soul.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Make meetings effective – Managers can spend an average of 17 hours a week in meetings, and that doesn’t include preparation and follow-up time. If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. They conjure up all kinds of nightmare scenarios as a result of their stage fright : What if I freeze? Thanks for visiting! How to Give a Speech You’ve analyzed your audience , you’ve prepared and practiced your speech.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 20, 2010

Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Instead of jumping up every time you have work to deliver, stow it in an expandable file with slots organized by department. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Thanks for visiting!

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