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How to Plan a Working Vacation

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Fischer-Rosenthal also recommends booking refundable accommodations and services whenever possible, just in case your travel plans change with short notice. If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted.

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Overlapping Calendars In Microsoft Outlook? Really?

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Home About Me Advertise Overlapping Calendars In Microsoft Outlook? By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have trouble trying to book several managers’ meetings, yet you have access to their calendars in Microsoft Outlook 2007?

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Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly

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Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you trying to book a meeting with someone or a group of people? People are using their Microsoft Outlook calendars incorrectly.

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

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Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

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The closest she ever came to digital organization was an electronic address book she used until it became too difficult to read the screen. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars. My mother has never owned a PDA and only in the past year (at 80) started using a computer.

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The R's Of Employee Motivation

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Or once-a-month, spring for dessert treats in honor of those celebrating birthdays in that calendar month. I learnt this from Dale Carnegies book “How to win friends and influence people&#. For group or departmental appreciations, consider a “Leave Work 30 Minutes Early Next Friday&# reward.

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Personal Organizer

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A calendar is the easiest place to track such a list. Comment by Rhonda on May 14, 2008 @ 7:32 pm David, thanks for heads-up on the book. Regular tasks can occur on a monthly cycle: e.g., paying bills. You can create date-based lists that will remind you to complete task which are regular, but not frequent. I have loads of them.

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