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Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity

Stephanie LH Calahan

Work With Stephanie « 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity | Main | Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day » Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity Today I received a really nice note from one of my contacts, Amy Humphreys, at Illinois State University. 

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some assistants regularly manage small budgets when planning functions or have bookkeeping responsibilities and work regularly on spreadsheets. They each had forward-thinking employers who allowed them to have vision and encouraged them to work towards their goal and made room for that new role within their organization.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Customer satisfaction surveys

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Some of the surveys were particularly repetitious; some asked for information I would probably not reveal to my accountant, but a few were succinctly designed to garner results and asked questions relevant to specific goals for specific companies. The company has to think about the reason for the survey. Could it be?

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Employee engagement is a force.

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Inform employees about goals, activities, and plans using newsletters or at the very least, use memos. The last few years have been a time for slashed training budgets. Often they are the ones on the front lines, and isn’t that a good indicator of what needs to be heard? Have focus groups; consider an employee survey.

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Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names will never hurt me

Laughing all the Way to Work

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 Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. Lets enjoy our day together.©