Thu.Apr 21, 2016

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Email Expectations: Getting Executives and Assistants to See Eye-to-Eye

Office Dynamics

In the modern business world, email is a constant force pressing upon us. For many Executives, it’s a primary mode of communication. You send and receive it all day and night, weekends included. Email isn’t restricted to typical working hours. While this is completely normal at the Executive level, it’s less standard in the Administrative world. Email is a common area where Executives and Assistants often have different ideas regarding expectations, and this can result in a lot of frustration on

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Work-Life Balance: How To Afford To Have some Fun On Your Next Business Trip

Small Business CEO

All work and no play makes for not such a fun day – or trip. Even on business trips, you need some downtime. So, here’s how to keep calm and still get your work done. Don’t Be Afraid To Get Away From Your Travel Destination. There are many times when it’s OK to venture away from your destination. If you’re staying in a hotel, like most travelers do, it’s easy to get “stuck” inside those walls.

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Handling Ethical Issues in the Workplace

Office Dynamics

Author: Lisa Olsen. Have you ever thought about your responsibility and power to improve ethical standards in the workplace? Assistants have touch-points at many levels in the organization and we often find ourselves encountering ethical dilemmas in the office. I can usually tell when I’m in the middle of one! Ethics in the workplace is a unique topic.

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Essay on Starting a Small Business

Small Business CEO

Starting a small business is the best way to gain freedom. Although this statement is disputable, it has sense. Why do people decide to become entrepreneurs? They are longing for independence. Small business helps one manage his time in the way he wants. He can produce the goods and services he likes. Finally, he is able to try to be responsible and creative.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How to Increase Your Productivity by Embracing Conscious Procrastination

Productivity Bits

Procrastination can be defined in many ways. Some procrastinators constantly change the dates of all their tasks, in the end not doing anything at all, while others put off working on small, negligible projects in order to concentrate on big stuff, achieving great results. The former is called unstructured or passive procrastinating – and as much as the passive procrastinators deny it, it’s basically laziness.

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5 Techniques To Beat Work Overload

Productivityist

Linda Craig is a senior content specialist and writing expert at Assignment Masters. She also enjoys talking about productivity and optimizing all areas of business. You spend the entire day working hard at the office, sifting through the pile of documents on your desk. You know you still have more work to do, but the mere thought doing all of this work is overwhelming.