October, 2008

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Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 31, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity H appy Halloween everyone! You walk into the office and notice all of the Halloween decorations. A spider here, a goblin there. Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. What a sight! Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion?

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Workers Behaving Badly: Why Our Stress May be Bringing Out the Worst in Us

On The Job

After 9/11, I was struck by the sense of caring we showed for one another. It was a horrible, stressful time, but it seemed to bring out the best in us. We began to look out for one another, even at work. We shared our mutual pain about what had happened, and even expressed our fear for the future. Office squabbles seemed ridiculous, and petty jealousies even more so.

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Virtual Book Tour: Becoming An Online Business Manager

Office Organization Success

Earlier in the summer Tina Forsyth interviewed me for her upcoming book, Becoming an Online Business Manager , Playing A Bigger Game With Your Clients (And Yourself). It was a great interview and I enjoyed talking with Tina about the role of the Online Business Manager. I got hold of my copy a few days ago and have already read it from cover to cover – it’s a fantastic read, especially for the virtual assistant looking to advance her business – and for solopreneurs too who are

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Give a care? Give a share!

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Give a care? Give a share! Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 10:39 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Prescott Arizona I used to love (and be good at) gardening. After too many years of fighting our snails, grasshoppers, javelinas, and earwigs, I finally faced some serious truths and personal limitations.

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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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Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections

Laughing all the Way to Work

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 enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 26 October, 2008 Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections Someone was asking on another site how to repeat a footer for just one section in a document, i.e. a table.

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Is Your Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Is Your Boss Not Giving You Enough Work? By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 30, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself being bored out of your mind at times with nothing to do? Do you feel that your boss could offer you more tasks, but keeps telling you that theyre putting things together for you, but never do?

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The 5S concept: Will a Misplaced Stapler Get You in Trouble?

On The Job

Watch out: 5S may be coming to your workplace. And if it does, well, you have my condolences. I first read about 5S several months ago, and hoped it was a bad blip on the radar screen, sort of like a new High School Musical cast being assembled. But no, there it was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal this morning. For those who haven't heard of 5S (sort, straighten, shine, standardize and sustain), it was originally designed for the manufacturing floor as a way to keep things neat and

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Effective Virtual Assistants Worth Weight in Gold

Denise Aday

A virtual assistant colleague’s “tweet&# alerted me to this article at Fox Business. A snippet: clipped from www.foxbusiness.com. If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you’ve got piles of paper cluttering your office and to-do lists that seem to be multiplying like rabbits. The good news is that many of the tasks that keep you from being as productive (and profitable) as you could be can be outsourced.

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Are Social Media sites today's biggest time suck?

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Are Social Media sites today’s biggest time suck? Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 9:25 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Business Strategies/Perspectives , Web/Tech Social Media sites have been heralded as the latest and best way to network and establish your brand. When you’re your own boss, your time is your own and without someone peering over your shoulder, you can Tweet/Plurk/Flickr/Facebook/LinkedIn your day away if

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro

Laughing all the Way to Work

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 enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 18 October, 2008 Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro This is a guest post from JEM over at [link].

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Trade In Old Gifts for New Ones

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Free ACT! (CRM) Video Tutorials

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Free ACT! (CRM) Video Tutorials By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity A re you using ACT! as your client relationship manager (CRM)? Did your boss just decide to install it on his/her system and yours then told you, "Read the manual, were going to be using this from now on"? If you’re looking to purchase ACT!

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10 Things Overheard at the Last Management Meeting

On The Job

As an employee, it's often nerve-wracking to see managers troop into a meeting during these difficult financial times. What are they talking about? Is it good? Is it bad? Are they debating who is going to get laid off? Plans for a big project? What critical decisions are they making that the fate of dozens -- perhaps hundreds -- of employees hinge upon?

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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The best football match ever - The Bumble Bee

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I am such an SOB!

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs I am such an SOB! Monday, October 27, 2008 at 9:03 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging Successful and Outstanding Blogger, that is! Liz Strauss , the original SOB is hosting her blog’s 3rd birthday party tomorrow, October 28, 2008. A year ago I joined the SOB ranks when Liz conferred the title on Loosely Speaking, allowing me to proudly display her badge here.

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October 15th, Blog Action Day: Poverty

Laughing all the Way to Work

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 enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 October, 2008 October 15th, Blog Action Day: Poverty I am participating in Blog Action Day and the theme this year is Poverty.

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Organizing Computer Odds and Ends

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Do You Have A Question For Me?

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Do You Have A Question For Me? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 27, 2008 Filed Under: D o you have a question? Do you feel that you need help one something related to your career ? Do you want to ask something, but feel shy to do so? I have been running this blog for just over a year now and it has grown quite a bit, as you can tell.

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Do You Have a Spineless Career?

On The Job

When was the last time you did something courageous at work? I'm not talking about cleaning out the office fridge (although that does take gumption) or trying a new font on your report. I'm talking about stepping out of your comfort zone, doing something that made your palms sweat or your knees quake. You may be wondering why in the world you would do something scary at work, when just being at work these days is frightening enough.

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Pandemic Simulation Exercise uses Swarms

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Off the needles! Baby hat and bell bottoms.

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Off the needles! Baby hat and bell bottoms. Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 10:47 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Knitting Every girl needs a pair of bell-bottomed yoga pants. Here is a little outfit for Avery Elizabeth Pogue, newborn daughter of Eric and Sierra. Yarn details: The main color is a very soft, machine-washable lavender which I found waiting for this project, buried deep in my yarn stash.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Working for the Disorganized.

Laughing all the Way to Work

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 enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 October, 2008 Working for the Disorganized.

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Use Email to Stay Organized

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Productivity Boost: Do It Before Lunch!

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Productivity Boost: Do It Before Lunch! By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 23, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you find that you feel tired at the end of the day? Do you wish that you could be more productive and solve your problems through out the day? This happens to all of us, quite a bit of time throughout each and every day.

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Say Buh-Bye to Flexibility and Hello to Longer Hours

On The Job

I went on eBay the other day to try and purchase a crystal ball. Unfortunately, the ones that were available didn't come with a guarantee, so I decided to pass. I mean, who wouldn't want a crystal ball to see into the future -- to see how we're all going to survive this mess and whether or not the Rays really can go from being the worst team in baseball to winning the World Series in a year's time?

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha