December, 2009

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

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 31 December, 2009 Office Confidential: Just for fun to start your New Year off with a laugh These are excerpts from a presentation I gave to my local International Association of Ad

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Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold | Main | Life Coaching Tips to Organize Yourself For Success » Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed (Guest Post: Sarah Short) Work from home mothers all share pretty much the same issues; children, family, housework, space, organisation.

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2010 Your Year for Success!

Office Dynamics

The tide of opportunity comes to everyone. People often handle life as they do bad weather. They while away the time waiting for it to stop. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. When your chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it. The race is not to the swift of the battle to the strong. For time and chance happen to everyone.

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Christmas – Small Business Quote of the Week

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals.

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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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Merry Christmas – May Yours Be Filled with the Spirit of the Season

Make or Break Moments

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Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her.

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 28 December, 2009 Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her boss My assistant sent me a link to a story about an Executive Assistant in British Columbia, Cana

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Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity | Main | Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed » Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold (Guest Post: Sheila Zayas) How many times have you had a product idea only to see someone else on a 30-minute infomercial promoting YOUR idea?

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2010 Your Year for Success!

Office Dynamics

The tide of opportunity comes to everyone. People often handle life as they do bad weather. They while away the time waiting for it to stop. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. When your chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it. The race is not to the swift of the battle to the strong. For time and chance happen to everyone.

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Top 5 Tips on Making Big Changes

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. Build your own network! Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money.

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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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Does Your Website Content Build Relationships?

Make or Break Moments

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4 ways to "manage up"

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4 ways to "manage up" Many people feel "stuck" these days. They feel powerless as they struggle to do much more work with available resources, and wonder if their career has hit a dead end with this rough economy.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

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 19 December, 2009 Meetings Plus: Taking them offline I organize a lot of meetings in a day, week, month; heck, even into next year.

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result @QuietSpacing | Main | Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold » Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calenda

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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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How to Get Your Administrative Title Changed

Office Dynamics

Through our “ Contact Us ” form on our web site, Laurie writes: "In your webinars, you mentioned you were able to persuade your executive to change your title. I am Assistant to the President of my company. My present title is Administrative Assistant, but my workload and responsibilities indicate it should be Executive Assistant. Can you share your ideas of how to approach my boss with this request?".

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Ethics – Small Business Quote of the Week

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life!

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Don't Make Your Customers Feel Stupid

Make or Break Moments

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Are you open? To what?

Virtual Moxie

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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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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On the job tips for new Admins.

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 12 December, 2009 On the job tips for new Admins.

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AboutOne is About YOU! Win a chance at an iPod Touch!

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « With a Little Help From My Friends | Main | Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result @QuietSpacing » AboutOne is About YOU! Win a chance at an iPod Touch! I am quite honored to share that the founders of AboutOne contacted me earlier this year and asked me to sit on their advisory board.  After hearing Joanne Lang's extremely professional presentati

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How to Get Your Administrative Title Changed

Office Dynamics

Through our “ Contact Us ” form on our web site, Laurie writes: "In your webinars, you mentioned you were able to persuade your executive to change your title. I am Assistant to the President of my company. My present title is Administrative Assistant, but my workload and responsibilities indicate it should be Executive Assistant. Can you share your ideas of how to approach my boss with this request?".

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes. You ask a question, I answer!

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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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Marketing Drives Traffic: Sales People Make or Break the Outcome

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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Take the “Jingle” out of Holiday Stress

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Lets grow together! Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Take the “Jingle&# out of Holiday Stress Are you planning the holiday party in your office? Don’t know what to get your boss or co-workers for the staff grab bag?

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Do you like what you do?

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 5 December, 2009 Do you like what you do?

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With a Little Help From My Friends

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « I am so excited and I just had to tell you about it! | Main | AboutOne is About YOU! Win a chance at an iPod Touch! » With a Little Help From My Friends Hello!  I hope that you are doing fantastic.  I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.  Tomorrow, I will go into our local hospital for abdominal surgery.  They

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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