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Successful Remote Work Requires Investment Into Culture

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New hires are paired with “buddies” who help them navigate company systems, tools and culture. They mitigate proximity bias through practices like rotating meeting times to accommodate different time zones. Peer mentoring is another valuable practice.

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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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Frugal Ways to Improve Remote Team’s Productivity

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Those kinds of team members never see each other face to face, and sometimes even work in different time zones, which obviously means that it’s that much harder to stay in sync. Now, there are times when distance between teams is something that can’t be avoided. However, there would be alternating “shifts”.

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Why Lock Your System at Work?

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Home About Me Advertise Why Lock Your System at Work? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer? and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system.

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7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System

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Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Be Positive About Your Customer Service Issues

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Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone.

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Need to Change Excel Details from Vertical to Horizontal or Vice.

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