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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

Success

How to safely spread humor in the workplace Osincup believes that there is a place for humor at work if it’s delivered with a few guidelines in mind. Instigate laughter around the office by hanging a joke-of-the-day calendar in a common area or having a contest to name office equipment in humorous ways.

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6 Types of Meetings and How to Use Them Successfully

Jen Lawrence

The agenda format relies heavily on the team’s style and size. A few quick guidelines to ensure your meetings are effective: Map your meetings on a calendar and schedule them well in advance. Have an agenda. Whether an itemized agenda or a framework to guide the conversation, have a structure in place.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? 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 Dealing in real time.

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

My favourite to-do list is a calendar timeline so I can see at a glance where I am at and what I need to do to get there. It is simply using an on-line calendar with space on each day to enter what needs to be done. To generate a calendar in Word 2007, click on the Office Button (in the top left-hand corner). No surprises!

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Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone.

Loosely Speaking

Please feel free to forward this information to any other VAs you know who do meet our guidelines as stated above. Agenda will be provided once you RSVP to either tara-at-cableone-dot-net or ktcosmos-at-LooseEnds-dot-net. We’ll meet at The Raven on Cortez Street (in Prescott Arizona) at 9 a.m. at The Raven [.]

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc.

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

Laughing all the Way to Work

My boss likes me to print his weekly calendar on Monday so he can see at a glance what he has for the week so I clip that to the front of the folder. I then print his daily calendar and slip that in the left pocket of the folder and on the right side I put everything he will need for the day. I do this for each day of the week.