Professional Assistant Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2009
Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.
Eco-Office Gals
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
First you have to come up with a great idea for a business, followed by putting together a plan that convinces others that you have a good idea and that you can turn it into a successful venture. Starting a business is no easy undertaking, as most entrepreneurs are no doubt aware. No sweat, right?
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On The Job
OCTOBER 21, 2010
When I write for Gannett/USAToday.com, my column is picked up by newspapers and different websites all over the world. Of course, she was immediately called a "suck-up," by others, (you gotta love the Internet), but I'll let you decide for yourself if such a strategy is viable for you. Value human interaction.
Ian's Messy Desk
JUNE 9, 2010
Make meetings effective – Managers can spend an average of 17 hours a week in meetings, and that doesn’t include preparation and follow-up time. If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location.
Success
MARCH 2, 2023
If we don’t answer this question, we can end up climbing the wrong ladder and pursuing someone else’s version of success. In Office Space , Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) says to his doctor, “So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it.
Brilliantly Better
MARCH 7, 2010
If you want to impress, you can’t let up as quickly as others. You keep yourself from telling 20 people you are going to do things for them, ending up only doing the things for 5 of them, and instead tell 5 people you will do things for them, and do them a little better than you described. The open field is much more appealing.
The Small Business Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2007
So I saw little of my family and especially my son who is now grown-up and ready to go to university. So for the past eight years I have been there when my son came home from school, I even picked him up often enough. That sets up a relationship based on employer-as-caretaker. What do you think?
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