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Zooming In On Engagement: How Turning Off Your Camera Can Hurt Your Career

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Amy Casciotti: As discussed, turning on the camera generally helps keep you engaged as well as speaking up when questions are posed or when you have questions. Another way to stay engaged is the oft-forgotten follow-up after a meeting. Do the workers that engage more receive more promotions?

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Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007

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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&#.

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Sleep on Your To-Do List to Get Things Done

Ian's Messy Desk

Louis found that people who sleep after storing a memory end up following through on their intentions much more effectively than people who jump right in without sleeping. Take a lesson from this research the next time you have a full agenda at work the following day. Researchers at Washington University in St.

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How to Manage Time

Ian's Messy Desk

We expend energy rushing through the day trying to keep up with ourselves. Look for ways to free-up time. A few minutes saved here and there can add up to a significant portion of time. How you manage your time is part of your personal agenda. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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How to exorcise your demons of disorganization

Ian's Messy Desk

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.

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