Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 September, 2010 Whats all the fuss about reading contracts? I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

If you aren’t confident in your abilities, how do you convince a prospective client you’re the person for the job? Plus, complaining about pay in a situation where you typically negotiate your own pay is a bit tacky. Don’t have any client work or projects? So did James. I’m willing to bet you started at the bottom too.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2011

You don’t get to be on big-name sites like Men with Pens, Copyblogger, Problogger and Daily Writing Tips by fluffing deadlines like some flaky moonlighter. You just want to curl up under the duvet and pretend that deadline doesn’t exist at all. Don’t turn your back. And Ali Luke (yes, she’s back!)

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Men With Pens

MARCH 3, 2010

There’s a fire to put out – you can’t just let it burn! In 95% of all rush cases, people sound urgent but almost all of them won’t blow at you when you say you can’t get to it right away. They can wait, or they can go elsewhere, but they sure can’t be mad at you for being helpful and willing.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 10, 2009

And it’s sweet because now I get to discuss my ultimate, favorite topic: T, for Time-based, which has a great deal to do with project management. They aren’t projects. To accomplish the ‘T’ in SMART for project management, you have to use the S-M-A-R in the SMART acronym that we’ve already discussed.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

It’d be nice to have a website, but I don’t really need one. I’m not here to push people into doing something they don’t want to do or don’t need to do. That wasn’t the case here. But he didn’t have the right motivation to make the decision to get online. Having a website?

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

Well, I like to think I invented it (didn’t find it in a dictionary anyway). And it literally means: “without a script” (yeah, right). Beyond this rather light introduction there’s a far more serious theme for this article, and, at least for me, a far more important challenge: how to avoid playing roles in our lives? Yeah, this is serious stuff.

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