Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

If you’re wondering how working from your living room in your bunny slippers can possibly lead to success as an entrepreneur, don’t worry. Negotiating. Freelancers, however, must negotiate price, deadlines, and other details of their jobs all the time. Don’t be the minority. Image courtesy of photos.com.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 20, 2013

Don''t know/no answer. CFOs also were asked, " Which of the following types of skills training are you likely to invest in for your internal accounting and finance staff in the next two years? Management. Don''t know/no answer. Messmer added, "It''s a misperception that soft skills can''t be learned or honed.

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Admin Awards

APRIL 24, 2020

The best administrative professionals aren’t just supporting players. What does it take to be the kind of administrative assistant businesses can’t do without? Managers and executives also value assistants who know how to use accounting, payroll and HR applications. You may also be the go-to person internally.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2013

Your colleagues may be shocked that you have called this meeting because quite often senior managers will ask you to organise an event and think you can just go away and deliver it without any scope or real information. Events can be expensive especially if they are for team building or internal training. What are the event outcomes?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

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. What are the dates you can cancel by? Contracts will have dates you can cancel by. 23, 1 p.m.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Nan Barry, Managing Director, Southwest Airlines. Admins hold a LOT of power — the problem is, they don’t always believe that to be true. Many employees are fearful of sharing concerns with an executive, but they don’t mind telling an Admin. Robin Guido, Executive Assistant, Salesforce. BE A TRANSLATOR.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Don’t wait around the water cooler, listening to the rumor mill. Some bad bosses believe that what they say goes and there is no room for negotiation. How to deal with it: These types of managers believe in facts and statistics. and you don’t arrive until 9 a.m. and you don’t arrive until 9 a.m.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 22, 2011

  Your stress is managed by this tiny gland that sits right above your kidneys called the Adrenal System.    If it is operating correctly, it releases chemicals, or hormones, that help you manage your stress level.    When that happens, it is harder for us to manage stress.  Best De-stress.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 6, 2010

  Ad Age quotes an investment banker on the value of Newsweek as saying "I can't tell you that it's more than a buck, unfortunately."   They're an award winning magazine with a rich history and an international reputation for outstanding reporting. 

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Small Business CEO

JULY 6, 2011

Ignore the management of IT at your own risk. One company outsourced its IT, negotiating excellent rates. We discuss the management of the outsourcer that sets up and maintains your servers, network, help desk and other IT functions, referred to as a managed services provider (MSP). Your needs will change over time.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 5, 2010

If you haven’t yet taken advantage of the slower business cycle to make the day-to-day processes in your company more efficient, start now. Supplement with consultants for functions that don’t need a full time resource, or where flexibility or skill level is key. Here are three tips for getting your house in order now: 1.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

I don''t do a lot of outsourcing, but offering up guests spots here at Productivityst has started me down that path. In order to outsource right, you need to have a plan on what should be done by others and what shouldn''t, and this guest post from Clarissa Steinhöfel offers some plans to that effect. Review: Google Docs.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. Suddenly, it became useless.

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 24, 2010

This quality allows us to identify changes in our universe and match them to our internal history. So, based on what the stimuli offers, we browse our internal library and pick whatever we think it might be appropriate. In my experience, a typical copy paste situation unfolds in 3 steps. Which is to withdraw.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 24, 2010

In fact, I didn’t coach anyone, I just had the privilege to meet an authentic and valuable person. Surprisingly enough this wasn’t iAdd , which is the most complex and polished app I wrote so far, but a small game called iFlipEm Lite. I thought I lost the skills to hire people, but apparently I didn’t.

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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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BioTeams

JULY 31, 2005

This article is the final in a four-part series which describes each of the 4 Bioteams Zones, continuing with t he Organization Zone. T his article was originally published in 2005 by Ken Thompson and Robin Good. Rule 3 – Act don’t Ask (Permission Granted). Introduction. Rule 2 – Everyone must broadcast.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

PHP has garbage collections which means your variables are automatically discarded when they are no longer needed, in Objective C you have to do your own management memory. It implements every single concept of this framework, bringing to life a completely new approach towards productivity. The details are towards the end of the article.

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