Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 11 Tips To Improve Your Performance By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 08, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity A re you asking yourself, “How can I improve my workplace?&# Avoid people that gossip, you will only get yourself deeper into negativity. Expand your mind.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you trying to book a meeting with someone or a group of people? This happens to me quite frequently.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Do you need to have some sort of written confirmation to make sure that the reservation has been booked? T here is a great site called OpenTable.com , which allows you to book reservations online with particular restaurants all over the world. Do you feel that you could be doing this faster?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Click on the arrow down button right beside the "New" button, then click "Distribution List" Here you can either "Select Members" or "Add New" Select Members is used to find contacts that are already in your address book. Add New, of course, would be used to add a brand new contact.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

If you are booking a meeting for yourself, for others or both, give everyone ample time to respond to the meeting and provide a reminder (theres a check box for this in the meeting set up page) of at least 15 minutes. A day or two before the task is due is usually sufficient.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. I will explain this later. I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Categories Client Service (23) Ergonomics (6) Job Seeking (20) Meetings (43) MS-Access (8) MS-Excel (23) MS-Outlook (34) MS-PowerPoint (11) MS-Word (22) Networking (27) Office Gossip (18) Organize (91) Prioritize (42) Productivity (202) Research (7) System Security (16) Travel (20) The Archives The Archives July 2010 (4) June 2010 (4) November 2009 (..)

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity? It seems to me that there is now an increasing shift toward simplifying our lives. Who needs to be productive when the amount of stuff you have to deal with is cut in half?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Categories Client Service (23) Ergonomics (6) Job Seeking (20) Meetings (43) MS-Access (8) MS-Excel (23) MS-Outlook (34) MS-PowerPoint (11) MS-Word (22) Networking (27) Office Gossip (18) Organize (91) Prioritize (42) Productivity (202) Research (7) System Security (16) Travel (20) The Archives The Archives July 2010 (4) June 2010 (4) November 2009 (..)

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

But even if you don’t go to such lengths, the key to surviving downtimes is to make sure you have copied your address book over to all your email accounts. Some people even route their mail through Gmail and then back again, to weed out spam, and to keep copies.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Well, I sit home all day sending out resumes to evil trolls who won't even return a phone call, and then I watch Ellen and Oprah, to make sure I'm up on all the celebrity news before settling in to surf the Internet for endless hours while eating an entire bag of out-of-date Cheetos I bought at the dollar store. Send yourself to "me" school.

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On The Job

JULY 22, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Thursday, July 22, 2010 Is Using Social Media at Work a Good Idea? Cavalli points out that social media interaction isn’t always about discussing a new movie or dishing the latest gossip.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

I am sure after that call her husband got off the phone and kicked the dog or was cranky with a sales clerk at the grocery store. It ended up that the phone lines were down because of a thunderstorm in town and he had been trying to reach her since early that afternoon. What happened? Crankiness and bad moods can be passed on.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

THE LEADER ASSISTANT BOOK Download the first 3 chapters of The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of Game-Changing Assistant for FREE here or buy it on Amazon and listen to the audiobook on Audible. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. You’re You’re there to do a job.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 11, 2009

I can tell you my friends and colleagues got a lot of phone calls in those early days and it was a wonderful resource and help to me. The problem that sometimes occurs with sharing with current co-workers is it can turn into office gossip. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Success

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Read a self-help book every morning for 30 minutes. Call one of your children on the phone. If you don’t know how, buy a book on starting a business and read it, or check the internet for tips. Tony Alessandra , a communication and sales expert and co-author of the bestselling book The New Art of Managing People.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

Sorry to harsh your buzz, but some freelancers lie about their income to get you to buy their e-books. (Do Answer the phone now and then. If you turn white and get all knee-wobbly at the thought of picking up the phone and introducing yourself to a prospective client, keep your day job. Smoke breaks with friends.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Monday, December 28, 2009 10 gifts to give your career As the gift-giving season draws to a close, it’s time to remember that you still have one more gift left to bestow: The gift of a better career.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 28, 2009

That includes, she says, anything introduced into the work environment with personal handheld devices such as smart phones, which can show videos or photos. And networking and social chit chat is always great- just keep it to a min and don't become the office gossip queen! Social networking. October 28, 2009 1:10 PM Anita said.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

His secretary says that he hasn't booked a return trip -- I wonder what's up with that. * I say we get rid of the phones. Tags: Thriller office gossip boss talk at work election over Dick Cheney workplace Michael Jackson Anita Bruzzese. * Did you hear that our CFO is headed to the Cayman Islands for a little vacation?

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On The Job

JANUARY 31, 2013

The survey also finds some of the other reasons that contribute to the negative feelings about teams: Gossip. Feierstein says he has never been on a team where a confrontation turned physical although he's seen "staplers and books sent flying through the air," so it could be respondents were judging such interactions as physical.

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