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Podcast 105: Desk triage

Clutter Coach

In the medical world, triage is used when there are many patients and limited resources. Your to-do list can be in a notebook, on a pad of paper, a whiteboard, on your phone; wherever you will be most likely to look at it. To do for pile of business cards : enter into computer contacts list or put into alphabetized card box.

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30 Minutes to Less Clutter

Clutter Coach

In the medical world, triage is used when there are many patients and limited resources. Your to-do list can be in a notebook, on a pad of paper, in your PDA, a whiteboard, on your phone; wherever you will be most likely to look at it. I’m going to suggest one of many possible approaches to structure your half hour, and that’s triage.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face.

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Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro

Laughing all the Way to Work

Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well. I also do not claim to give any medical, financial, psychological, veterinary, retail, personal training or HR advice, although at times it may seem like I think I know what Im talking about, it is just my opinion.

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

You can also attach a file from Word, Excel or PowerPoint or a business card from your Contacts if it is someone you need to remember to call and want that information available. You can also set a Task by right clicking on an email and choose Move to Folder. (for 411 Look Up 411.ca

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How to Plan Business Travel & Business Travel Planning Checklists

Office Dynamics

Business Travel Itinerary should include: Weather report for each day leader will be in the arriving city and other cities he will be visiting during his trip. Main contact''s cell phone number (for emergencies or in-transit arrival delays or changes). Business Colleagues. Address: Phone: _. To Pack: Cell phone.

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