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7 Tips for Coming Down the Home Stretch

Office Dynamics

It was a horrible year; a stressful year; a depressing year.” Here are some ideas for the first week of November: Take inventory of your accomplishments and make sure you document them so you have them ready for your annual review or your success book! Look at your calendar between now and year-end. Mend broken relationships.

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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Have a Centralized Calendar. A family calendar can help you track what is going on for all family members. Determine what documents you need for school registration. Back-to-school adds a whole new layer of commitments and stresses on top of the things that regularly need to be done. Round up your papers.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing. Where will you get flowers, baby gifts, birthday cakes, catered lunch, a venue for the holiday party, wine, a list of all the hot restaurants in town? Don't forget about official, company, school, and religious holidays.

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10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

Ian's Messy Desk

Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. The trick for any of them is to learn to use MULTIPLE TAGS so that you can find them, otherwise – for example, your searches will pull up a thousand documents with the word ‘HTML’ in them. Just a suggestion.

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10 Things = Frustration

Laughing all the Way to Work

Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. It is very hard to follow along when not all members have the document printed the same way. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

Humour is a powerful stress reliever if done in good taste, but timing is everything. Proofing documents can also be funny. I am on holidays right now, but am always interested in what others are doing. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. What a start to a Monday morning.

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When working isn't fun: Ho hum, ho hum, it's off to work I go.

Laughing all the Way to Work

In this new age of not doing anything more than a quick spell check on documents, make sure you do not have any spelling mistakes in your resume. An interview can be as stressful on those conducting it as on the person being interviewed if the conversation does not flow. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."