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Batching Work: Your Productivity Super Tool

Jen Lawrence

Do you wash your clothes or dishes in big piles instead of one item at a time? Emails – We hear this a lot but somehow seem to struggle to release ourselves from the constant beckoning of the email notification. Batching your work is bucketing common tasks together and handling them at the same time.

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Batching Work: Your Productivity Super Tool

Jen Lawrence

Do you wash your clothes or dishes in big piles instead of one item at a time? Emails – We hear this a lot but somehow seem to struggle to release ourselves from the constant beckoning of the email notification. Batching your work is bucketing common tasks together and handling them at the same time.

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Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween

Professional Assistant Blog

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. This has been a tradition in our office for quite some time now, where people would decorate the office, dress up in funky costumes and bring baked treats for everyone.

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Bosses Day - October 16

The Office Professionals Place

What if your boss doesn’t drink coffee, well they have to eat or buy clothing right? So a gift card to their favorite restaurant or clothing store would be appropriate. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Gift Cards You can’t go wrong with a gift card to Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.

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Overcome your Independency

The Office Professionals Place

this is a 3-part project – the top shelf, hanging clothes, and bottom half of the closet. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. Then reward yourself for meeting the deadlines. For example, I need to clean my closet (Spring cleaning long overdue!) This way I am pacing myself and getting rewards.

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Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers

Stephanie LH Calahan

Have your clothes laid out, your briefcase or the kids’ backpacks, and whatever else you need to take with you, all set out. Tweet Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Clutter Free Up Your Time!   

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Outlook Rules That Rule

Professional Assistant Blog

It feels like I just went through my closet and threw a whole bunch of clothes out that I never wear. My Inbox is now empty If there is an e-mail that I havent looked at in awhile and regularly press delete when I get it, that is my cue to unsubscribe. " I am having withdrawal symptoms.

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