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Proper Business Dining Etiquette

The Office Professionals Place

Thursday, June 17, 2010 Proper Business Dining Etiquette I have been to lunches and dinners where people inadvertently take the wrong glass, use the wrong utensil with the meal, or display improper dining etiquette, such as starting to eat before everyone is served or talking with their mouth full. Lets grow together!

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Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In.

The Office Professionals Place

This may be a case when you pick up the phone and discuss the issue. It’s so easy to use and just as fast yet we don’t pick up the phone. Phone etiquette is important, remember to leave your name and phone number twice when leaving a voicemail- once at the beginning and then at the end of the call.

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The Paperless Society: A dream or a necessity?

Laughing all the Way to Work

There were only certain types of paper and glass that would be accepted and if your cans were not completely cleaned they were not picked up. Materials that used to be handed out at conferences and in schools are now made available on CDs or posted on websites for easy access. Today we are able to recycle just about anything.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Thinking Outside the Job Description Box By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 20, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog. Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Try to anticipate the need so you can have the file or the answer your boss needs, before he or she even knows they need it. A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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Oh where or where is my password?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Along with our multiple work passwords, we have a password for our home computer, and if we sign up for Facebook, Twitter or any other website, we have another password to remember. I hope you keep your address book locked up as that would be a very valuable source of information for someone up to no good. Works so far!

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Grrr! moments

Laughing all the Way to Work

At one office I worked in we had a mail cart with slots for everyones mail, but it was filed First name, Last name. I grew up in a world that used Last Name, First Name (i.e. the phone book, standard filing practices etc.) This goes for filing and also how your contacts are ordered in Outlook. Well here is one of my Grrr!