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How to exorcise your demons of disorganization

Ian's Messy Desk

If you have an open-door policy, place your back to the entrance, or face away from your cubicle entry to indicate your unavailability. Manage drop-in visitors – Reduce “people clutter&# by placing in/out trays outside your space to avoid being disturbed by staff. Keep the office door closed.

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The R's Of Employee Motivation

Ian's Messy Desk

From corporate cubicles to the factory floor, the collective skills and efforts of people keep your operation going. If you think your employee’s poor performance is costing you profit, instead of overhauling your employee roster, why not try motivating them to become better employees ?

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number. Who are you?

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Full-time Freelance Writing Jobs | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

The awesomeness of working for yourself, avoiding office politics and all the other nonsense of the cubicle farms, is priceless and outweighs all the other factors… Marian Schembari´s last blog. 5 Things College Teaches You About Work (and 5 things it doesn’t) Reply Omar January 15, 2010 at 11:09 am A lot to consider.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But what is scarier to me is spending my life sitting in a cubicle. And don’t be like those miserable people who work cubicle jobs. It’s often the cubicle-people who enable your dreams to succeed. Sure, my cubicle job sucks at times. And I didn’t say a word about cubicle people. Well, news flash.

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Emotional Benefits: Are You Using Them Enough? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Now, I’m experiencing this same line of thinking in a cubicle environment… benefits to me? Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically." - Captain Jack Sparrow Home | Services | About | Comment Policy | Disclosure | Contact Copyright © 2006 - 2010 30 Sous Zero Inc. Hmmmm… Reply Go ahead. Leave a Comment!

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Why Freelancers Need a Consultant | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

But I realized, later on, that they were totally on board with change… they just didn’t want to become a cubicle company and didn’t become freelancers to achieve that goal. I chalked it up to “change is tough&# and held firm. That’s what they *left*. And that’s what they saw happening. Powered by frugal

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