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5 Tips for Dealing with Annoying People at Work

Success

The issue is so pervasive that Laura Crandall, author and founder of a management consulting firm, wrote Working with Humans: Tools You Didn’t Know You Needed for Conversations You Never Expected to Have to help others learn how to work with annoying people. Last week, that led to an argument with a new client and almost cost us the contract.

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Why Certification and a Designation are Important for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Besides the actual skills and competencies you learn through a certification program, it also demonstrates to those around you that you can set goals and achieve objectives – you can be trusted to go the distance. You may need to split costs with your employer, such as using a vacation to attend a conference they pay for, etc.

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What Kind of Leader Are You: A Fixer, Fighter or Friend?

Success

Individuals tend not to get the kind of firm and clear boundaries they need to learn about themselves. This leads to gossip and politics, often just below the surface of what looks like a happy and positive culture. Not to mention the very real cost of all that extra task-switching that’s already out of control in the modern office.

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5 Signs Employees are Thinking About Leaving -- and What to Do About It

On The Job

For example, disengaged workers cost their organizations an average of $3,400 every year for every $10,000 in annual salary, according to statistics from McLean & Co. They Gossip This is someone who isn’t looking for the good in anything or anyone.

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

Read on to learn more about the causes of procrastination and how you can stop it in its tracks. Each type is unique, as they each have unique incentives and adverse effects, so let’s learn more about each. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. The Different Ways to Procrastinate at Work. Offline procrastination.

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Disengaged Employees are the Silent Killer

Energage

They gossip around the watercooler. Most of all, disengaged employees cost your organization countless dollars in lost productivity, quality, and poor customer service. There’s no doubt that disengaged employees cost you money. Five Employee Survey Tips to Help You Spot the Warning Signs. “I They’re unproductive.

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The New Economics: It’s About Time. (Governing Time)

Office Dynamics

This is doubly important for parents, as children learn by watching what parents do, not by listening to what parents tell them to do while doing something different themselves. Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. If you don’t… you both lose. So quit it.

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