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Stay on Track for Productivity

Success

workers have packed up their cubicles and headed home to do just that. You can mark these blocks on your email calendar—Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, for instance—so it sends you reminders to stop and start. A huge time-suck for home-based workers and entrepreneurs is checking and responding to emails.

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Why Collaborating Can Be a Pain -- and What to Do About It

On The Job

Your inbox may be groaning under the load of emails from collaborating partners. It's no wonder that 85% of most knowledge workers and leaders are bogged down in email, meetings and phone calls. How can you collaborate more effectively without writing emails at 3 a.m. Stop emailing. Here's some ideas: Be stingy.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If She relieves me from things I don’t need to be doing like email, booking travel and project planning. The goal is to meet as normally as possible, even though you’re potentially miles—or even oceans—apart.

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How To Overcome Disruptions And Achieve Your Productivity Goals

Productivity Bits

Just do whatever we need to do to achieve our productivity goals without letting up on the quality of our work. We don’t only procrastinate our high-priority actions but we sometimes put them off entirely in favor of personal choices irrelevant to our productivity goals. Your email will remain private. Putting Things Off.

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Authentically Gen Z: The Values, Aspirations & Drivers That Will Re-Define The Future Of Work

Allwork

As part of an internal research initiative centered on this topic, SmithGroup’s Workplace Practice convened panels of Gen Z employees in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois to learn more about the personal and professional goals that drive this generation. As such, they want more out of their workplace than a standard cubicle.

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Career Success A to Z: R is for Relationships

Eat Your Career

Sure, sometimes work colleagues can become friends, but that’s not the primary goal. Each person in a professional relationship is working toward a goal. In the strongest relationships, both parties enhance their ability to achieve their goals with the help of the other. Professional relationships are purposeful.

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Break The Routine, Inspire Yourself!

Professional Assistant Blog

You can change this by having inspirational items around your cubicle (you can also read more on decorating your cubicle here ). Stick it to the wall of your cubicle, but make sure that its sitting right in front of you. Each and every day will pass and you will get closer and closer to your goal. Whats next?

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