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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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Celebrating National Customer Service Week by honoring the best

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face.

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Is Stress Making You Want to Kiss Your Job Goodbye?

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I feel like I can jump from cubicle to cubicle across the world, being a fly, er, spider on the wall. Hi, Anita, This post breaks my heart and I dont know if I have many answers other than to say if there were ever a time to start medicating, visualizing and doing yoga, this would be the time. Who's Got Your Back?

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Plugged in and Tuned Out: Listening to Music While you Work

Laughing all the Way to Work

Articles have been written in medical journals that show surgeons who listen to music perform better. Some people have plugged in to help drown out the distracting noises from neighbouring cubicles, which can be helpful as long as your music isn’t in turn disturbing your neighbours. His son now suffers from hearing loss.

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

After reading the article on the "remote clicker", which is what I used to call it, I asked John in the cubicle beside me. Reactions: 2comments: Patty said. Hi Patricia and fellow admins. We looked in a catalogue and found it. It's called a Presentation Remote. Patty March 01, 2010 Patricia Robb said. Thanks Patty.

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It's Lonely in the Corner Office.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I can interact where I am now, but I have to get up and go if I want to speak with someone and then when I get there I may find they are busy or on the phone so I have wasted my time. Of course there is a down side to being able to do that. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m. (for