Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Technology is contributing to a denser form of life. Take email and online meetings. Before they existed we had to wait for responses to voicemails and letters, or travel to places to speak to one another. And email creates exponential growth in communications , which means more work to read and respond to it all.

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Success

MARCH 4, 2024

Success Habits: Proven Principles for Greater Wealth, Health, and Happiness By Napoleon Hill Though Napoleon Hill died more than five decades ago, there is still much one can learn from his teachings. Hill’s principles are candid, some coming from his own experiences and others in the form of entertaining stories.

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Productivityist

JULY 3, 2023

It allows you to customize your own learning path. Slow travel, whether walking or biking, offers a unique perspective. Find a form that resonates with you and incorporate it into your daily life. Investing time in learning every day pays long-term dividends. Set up an email vacation message before you go on holiday.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Travel Planning. Travel Planning. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Ideas, Time & Space.

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Success

MARCH 4, 2023

His mouth is blocked by a powder-blue medical face mask, but I can see a smile forming in his eyes. I do my typical morning email and text check-in—a routine that now involves looking at the latest COVID-19 numbers in my state, Illinois, which was in the midst of a surge. I’ve learned that I need to be more adaptable and resilient.

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Success

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

From there the trail hops back and forth over Slickrock Creek, which forms part of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee. But if I decide it requires too much effort to step outside and pick it up, an electronic edition is already in my email. Vincent runs ultramarathons to escape it. I never camped, certainly not alone.

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Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You choose the amount you want to spend, choose the occasion for the gift, pick a card and fill it out, and then the “gift” is sent via text or email (making it a great, “OMGEEEE I FORGOT TO SEND A GIFT” gift!), If you have a traveler on your list, you cannot go wrong with one of the boxes. Single bars $12+.

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

People who are high in openness might enjoy traveling to new places, eating foods they’ve never eaten before and discussing ideas they’re unfamiliar with,” says Marie Forgeard, Ph.D., Leaky creatives have to learn tricks to harness their observational inspiration without being inundated by it. Are you collaborative?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We May Not Have Heard From You Recently a wonderful reader responded to one of our posts via email to let us know that she had filled out our contact form and had not heard from us.    I went out right away to re-test our Contact Us form and found it was no longer working -- on any of our sites! To your success!

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Ideas.Ted

JUNE 24, 2021

When 37-year-old neuroscientist Jill Bolte-Taylor had a massive stroke in 1996, she lost her ability to form words and move her body but also experienced what she would later describe in her TED Talk as “euphoria”. Eventually, she traveled to visit those who wrote to her. Science, says writer Steven Johnson. Read an excerpt here. ) .

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. Learn more by using the guides. Know Your Mobile Device. Put that on your action list. Cloud Storage.

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Eco-Office Gals

JULY 20, 2013

What are some of the advantages to having a digital form of credit card acceptance? If you are a professional who travels to customer locations, this is a great way to accept payments. Reports - Instead of monthly processing reports being mailed to you, an email is delivered. photo by: 401(K) 2013.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 22, 2015

Working with my Director – she is awesome and I learn so much from her. I have recently formed a PA Network within the organisation and my role has allowed me to do this. I highly enjoy arranging travel, it’s very rewarding seeing a complex itinerary complete! The freedom to make decisions for the company.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I learned that these dismissive demeanors and disrespectful behaviors had to do with the disparate perceptions about what assistants actually do. They also need allies in the form of recruiters, HR professionals, managers, and educators. Until March, 2020 brought travel to a screeching halt, I had worked in 14 countries and 38 states.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Her strong work ethic and her own experience as an executive assistant in the corporate world has formed her into the leader she is today in the staffing and marketing industry. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. And favorite hobby for sure has to be travel.

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Karen Vivarelli

JANUARY 24, 2021

After some google searching and exploring Facebook I found a FB group for Virtual Assistants and joined to learn more information. I wasn’t pursuing my passion for travel, and I didn’t have a good work-life balance. That space came in the form of being furloughed and eventually laid off from my job due to COVID-19.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 4, 2013

We must learn how to use this technology and be comfortable enough to suggest new and innovative ways to help our managers get the most from their chosen devises. for example if your manager is travelling is it best to phone, e-mail, Skype, use FaceTime on the iPad or tweet. Applications. Confidentiality .

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 10, 2016

After a few years of becoming their Head Receptionist and not learning anything new I was ready for a new challenge. I would also learn earlier on how to train yourself to switch off. In February this year we formed a Committee with three other PA’s Julie Twist, Jane Ravenwood and Jen Baudains. I stayed there for four years.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

2 -- Get Ready to Let Go When you are deciding what to let go of and what to keep in physical form, ask yourself "What is the worst possible thing that would happen if I no longer had this item?"    You still get notified, but it is in your email rather than in physical form. .  400 Gigs Gone!

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Recruit CRM

JUNE 17, 2021

Well, let's just get straight to the takeaway— Any form of gender discrimination originates via a mix of social forces and is expressed consciously and unconsciously while recruiting. Examine consumer behaviour and modify email and advertising campaigns accordingly. Ability to travel as necessary.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry. Coaches, trainers, speakers, teachers. Cindy Castillo. Realtor, real estate coach.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

When I receive an initial request for a meeting, I use a meeting form and write down the information I need: who is requesting the meeting, what is the purpose of the meeting, where it will be held and a phone number or an e-mail address and dates that are available. Never underestimate what you can learn from other assistants.

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Productivityist

APRIL 29, 2014

Some examples of my Delegation Definites are: Appointments, Travel and Preliminary Research tasks.) I added some newer tasks that involved filling out expense forms and other smaller one-off assignments, but nothing really groundbreaking. I''m going to give up another email accounts for my virtual assistant to access.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

If he is travelling, I send it by e-mail, but it has been my experience that I will get better results with a face-to-face meeting. My boss will send an email with a cc to me and on the last line or buried in the message he will write something like “I have copied Patricia to set up a teleconference at a mutually convenient time.&#

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Productivityist

MARCH 2, 2017

Every month I send out an email to subscribers of the My Monthly Theme Series that dives into my plans for the month ahead. Spend time learning more about Keynote. I mapped out my talks further, and I planned what needed doing before my travels for work and home. I also started thinking about which ones I no longer want to do.

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Productivityist

APRIL 15, 2014

My "gateway" email addresses. I use multiple email addresses rather than filters for a number of reasons, which I discussed in an earlier post. Having a virtual assistant (or Zirtual Assistant, in this case) afforded me the opportunity to offload my "gateway" email addresses to someone else. The 3 Things I Learned.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

In its simplest form minutes are a record of discussion, decisions and actions to be taken and the date by when it needs to be completed. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

It seems like the tickler file is a good place to keep the papers that go along with the tasks, but there still feels like there's some redundancy when I prioritize my to-dos that are in the form of paper and the daily to-dos on my calendar. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? What are your thoughts in this area?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

If you have a few ideas or requests in your e-mail, it is best to set it out in point form so the person does not have to dig for it. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! Point being.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Email the report to the boss while you're sitting by the pool. No need to load and check USB flash drives or email documents back and forth from work to home. If there are forms to fill in, one click does that, too -- with no typos! Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? No problem! Errand List And A Map!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 10, 2011

.  I did not as work much with clients this past year and really concentrated on putting learning and habits into place that would support me being in a position to be at my best.    Habits take time to form and I had to put some very diligent conscious effort into fixing my health situation. 

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Men With Pens

JUNE 9, 2010

It’s not a bad idea to keep an eye on what the success stories are up to today, but if you’re really looking to learn something useful (and reduce your stress levels), then you need to go back in time. See what you can learn from them to make your business better. 37 Responses to “Can You Learn How to Be an Overnight Success?&#

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a great read, sharing stories from David’s life and lessons he’s learned along the way. I had a chance to test drive the original Freewrite and decided to purchase the Freewrite Traveler because of its small footprint, portability, and e-ink display so that I can write without eye strain on my back deck.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact How To Manage Your Receipts by dragos on September 9, 2010 · 5 comments in Digital Tools , Productivity & Effectiveness Tweet I like to travel. That’s all. I know, I’m picky. You expand.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Food, food and more food If your event requires food the venue will send you a banqet event form and you will need to estimate the amount of food you need. There is value in getting to know people, even if it is just over email or the phone. Once they start to have a relationship with you they are much more open to trying to help you.

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