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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. For instance, an employee may spend all day sorting and filing their emails instead of outlining and working on a project that has closely approaching due dates.

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Career Success A to Z: H is for Honesty

Eat Your Career

My goal in this series is to talk about important concepts related to career fulfilment in a fun and unusual way. Things like gossiping about others. The only way to attain such a lofty goal is to be honest with yourself. This article is part of a series. So today’s topic of “honesty” is a very important one indeed.

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How to Repair Bad Relationships at Work

On The Job

then I don't have time to do the necessary fact-checking because people are leaving work and don't want to respond to my emails or phone calls. But as long as you focus on a shared goal, such as making the team more productive, you will begin to rebuild trust in the relationship. "When I don't get the report until 5 p.m. Take action.

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

Success

This leads to gossip and politics, often just below the surface of what looks like a happy and positive culture. To reset the accountability dynamic internally, Friends should have a level-setting conversation with each member of their team to clarify goals, roles and responsibilities. Fighters see ideas—i.e., Don’t look.

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To-Do or Not To-Do? Taking Your To-Do List to the Next Level!

Professional Assistant Blog

Having a to-do list can be very helpful in accomplishing your tasks, but also setting goals. In order to set goals, you have to write them down and then prioritize them. Then, you need to assign tasks to each goal, where you break the goal down into manageable chunks. Do you want to take it to the next level?

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Ten Commandments of Getting Along with People

Ian's Messy Desk

Discourage gossip. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable. Let your virtues, if you have any, speak for themselves. Refuse to talk of another’s vices.

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Thinking Differently about Difficult People

The Office Professionals Place

In order to effectively deal with the backstabbers, stubborn, mean-spirited, micromanagers, gossips, and the host of others that make the list, we must evaluate our own perceptions of these people. Approach the individual(s) in a manner that is appropriate to meet your objectives and goals. This means changing your attitude.

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