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Zoe Ellis Moore Founder of Spaces to Places | Navigating the Changing Needs of Today’s Professionals: Trends in the Flexible Workspace Industry

Allwork

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There finding the difference now within London, where actually around Waterloo and Southern’s really come up because of good transport links, whereas Shoreditch is finding it a bit harder because people are traveling into London and then they have got to commute onwards and so they are seeing that additional time.

AT&T

AT&T Environment Travel Restaurants

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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 15, 2009

Here is some common-sense etiquette: Screen your calls: Subscribe to call display. However, I think our etiquette hasnt caught up with the technology. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. I usually snap my fingers and say "Hey, over here!" We joke about it, but it is distracting.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: My 5 New Rules for Cellphone Use

On The Job

JULY 30, 2009

Especially in the workplace. Use a cellphone when you are traveling through the Appalachians. I think this would a great forum to lay down some electronic gadget rules for the workplace. Further, its been found that even talking on a cellphone while driving means you have a four times greater chance of having an accident.

2009

2009 Cubicle Phones AT&T

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. They are no longer stuck within the job description box, but have the freedom to break out of the mould and redefine their roles and sometimes even change their careers.

2008

2008 2007 Cubicle Google Docs

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? Here is a video link on the proper etiquette to address a President. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Why do we not use their full name?

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Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her.

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 28, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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October 15th, Blog Action Day: Poverty

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 14, 2008

I previously wrote an article on Charities in the Workplace and have seen an increase in the participation in charities at offices I have worked in. One office I worked in together sponsored a child as a workplace charity project. We all participated by writing to our sponsored child and contributed money towards supporting her.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Posted by Patricia Robb at 6:13 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , etiquette for addressing officials , professional assistant Reactions: 2comments: Carol Bory said. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.

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Go with your gut feeling!

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 31, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 5, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Admin Buddies

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 20, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

I am now leaving Atlanta to travel to Birmingham and the impression I am left with is I have never been in a city that smiles so much. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others.

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Happy Administrative Professionals' Day!

Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 22, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

Administrative Professionals

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We did it Canada!

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Dealing in real time.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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When your voicemail goes awry.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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I gave at the office

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 23, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 6, 2009

One of the biggest issues surrounding substance abuse in the workplace are the lies required to keep up the front that everything is ok. link] Posted by Patricia Robb at 7:49 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , alcohol , professional assistant , workplace Reactions: 1 comments: Foley-In-Charge said. This is one way to snag folks.

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Different spellings: British, Canadian and American

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to. (for

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Spring cleaning on the blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 1, 2009

Under My Favourites, I have added a Meeting section with some useful sites and combined many of my travel related links under one title simply called Travel. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. You will notice on the side bar I have put a lot of the reading sites (My blog list etc.)

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. If outside the city, make travel arrangements: are flights required, train or will he or she be driving. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms.

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Taking the time to acknowledge someone and say thanks.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 31, 2010

The art of saying thank you can sometimes get lost in our busyness, but here are some examples of times it would be nice to send a card from work: To thank presenters who speak at your workplace. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. To thank your boss for being supportive during a trying time.

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A twelve step program to survive as an Admin

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 31, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 15, 2010

I use this all the time on my calendar and my boss's calendar, and it helps us both to know which events are phone calls which he can take in the office or on the road (yellow) or which events will require travel (blue). I put travel in red and action reminders in yellow, but that is our own system and it works for us.

Calendars IAAP Time Zones 2010

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

I travel far to try and find a full-serve station, but they are becoming extinct. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. The incentive was you saved.002 002 cents a litre. That was never enough to get me out of the car! Recently, I bought a new laptop.

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We have a winner!

Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Contest!

Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgate, 2010 Stevie.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 12, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

2010

2010 Interviewing Time Zones IAAP

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Taking stock

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 9, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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We don't know what we don't know

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 1, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Once the date and location is finalized, if it requires flight and hotel, then I put a travel sheet on top of the meeting sheet and start to go through that checklist to see what I need to do, from getting the passport ready, contacting the travel agent and arranging for a purchase order, etc.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 22, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 4, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

Time Zones IAAP 2010 International

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 16, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

Agenda

Agenda Time Zones International IAAP

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Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 9, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

Time Zones IAAP 2010 International

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A funny thing happened on the way to the office.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 27, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Another time I wanted to try a career in the travel business. I make travel arrangements, do desktop publishing (well, I usually get my sister to help me), organize events and now I am even going to be speaking at an Admin event in April (which I will pretend is sort of like teaching).Yes,

Time Zones IAAP Holidays International

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 23, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Are you prepared?

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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When taking initiative isn't the best thing.

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 1, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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How to get Office fat fast.

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 21, 2009

I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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