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Want to Participate in Giving Tuesday? This Guide Explains Everything About Donations, Deductions and Volunteering

Success

As the holidays approach, we set up decorations, plan for holiday gatherings and buy gifts. How to participate in Giving Tuesday: Start local A good first step is to comb your social networks. We become more generous to our family and friends but also to others in need. You’ll find answers to these questions below.

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What Companies Can Learn from the Southwest Airlines Crisis

Success

Most travelers anticipate holiday air travel to be fraught with minor annoyances, winter weather and a greater volume of fliers—all likely to lead to a few hours’ delay or even some cancellations. For Southwest Airlines and its passengers, minor annoyances snowballed into a major meltdown this December. Normal operations have since resumed.

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Holiday Messages Made Easy

Laughing all the Way to Work

I just received this article written by Lynn Gaertner-Johnston of Syntax Training and wanted to pass it along to you as it has some great tips for holiday messaging. Even though sending printed cards is an expense, think of it as an investment in your professional network. Words for Holiday Messages. Happy holidays!

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5 SOP examples for your business

BMT Office Administration

Encourage internal staff to share the opening with their networks. The finance department is responsible for approving high-value office supply purchases and reconciling expense purchases. Follow the expense policy to document any charges put on a company card. Expense policy. Annual company holiday calendar.

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Day in the life: Tess Keppe

Practically Perfect PA

The first thing I do in the morning is “eat that frog”… the thing on my list that I put off doing the day before; it’s usually expenses! That I genuinely don’t know what I’m going to do in a day; my boss can wake up one day and decide on a holiday destination and that’ll be my project for the day! which is a real treat.

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The Bribery Act – what do assistants need to know?

Practically Perfect PA

If the client and has wife are going on their own as a holiday it could be seen as a lavish gift alternatively if the members of the business are also going and their industry will be discussed it could be seen as standard hospitality. Furthermore, all expenses relating to the corporate hospitality should be logged.

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have a network of assistants that I call friends, although some are just phone colleagues, but we help each other. 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. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."