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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

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Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. The prospect is now a patient and has referred dozens of friends. times the impact of spoken ones.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

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His mouth is blocked by a powder-blue medical face mask, but I can see a smile forming in his eyes. I often anticipate things I know will make me happy (weddings, big trips, holidays with family) instead of learning to find joy in the small, everyday moments that comprise my life. Paint peels from the walls. OK, let’s do it,” he says.

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

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The benefits aren’t as good It differs from company to company, but basic employee benefits can cover everything from childcare leave to medical costs. Where possible, contractors typically try to overlap several projects. You don’t get paid during public holidays Paid holiday leave is a highlight of fulltime employment.

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Employee Engagement is a Core Strength for Top Workplaces

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We don’t have the luxury of not doing our work well,” said Janice Moore, project director. It requires travel, long hours, missed holidays. To make up for the rigors of the job, employees get generous time off, flexibility, and good medical and dental coverage. It is demanding.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was hoping that you might have insight/advice on how to create project work/better assist a C-Level exec that has never had an admin before. Since we are both somewhat green, I was hoping that you might have some suggestions to spark project work (both business and personal related projects would be helpful).

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Taking stock

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 9 July, 2010 Taking stock Whenever I finish a project I always ask myself, or get together with those who assisted me, and ask the question, "What went well and what could have gone better?" Now I am on holidays and preparing for a big move to a new home. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

When the results were in, I met with the person who administered it and one of the things it showed, other than the fact that I ranked very high in administration, was that I work best on short-term projects where I can see the end in sight. I will have all kinds of energy to work on a project if I know it is ending at one point.