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Why changing with the seasons is key to the all-weather workplace

Workplace Insight

Many people feel the winter blues in some shape or form; each year around 2 million people experience seasonal affective disorder (SAD), which can affect the production of important hormones such as melatonin and serotonin, as well as disrupt the body’s internal clock.

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A 4-Question Guide to Unlock Your Creativity

Success

That is, even the folks who couldn’t think of anything to do with the paper clip besides holding papers together were just as likely to write and direct a successful play as the people who had loads of MacGyver-type tricks for the humble office-supply staple. Divergent thinking doesn’t always predict creativity. But it still counts.

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Thank you for joining our Admin Blog-a-thon, what’s next?

Office Dynamics

IAAP teamed up with Staples to #CelebrateAdmins. Business Management Daily had a daily free download or gift. Here’s a recap of the great content that was discussed this month: 10 Steps to Supporting Multiple Managers (4/1/2015). Who Is Office Dynamics International? (4/15/2015). 4/15/2015). What Makes Your Proud?

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Honored “Best Book” In Best of The Best Office Products and Services

Office Dynamics

Best Airlines: (International). The site is continually developed in close collaboration with executive, administrative and virtual assistants, office managers and administrative staff, as well as some of the world leading technology companies. Best Online Travel Websites. Best Shipping Service. Best Car Rental. Enterprise.

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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

Practically Perfect PA

Considering this task is not the staple part of our profession I can still imagine your answer to be ‘quite often’. Your colleagues may be shocked that you have called this meeting because quite often senior managers will ask you to organise an event and think you can just go away and deliver it without any scope or real information.

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need. " Warning! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills. And call me old-fashioned, but I still manage my e-mail in Eudora, which behaves in some ways similarly to TweetDeck. Managing Snail Mail And Paper Checks Online.