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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. But one day everything changed. I snapped,” Fanning says. “I

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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

Project Management Apps: Teamwork is, by far, my favorite project management app. You can update statuses, track time and tasks, and get real-time updates on all your projects. Chat by phone or video conferencing, record meetings, and share screens to keep each other up to date, even if you’re continents apart!

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5 Ways to Build Automation into Your Business

Jen Lawrence

Using checklist templates allow you to build an operations library to make future delegation easier and gives you a foundation to build upon. Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! It’s free to get started so definitely check out their library of partnerships (which is always growing!).

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5 Ways to Build Automation into Your Business

Jen Lawrence

Using checklist templates allow you to build an operations library to make future delegation easier and gives you a foundation to build upon. Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! It’s free to get started so definitely check out their library of partnerships (which is always growing!).

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5 Steps to Becoming a More Productive Entrepreneur

Jen Lawrence

For phone calls/meetings? For more resources to improve your skills and systems, check out my on-demand course library. How much time each week do you need to dedicate to professional development? What hobbies do you want to fit into your schedule? What days and times would you enjoy them the most? For doing the actual work?

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. If managers catch employees constantly playing on their phones instead of working, they can take disciplinary action. Positions included general operations managers, lawyers, photographers, and creative writers.

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Construction Work Ahead–Part 3 of 4

The Marq

into this, his cell phone rings and he answers it. When he gets off the phone, we go on for a while more, with two main points that indicate that the company expects results that I am not willing to put in the hours to achieve, basically 80 hour weeks. So… I contact a superintendent and a Project Manager (both with Bernards).