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For Beginners: Keyboarding

Administrative Arts

Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress enough working on your keyboarding skills. Overall, though, this seems to be a very complete keyboarding tutorial. Keyboard Lessons – 10 lessons for keyboarding.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Our mission, set forth by an online course: Write lines of code that would put the creature’s fluffy, deceptively innocent picture on a webpage and let users click on it, zipping them to Wikipedia’s “kitten” entry. “I Employer-sponsored development is even scarcer, of course, when you lack a full-time employer. Growing independence.

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Get Better Results by Taking Handwritten Notes

On The Job

Mueller, a Princeton University doctoral candidate, says that one surprising aspect of the study was that even though someone can take more notes via a laptop, transcribing those notes verbatim rather than processing information and reframing it in their own words is detrimental to learning. While bosses (read more here )'

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Learn How to Handle Those Tough Questions

On The Job

These are a few of the queries we might be asked that put us on the spot, making us long for our keyboard where we would have time to tap out a response. Of course, you want to sound reasonable when someone asks you a question. And, of course, don’t assume because a subject is unpleasant that someone won’t bring it up.

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A Conversation with Joan

Office Dynamics

Each conference offered a unique learning opportunity, but none of them provided the ideal balance of professional and personal development that last year’s conference did. I never imagined my experience and learning would stretch so far beyond those few amazing days in October last year. Of course, I must do that for the work I do.

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7 Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Slack

Productivityist

Keyboard Shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to increase productivity and quickly navigate and interact with any application. Slack has a great set of keyboard shortcuts for navigation, messages and more. Here are a list of shortcuts I use everyday: Cmd / – Display all of Slack’s keyboard shortcuts.

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Podcast 083: Paying attention

Clutter Coach

Here’s the idea: Go to my Facebook page and write a sentence or two telling me what idea or technique you’ve learned from my podcast that’s been the most valuable to you. Of course, the path of life is one into which boulders fall. I’ll give away three copies of the ebook to people who write in, randomly chosen.

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