Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Get Rid of Junk Faxes & Telemarketers - For Good! By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you receive junk mail, junk faxes and the occasional irritating phone call from telemarketers? Do you even receive voice mails that are left by people trying to sell you something, but you didn’t even hear the phone ring?
Laughing all the Way to Work
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 29 September, 2008 Cystic Fibrosis Hello Readers, My great nephew Owen has recently been diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis.
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On The Job
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Go ahead, fess up: You think about a lot of things during a meeting at work, and it often has nothing to do with business. Sure, your mind may focus a bit on how how the issues being discussed will affect your job, but there's lot of other stuff that you think about. Don't worry. You're not alone. We all do it. In fact, here's a list of what some of us are really thinking when that PowerPoint presentation seems to have our full attention: 1.
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Denise Aday
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
I was sitting here having a quick bite of lunch over some light online reading, and ran across this quote attributed to Colin Powell: “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.&#.
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On The Job
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Most bosses have read at least a few articles or even some books that offer advice along the lines of "Employee Recognition in Five Seconds a Day" or "Meaningless Pats on the Back -- How It Can Work For You." Let's face it: In today's fast-paced, high-stress working world, many bosses may start out with good intentions on recognizing and rewarding employees for good performance, but the truth is that it sort of slips away after a time.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer! By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Filed Under: Prioritize , Productivity D o you need extra help with your workload ? Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of tasks that keep getting piled on your desk like a never ending mountain of files? Truths of a Shy Writer can lend you that extra hand (don’t worry, this is not some sort of alien movie where an extra hand would come out of a person
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Restaurant Reservations - Find An Open Table Online! By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 22, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you asked to make reservations for your manager(s) at particular restaurants? Do you feel that you could be doing this faster? Do you need to have some sort of written confirmation to make sure that the reservation has been booked?
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
As we can all witness after the latest debacle on Wall Street, there are plenty of big egos when it comes to big business. A picture is emerging of decision-makers who have reaped millions of dollars in in compensation and benefits as their companies went down the toilet. Now, of course, Congress is getting involved, and those big egos are going to be aired -- and criticized -- in public.
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Laughing all the Way to Work
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Sheesh. My inbox has gotten so depressing in the last week. I've been hit with dozens of queries from experts wanting to explain what has happened on Wall Street and what it means for the average worker. E-mail subject lines are a laundry list of bad news: depression, recession, job loss, bailouts, financial collapse, panic, layoffs. It's like a bad rap song for someone named "Unemployment Line.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Walk Into A Better Life! By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you want to become healthier? Do you feel that you can do a little extra each day to exercise? Do you feel that you deserve to have more energy during your work day? Even if you are the type of person that exercises regularly, you could still benefit from this article.
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 17, 2008
If you do nothing else today, Google yourself. I do not say this so that you can stroke your own ego by seeing how many "hits" you get. I say this to save your ass. There's enough instability right now in the economy that everyone -- and I mean everyone -- needs to be in active job-hunting mode. That means in addition to ramping up your networking efforts, you need to immediately take steps to clean up your online footprint.
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On The Job
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Is there any more disturbing site than watching employees cart their belongings in a cardboard box out of a failed company? As I watched Lehman Brothers' employees leave the building over the weekend, it reminded me of that awful scene of stunned workers leaving Enron after it went belly up. One of the most difficult aspects of a large employer failing is that you suddenly have thousands of people in the same boat -- and not everyone will do as well as others.
Laughing all the Way to Work
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 September, 2008 Why I love my job?
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Sitting in the waiting room before a dentist's appointment recently, I found myself confronted with reading material that consisted of "Five Ways to Make Christmas Ornaments Out of Old Tires" to "10 Reasons It's Very Normal to Love your Blackberry More Than Life Itself." That left an article on "20 Things Every Woman Deserves From the Guy in Her Life.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2008
Home About Me Advertise How to Lose a Customer and a Few More! By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service D o you find that people are passing calls and e-mails from person to person, getting the client more and more frustrated? Do you feel that you could be helping the client even if you dont know the answer to their issue right away?
Speaker: Tim Buteyn
Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Are Eu-Stressing or Dis-Stressing? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 08, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you wake up in the morning and think to yourself, "What do I have to do today? Oh my goodness, look at my long list of things!" Do you feel tired and stressed throughout each work day?
Laughing all the Way to Work
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets enjoy our day together.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 6 September, 2008 Going Checklist Crazy I am organizing a Board meeting and I have checklists and to-do lists coming out of my ears.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? What would happen if your company gets audited or your manager asks you for an e-mail from a few years ago? What if someone told you that you did something wrong, but you remember sending an e-mail with the correct information?
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Labelling The Features In Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 04, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity D o you create letters or labels in Microsoft Word ? Do you have trouble using the text box feature to place anchored text where you prefer, so that it shows up in a particular area of the page?
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We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 4, 2008
While no one would dispute the fact that workers are stressed because of continuing layoffs, stagnant wages and rising consumer prices, the pressure may be compounded for the people in charge of keeping workers enthusiastic and motivated -- managers. I recently interviewed Michael Stallard, CEO of E Pluribus Partners in Greenwich, Conn., and he told me that at times like this, managers have to be even more vigilant about staying close -- physically, mentally and emotionally -- to their staff.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2008
Home About Me Advertise "Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity Y our manager sends you an e-mail with a spreadsheet attached. They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows.
Professional Assistant Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Attracting Productivity: Work Environments By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Job Seeking , Networking , Productivity D o you think of yourself as a productive person? Do you feel that you are happy at your job? This has been on many people’s minds, since there are quite a lot of unhappy and disgruntled individuals who are just carrying on day after day at their job.
On The Job
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
It's the first day back at work after Labor Day, and it just feels different. I'm not sure why. Is it the kids back at school? The closing of the neighborhood pools? The local nursery stocking mums and pumpkins? Whatever the reason, it strikes me as a new beginning. A chance to take a deep breath after the craziness that goes along with summer and consider where things stand now, and where you want to head in the coming months.
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In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha
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