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What 30 Days of Productivity Taught Me About Finding Time

Success

When she asked me to play the assigned pieces, it was clear I hadn’t touched any part of my keyboard or even glanced at the sheet music outside of her practice room. Duhigg writes that scientists see motivation as a skill. But for the most part, my skill level was right where I left it. I actually prefer hooking up my keyboard.

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Deconstruct Your Office Into Core Resources To Rebuild Productivity

Allwork

Fast forward to 2020 when office workers in every industry scrambled to figure out what to bring home and how to create a similar office environment. We rely on other employees’ skills and experiences for best practices, processes, and pitfalls in completing similar work. How do I access and interact with other departments’ data?

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Which secretary skills are worth keeping?

Practically Perfect PA

I think it is about time we celebrate our fore-sister’s skills. After all some secretary skills are still worth keeping! We don’t have the typing pool anymore but typing skills are still very much a basic requirement of the assistant role. The post Which secretary skills are worth keeping? But,which ones?

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 August, 2010 Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys I am on vacation and on my home computer I do not have a mouse so rely on keyboard shortcut keys, which reminded me again how helpful they are and how they are a big timesaver rather than reaching for the mouse all the time.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Never have more people believed—with more reason—that success hinges on reading, workshopping, boot-camping, seminar-ing, and otherwise launching yourself into new realms of skill or knowledge. Some managers worry about investing in developing people who can then easily take those skills to a competitor,” says David G. Allen, Ph.D.,

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How to remember those random requests

Practically Perfect PA

Here are my top ten tips on how to remember those random requests…. Similarly I have a large A4 desk pad next to my keyboard for any quick notes I need to make, things to remember (like phone numbers for instance), and tasks people give me at my desk. Good old fashioned pen and paper.

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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The idea wasn’t to simply learn how to make IBM more attractive to minority talent. Reach out to groups that cater to Black engineers, LGBTQ professionals, Hispanic programmers—whatever skill set you might need. It’s not only about what happens internally, how to build good teams , but also about how you relate with clients.”

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