Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Try to eliminate chaotic bookshelves, discarded clothing, empty take-away containers and distracting artwork. No meeting multitasking: It’s inappropriate to multitask during meetings – for example looking at your phone. For example, waving at the end of calls or having neutral virtual backgrounds. Evaluate your video background.

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Etiquette Clothes Equipment Keyboards 92

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 8, 2013

This company is so ginormous I am having a dizzy time of trying to wrap my brain around what all they do – various forms of power, civil engineering, and then the IT services side of it. For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I am the EA to the CEO of a global conglomerate.

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Attire Etiquette Clothes Time Zones 40

Men With Pens

JANUARY 12, 2010

Possibly behind that couch in the corner, the one buried under boxes and old clothes. It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. That story you thought of in 1999 is still in there, somewhere.

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2010 Keyboards AT&T Forms 40

Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Go to Building A to procure form D and turn it into person C. I have an upcoming series of articles on Hong Kong, which not only uses my background in Asian/Chinese history, for example. Of course, my Spanish component nets me translation work, and my K-6 education component means textbook publishers luv me, too.

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2009 AT&T Learning Resume 40

Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

For example, you’ve mentioned that you want to be paid for what you do, for the hours that go into your work and exposing yourself so much to your fans. Just once in a while… I find I have those moments as well, and if you’re not right there with the pen or the keyboard, then you’ve lost it. Just grasp that moment, eh?

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