Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The ‘use it or lose it’ approach works well if you use the last of your budget wisely – your department could make good use of stocking up on essentials. Together you could come up with some good ideas that help ready the business for the coming year. Even something as simple as new computer keyboards can do wonders for productivity.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Can you say “sidetracked?&# Especially when I see you live in Arizona and could go see as many Brewers spring training games as you want. Yes, I can see that we’ll have to meet up in March. Going into a cave to escape isn’t the answer, though.

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

If you’re a PC user, all you have to do is press the “Start” menu button—the one with the Microsoft logo—on your keyboard, type in the file name, and click the file you’re looking for. Keeps you up with the times. You only need a few seconds to find an electronic file. Saves space.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 22, 2013

  The subconscious is mental activity (programming) just below your level of consciousness and it controls a minimum of 80% (and some studies say up to 95%) of what you think feel and do!    And then, those messages that were typed into your computer keyboard were recorded on your hard drive your brain."

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All Things Admin

MARCH 9, 2022

It stays in front of me throughout the day on a bright notepad sitting on the right hand side of my keyboard. I pull up a YouTube station and let it play until my task is finished. Can you follow up that request with a quick email so it doesn’t slip my mind?” Exercise of any sort seems to help. Playing classical music.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Over the past 20 years, I have attended several conferences ranging in topics from fiction writing to motivational to professional training and even a full weekend trying to become a more educated outdoor woman. Every executive knows the answer to this one and you want to know this up front, whether they are related to you or just in general.

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On The Job

AUGUST 21, 2007

In fact, when my kids have homework that starts off with something like “If a train leaves the station and is traveling at 80 m.p.h…” I sort of hear this buzzing sound in my ears and my vision starts to blur around the edges. I’m the first to admit I have never been a math whiz. Sharing ideas.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 9, 2013

These sorts of people are as likely to want to create their own start-ups with their own ideas as work for someone else. By encouraging people to eat and work together, they are just as likely to brainstorm in their away from desk times as they are when they are sitting in front of a keyboard.

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Admins4Admins

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Use this quick tip to help spice up your presentation! 4. Press the Delete key on your keyboard, to delete the text. As always, let us know if there are things you need help with. 2. Click on “Insert Comment”. 3. Select any text that was automatically added to the comment, such as your name.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 24, 2013

In a crowded and competitive marketplace, waiting to get back to the office to tie up a deal may lose you the business. Business can be carried out just as effectively on a train, in a hotel room and now in meeting rooms that can be hired by the hour at motorway service stations.

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Productivityist

MAY 24, 2019

Do Not Disturb: You can set this up manually or have its scheduled, which I’ve done to give me a longer break from email than my Do Not Disturb settings are set up for my iOS devices. My Rules: If you’ve set up rules in another email app, you can make them happen in this area of Front.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

What a blast the last two weeks have been, but I dont think I could have taken any more late nights staying up to watch the Olympics in Eastern Standard Time. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Virtual Moxie

MAY 31, 2011

You’re in social media, blogging in at least two places, guesting on talk shows, coaching, leading classes and retreats, speaking at telesummits, reworking your entire virtual training program, writing a BOOK, and I want to know how you do it. So everything ends up in just one place. . I’m a keyboarder most of the time.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca Their new role must seem awesome to them. " Warning!

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Service Untitled

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Keyboard shoppers can also supply their home phone numbers, and a personal shopper can call them direct. I don’t have a microphone to speak with anyone directly from my laptop, but I did note that I could only hear every other word Tina stated even though I had the volume turned up to the maximum level.

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Like the ideas pour out of your head and onto the keyboard without a moment’s rest. Have you finally written that killer content strategy plan but just need a little inspiration and kick-start your creativity? Look, we have all been there before where some days it’s easier to write than others. Other days, we are just drawing blanks.

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Karen Vivarelli

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Like the ideas pour out of your head and onto the keyboard without a moment’s rest. Have you finally written that killer content strategy plan but just need a little inspiration and kick-start your creativity? Look, we have all been there before where some days it’s easier to write than others. Other days, we are just drawing blanks.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 21, 2012

You usually can train your boss to talk slower by doing this. Always show up in their office pen poised ready to write with notebook already opened. Otherwise, if you show up with nothing they will think you don’t plan on writing anything down and will somehow remember all of it. Me: (writing simultaneously) The Lobster.

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Men With Pens

MAY 24, 2012

Then again, maybe it is… A writing routine – a clear, set pattern of familiar, habitual activities – trains your brain to write on demand. Train your brain right, and it’ll be industrial quantities of well-written words. I wake up. whirr” – hit the keyboard. What’s the outcome?

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Productivityist

MARCH 30, 2017

Every time I cue it up, I am in front of my keyboard ready to go. It’s an auditory signal that fires me up to write. Do I need to pick up detergent? Do I have to pick my up my laundry? After 50 minutes of writing, I just take a break, stand up, stretch, and get back to it after 10 minutes. Same Music.

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Men With Pens

AUGUST 5, 2012

And really, that doesn’t surprise me, because he followed that up with “I am a good editor.” Many writers hit the keyboard for set periods of time. The key is to glue the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair—fabric glue works best—and not move a muscle not needed in the act of writing until your time is up.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Are you staying up until all hours burning the midnight oil? And you can’t keep it up. The most important part of what happens if you say, “Not right now,&# is that you’ve stuck up for yourself. You’re full up and booked solid because you’re that good. But I have to!” you wail. “I Stick to it, too.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 11, 2010

I can never come up with post ideas while I am wearing my pajamas). Do not get offended when they criticize but rather use this information to come up with better plans for business. Getting dressed for your work (you will need this if you are going to work from home. Try a few different ideas. Always have a backup plan.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

He sounded like he had a huge stick up his butt. I was riled up. No delicate tippy-tapping on the keyboard for me. She’s got a temper and blows up at absolutely nothing. I did type the email when something similar happened, and it ended up destroying a long running business relationship. Or had he?

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2010 Email AT&T Phones 40

Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

And I’ve been soaking up advice from sites like Copyblogger and Men with Pens as well as material from some other excellent writers in the blogosphere. No one assigns you experience points or notes when you’ve leveled up. How to Improve Faster Want to speed up? We stare at blank screens. We chew pencils.

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2010 AT&T Keyboards Confidence 40

Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Sure, it’s great to hit the snooze button and give yourself an extra hour of R&R once in awhile, but before you know it, you’re getting up at noon and puttering around before you answer your customer emails. This means getting up at a decent hour, working for a set amount of time, and taking breaks. So thats a problem for me.

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2010 AT&T Social Media Keyboards 40

Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

That’s a key point and a very important question for every blogger who had been wrecked more than one keyboard writing. You will also have to do some tidying up, editing your cover artwork and making the pages look good, which you usually don’t do at your blog (your theme does this for you). Why would you want to convert that traffic?

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Marc and I realized, though, that this ebook was just one case amongst several where people (often innocently and unwittingly) end up damaging someone else’s life – by trying to help. People like me often have extremely broad knowledge of a number of subjects in which we don’t have formal training. But where is the line?

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2010 AT&T Calendars Project Management 40

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 19, 2010

After a few frustrating episodes (in which I even tried some mild self-hypnosis in order to recall “that brilliant idea” I had this morning in the car) I gave up trying to remember those bits and pieces and set up a capturing environment. That’s the time when I quickly fire up the iPhone Voice Recorder and start talking.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 21, 2010

The fact that he is still slightly amazed about his fame makes his posts interesting, in that he brings up questions that I think we should all ask ourselves. I really can’t screw up too badly. It’s fun, but it’s not like I sit at my keyboard, occasionally throwing my arms into the air and squealing, “Wheeeeeee! I’m writing!”

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

And then you graduated, spent some time in the real world and ended up working in a field that was wildly different from the one you’d studied. That’s what you should be playing up. Of course my on-the-job experience was invaluable too, but the things I picked up at University are embedded in a different way.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

© 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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Success

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Gerardi loves that her daughter “is growing up seeing that not even the sky is a limit on her dreams and that all of her multitudes are worth celebrating and rallying around.” At her space shower, Gerardi got a one-handed stopwatch to use during flight training. Howell is seeing an uptick in registries for career showers.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 19, 2009

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 Training On-line Recently someone asked me a question about training on-line so I thought I would share the answer in a post. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. You can also add this macro to your toolbar or assign a keyboard shortcut by clicking on the buttons below and following the instructions.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

Many times the administrative assistant position is a good way into an organization and what a great training ground to know an organizations inner workings than in this profession. She was a smart kid and picked up the tasks assigned to her very quickly. I have seen admin assistants climb up the corporate ladder just that way.

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Time Zones IAAP Meeting Minutes International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

If a conference comes up and they are looking for someone to do the registration, we can step in and do that or we can organize it from start to finish. Who better than the admins to come up with something that works. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. February 22, 2009 Patricia Robb said. Good point Sabrina.

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