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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Sometimes I wish I had something to warn me when I am with someone with a cell phone so I can know that we are going to be interrupted. I find it frustrating when people either text while in a conversation or are constantly taking phone calls. Apparently not, when its by phone. In an emergency, the cell phone is a useful tool.

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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

They are used to managing their own e-mail, making their own travel arrangements, and setting up their own appointments. Many new executives who have never had an assistant before have a picture in their mind of someone who answers the phone, types, and files. If they need a database, they create one themselves.

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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

They are used to managing their own e-mail, making their own travel arrangements, and setting up their own appointments. Many new executives who have never had an assistant before have a picture in their mind of someone who answers the phone, types, and files. If they need a database, they create one themselves.

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Webinar Advanced Minute Taking Workshop

Office Dynamics

Do you have a moment of panic when you're asked to take meeting minutes? Do you worry that during a meeting you will be asked a parliamentary procedure question? Do you have trouble deciding what to record and what not to record in your minutes? Do you leave a meeting with pages of notes you can't decipher later?

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Psst! I'm in a bad mood, pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was at the cottage with a friend and she was cranky and started to get wound up about something to do with her husband. By the end of the call her husband had caught her crankiness and it ended up with them both being angry. She ended up calling her husband back and apologizing for her bad mood. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Will Google ever stop amazing me? Introducing Goog/411

Laughing all the Way to Work

Of course before I recommend anything I try it out so I picked up the phone and it asked me what I was looking for and what city and province. I chose details and was given the street address and phone number and I still had the option of having my call put through to the store number. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m. " Warning!

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Can you afford not to take a vacation?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am busy, busy this week preparing to leave because I dont want to leave any loose ends and I want to cover off on anything that might come up in my absence. I also know that when I come back I will have to work twice as hard to make up for the time that I am away. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.