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Category: Career
1-Minute Strategies: April ’13
Learn to master keyboard shortcuts with the help of KeyRocket … Network your way to knowing everyone you want … Access files from anywhere with Microsoft SkyDrive … Shift the focus of social activities from food to fitness.
Define your boundaries at work: work/life balance
While you may have to do some things you don’t love on the job, you shouldn’t have to continually operate outside your comfort zone, says Mike Figliuolo. Try to establish a line that you won’t cross or allow others to cross with you.
What it takes to be a virtual assistant
Becoming a successful virtual assistant requires a deep sense of commitment and a host of skills. As a VA, you are the Swiss Army knife and the adjunct business manager for every client for whom you work.
Portrait of an admin
Here are nine eye-opening characteristics of the typical administrative professional.
Boost your ‘carrying capacity’
In the same way that advances in food, energy and housing increase the number of people an area can support, your personal success often depends upon increasing your own “carrying capacity.” Here are some ways to do it.
The effects of stress on workplace performance
Stressors like workload, personal issues, lack of work/life balance and job insecurity can cause a dip in productivity at work, according to ComPsych’s 2012 Stress Pulse survey.
Going from admin to app builder
In four years working as a virtual assistant from Sydney, Australia, Bronwen O’Brien grew frustrated with software that wasn’t meeting her busy business’s needs, so she went out and gathered information about developing something better. She eventually decided to partner with Blue Chili to create her app DigitialSorbet.
Nurture your ideas to succeed
Post-it Notes became a hit about 35 years ago, but it took more than a decade from the discovery of a new adhesive until it paid off for 3M. That journey offers several lessons in how to succeed.
Lessons from the office brown-noser
That person who’s always cozying up to the boss may drive you nuts, but you should consider that she may also be doing some things better, says life and career coach Dorothy Tannahill-Moran.