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Help your boss communicate effectively

As an admin, there’s a good chance you’re involved with your boss’s communications. This could involve announcing a change, a new initiative, or keeping everyone abreast of the company’s objectives. Michelle Gilbert, Com­­cast Cable’s Heart­­land region, offers these tips to help your boss communicate effectively

Judged at a meeting, and you’ve only just arrived!

What you bring to a meeting indirectly telegraphs your status to the people sitting around you. Arriving with a legal pad is fine, but it says you’re mostly there just to write down others’ ideas—you’re a follower. Arriving with nothing at all says you’re a thinker, an absorber, a contributor—and you intend to take away […]

3 hidden truths about promotions

It’s unlikely your boss is going to give you all the info you need to be promoted. She may share some things, but she’ll keep the good stuff to herself, says CareerMeh workplace writer Sophie Lizard. Here’s three things she won’t tell you.

Is it ‘lay’ or ‘lie’?

The difference between “lay” and “lie” doesn’t come from who’s doing the action (people or dogs)—it comes from the action itself, writes The Morn­­ing Call commentator Bill White.

Simple habits can make you happier

Research shows that employees want to be happy at work, and a bump in salary is not the most effective way to achieve this, according to a survey by staffing company Spherion. But the good news is a lot of people already are happy at work, and you can steal some of their secrets to become happier yourself.