10-minute organizing projects
Too late for spring cleaning? You can still make a dent in all that clutter piling up at work and at home. In 10 minutes or less, you can tackle any of these tasks.
1-Minute Strategies: September ’22
Retrieve useful information in a snap by creating reference lists … Success through kindness … Make your vacation feel longer … Ever heard of the Comics Code Authority? … The enduring design of the umbrella … What was Helmac? … Humans glow in the dark!
If a staff member is grieving
The workplace functions on elements that are naturally in opposition to anyone trying to heal; it demands and prizes focus, productivity and the ability to keep emotion out of all processes. But stepping around a colleague’s difficulties, in most situations, is not the best way to deal with it. Here are some basic governing principles to adhere to when someone’s going through a dark time.
Break the clock to convey your dedication
What would you think of someone who left the office at exactly 5:00 p.m. every single day, not a minute sooner or later? Maybe that they had made a habit of keeping a very close eye on the clock, unwilling to spend a moment more at work than they absolutely had to. A “work to […]
Tips from Admin Pro Forum 2022 on becoming an innovation star
“To do our jobs effectively,” said Julie Perrine, Founder and CEO of All Things Admin, at May’s online Admin Pro Forum 2022 event, “we need to hit reset and reenergize our careers to stay relevant. This is how you become CEO of your own career. We have to reinvent ourselves to avoid extinction. We have to bring new ideas to life.”
Give yourself permission to downshift
There’s plenty of advice for gearing up your career, but not enough suggestions about how to gear down. Here are some tips for plotting your escape from the unforgiving ladder.
Include polls and surveys in your presentation
When you’re creating a presentation that is meant to be directed by the viewer, as opposed to a presenter in front of the room, you can include polls and surveys using Microsoft Forms.
Postal ode
If I could be in two places at once, I’d show up every Monday ready to rock it with sorting, bundling and delivering the mail, steeped in postie serendipity, greeting customers when I bring their parcels to the door.
Where are my emails going?
Q. I see an email when I search, but it doesn’t appear in my inbox. How can I tell where these are going?
Always make it about the journey
Patricia Highsmith, author of the suspense classics Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, once wrote on the empty mirage of arriving at a place you’ve dreamed of.