Yearly Archives: 2010

Automated systems waste your time (unless you place calls so you can press buttons). Here's how to reach a person.

Are your meetings as bad as the ones that ducks hold in the park? Find out here.

Rather than trudge off to every and any meeting that pops up on your calendar, here's how to protect your time.

Recently a client told me a wonderful story about how a change of attitude helped her to keep a valued employee.

Successful hiring, in any company, is one of the most difficult tasks in which to achieve repeatable success. From unexpected outbursts to terminal tardiness to woeful incompetence, every company has a hiring horror story regarding employees who interviewed strong but performed poorly. Perhaps a subtle, but more dangerous occurrence is the all-too-common hire who performs their job in the gray twilight of mediocrity. They never rise to the occasion and they never catastro...

If you are an administrative assistant, you can help your boss by making sure attending a meeting makes sense. Here's what to do.

Remember co-workers? Those annoying people who you're forced to share an office with -- some of them friends, but most of them insufferable. If you're anything like me, one of reasons for starting a home business was to get away from these people. And yet, when you do work at home all day, every day, you might find that you start to miss that kind of companionship, and feel more than a little lonely. All Alone... Picture the scene. You get up for another day of work. Yo...

Many people are having great success working from the comfort of their home while others fail miserably. Why is that? I am going to make an attempt to help everyone understand the reason for this. It has a lot to do with individuals, ego, patience, objectives and due diligence.

In order to save money and create a stylish and alluring print job, it is essential to decide what color and how much color to use before printing.