It’s hard to believe that it’s already December! This year has been mostly a blur for me with a lot of major family situations to navigate. We’ve had some really low points with my mom’s cancer and losing her in June. And this week, we celebrated a very high point...
I did it again this year. I successfully unplugged from work for eight full days. Yes… eight full days of no work… no email, no meetings, no phone calls, and no texts (for work anyway). My team had an email that they knew I’d check at least once daily in case they...
“Security doesn’t lie within a company. It lies within you.” This has become one of my favorite quotes from my friend and colleague, Joan Burge, Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics. It epitomizes my philosophy of career preparedness. I’ve never looked at my career...
Is your inbox overflowing? Are you struggling to stay on top of your projects and related tasks? Are you looking for a single system that can simplify and streamline your workflow? It’s time to become a power user of Microsoft Outlook and its full functionality! We’ve...
Moving – whether it’s for professional or personal reasons – can be an extremely stressful event. As someone who has moved across the country more than once, I’ve developed some systems to make it more bearable from move to move. I always start by establishing a color...
This is part one of a two-part series on relocation tips for administrative professionals. For many people, “move” is a four-letter word. No one really loves the process – it’s a stressful, trying, frustrating time that most of us would rather avoid. But since there’s...
I talk a lot about procedures. Not just because I love them – although I absolutely do! I’m such a big advocate because procedures are a fantastic strategy for simplifying your life and the lives of your colleagues. Procedures help facilitate stress relief, aid in...
It’s no secret men and women communicate differently. But in this multi-generational workplace, it’s no surprise that there’s also a gap in the way different generations communicate. When you combine gender with generational differences and factor in personality type...
We’ve been in our new city, Indianapolis, for a year now. And this past weekend was one of my new hometown’s biggest events – the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. While I didn’t personally attend the race, I did have friends and family there who shared...
Whether you realize it or not, you probably have an established system for how you do repetitive tasks in your work. You have a system for how you get your day started, triage your email inbox, update your executive on changing priorities, and more. You have systems...
This article was originally published on TheProductivityPro.com and is reprinted here with permission. Sometimes I wish I were a bear, so I could hibernate for six months. Alas, I’m only human. How much sleep do you think the average adult gets per night? A National...
This article was originally published on TheProductivityPro.com and is reprinted here with permission. More than ever, modern workers are bedeviled by distractions and interruptions that pull us away from the key activities of our jobs. If it's not your noisy...