At the Office

My Best Meeting Tips

by Marie March 7, 2013

You probably have attended business meetings, or family meetings, or public meetings and may have considered most of them a waste of your valuable time. Meetings can be terribly ineffective, horrible timesuckers and may even cause more harm than good. But…. Meetings are inevitable. Let’s face it, the main purpose of a meeting is to [...]

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Get Ready to Retrain!

by Marie February 14, 2013

Once upon a time you could train for one career and work in that field your entire life. Those days may be long gone for most of us. No matter your age or stage, you may be called on to retrain for a new career – not just once but several times. Why get ready [...]

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My Cup of Tea and the Big Picture

by Elizabeth February 12, 2013

There’s a half-empty cup of tea sitting next to my laptop on my desk. I heated it up about two hours ago, so it’s beyond lukewarm; it’s downright cold, largely thanks to the fact that I keep our home’s thermostat at a chilly 62 degrees in the winter. I don’t particularly like drinking cold tea, [...]

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How to Jump Start Your New Job

by Marie February 7, 2013

There are a lot of potential new employees in America these days. Since the recession killed so many jobs and economic conditions haven’t improved enough to gain them all back, we have a lot of folks that have been out of a job, partially employed, under employed or just plain tired of working for their [...]

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Why Can’t Men Remember Things?

by Elizabeth January 21, 2013

I tried to think of a more eloquent name for this post – I promise, I did. But I failed. So, you’ll have to deal with the bluntness that came off the top of my mind. My musings on this started during a gathering at my best friend’s house a few weeks ago. It was [...]

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