Craft Your Business Vision, Mission and Goals: A whyPR Guide

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Crafting clear and compelling business vision mission and goals statements is essential for steering your organization toward success. These elements define your purpose, direction, and the steps to achieve your objectives. Creating these statements doesn't have to be difficult. With a bit of planning, you can easily develop these components and ten refine them as … Continue reading Craft Your Business Vision, Mission and Goals: A whyPR Guide

It’s ok to Decline Invitations

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Even though most work places have a clause in the handbook forbidding employees from soliciting their co-workers for fundraisers, the never-ending invitations to Silpada and Pampered Chef and Avon parties after hours can be dizzying. While at first it might seem that in order to fit in you have to attend every single party, I'm … Continue reading It’s ok to Decline Invitations

Use Your Inside Voice

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A tweet this morning from the wonderful Laura Scholz made me laugh and shudder. She said, "People, please use your indoor voices! #coworkingetiquette" While we all learned about inside voices from our parents and teachers, I'm surprised how easy it is to forget. I am excitable and can have problems with volume control when I'm … Continue reading Use Your Inside Voice

Treating Others Fairly

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I’ve almost always been considered “Support Staff” in every job except in a newsroom. Maybe my personality keeps me from being brushed aside, but I also (wrongly) thought that we had moved on from treating secretaries and office assistants as second-class office mates. Everyone has had an experience in elementary school where someone was left … Continue reading Treating Others Fairly

Politely Refusing Food at Work

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Some people show appreciation with food at work. Birthdays, promotions, new hires and any other mile stone can easily be celebrated with a cake. But not everyone can enjoy the food part of the festivities. A co-worker might be diabetic or allergic to an ingredient. Another might be trying hard to lose weight and the … Continue reading Politely Refusing Food at Work