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Table of Contents | June Issue
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The 2007 Advanced Government Administrative Management Certification Week The 2007 Government Administrative Management Certification Week The 2007 Administrative Professional Certification Week Project Management and Event Planning Certification Week Office Management for Administrative Assistants The 2007 Administrative Professionals Certification Week The 2007 Administrative Professionals Certification Week Discount Pass Info: As a subscriber to The Monthly Perk, you are eligible to receive $100 off* the tuition of any administrative management training or conference hosted by The Performance Institute or The American Strategic Management Institute. Use the code KA-Newsletter when registering to receive the Newsletter Discount. *This discount may not be used in addition to any other discounts offered by The Performance Institute.
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Don’t Work Too Hard; It’s Bad For You When your workplace culture centers on long hours, it can be challenging and guilt-wrenching to leave the office at a normal time – yet it’s absolutely necessary for your happiness (and your sanity). Luckily, writer Penelope Trunk has provided us with this helpful advice for keeping our workload manageable and getting our current work pile completed in a quality-centric fashion, instead of quantity-driven one. An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
- Winston Churchill How To Deal With A Toxic Co-Worker What do you do when everything about your job fits like a glove – except for one teeny, tiny problem…the overly obnoxious, negative and destructive coworker! In this article, the professionals at Deskdemon teach us how to successfully deal with toxic coworkers who can threaten (or even destroy) our job satisfaction. Cubicle Sweet Cubicle: How to Make Your Workspace More Appealing No one can claim to feel comfortable working (and practically living) in a bland box eight hours a day. By making minor adjustments to the most colorless and boring cubicles, one can feel more at-home, relaxed and even productive. Click on the link to learn how to make your cubicle more aesthetically appealing while maintaining a professional work environment. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- E.E. Cummings
Q: Dear Heather, I have a colleague who works for my same company and he seems to think that I am his personal assistant. He is always asking me to help him mail this or to help him make arrangements for that. Please know that I don’t work under him at all and no one else in the organization treats me as disrespectfully and inconsiderately as he does. Normally I wouldn’t care and would just tell him that I am busy with my actual duties, but it’s a bit awkward because he and my boss are really good friends and I am afraid if I snub him, it will affect how my boss sees me. The last thing I need is having this guy tell my boss I was rude or unfriendly or unhelpful…I’ve already been talked to once in my last performance evaluation about my “attitude.” Any advice would be appreciated… A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Want to suggest a city and attractions for next month? Please e-mail suggestions to Heather Fallon at [email protected]. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
Do You Lash Out? I just got off the phone with a woman I don't personally know. She had received my e-zine (just like you are now), and decided that I was "harassing her." She wasn't very friendly, and she said some pretty unkind things. Advertising isn't harassment from my point of view, but I said absolutely nothing negative, I sincerely apologized and I removed her immediately from my distribution list. When I hung up the phone, I felt like I had been attacked. I was surprisingly upset. Fun Fact:
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Heather L. Fallon serves as the Director for the Center for Administrative Management at the Performance Institute. Have a question for next month? Please e-mail Heather at: 
Rhonda Scharf, CSP, has worked in the trenches of office administration. She knows the unique stresses, challenges, workload and management issues you face every day. Then, fifteen years ago, Rhonda found herself ON THE RIGHT TRACK. Rhonda is an administrative professionals expert and delivers entertaining motivational and educational training programs and keynote speeches.