by Rhonda Scharf | Jun 5, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management, Office Solutions, Positive attitude, Tips
Passive on the outside, aggressive on the inside. You know the type; they’re the ones who never say to you what they are thinking. They are happy to mutter under their breath, complain to everyone else, or resort to underhanded tactics to get their way. We’ve all had...
by Rhonda Scharf | May 29, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management, Office Solutions, Positive attitude, Tips
We all need feedback and learn from the good and the not-so-good feedback. I intellectually get it, but when I receive critical feedback, I often take it personally and am hurt by it. I know I shouldn’t, but it often stings as I’ve taken the feedback...
by Rhonda Scharf | May 23, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management, Office Solutions, Positive attitude, Tips
The average person receives more than 100 business emails per day (financesonline.com), and that doesn’t include spam! How much of your day is spent chasing people who don’t respond to your email in the first place? Do you regularly complain that people just don’t...
by Rhonda Scharf | May 15, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management, Office Solutions, Positive attitude, Tips
We are launching our new website right now, and as you can imagine, the transition from old to new is long, complicated, and filled with “what ifs.” It would be easy to delay the launch until the site was perfect. You and I both know that it will never be “perfect.”...
by Rhonda Scharf | May 9, 2023 | Communication, Help Me Rhonda, Office Solutions, Positive attitude
Her name was Dee, and she didn’t like me for some reason. I think she was “threatened” by my role in the organization. It made no sense to me, but I felt like she was constantly trying to throw me “under the bus” by pointing out every mistake I made or trying to...
