by Rhonda Scharf | Nov 18, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management
Minute-taking is often an admin’s least favorite task. I’ve heard from more than one person that they want to call in sick on the days they have meetings that require minutes. It appears that so many admins hate taking minutes because they don’t have a good...
by Rhonda Scharf | Nov 11, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda, Management
Close your eyes and walk into your office or cubicle. When you open your eyes, look at your desk as if it doesn’t belong to you. Now describe the person who owns this desk. Do they seem professional and competent, or frazzled and disorganized? Now remember that this...
by Rhonda Scharf | Nov 4, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Efficiency, Goal Setting, Help Me Rhonda
I remember when my son, Christopher, worked at a golf course as a teenager. His shift started at 4:00 p.m. when I drove him to work, he was in a complete state of panic if he wasn’t at the golf course by 3:50. He was so worried that he will be fired because he was...
by Rhonda Scharf | Oct 28, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Goal Setting, Help Me Rhonda
Help Me Rhonda, I work in an office where it thrives on gossip. Everyone spends all day talking about others. Recently I’ve become the subject of the gossip, and don’t know what to do to make it stop! Signed, Don’t Talk About Me Dear Don’t Talk About Me, Gossip. It...
by Rhonda Scharf | Oct 21, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Efficiency, Goal Setting, Management
I’m currently reading a book about golfer Tiger Woods. Warren and I are big golf fans, and I would love to see Tiger play one day. I’ve found myself bothered by his father, Earl Woods, in this book. To begin, it is an unauthorized biography. It does not paint a pretty...
