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 2, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Help Me Rhonda, Tips
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in the business world today. We are learning new ways to use programs such as ChatGPT to save us time and effort so that we can focus on the more valuable tasks at work. With it comes a lot of fear and...
by Rhonda Scharf | Apr 24, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Goal Setting, Help Me Rhonda, Self Care, Tips
I was awake each morning last week earlier than the morning before, and in fairness, I didn’t need to be awake that early (or even an hour after that!), but I was at EAIgnite, had a full schedule, and had a long list of deliverables. Which meant I rolled over,...
by Rhonda Scharf | Apr 17, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Help Me Rhonda
When Warren left Florida, I packed up all the boxes with all the things we needed and put them all in the front hall so he could easily transfer them to the car to drive home after our winter south. I was traveling for work; he was driving home alone. I gave him...
by Rhonda Scharf | Apr 11, 2023 | Ask Rhonda, Communication, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda
I was chatting with Heather, one of our finalists for the Canadian Administrative Professional of the Year, and she threw out the term BLUF. I smiled, as I hadn’t heard that in many years. BLUF – bottom line up front. How many of you work for professionals that are...
