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...
by Rhonda Scharf | Oct 11, 2019 | Efficiency, Goal Setting, Help Me Rhonda
Mr. Donnelly was the type of boss who believed that no one ever deserved perfect marks on their performance review. He felt that if he scored you 5 out of 5, you would have nothing to strive for. I felt that if I worked as hard as I possibly could and still couldn’t...
by Rhonda Scharf | Oct 4, 2019 | Ask Rhonda, Efficiency, Help Me Rhonda
Take the Ergonomic Challenge with Me Recently, I spent nearly an entire day sitting at my desk, working. By 5 p.m., when I called it quits, my shoulders and neck hurt, my eyes were tired—I was ready for bed. I did all kinds of things that day that I knew weren’t good...
by Rhonda Scharf | Sep 27, 2019 | Efficiency, Goal Setting, Help Me Rhonda, Management, Office Solutions
How to Write To-Do Lists Have you ever written a to-do list on Monday, found it again on Friday… and it was still completely intact? Frustrating, isn’t it? We know that we’re supposed to use a to-do list, but most of us aren’t doing it properly. Here are some tips to...
