This year we have selected “A Soldier’s Child Family to Family Christmas” to be our office Christmas charity.  From their web-site (www.asoldierschild.org):

Office Tips – Reign in an Overflowing E-Mail Inbox

1. Delete Spam/Trash. This DOES NOT need to sit in your inbox. Report spam as junk mail and unsubscribe from any newsletters you don’t actually read.

2. Review what’s left. Figure out what is urgent, and what can wait. If you have messages that don’t require a response, but that you want to keep, set up folders within your email program and file them. For example, you can create a separate folder for each client, vendor, or coworker.

A messy desk can distract you from tasks at hand and make you lose your focus.  Follow these tips to keep clutter to a minimum and productivity high.

Every year, Perimeter Park Executive Center hosts a Christmas party for our clients.  The menu varies, but one thing always remains the same - DIRTY SANTA!  Dirty Santa is our version of a while elephant gift exchange.  Everyone brings a wrapped gift valued at $15 or less, and we draw numbers to determine the order in which people choose gifts.  #1 picks the first gift and opens it, then #2 can either steal that gift, or pick another from the pile, and so on until all gifts are taken and no one wants to steal anything else.  

Office Organizing Tips from Perimeter Park Executive Center

Here are a few things you can do to help your work day be more productive:

PPEC Power Boosters

Posted by Nancy Wike

Here are some tips to help you beat the low energy and high stress that sometimes comes along with our workday.  Aim to spend 5 minutes doing mental or physical activities for each hour you spend at your desk.

Mental Breaks:

• Take a quick break to do a crossword puzzle, Sudoku, word search, or other activity that will challenge your brain.  Keep a puzzle book in your desk, or utilize the puzzle section of The City Paper.  These are available at the front desk and include a weekly crossword, Sudoku, and Scrabble puzzle. 

How to Create a Service-Oriented Culture in Your Business

What can having poor customer service cost you?  Well, with YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook giving individuals the ability to send information around the world in seconds, it can cost you a LOT of bad publicity.  Just watch this video from CBS News about a frustrated United Airlines customer.  Below is the entire video mentioned in the news story.

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