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VIDEO: Will Smith’s Wisdom
Posted By Jasmine on August 28th, 2011
Will Smith is such a wise man. Here’s something I think we all should watch daily.
Tips on Managing Your Time at Work
Posted By Jasmine on July 2nd, 2011
There are only eight hours in a work day. One of them is spent during lunch. Another is probably spent checking e-mails. The other six are packed with tasks you’ve been assigned by your boss or clients. Let’s not forget the many interruptions you get throughout the day. People who are not on your calendar just show up at your door and throw your schedule off track because they wanted to tell you something. Even a five to ten minute conversation can get you off schedule. So how do we manage it all? I think I have figured it out. This is the method that I use to organize all of my tasks and make sure that everything gets done on time.
1. Check all e-mails when you arrive to work. Start with the oldest unread e-mail. One by one, reply to your e-mails in one of three ways:
- If the e-mail is something that can be replied to within sixty seconds, reply to it.
- If the e-mail requires you to do something quick like make copies of something or sign and return a contract and is not urgent, put it your task list to complete by the end of the day or by its deadline.
- If the e-mail requires time for research, brainstorming or production, set aside time on your calendar to complete it. That’s right. Set an appointment with yourself on your calendar and do not break it! This appointment can range from one hour to four hours, depending on the time needed to complete the task. Also, remember to prioritize. If the e-mail doesn’t need a response until next week, you don’t have to schedule an appointment for it right away.
2. Block of the last 30 minutes or hour of your day to complete items you have assigned to your task list that are that day. (Tomorrow’s tasks can wait until tomorrow.)
3. Once all of your e-mails have either been answered, assigned to a task or put on your calendar, you are ready to start your work day!
4. If someone interrupts you during the day and gives you another task, jot it down and add it to your task list or calendar at the end of the day. Do NOT stop what you are doing unless they tell you it is urgent.
5. If you all of a sudden have to stop what you are doing to work on a new priority task, rearrange your calendar immediately. Place your new task in the current time slot and move everything else down. This may cause some of today’s task to fall over into tomorrow or maybe even next week.
6. At the end of the day, check your inbox again and browse it for any high priority e-mails (usually marked with an exclamation mark in Outlook). Go through these, reply to those that can be responded to quickly and add everything else to either your task list of your calendar. If your office is as busy as mine is, you will have a fresh batch of e-mails when you arrive the next day.
And the cycle starts over again.
That’s all, folks! I hope this helps. Let me know if it works for you!
Update on July 13, 2011
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Year One Accomplishments
Posted By Jasmine on June 21st, 2011
May marked one year of Corporate America experience for me. I was one of few grads who was lucky to land a job right after graduation. I started working at TriBridge Residential right before Memorial Day last year. I joined the company as an intern, then three months later I was promoted to salaried associate, and a few months after that I was promoted again. My main task is to do research on and provide marketing strategies for all properties in our portfolio. I also train our employees on how to use social media and provide social media consultation for our properties. (More details about what I do.)
Because my job is so flexible and because we are growing so fast, I have been able to do many things a normal entry-level employee would not have the opportunity to do. My accomplishments over the past year are as follows:
- Led company is raising more than $9,000 and collecting 5,000 canned goods for the Atlanta Community Food Bank
- Created the document and established the procedures used to provide marketing strategies for our properties
- Conducted an internal educational video campaign for nearly 400 employees
- Assisted with rebrand of the new company, TriBridge Residential
- Assisted with the rebrand of three Austin-based student properties
- Wrote the company’s social media policy
- Trained more than 200 employees on how to use Facebook
I can’t complain. I enjoy what I do and I’m lucky to work with great people. Now if only they’d let me travel more… 
Feel free to brag about your accomplishments here, too!
P.S. In the photo above, you’re looking at me giving nature a big hug in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I think it’s a good representation of accomplishment. 
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TriBridge Residential’s Rookie of the Year
Posted By Jasmine on May 19th, 2011
I am honored (and excited! Whooo!) to be selected as TriBridge Residential‘s 2010 Rookie of the Year. This nomination-based award is given to the associate who has demonstrated dedication and strong work ethic during their first year of employment.
I have had the privilege of working with so many different people in our company – on-site managers, directors of other departments and even our president! So quite naturally, I have been able to show various colleagues the quality of work that I can produce. One thing that I can confidently say about myself is that I always deliver. It does not matter what the task is or who assigns it, I always deliver quality work and I deliver it on time! Therefore, I proudly accept this award and will continue to be the productive employee that my team expects me to be.
Accepting award from my bosses.
Thank you, TriBridge, for giving me the opportunity to gain so much experience. It’s because of our great culture that I am able to excel in my role and continuously make a positive impact on the company and on others.
P.S. More details coming soon on everything I have accomplished with TriBridge within the past year.
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