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How to survive…your ‘customer facing’ job role.

Kate

‘Just remember, these people pay your wages’ Those words are neither helpful nor entirely accurate. Yes okay if the customer base wasn’t there, there wouldn’t be a job, however you wouldn’t have been given that job in the first place because it wouldn’t have existed… I was going somewhere with this but I lost it. My point is that saying that to someone is dumb. It’s like telling someone to calm down when they are clearly already irate! So here’s a few tricks of the trade to survive a customer facing role. To get you through the day; plotting elaborate and … Continue reading How to survive…your ‘customer facing’ job role.

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Multitasking…no thanks

Kate

      When I think of multitasking I immediately think of a woman sitting at her desk; (I found her ⇑) she’s on the phone to an important client who needs this, that and the other done ASAP, she’s also taking down notes about the call or checking something on her computer, which then leads her to check something else unrelated whilst still on the call. She has a half eaten salad, because lets face it she’s not eating carbs, she’s on the no dairy, no sugar, no fat, no fun diet and she has an afternoon spin class, … Continue reading Multitasking…no thanks

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Do you love your job?

Kate

    I want to do everything. That is my downfall. I want to read all of the books, watch all the films and I most definitely want to see all the places. I desperately want to visit the  Pyramids, the deserts of Nevada, the Great Wall of China, The Himalayas, the ancient Incan Empire at Machu Picchu. It’s as though I have an invisible force inside me that pulls me towards everything and no it’s not gravity…well that’s there too but this isn’t that. It’s the uncontrollable human instinct. The explorer in Columbus, the inquisitive mind of Darwin, the … Continue reading Do you love your job?