Secretary's Day Gifts - 5 Safe Gifting Ideas

Secretary's Day and Administrative Professional Appreciation Week are fast approaching, and it can seem that finding appropriate gifts for these purposes is so difficult-especially for male bosses with female employees. It's hard enough for many people to shop for their own spouses let alone the people one works with, yet the time cannot go by without being acknowledged. Secretary's gifts are not meant to be one of the great wonders of the world, but most employees expect to at least be recognized during this time, and passing it by without so much as a mention yet alone a token of appreciation can be detrimental to employee morale.

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Of course, that doesn't do an employer any good at all, so to help we have cracked the code for safe gift giving for your employees this year. Read on for a few suggestions as to what Secretary's Day gifts you could pick up for the employees that help keep your business running from day to day.

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Business Card Holders

Business card holders are great Secretary's Day gifts for employees that work for you that may find it necessary to carry business cards. Engraving the name and position of your employee on the card holder or something else of that nature adds a personalized touch and shows that you put thought into the gift, especially when they didn't expect you to.

Paperweights-An Old Classic

Another great idea for such an occasion is a paperweight. A paperweight is probably one of the most often gifts exchanged in a professional environment. Many see them as overrated, while many more think they are underrated. They always prove useful to hold papers down and out of the way or mark important materials, and they make a lovely little decoration for the desk as well. A paperweight is something that your employees will always be able to use, not just for a short while. Crystal paperweights and ones with interesting items in them or made of interesting items are always a good idea.

Personalized Totes

Personalized totes are another interesting idea for this occasion. People always have things that they take into work, whether it be files and papers or personal items. If there are a lot of things going into the office in the morning, it is very easy to leave at the end of the day with twice the amount of items in tow that you brought in, a difficult situation for any person-especially if they parked far. Personalized totes are perfect for such employees and are useful for occasions outside of work as well, like days at the park, beach, or library.

Watches and Clocks

Stop watches and clocks are also great gifts for employee appreciation. Not only do they increase productivity, but everyone can always use another time piece at home or at the office. These are more useful gifts that prove great for the dedicated worker, especially if they have the company name or logo emblazoned on it somewhere.

Picture Frames

Last but certainly not least, picture frames always make great appreciation gifts for employees. They are simple and always useful for any employee of any age, interest, background, or position in the company.

Secretary's Day gifts don't' have to be a brain melter. These are just a few of many suggestions that you could come up with for way to treat your most special employees.

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Special Price!!! Prepac Sonoma Maple Secretary Desk

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Prepac Sonoma Maple Secretary Desk Feature

• Constructed from high quality laminated composite woods
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• Dimensions: 31.75"W x 44.25"H x 16"D

Prepac Sonoma Maple Secretary Desk Overview

The Secretary Desk is a perfect multi-purpose, space saving and fashionable addition to your home. It features a fold-down writing surface with internal adjustable shelves as well as three large drawers for storing stationary, mail and phone books. Great for a small office, guest bedroom or as a feature piece in an entranceway or front hall. Features include a profiled top, side moldings and an arched kick plate, as well as solid brushed nickel knobs and drawers that run on smooth, all-metal roller glides with built-in safety stops.

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Inbound Call Handling Centers - How They Handle Customer Inquiries and Complaints

In today's truly competitive business environment, the process of outsourcing a firm's customer support service may help to save on additional costs, as well as to spur growth. Today, a lot of call handling services is outsourced to many third-party providers worldwide. Business today can benefit from the services offered by these outsourcing providers, ranging from inbound customer support services, order handling, technical support, finding and qualifying outbound customer leads, as well as in providing basic answering and messaging services.

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Outsourcing a certain segment of a company's tasks, such as a call handling service, may come at a point when a businesses' call volume levels begins to demand for a significant increase in capital investment, and requires the installation of newer phone systems or customer relationship management (CRM) software, additional customer call handling center space, or the hiring of new employees. These factors may require some firms to outsource, if only to save money and increase their profits. Most customer relationship management providers today offer solutions which help firms cut costs such as hiring new workers or purchasing new call center technologies.

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Outsourcing providers such as call centers are known to offer services like inbound and outbound call handling. With regard to inbound call handling services, these are suitable for corporations or firms that do not have adequate or ample time to handle their respective customers' queries. An inbound call handling provider generally facilitates the proper and timely handling of customer inquiries, product information requests, complaints, and orders. An inbound call handling provider does the following:

A) Provide Customer Support services. An inbound call center offers cost-effective answering services, which aid in allowing customers to save on time and money. A customer may call this center any time to have their many queries resolved by seasoned and qualified professionals who are tasked to answer calls on behalf of their business clients, and provide helpful product or service information. An inbound call center service is also driven by the need to provide efficient and timely product or service-related solutions on a 24-hour, 7 days-a-week basis. Ensuring a constant and healthy relationship with customers is a vital part of a company's survival or growth, therefore it is important that a call handling firm gives the best possible customer service levels to their clients.

B) Order taking. An inbound call center also does this important task. This ensures that a firm is always ready and able to take product orders without the need to miss out on any sales call. An order taking process will also enable a firm to store vital information regarding a customer's product purchase, as well as store these types of information on a secure server or electronic database.

C) Technical support & Help Desk service - For high-technology resellers or manufacturing firms, an inbound call center provides efficient, on-time and relevant technical support services to their customers. These could include product repair/troubleshooting, as well as product installation assistance. A Help Desk service is often viewed as a focal point where customers can discuss about any business-related inquiries, and get solutions from professional call handlers and subject matter experts.

Aside from giving these essential call handling services, inbound call center also provides toll-free hotlines, online Web site responding services as well as providing specialized remote secretary or receptionist functions. An inbound call handling center also comes equipped with the latest and most updated customer relationship management (CRM) technology and software, on a 24 hour, 7-days-a-week basis. Basically, it all boils down to giving the best customer service experience. It's a fact that your customers will not want any excuses from you regarding poor or substandard service. In addition, when your clients call and ask for assistance, they will want to hear empathetic voices, which will comfort them, as well as help them solve their concerns step-by-step, and in a relaxing and assuring manner. In the end, the customer is always right, even when he or she is sometimes wrong.

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Special Price!!! Regalia Secretary Desk (Walnut) (38.75"h x 25.25"w x 11.5"d)

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Regalia Secretary Desk (Walnut) (38.75"h x 25.25"w x 11.5"d) Feature

• Color: Walnut
• Size: 38.75"h x 25.25"w x 11.5"d
• Features a fold-down writing surface with internal shelves, and a Walnut finish.
• Slide-out drawer for easily accessible storage and an interior cabinet area for even more storage.
• This item ships directly from the manufacturer, please allow 2 to 3 weeks for delivery.

Regalia Secretary Desk (Walnut) (38.75"h x 25.25"w x 11.5"d) Overview

Solid wood with a handsome walnut finish. This secretary desk features a fold-down writing surface with internal shelves. A slide-out drawer for easily accessible storage and an interior cabinet area for even more storage space. An elegant addition to the home or office. This desk is truly a space- saving solution. .

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I'm Too Sexy For My Calendar

We all have such busy lives these days that it is so difficult to keep track of a demanding schedule. You have business appointments throughout the day and a dinner date with an old friend later on. But you cannot for the life of you remember where you are supposed to be tomorrow morning at 11. Your domestic life is just as hectic. A dental appointment is so hard to get, that if you miss this one you'll have to wait another few weeks before they can squeeze you in. You have a vague idea that you should have gone to the hairdressers yesterday and from the state of your hair, it certainly looks like it. And aren't you waiting for those exam results some time in August? Can you remember when exactly, or are you just going to be in a flat panic for the whole month in case you miss them?

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If you have to run the family life, business life and your social life side by side, as well as making sure it all runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible you have to have some kind of help, otherwise you may find yourself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Your own personal secretary is out of the question. A diary is useful, but is often hidden away under a pile of clutter or tidied up in the wrong drawer. What you need is a calendar out on display where you can see it several times a day as a ready reminder of where you should be and when. So now you know what a useful present this would make, and by turning this into a personalised gift makes it even better. Personalised Calendars say so much more. Featuring the recipient's name, they show that you have really given the selection of a gift a lot of thought. Calendars make fabulous personalised gifts and there is something for everyone to brighten up their walls.

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Personalised Calendars really do come in all shapes, sizes and subject matters. An easy way to deal with the gift dilemma for all the men on your gift list is to buy personalised gift calendars for them all. A risqué calendar makes a surprise personalised gift and is ideal for one of the lads. You know who I mean. Yes, those boisterous boys that you hang out with or, if you are female, those friends of your boyfriend who are seriously full on or in your face when they are together. But get them on their own and they are little pussy cats. These are the guys who will really appreciate this particular personalised gift - a risqué calendar. They will love the Cheeky Chicks calendar with lovely luscious ladies photographed in cheeky poses each month. These gorgeous girls have the recipient's name emblazoned across their ... well; you'll have to see for yourself. This personalised gift is not at all vulgar or shocking. It consists of extremely tasteful photos and so is suitable to even give to Grandad. In fact he will really appreciate this calendar. Come to think of it, I cannot think of a human male who would not enjoy this tasteful but ever so slightly naughty personalised gift calendar. Everyone needs a calendar, even those wild boys. After all, they may get lucky and actually have a dinner date sometime, a date that must not be forgotten. All those married Fellas are bound to need reminding of their wedding anniversary or their wife's birthday. And when United/City are next playing at home the guys will never have to miss another match again. Probably the most important thing though with this personalised gift is that they will be totally thrilled to see their name written somewhere that they are unlikely to ever go, except in their wildest dreams! This is a personalised gift that will get itself noticed by all red blooded males who set eyes on it, making the recipient the envy of all his buddies. It is probably best if you order a few extra personalised gift risqué calendars. You are bound to find good homes for all of them.

You can get this personalised gift in three different formats. There's a wall hanging, desk top tent style or small desk version. So no matter what environment this personalised gift risqué calendar is going to be displayed in, there is a version to suit all. In fact, having all three versions probably wouldn't go amiss for each one of your friends. They certainly will not get tired of looking at these personalised gift calendars whenever and wherever they can. Let us not forget that, as well as looking stunning, Personalised Calendars are a great way of organising our lives.

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Special Price!!! Coaster Beautiful Wood Secretary Office Desk Table with Storage Drawers

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Coaster Beautiful Wood Secretary Office Desk Table with Storage Drawers Feature

• 36"W 22"D 42"H
• Some assembly may be required. Please see product details.
• Home Office

Coaster Beautiful Wood Secretary Office Desk Table with Storage Drawers Overview

Beautiful Wood Secretary Office Desk Table with Storage Drawers. This beautiful cherry brown finish secretary desk is brand new in box. Item is made of compressed wood, features turned legs and antiqued brass hardware. Five drawers are featured on the outside with eight storage drawers in the inside as well as letter shelves. Item is designed for convenience and useful in any home, office, apartment or dorm setting. Item may require simple assembly. Dimensions: 36"W x 22"D x 42"H

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The Effect of the Changed Role and Elimination of Secretaries in Corporate Human Resources

A lot has happened in the last couple of decades in corporate human resources. For one thing Secretaries have become Administrative Assistants. Women don't like to be called secretaries anymore. But unfortunately this has left a big gap between the role and skills of a secretary versus the role and skills of the higher level - or what used to be a higher level - position of administrative assistant.

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This has particularly been a major shift for the male corporate business executive, in the human resources understanding.

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I remember an amusing instance around this time of change when I was in Toronto. I picked up my mail at my shared office. While I was pulling out the items from my folders, a man who also used the same business service center as I, came to pick up his mail.

As he approached the cabinet where both our company mail was inserted for pick up, he said to me "Are we still doing the mail?", assuming I was one of the office secretaries placing the mail into the clients folders -- and I was then some fifty years old! If I had been a man, this comment would have never entered his mind, he would have spoken to him as a colleague instead.

However, there is nothing wrong with a secretarial position, or being a secretary. It takes special skills and training and interest to be a secretary, and not all women have that capability by any means. May be most (an 80/20 formula), but not all. The role and skills of secretaries are still needed, no doubt about that, and those that like it should do it. Ironically though, now administrative assistants are doing the secretarial work anyway.

One area where secretaries are especially needed is in the administration division. This is where the paperwork is done, the clerical, the filing; this is where the office operations, routines, etc. are established, the reception function is coordinated and managed, the customer service is handled, etc. A lot of secretarial work is processed here.

In the corporate reshuffling of the technological era, many companies have eliminated secretaries completely. Now, a lot of the secretarial work that needs to be done isn't done. Some companies who had the insight that secretaries were still needed, kept at least one such position opened per department, whose service all managers within the department can use.

If you were not given that luxury, as a manager, here's what you should at least do, for administration and organization's sake:

You should set up a desk in your department as if a secretary was available to you. This will allow you and your department colleagues to place such clerical things as mail going out, labels to be glued, envelopes to be typed, filing to be done, etc., in specified trays. Then all of you can take turns to getting back to these necessary tasks at the end of the day, or first thing in the morning, to sit down and complete.

This will get these secretarial items out of the way of prime time issues that have direct critical impact on bottom lines. When things pile up too much, a temporary secretary can be brought in for a couple of days. This creative thinking eliminates the accumulation of clerical papers on managers' desks that interfere with real-time issue-oriented activities.

There is a ratio of clerical to management activities that affect the cost of salary grades. In other words, clerical and secretarial salaries are below supervisors and managers salary levels. Therefore if you hire a manager, and fifty percent of his or her time is spent doing clerical work, the critical productivity and bottom line figures are greatly affected. A close analysis might even uncover this to the extent of being false economy./dmh

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Special Price!!! Winsome Wood Secretary Desk, Walnut

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Winsome Wood Secretary Desk, Walnut Feature

• This desk has a pull down door which uses as a writing surface and has one shelf.
• One drawer for storage and bottom cabinet opens for more storage with one adjustable shelf.
• Assembly Required

Winsome Wood Secretary Desk, Walnut Overview

This classic Secretary Desk features a drop down cabinet that creates a flat writing surface and as well as ample space for supplies.When it folds up, the sleek Walnut-Finished desk remains an elegant piece of furniture while conserving space.

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Saying Thank You With Corporate Gifts

Everyone loves to be appreciated, and when that thanks is expressed with a gift, you'll make extra points with the gift recipient. Corporate gifts are often thought of as expensive, one-of-a-kind executive style gifts that your company sends out at holidays, but there's another level of corporate gift-giving that can mark you and your firm as a thoughtful, appreciative company with whom to do business.

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The wonderful thing about thank you gifts is that they needn't be expensive, but they can pay off big in exposure for your company and product. There are literally dozens of opportunities for little thank yous in the course of doing business, and you can do it as cheaply as a few pence per item. It just takes a little planning and the foresight to develop a "thanks for your business" marketing policy. Here's how.

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Choose a small variety of promotional items imprinted with your company's name.
You'll find an enormous range of promotional gifts and items available on the internet. Choose a handful of various types of items that will your customers will find useful. If you're not sure, ask your own staff about the products that they use every day, or check your office supplies ordering history. Some of the best items for this type of programme are plastic promotional pens, memo cubes, sticky notes, calculators and paper clips - consumables that will always be appreciated and used. Choose a few higher range gift items as well, for acknowledging especially big orders or special occasions. Those might include imprinted promotional mouse pads, promotional computer mouse novelties and USB drives imprinted with your company name. Order the minimum amount of each, all printed with your company logo, name or slogan.

Develop a "schedule of giving".

Decide beforehand when and how thank you gifts will be given out. Your schedule may look something like this:

Sales visit - leave imprinted pad with secretary, prospect and/or other office staff

Order up to £25 - include pad of sticky notes and imprinted pen

Order £25-100 - include promotional credit card calculator and sticky notes

Order £100-500 - include promotional mouse pad and sticky notes

Referral - Send thank you note with promotional credit card calculator

Order over £500 - include promotional USB mouse imprinted with company name and promotional sticky notes

Make sure that order packers, sales staff and marketers are all on the same page.

When you include a little thank you in every order that you ship or for every contact that you make, you are doing more than generating good will. Those inexpensive sticky notes imprinted with your company's name on every single page offer multiple opportunities for exposure. The pad will sit on the recipient's desk, reminding him or her of your company every time she makes a note. And every time one of those notes gets stuck to a memo, letter or communication, your business gets another set of eyes on your logo and message. That's the kind of marketing that goes far beyond the value of the few pence each the pads cost - and the good will you generate by saying Thanks again! Is priceless.

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Why You Should Consider Buying Antique Desks

There are quite a number of antique desks for sale in the marketplace today. Numerous antique outlets have these pieces of furniture in their inventories. The shops and stores selling these old desks are locally located or in other places which are easily accessible to antique enthusiasts. These sellers are also private individuals who are investing in antique furniture, including desks. The buyers are selling the antique items in turn to others who are interested in antiques.

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The desk is a form of furniture. The piece of movable object, in most case, is commonly seen in work areas. It is ordinarily used for writing and reading. Desks have drawers wherein documents, papers and office supplies are kept.

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Furniture with styles of desks is traceable to the ancient times. The type of furniture is present in many periods of history as well as in different civilizations from around the world. The various periods in history have their marks in the make and designs of earlier desks. Steel desks are developed in recent generations. There are desks purposely made for computers in this modern period of time.

Similar to other objects of antiquity, antique furniture are on sale. Antique desks for sale are on offer for antique lovers who are looking for pieces of antiques. The antique furniture, desks in particular, are good investments for an individual. The investment in buying them can yield a good income for the investor. Authentic antique desks that you may find for sale are expensive objects.

Like other pieces of antique furniture and items of jewelries, antique desks for sale are getting to be more valuable in the passing of time. The money used in buying them has greater worth in its value after a period of time. Unlike other items for sale, furniture and jewelries are becoming more expensive when years are added to the age of the objects.

The value of antique desks is not depreciated in the passing of time. There is a quality that an individual who is investing in the business of buying and selling of antique desks should have. The person must have a sense of history because the person must have the knowledge of the kind of desks were made, and the designs of desks in a particular period of time.

Different generations are making and using desks. Desks of various periods of history are made of various materials. The desks in succeeding eras have designs of their own styles. The desks become antique as the period of human history are changed.

There are distinctive marks on antique desks to prove its authenticity. Genuine antique desks put on sale can be expensive to an ordinary individual. Experts can determine if a desk is truly antique. The experts are looking for specific signs of a particular generation to authenticate the trueness of the particular desk on hand.

Antique desks for sale are numerous. The majority of them are authentic. It is not a remote possibility there are desks that are purported to be antique but in reality are fake. Care must be undertaken, not only in desks but also antique furniture in general.

Why You Should Consider Buying Antique Desks

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The Kinds of Antique Desks For Sale

Finding antique desks for sale can be frustrating if you don't have much knowledge about them. The lure of antique desks is that they offer way more than just functionality to a home... they add beauty and elegance, in addition to functionality.

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The secretary desk was, at one time, so popular that it was simply known as a secretary. It is cherished by many antique hunters. The secretary desk has a hidden area behind a piece of flat wood. These desks can be very large and modern reproductions are typically much smaller than the ones made over a century ago.

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More recent secretaries are constructed to be easily taken apart and they are not nearly as durable as the authentic ones.

Usually, a secretary has wide drawers with additional drawers that are small. There are sometimes cubbies, as well. This versatility lets an owner store many different kinds of items.

Another antique desk that is very popular with antique collectors is the roll-top desk. As with the secretary, the rolltop contains a hidden workspace. The main difference is that the cover on a roll-top rolls into the desk. Whereas a secretary must have any items removed from the top of it so it can close, the rolltop can close around items on top.

Another type of desk that is highly sought after by antique hunters is the rolltop desk. Like the secretary desk, the rolltop desk also has a hidden workspace. But, the cover of the rolltop desk rolls up into the desk itself. A secretary desk needs to have the items removed off of the top of it for it to close. The rolltop desk on the other hand, can close around the items that are on top of the desk.

A classic type of desk is the wooden antique desk. This type of desk is usually large with a flat or curved front. They are usually elaborately carved. They tend to be higher ticket items than secretary or roll-top desks due to their intricate carvings.

When desks were made over a century ago, manual labor was the primary concern. When they are made today, computers and spaghetti-like wiring are considered. Therefore, when purchasing an antique desk, you need to know what exactly you need it for.

Locating antique desks for sale is easier if your goal is to add the desk to your home, rather than to re-sell it for a profit. A desk that you buy to use can come with some imperfections and still be a great addition to your workspace... just make sure that the desk is sturdy with solid joints and that the drawers are undamaged and open and close without hassle.

The main purpose in buying an antique desk for your home is to give a classic look to a room. If you desire to have an office or work area with a traditional feel, then these kinds of antique desks are worth looking into.

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