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Top 5 Ways of Being More Efficient in Business

The Small Business Blog

Use a specific business calendar to keep a reminder of your schedule. Don’t purchase containers to store more documents and files – throw away as much of your old stuff as possible instead. Be ruthless with your filing. Use WinWeb ’s Online Calendar and Online Document Store to cut down on physical waste.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

I worked hard at that job and was rewarded with a promotion to Account Manager in 2006, yay! Getting to grips with calendar and email management. Establishing and maintaining filing systems. The role also had some PA tasks but was mainly admin. Helping with projects. Beginning to show proactivity and working with some autonomy.

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

According to the Association for Psychological Science (2006), the unconscious transmission of actions or emotions from one individual to another is possible. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. Contagious behavior. Association for Psychological Science.

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The Challenges of Working for More Than One Person

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have incoming mail trays for each of them and separate filing bellows, but otherwise I use my other trays for both of them. I maintain both of their calendars and print out a copy of each of their schedules for the day so I have something in front of me to refer to.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

Not only did she remember the name of the antibiotic from four years previous, within 45 seconds she had pulled a copy of the prescription from her files. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars. That was just before my mother’s 78th birthday.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Look at you calendar and write next to each meeting how long it should take and stick too it. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 3:09 pm and is filed under Entrepreneur , Freelancer , SOHO/SMB/SME/Micro , Self-employed , Small Business / SOHO , Sole-Trader , manage your time.

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SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

SME / SMB Have Become Obsolete Acronyms by Zoli Erdos on May 10, 2006 Software Industry analysts seem to have a fun time coming up with three-letter combinations. THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG » Blog Archive » SaaS for Very Small Businesses - Show Me the Money Said on May 31st, 2006 at 4:50 pm [.] Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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