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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

Travel Planning Apps: Whether you’re the one traveling, or simply attempting to get your executive from point A to point B, travel planning apps can be a life saver. Cloud-Based File Storage: Tired of attaching documents to emails and relying on track changes to keep up with multiple people editing the same files?

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Core Administrative Skills Always Need Improving

Office Dynamics

Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. If you still use hard file folders, purchase some pretty, fun folders. It is the 41-day file folder system. This blog is part of our 2017 Blog-A-Thon.

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Assistants as information managers

Practically Perfect PA

Think about all of the information that flows through your office on a daily basis, and then think about how often you are asked where something is, how you file a document, what is happening with a project, where one of your colleagues is travelling this week, what you are supposed to do with the new software.

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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

Set aside time to consider 2017. 4) Communicating, John keeps meticulous notes, and he goes far beyond these high-level categories, down to time spent with individuals, groups, companies, family, traveling and more. It’s then up to the supervisor to maintain the appropriate files and watch for patterns and opportunities.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Over time I managed to add several hotels to our Globally Approved Travel Program, which enabled all global staff to benefit from discounted rates and also obtained supplier discounts for our intranet company benefits portal. When it came to appraisal time I then had a working file to draw on. “If The Assist Conference 2017.

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Ep 242: Nicki Cave on Managing a Team of Assistants and Finding Happiness in Your Work

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

And they’re like, Hey, we’ve got this role that came up at the Boston Consulting Group, we found your resume that fell behind a filing cabinet as filing cabinets back then. We’re rescheduling we’re rebooking travel, we’re doing things all day long. In her spare time, she enjoys running marathons.