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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

He cited an example where someone worked month on, month off as a sea-going launderer, earning $400,000 annually. After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. Did he say it because I was an administrator, or because I was female? Everything cost so much. I wasn’t sure.

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When “Start to” and “Decide to” Creep into Your Writing

Office Dynamics

In a 5,000-word document I recently edited, those two words appeared 14 times, while only five were deemed necessary to the meaning. These examples show how you can write a stronger statement by going straight to the action verb rather than “beginning” to go for it. Example 1: Slowly begin to approach your teammate with your idea.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you. Determine the agenda and who is presenting.

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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. For example, the content of the learning needs to be directly related to the body of knowledge used for the certification and cannot be a sales-oriented presentation. For example, I have the PMP certification.

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Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

All Things Admin

How are you supposed to document everything for reference, as well? If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project. So, the trick is to find a way to integrate procedures documentation and process improvement into the natural flow of your daily work.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

Learn the lingo… The other benefit of reading other minutes from within your business is that you’ll get to learn the company lingo and acronyms and any other common business/ industry language found in minute documents. So your prep is done, and you’re walking in with your document all prepared and ready to go.

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Avoid Conference Call Catastrophes

The Office Professionals Place

Give attendees "conference call house rules" for example, if they need to mute themselves, inform them of how to do so. Always start on time and do your best to end on time by following the agenda and "table" topics that require more discussion. This makes it easy for minutes to be properly documented and promotes meeting order.

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