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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Each organization we work for will have their own acronyms that we have to get familiar with fairly quickly if you want to know what they are talking about. After the first use, then you can feel free to use the acronym throughout the document. Depending on how acronym happy your office is, it can be like learning a new language.

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That is not in my job description.

Laughing all the Way to Work

In my experience I have found that providing administrative support is whatever is needed to support your boss and make the office function efficiently. If you approach your boss in a professional manner with the problems clearly set out and possible solutions, it will come across much better. very informative entry! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 December, 2008 Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right? Here are the top qualities that an assistant must have: Be organized. Can I say that again – BE ORGANIZED! An assistant’s job is to organize the boss and in order to do that we must be organized ourselves.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If the letterhead has the name of the organization on it you do not have to repeat it again under the name and title, unless that is your boss’s preference. Some organizations like you to list the attachments, i.e. Enclosure: 2008 Annual Report. As you have discovered half the battle is getting organized. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 15 March, 2009 When you need it later: The Bring-Forward System My boss likes me to keep him organized and the way I do that is to have a system to bring forward items, which I then bring to his attention when he needs to see it. Lets enjoy our day together.© Where can I put this paper? Thats great!

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Managing your Boss's Inbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

Of course my comments are limited because the subject matter is not my expertise, but he relies on my input and corrections to make the document look good. Going through some major organizing and filing here at our office and this is another 'a propos' topic that hits home. Very good article Patricia! THanks for sharing!