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10 Simple Tips to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Success

The good news is you don’t need to go to school or take online courses to improve your time management. Then put them in your calendar before anything else. Even with the best intentions, you can find yourself subject to someone else’s agenda. Highly successful people are experts at managing their time and priorities.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

Distribute an agenda to participants before the meeting. Transfer action items to follow-up lists, calendars, and “to-do” folder. Update your calendar with future meeting dates. If you want to dig deep into meeting planning and execution, I’m hosting a live e-course Tuesday, February 20 at 10:00 am PT. Joan Burge.

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ANNOUNCEMENT: 2014 Training Dates

Office Dynamics

It''s time to get out your 2014 calendar and start marking your dates for training and development. We have announced our training program dates - reserve your seat now in one of our popular administrative training courses led/created by Joan Burge. Course location and agenda may be found by following event links.

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The ultimate guide to diary management

Practically Perfect PA

I have written a lot about diary management over the years, which is not surprising when you think assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their manager’s calendars. Prior to confirming a meeting in the calendar always look at what your boss has schedule either side of the meeting.

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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Meetings should start with an agenda, respect everyone’s time by beginning and ending on schedule, and conclude with a clear understanding of who will do what by when.

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Can you ever ask too many questions?

Laughing all the Way to Work

So I do and when he has a meeting I make sure he has the agenda and any back-up materials, the location and directions if needed, the name and title of the person he is meeting, especially if he doesn't know them well, and the purpose of the meeting. And of course what is the location and the directions to get there?

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A day in the life: Claudia Ferreres, PA to Albert Adrià

Practically Perfect PA

As the Personal Assistant to a quite renowned chef, my tasks might vary from the ones of a regular PA, like calendar and email management, to most specific tasks such as taking care of the journalists that come visit the restaurants and to interview Albert. What are the main aspects of your role?