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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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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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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. Other folks use OneNote.

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When “Start” Begins to Creep into Your Writing

Office Dynamics

Recently, in a 5,000-word document I edited, those two words appeared 14 times, while only five were deemed necessary. 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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How to take better notes with Speed Writing

BMT Office Administration

For example, BakerWrite is a speed writing system that was created by Heather Baker in 2004. For example, in speed writing to, two, or too would simply be written as “2”. Documenting quotes and information during an interview. These are just a few examples. Speed Writing. This system will feel more natural to many people.

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Wouldn't it be nice to hear "Yes, you're approved to attend the conference!"

Office Dynamics

For example, did you know that we have created a special segment of our website toward "Getting to Yes." This is a simple Word document download that you can customize to assist with your proposal. Many assistants struggle with getting past the anxiety of even asking and others hear ''no'' and give up.

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The ultimate guide to diary management

Practically Perfect PA

There are also a lot of tasks related to diary management, for example ensuring our managers get to their meetings on time, understand the reason for the meeting and are prepared for it. If this is not an option print out your manager’s diary so that you have a working document for the day. Agenda / meeting purpose.