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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Using the staff meeting planning example, here are the batches or segments: Date Selection and Participants. Meeting Agenda. Meeting Invitations. Meeting Catering. Meeting Materials. Procedure explaining the nuances of staff meeting scheduling and working with other assistants or guests to pick the date ?

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I wrote an article called We Dont Know What We Dont Know. I think the first reason is what I put in my original article. I had no idea this could be done, but I was thrilled when I got her email, but it just proved to me once again that we are all holding on to things we take for granted that others know about.

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Writing when you don't know what you're talking about.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I wrote the article The Art of Minute Taking and I had only taken minutes a few times about 25 years ago. From writing that article I had confidence to take a job that required me taking minutes and it has turned out fine. I have written many articles on my blog on subjects that I knew nothing about. How did I do it?

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The Little Engine That Could.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I just recently read an article on it and was surprised when I really paid attention to the messages I was sending myself that some of them were negative. Lets enjoy our day together.© © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 21 November, 2009 The Little Engine That Could. Have you ever heard of negative and positive self talk ?

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We don't know what we don't know

Laughing all the Way to Work

One person can be great at software programs and know all sorts of tricks to get things done quickly and another might be excellent at organizing and managing their email account. Quotations Marks Rules for numbers Saying thank you in an email Seasons greetings or Seasons greetings?

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A Day in the Life of an Admin

The Office Professionals Place

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Depending on the importance of the impromptu meeting, it may need to be changed to another timeslot to accommodate his or her calendar. If you have to reschedule, send an email apologizing, but advise that your bosss schedule has changed. His response to anyone needing a meeting was to call his assistant. 23, 1 p.m. (for