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Face-to-Face Time with Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Upcoming Travel Discuss upcoming trips so you can anticipate schedules and prepare necessary travel materials. At least bi-weekly, review the calendar for upcoming events as far as three months out. Tell him about upcoming seminars and workshops you would like to attend and why. If so, how many?

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. If you are an assistant reading this blog, check off the ones that describe you. Excellent calendaring skills. Accountable.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

Now this came from an executive who traveled around the world, would work until 2:00 a.m., Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner.

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8 Killer Tips for a Successful Executive and Assistant Partnership

Office Dynamics

I wrote an entire 80+ Page Guide incorporating the main processes executives and assistants need to have down pat, such as: regularly scheduled meetings, calendar management, meeting preparation, e-mail management, project management, travel, follow-up systems and prioritization. This workshop is sponsored by Shure Inc.

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? What are your thoughts in this area?

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The 3 Ingredients Of A Minimalist Productivity Workflow

Productivityist

For example, I will conduct workshops and speaking engagements beyond the month of February. After February, I’ll shift focus to another finite or ongoing project and let the workshop/speaking area fade into the background. Maybe I’m tired or traveling (like I am now). For example, I started writing this piece on Friday.

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My Year In Preview: 2017 Edition

Productivityist

One of the reasons I worked with NeuYear was to build a calendar I could use for this process. In addition, I’m going to be publishing a My Monthly Theme Report on the blog at the end of every month. October: Talks/Workshops. In years past I focused my Monthly Themes primarily on projects, but that has evolved over time.

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