Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! right away. right away.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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APRIL 30, 2014

Depending on where you are in the world, working on different time zones to your clients can be tricky but with plenty of planning and preparation in the lead up to your trip, your service needn’t be compromised. This may sound obvious but check time zones before you go to ensure you operate as you would from home.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 15, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Lets enjoy our day together.© I guess he thought I needed the help.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 22, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Another time I wanted to try a career in the travel business.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 12, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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JULY 15, 2015

With Assist Travel coming up in September in London I wanted to share one of our most popular blogs with you – The Ultimate Travel Itinerary. At the bottom of the blog I have uploaded the template I use for my Directors. This is a free to attend event for Practically Perfect PA subscribers. Assist Travel.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. It’s always best to review the day’s events together. Discuss any events that external visitors will attend and anticipate actions to be taken before and during their visit. Follow-up Items.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 9, 2010

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post soruba Nice blog. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 8, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Have you ever been at an event that isnt well organized?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Events and meetings. Meetup Time: £0.69. This is a great app for conference call planning that allows you to schedule calls and meetings from all over the world without having to check all of the various time zones. This is a great app for event registration, reception desks and parties. Zwoor Event HD: Free.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Events and meetings. Meetup Time: £0.69. This is a great app for conference call planning that allows you to schedule calls and meetings from all over the world without having to check all of the various time zones. This is a great app for event registration, reception desks and parties. Zwoor Event HD: Free.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 13, 2008

Do you follow particular religious holidays, but arent showing up in your calendar? In this case, I dont have to worry about taking extra days off, since I dont really follow the religious holidays that I was brought up with, which in turn, are part of the regular holidays that come up each year.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

You search around to find the best deal (check out Travel Links on the right side of this blog for some suggestions) and book what your boss needed. The time finally comes when your boss is flying out to that all important business trip. You scratch your head and wonder how this can be done.

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MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Thinking Outside the Job Description Box By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 20, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog. Here are some ideas to get you thinking in that direction.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets A memory stick is my back up if my laptop and I part ways.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?" Has this ever happened to you? I am sure most of you are nodding your heads as you are reading this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re walking around the office and someone comes up to you, asking for a pen. This has happened to me quite a few times in the past. It’s the times that I forget (which are rare) that I need a pen.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. I originally wrote a post on this entitled " Travel Plans " explaining that you can use Travelocity and Expedia to find the best deals. Theres even a better site that helps you find the best deals on these and other airlines, hotels and car rental agencies.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

You can find instructions to setting up this software here and the software download page here. Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that. In the near future, Blackberries, Apple iCals and many different types of phones will be supported on this software as well.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Now put yourself in that persons shoes. Imagine that you were on the receiving end of the conversation.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 28, 2008

Do you have a big project coming up and want to show your boss that you can handle this type of task ? Home About Me Advertise Copying Pictures To and From Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 28, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity H ave you ever wondered how to copy pictures from and to Microsoft Word ?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 23, 2008

Do you already have a table set up in Microsoft Word, but dont want to copy to Microsoft Excel and back again, just to sort it? One of my colleagues came to me and asked about this very question. I wasnt sure if this was possible, but fiddled around on Google a bit and found that it is possible.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

I recently added a post called " Outlook Rules That Rule " from a fellow Administrative Assistants blog. When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. This will show up in red, since I know I have to get to this one first, before I can even touch any other one.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

You can post up to 80 different job sites, such as Workopolis , Monster , CareerBuilder and many more, just with one submission. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 26, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you worried about online identity theft online? Resume Rabbit will make all of this disappear.

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