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How to Manage Your Files Effectively

Jen Lawrence

Managing files can be overwhelming and let’s be honest… boring for some. Remember, an effective file management system boosts the overall efficiency of a company’s operations. With that, I’m going to share tips on how you can manage your files effectively. For example, “J Lawrence File Management Blog Article 112021.”

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Thank you for joining our Admin Blog-a-thon, what’s next?

Office Dynamics

IAAP teamed up with Staples to #CelebrateAdmins. Business Management Daily had a daily free download or gift. Business Management Daily had a daily free download or gift. So what do we do now that the blog-a-thon is over? Just because the event has ended doesn’t mean we stop blogging. Keep coming back!

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part II

Productivity Bits

Author's Note: This is the last part of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" and a quick Review of Field Notes Notebook ]. Using the “context tag&# of a digital version of task management, such as Nirvana , may not be effective either. Visit the original article at [link]. Follow me on t witte r.

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So you’ve been asked to organise an event… now what?

Practically Perfect PA

Considering this task is not the staple part of our profession I can still imagine your answer to be ‘quite often’. Your colleagues may be shocked that you have called this meeting because quite often senior managers will ask you to organise an event and think you can just go away and deliver it without any scope or real information.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Admins Part 6

Practically Perfect PA

In my last blog I wrote about interview questions regarding career development and a few example answers. In this blog I want to concentrate on competency or scenario based questions. During every competency based interview I have been asked about my people management skills.

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10 ways assistants can improve their productivity

Practically Perfect PA

However, I’ve found that I do really know how long things should take and I have managed to meet nearly all of my self imposed deadlines. I actually think this is a blog post in its own right but I think it is worth mentioning now. I’ve written a blog post about that recently. Take a break. I hated it.

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15 social media and technology trends for 2015

Practically Perfect PA

For assistants who have managers that engage with social media it is important that they have a variety of great images that they can use when tweeting, updating LinkedIn and writing for the corporate blog. I wrote a blog about this a few months ago that gives tips on keeping your social media organised. Be relevant.