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JANUARY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you trying to book a meeting with someone or a group of people?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 22, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you asked to make reservations for your manager(s) at particular restaurants? Do you need to have some sort of written confirmation to make sure that the reservation has been booked? Do you feel that you could be doing this faster?

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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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MARCH 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by James of Organize IT. How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Yellow Post-It Notes By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you looking for some innovative ways on using your yellow Post-It notes? Heres an article I found on a fellow Administrative Assistants website for some great uses.

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MAY 16, 2010

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? When booking meetings ownership of the meeting has to be established. Is the boardroom booked? Whose responsibility is it anyway?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Take classes, read a book, read current events about new trends that are happening in your field. How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Expand your mind.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Does your boss ever organize a meeting behind your back? That makes it difficult when I am supposed to be organizing his calendar, but since I am responsible to organize his time and in spite of my frustration, I have to make it work. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. I will explain this later. I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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APRIL 8, 2009

How often I have organized a conference or arranged a Board meeting and after all the organization and planning it goes off without a hitch. I like organizing and feel satisfied when everything comes together nicely, but it takes a lot of work to get there. Have you ever been at an event that isnt well organized?

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MARCH 3, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 03, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Brian McCullough of TheJobBored.com. But even if you don’t go to such lengths, the key to surviving downtimes is to make sure you have copied your address book over to all your email accounts.

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MARCH 13, 2010

I like to be prepared and I find life just works better for me at home, work and even on the bus, when I am organized and ready for whatever is coming up. I organize my desk so everything is within easy reach and makes sense to the way I like to work. I too, love to be organized and it only makes sense to be prepared.

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MAY 10, 2009

Would you take a job just to get your foot in the door of an organization you really wanted to work for, even if it was a position that you didnt want to make a career out of? You should stay in the position for long enough to make what youve learned stick to be fair to yourself and the organization who hired you. Excellent material!

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Here are the top qualities that an assistant must have: Be organized. Can I say that again – BE ORGANIZED! An assistant’s job is to organize the boss and in order to do that we must be organized ourselves. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material!

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 December, 2009 Meetings Plus: Taking them offline I organize a lot of meetings in a day, week, month; heck, even into next year. There are a lot of good organizing tricks out there and whenever I find one that works, I pounce on it and it becomes something I cant work without. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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JULY 12, 2010

The Stevie® Awards is a prestigious award honouring the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide. The fact that they have a category for Support Staffer of the Year is recognition of the important role support staff play in any organization. Excellent material! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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JULY 1, 2010

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. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material! Congratulations on this achievement/labour of love!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. If it is an internal meeting, has a meeting space been booked? Do you need to book it or were you provided with location. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Enter it in calendar.

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

The argument could be said that the role of the assistant is to assist and keep your boss organized so we shouldnt complain when we have to do it. I have found the best way to cope is to keep yourself organized. Keep an organized filing system and file list. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 6 September, 2008 Going Checklist Crazy I am organizing a Board meeting and I have checklists and to-do lists coming out of my ears. Being organized helps de-clutter any task and makes it more manageable and doable. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday.

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JANUARY 23, 2010

Another office raised almost $1,000 in a fundraising effort they organized. About Me Ottawa, Canada View my complete profile Click on the image to order my book Laughing All The Way to Work from Amazon All royalties go to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation What some people are saying about the book. He raised over $1,000.

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JULY 16, 2010

Manage: Consider these points as you organize your workload. It reduces confusion by improving organization and leaves your work space clean. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Put the least important one on the bottom and the most urgent on top. Check: Are you prioritizing tasks correctly?

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APRIL 10, 2009

I find the best way for me to keep my Inbox organized is to immediately deal with the e-mail when it arrives. About Me Ottawa, Canada View my complete profile Click on the image to order my book Laughing All The Way to Work from Amazon All royalties go to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation What some people are saying about the book.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views. As an Executive Assistant to a busy CEO, I have to organize my boss and I needed a bring-forward system to meet his needs.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

I love the planning, organizing and running around that goes into bringing a conference from a thought to a successful event. You wonder how we do it all between our personal and professional lives, but we manage and I think it has to do with the fact that we are organized. You couldnt survive if you werent. Excellent material!

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

The head of your organization can often set the tone for how the rest of the office functions. Everyone helping each other and working together to achieve the goals of the organization. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material! Congratulations on this achievement/labour of love!

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MAY 9, 2010

If I deal with someone and can see that they have organized something well, I will make sure to ask them about it. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. She received a job posting that she thought I would be interested in so passed it along to me and I have done the same for others. Excellent material!

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

They had booked the space for November 8th. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. If you are not sure of the number of people who will be booking, then give them a rough estimate.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

In the meantime, I have decided to donate the royalties on any sales of my book to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. My book is currently available on Amazon. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your. Excellent material!

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AUGUST 8, 2009

I was eager to open my brand new book bag and get my pencil and write the first words in my new scribbler. Is everything organized and in the proper place so when you need it you can just grab it? I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. School will be back in full swing soon. Is it neat and tidy?

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

There are some assistants however who enjoy the organizing and the business of being an administrative or executive assistant and they are good at their job and get great satisfaction in what they do. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. They dont want to change their career and that is all right too.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Each organization we work for will have their own acronyms that we have to get familiar with fairly quickly if you want to know what they are talking about. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. And who bothers writing out the words e-mail, TV, ASAP or FYI when everyone will know what you mean anyway?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2009

If a conference comes up and they are looking for someone to do the registration, we can step in and do that or we can organize it from start to finish. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Our job is not just one thing, but many different tasks and it changes every day. Excellent material!

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

It taught me never to judge a book by its cover. Those are some of the main ingredients for a fulfilling job in my books. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your. Both men ended up being great to work with. But I dont know everything yet.

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JANUARY 13, 2009

In some organizations raises are tied to how well you do and it is also a record that is kept on your personnel file. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Can you believe we are already into a new year and will have to think about completing a performance appraisal again? Excellent material!

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

Show your boss that you want to contribute to their success and to the organization. About Me Ottawa, Canada View my complete profile Click on the image to order my book Laughing All The Way to Work from Amazon All royalties go to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation What some people are saying about the book.

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