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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

Meeting planning is a cognitive task. You must think about your manager’s workload, other commitments, travel, upcoming meetings, past meetings, previous week’s schedule. You must think about the time commitment related to each meeting. Did he/she travel? This week’s schedule How many meetings?

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. Meeting Preparation and Coordination. Task and Project Management. This is not smart. This is not smart. Don’t ever rest on your laurels.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

Office Dynamics

What was the inspiration for writing your new book, The Organized Admin? Meetings/Events. Travel Planning. Travel Planning. So I wanted to provide a plan of action for these assistants that would help them get and stay organized. Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning.

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More OneNote Must-Knows: History, Search, and Template Creation

All Things Admin

​Whether you’re using it for travel planning, procedures development, project management, or just basic notetaking, OneNote is one of the most dynamic software programs out there for administrative professionals. Previously, I talked about two of my favorite OneNote features – color coding and custom tags.

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Taking stock

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 9 July, 2010 Taking stock Whenever I finish a project I always ask myself, or get together with those who assisted me, and ask the question, "What went well and what could have gone better?" I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Dealing in real time.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If it is a big project I use a calendar and write down all my required to-dos on the dates I need to get them done to make my deadline. I’m a visual person so it really helps me to plan my way to my goal. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material!

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

When the results were in, I met with the person who administered it and one of the things it showed, other than the fact that I ranked very high in administration, was that I work best on short-term projects where I can see the end in sight. I will have all kinds of energy to work on a project if I know it is ending at one point.