Success

AUGUST 17, 2021

No phones, emails or interruptions allowed. Let your mind wander and find a new idea, goal or dream. Sometimes you’ll plan white space around your calendar. If you have back-to-back meetings five minutes apart, for example, it makes sense to use those five minutes as white space. Why we struggle to use white space.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 29, 2019

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. Pay attention to non-verbal cues when working with others to schedule meetings, if you are talking face-to-face or on the telephone or even in an email. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

How to interview freelance marketers It’s impossible to achieve goals you never set — so define and communicate your objective and scope of work in the first interview. Maybe it’s a 10% increase in email sales in Q1 — but is that a year-over-year increase, or a quarter-over-quarter one? Offer relevant marketing examples.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Debbie Gross (Strategy) suggested administrative assistants to work at a higher level by using their Outlook calendar like their own personal admin to help keep them on track with the many projects to be managed. She has a 3-point system for managing email: first pass. Second pass, Do (as in under two minutes).

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 4, 2022

To keep attracting the best candidates and clients for your recruitment agency, you need to have a good hang of writing exceptional recruiting emails. Right from sending good candidate sourcing emails to rejection emails , your candidates and clients must be informed at every stage of the hiring process.

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Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. I wanted to experience that increase in efficiency, so I set some goals. After only two hours, I had the copy for a squeeze page, a 12-page sales page, 20 social media posts, 11 marketing emails and ad copy. And, voilà!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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Worxbee

MARCH 1, 2021

These are our top three suggestions for tasks to give your virtual executive assistant: Calendar management. Calendar management falls under “must be done, but you’re not adding any value by doing it.” You’re likely spending a lot of time on managing your calendar that could otherwise be spent on other things. Email taming.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 13, 2010

This article will give you action steps to help you move your goals from thoughts to concrete experiences. This article will give you action steps to help you move your goals from thoughts to concrete experiences. By following these steps, you will enhance your likelihood of success in life, irrespective of your goals.

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Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recurring tasks, delegation, comments, calendar integration, kanban-style productivity visualizations and subtasks are some of the most notable features of Todoist. A real-world example might be something like, “If I get an email with an attachment, upload the attachment to Google Drive.”

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Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

They work with executives to help further the goals of the company. A VA helps with the tasks that work toward the goals, but they tend to take a less strategic role. Executive assistants are proactive by nature and will create their own to-do lists (based on a good understanding of what your needs and goals are, of course!).

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Worxbee

MAY 31, 2021

The purpose is to set expectations and learn more about their key priorities and goals. From what you learned on your launch call, you’ll want to solidify the key goals of your engagement with the client, including short, medium and long-term goals. For example, have you had enough context to do tasks as they should be done?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

  I've tried delegating through email, google and drop box.  You can set a due date, and even sych the due date to your calendar. 2 - Keep Your Team Coordinated and Aligned to Their Goals. For example, if the due date changes for a task, it shows who changed the due date and when.

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 1, 2011

To be successful at anything then, we need to form good habits that support our endeavors and carry us through to our goal’s end. If you are like me, you have started toward many a new goal with a flurry of motivation and good intentions and then, in a matter of weeks, found yourself sidetracked. Habit First, Quality Second.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Take inspiration from the two examples below, which are suggestions for a job seeker and for people who deal with others in crisis. If you are a job seeker, send a greeting to every person you talked with about your career search this year, whether that talk was in person, by phone, or by email. Remember them! Saying Happy New Year!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. For example, if you are spending hours daily on Twitter and Facebook telling yourself that you are “growing your business” through building relationships, you are stealing from yourself. The trick is to make sure that the time you spend is actually focused on a goal for your business.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

For example, write all tasks related to recruitment on blue cards and items related to resident evaluations on red cards. For example, after receiving an e-mail request, don’t let it sit in your in-box until you remember or miss the deadline.     * Master calendars.     * Master calendars.

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Melissa Peoples

DECEMBER 15, 2018

He is extremely goal oriented and lives his life with an on-going bucket list. He is very purposeful and intentional on WHAT, WHO, and WHERE he invests his time so that he can focus on doing what he enjoys and achieving his goals. What tools do you use to help you drive your goals to completion? 928 times in one week.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 12, 2015

There’s just something about taking the first month of the calendar year slowly in order to really set up the next eleven months properly, and since I really start this process during the first week of the Christmas break I have about six weeks to reflect on the months gone by and mindfully prepare for the months ahead.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 17, 2011

In short, our goal is to save you time and money when you're ready to do something with what you've saved.   To see an example of a "public" view of Springpad, here is Jeff's.      Can you really coordinate calendars using Springpad?    Care to share a few examples?

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Productivityist

MARCH 10, 2016

Even on a personal level, a cyber attack can be devastating to your goals and productivity plans, so don’t let it happen to you. Consider some of the following tips and examples: If you are using a WordPress site, you may want to consider a plugin or app that will back it up such as BackUpWordPress.

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Productivityist

MARCH 10, 2016

Even on a personal level, a cyber attack can be devastating to your goals and productivity plans, so don’t let it happen to you. Consider some of the following tips and examples: If you are using a WordPress site, you may want to consider a plugin or app that will back it up such as BackUpWordPress.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Your calendar is stacked with meetings. And a bunch of new emails have already arrived in your inbox. When stretched for time, most people tend to drop thinking and planning in their calendar to complete as many tasks as possible. I consistently guard time in my calendar for thinking, planning and refreshing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Now break that into a few big parts of that goal. If not, I have at least made progress toward my eventual goal, and I can take another bite tomorrow. I look at my to-do list at the beginning of each week and schedule my tasks in my calendar as if they were a client meeting. Keep An Editorial Calendar And Stick To It!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself. kmmarketing   @ StephCalahan I enter important to-dos as calendar items in my iPhone. Break down into bite size pieces, and put the pieces on the calendar. To dos in back.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Joan began by sharing a word picture example for administrative assistants: imagine your job is like being at a football game. Your manager read emails, texts, and took phone calls between those times and the situation may have unfolded completely differently, requiring you to have new priorities this morning. Be solution oriented.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 7, 2014

Our goal, after all, is to work smarter, not harder, right? For example, you could schedule phone calls on a certain day of the week or a certain time each day. The same can be done with email responses, and almost any other routine client tasks, and even those out-of-office errands or meetings. Guess what?

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Your calendar is stacked with meetings. And a bunch of new emails have already arrived in your inbox. When stretched for time, most people tend to drop thinking and planning in their calendar to complete as many tasks as possible. I consistently guard time in my calendar for thinking, planning and refreshing.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

BusyCal (M, I, $): I’ve used many different calendar apps, but this one was the one that stuck with me. The tags allow me to colour code anything on my calendar according to the theme it falls under (Coaching, Deep Work, etc.). This calendar is pricier than many out there, but when I love an app, then price is less of a factor).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 20, 2010

  Example 1: If you need to do creative activities in your work like writing, put like activities together.  Example 2:   Do you have a litany of sales and prospecting calls to do?  Try This Instead Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out You Can Make a Difference in YOUR Productivity in 7 Minutes!

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JULY 18, 2013

Our goal, after all, is to work smarter, not harder, right? For example, you could schedule phone calls on a certain day of the week or a certain time each day. The same can be done with email responses, and almost any other routine client tasks, and even those out-of-office errands or meetings. Guess what?

Management 100

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Your calendar is stacked with meetings. And a bunch of new emails have already arrived in your inbox. When stretched for time, most people tend to drop thinking and planning in their calendar to complete as many tasks as possible. I consistently guard time in my calendar for thinking, planning and refreshing.

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

For example, Dr. William Harvey made medical history by explaining how the circulatory system worked: He likened the heart to a pump and gave himself a new frame of reference—and from that he understood blood vessels as part of a unified pumping system. (2) You may find ways to save time and money. Find the analogy.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Our goal, after all, is to work smarter, not harder, right? For example, you could schedule phone calls on a certain day of the week or a certain time each day. The same can be done with email responses, and almost any other routine client tasks, and even those out-of-office errands or meetings. Guess what?

Management 100

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