All Things Admin

APRIL 17, 2024

Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. Assign specific colors to categories in your email inbox or use tags to visually group related items together. Here are two examples of this.

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Success

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ease into your day You open your eyes, silence your phone alarm, press your mail app and start thumbing through your emails. It could simply be taking the time the night before to select your outfit, pack lunches and check your calendar, ensuring the morning hours are much calmer. Protecting mental health at work for employees 1.

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Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2022

Leverage existing and emerging technologies to enhance collaboration, connection, trust, and productivity. . So, how do you increase profitability and productivity while reducing costs and retaining a happy and loyal workforce? An effective, accepted, and well-understood culture can keep teams more productive. jumped from 1.4%

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

They achieve productivity more quickly; they cost less in total, and they’re a more flexible cost; they require less emotional investment from their employers; and they take less time and effort to replace. 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?

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Worxbee

APRIL 5, 2021

Most of us look for ways we can be even more productive at work. In fact, there are whole industries built around productivity and finding ways to help people improve their time management and results. Eat the frog” is a common piece of productivity advice originating from productivity master, Brian Tracy.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 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? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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BMT Office Administration

AUGUST 17, 2022

For example, some tasks that are more repetitive and boring can be hard to stay focused on, so you may need to experiment with music like lo-fi that can sometimes boost productivity or find a podcast that will provide entertainment without becoming a major distraction. These cards can be organized across different columns.

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Productivityist

JULY 5, 2017

I’ve put together these bullet points on personal productivity to celebrate my birthday. Never forget to turn on your email vacation message…and preferably do so the day before you go on vacation. And be sure to send this email before you leave for vacation. Journaling is an underrated productivity practice.

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Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. 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. But many late-night TikTok videos later, I noticed people using it in increasingly creative ways.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 21, 2017

If you’ve ever spent a morning trying to track down a lost file on your hard drive or searching through a decade of email, you know that digital disorder can also take a toll on your wellbeing. Most people handle a constant flow of text messages, emails, photos, videos, and other digital information. Automate Email Organization.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 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!!    Pros of Planning Tool: Very organized product. Very well laid out.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

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. Accept constructive suggestions for improved productivity. Create or reevaluate daily routine to be more productive.

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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. So, what do you do now?

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Tips From T. Marie

DECEMBER 7, 2018

With the increase in virtual services and communication done entirely via email, Skype and Slack, you may not even have a physical address to send a gift to. For example, real estate agents often give their buyers a gift upon the successful purchase of a new home. For example, one year I created personalized notecards for clients.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

So I’m going to share with you the productivity tools that I love, broken down by how they help me with the three core components of my approach to personal productivity: Time Theming , Task Mapping , and Taking Stock. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let’s take a look at the productivity tools that I love.

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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. For example, if the due date changes for a task, it shows who changed the due date and when. 3 - Declutter Your Email Inbox. " "We're just not getting stuff done. 

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 9, 2011

I’ve been using an iPhone for about three years now and it’s become an indispensable tool in my productivity toolbox. Here are ten free productivity apps for the iPhone. It’s a way of tagging things you NEED to remember, so you can be more productive —even when you can’t remember what you were going to do next.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

Their contribution is vital in boosting productivity and operational effectiveness. Organizational abilities: Experts in managing multiple tasks and schedules efficiently, an executive assistant must keep everything on track, from managing calendars to coordinating meetings.

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Productivityist

JULY 9, 2021

It also really describes the number of tools I’ve assembled as integral parts of my productivity workflow. I call these tools The Significant Six – and while the way these tools present themselves might change over time (like my to do list, for example), these tools have been part of what’s kept me productive for years.

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Worxbee

MAY 17, 2021

Email templates and tools. Email can be an inefficient nightmare without the right tools and techniques in place to manage it. From conversations getting lost among the pile to having to repeat frequently-used emails, there are many issues that some well-chosen tools can help you to manage. Email management tools.

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Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Today’s guest blog post was written by James Adams who works as a writer and a product reviewer at CartridgeSave , an online shop delivering cheap ink cartridges. One good way to increase office productivity is to prioritize any and all projects. Brought To You By: Productivity and GTD Hacks - Productivity and GTD Hacks Blog.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Your Priorities - Take the Quiz and See How You Do | Main | If You Want to be Productive, Dont Focus on the Rock! thanks @thinkglobally) » Boost Productivity by Picking the Best To-do List for You We all have them.    The big TO DO list. 

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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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On The Job

MAY 23, 2018

If you're like most people, you will still check your email (this is why smartphones were invented, right?) You tell yourself you're doing this because it's easier to keep up with some work while you're away and then not face an avalanche of emails when you return. Daddy needs to finish this email to his work!" You need to: 1.

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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. While this will take some initial effort on your part, this will also help you be more productive. Stress contributes negatively to productivity. It is important to protect your work as well.

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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. While this will take some initial effort on your part, this will also help you be more productive. Stress contributes negatively to productivity. It is important to protect your work as well.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 2, 2009

I’ve tried many email and contact management systems over the years, but keep coming back to this one tool. It’s my: Email manager. Calendar planner. Create email templates. This saves you time as next time you need to send the same email you simply retrieve it from the templates folder; ‘tweak’ as needed, and hit ‘send’.

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Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

Calendar management falls under their job role and they’re quick to learn about what an “ideal” routine looks like for you. Most executives simply don’t have time to manage their own calendars well and that’s where back-to-back engagements start to cram in. You’re spending too much time on emails. You’re doing too much doing.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 28, 2016

Are you continually searching around looking for an email address? For example, how do you create a new client file? One example could be you’re answering the same client enquiries again and again. The easy way to resolve this is to put all those questions together in one place and create an email template.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 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.  Send emails to others that you would like to receive back.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I have written a lot about diary management over the years, which is not surprising when you think assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their manager’s calendars. Prior to confirming a meeting in the calendar always look at what your boss has schedule either side of the meeting.

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Denise Aday

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a handy email reminder tool I’ve been trying out since last week: Followup.cc (Thank you, WebWorkerDaily.). Whenever you have an email containing an action item for later – whether a reply or some other type follow-up – you can forward it to [VALUE]@followup.cc. There’s even a SNOOZE BUTTON!

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Virtual Moxie

MARCH 15, 2016

It's, “stalking your email.” And I’ve seen people say that for the sake of productivity I should only check/reply to email 2x each day. If the main way I communicate with clients is by email, how do I over-deliver when there’s such a lag in dealing with email. to every email by the end of the next business day.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 2, 2010

By AndreaKalli The Birth of Podcast Production Since this is my first guest blog post for VirtualAssist.net, I guess I should introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my company. During that time, the birth of the World Wide Web created a host of new opportunities in audio production. I hope you will check it out.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. It’s why I became certified as a Productivity Pro Consultant with Laura Stack. Her system for email management is outstanding. Regarding Email organization: Think of your inbox as your mailbox, not your to do list.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

For example…. Checking emails instead of reaching out to potential joint venture partners or organizations to secure speaking gigs. Being held accountable does wonders for your productivity level. Don’t be a slave to your emails or your phone. Plan your calendar. Updating their website before making sales calls.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2017

Phenomenal examples include manufacturing, mechanized farming, retail, and many other sectors. An app such as Evernote can be linked to task running apps like Trello and Asana and even to your Google calendar. In the entire history of human development, the need to make work easier, faster and even cheaper comes naturally.

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