Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2020

Earlier this month you may have been scheduling business trips, events and negotiating with vendors. Fast forward to now; you’re vigorously putting out fires, redoing your Executive’s calendar, receiving cancellations and making them too. Working from the office is just as complex.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

It was a horrible year; a stressful year; a depressing year.” Look at your calendar between now and year-end. Consider your commitments, schedules, things you need to do, holiday events, and block necessary time to reduce stress. Many of you might be thinking, “Thank goodness this year is over.

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All Things Admin

JULY 27, 2022

It worked out in the end, but I’ll never forget that moment of stress and panic. Check/review calendars for today: (executive’s name). You might have a checklist for travel planning, one for event planning, one for preparing for quarterly board meetings, and one for ordering office supplies. Turn off forwarding on phones.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

Excellent calendaring skills. More free webinar events with Office Dynamics International: The post Qualities Of A Great Assistant appeared first on Office Dynamics. Positive, can-do attitude. Ability to prioritize. Accountable. Trustworthy. Ability to remain calm under pressure. Customer-service focused. Good listener.

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Go Burrows

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

Stressed about holiday gifting? She has an extensive background in strategic calendar management, planning international and domestic travel, event planning, onboarding of high-level executives among many other skills. LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS. Thank you, Liza for being on the show! CONNECT WITH LIZA.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 24, 2015

Be sure to mark your calendar for April 1 – 30 and check out our daily informative and fun blogs. We want this to be a two-way conversation and the more you participate, the better chance you have of winning fantastic prizes. Feel free to respond to our blogs every day!

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. They save you time and unnecessary stress. Meeting and event planning. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. Systems have many benefits.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. It’s always best to review the day’s events together. Training & Development.

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 23, 2010

What is remarkable, especially for business owners accustomed to working ten-plus hours daily, is that it is very possible to minimize your workload, cut down on stress, and enjoy more free time. These four tips will help you make your business empire less tiresome, less stressful, and significantly more per-hour profitable.

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Office Organization Success

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Hosting your own teleclasses/webinars/online trainings. Speaking on other people’s telesummits/virtual events. Speaking to networking groups or in-person events. I participate in a giveaway event about 3 times a year, with one giveaway event bringing me 1,000+ new subscribers.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The solution is simple … you plan it in your calendar. The first step, and most important step, is to actually schedule your time off in your calendar. Once it’s on your calendar and you can see it you’re unlikely to accidentally schedule in a client call, meeting, or other event that will encroach upon your down time.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Not only are you focusing on how to grow your business through hiring, training and fundraising, but you are also juggling the million administrative tasks that come up during the day. One way to alleviate some of the stress is to work with an executive assistant. Unfortunately, finding candidates like this is not always easy.

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Worxbee

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s easy to get distracted or stressed when you’re thinking about the many other tasks waiting for you! #2. So a better approach is to match the task to the time on the calendar when you know you’ll have the right kind of energy for it. The fact is, scheduling can be much more complicated than filling a gap on a calendar.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 10, 2013

P LAN – schedule some time in your calendar to work on your business plan. It’s no good deciding you want to do a live event, or offer an online training course, if you don’t understand how this fits into your “Big Picture Vision”. Some people opt to take a mini-retreat away from their office. ” at [link].'

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

No cold calling, no website or marketing, no business cards or networking events. Procrastination is something trained into us, first by parents who tell us to eat our beans before we get ice cream, then by a school system that makes suffering a requirement of learning. Work gets whatever space is left in our calendars.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

I wrote an entire 80+ Page Guide incorporating the main processes executives and assistants need to have down pat, such as: regularly scheduled meetings, calendar management, meeting preparation, e-mail management, project management, travel, follow-up systems and prioritization. That is the key—consistency.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today it’s the Mayan calendar that has people in an uproar! You intentionally make time to meet and discuss everything from major projects and events to daily processes. You discuss the happenings, events, meetings and special projects that you either know about or are anticipating to occur in the next three months.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Meetings/Events. Event/Meeting Planning. Process your emails OUT of your inbox and into a TASK or CALENDAR appointment so you get them into your system for follow up, tracking, and completion. When we launched All Things Admin in 2009, we asked every person who visited our website – what are your top two challenges?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

If I don't tackle them head on, they will stress me out all day so I try to knock them out as soon as possible. Catch The Last Train. Most people are left on the station, waiting for the next train in the morning, because they missed it at night. Thanks to Amanda Walls of Cherishable Weddings and Events.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.    She'd had good intentions of making connections after the events, but the cards never made it farther than her desk drawer.  Thanks to Peter Coombs of FRONTLINE Training & Consulting.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It takes time to train yourself on something new, no matter how simple or “intuitive” it may be. It’s so easy to say, “I’m just gonna jump into my calendar really quick and update a few things,” and the next thing you know, you’re watching cat videos on YouTube. Electronic Calendar. Learning a new system. More clicking.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. Reduces stress for both the executive and assistant. During your daily huddles you would discuss upcoming events, projects and meetings therefore giving the assistant an opportunity to be proactive and take the initiative which diminishes last minute chaos.

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 30, 2010

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View (..)

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Now's a great time to set a foundation and train your executive (if they are willing and learn to trust you) so a precedent can be set. Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing. Dear KC, So glad you like my blog and hope I can be of help! You ask a very good question!

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 27, 2010

this time, the event we’re … Top 10 SEO Tips and Tricks | Keyword Research Tip 1 : Search … – Keyword research is critical to the SEO process. step by step, the introduction of yahoo! search marketing’s new account interface and platform continues.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

" The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. Thanks to Peter Coombs of FRONTLINE Training & Consulting 8. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

I was stressed out from the pace of work and also the length of a couple of special projects with a long lead time. We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. If you have the freedom, train people how reachable you are.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 20, 2010

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 9, 2010

Before I left I went over my checklists a few times to make sure I had everything and it was stress free each day as I reviewed the lists and checked off the items to bring. By using the template I was able to accomplish everything with enough time to change, touch up my make up and hair and then off to the next event.

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Productivityist

AUGUST 10, 2016

Johan’s passion is helping others make the most of their time and also helping others reduce their stress levels. . Your calendar is packed, yet you are constantly adding more tasks to your to it, right? Instead of reading a book on the train, you browse the web on your phone. . Let’s face it, you’re really busy.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Making a List, Checking it Twice The Board meeting I am preparing for is a two-day event and I dont want to forget anything that I need to do leading up to it, or anything that I need on the day of. As an aside, pen and paper will suffice if I have to, but you can see that the checklist can help avoid any unnecessary stresses from happening.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

I'm pushed pretty far in terms of capacity on most days - one extra board meeting or event can result in a spiral of 60 hour weeks. The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Feeling rather confident, I pushed it even further: I added a new table in the adding area (the one you actually see right now in the app, if you have it) in order to choose what type of item is added: a task, a project, an idea or an event. Didn’t add any event yet. I also implemented a new view for adding an event.

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