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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

Calendars 223
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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Several years ago, I came up with Adminology. Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. It was a formula for success for assistants.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. Review calendars and compile date and time options.

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

Office Dynamics

Even finding an extra five minutes a day to work on your organization skills will add up over time. Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning. Systems are made up of several or many different procedures. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists.

Travel 100
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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The saying goes that there are three requirements to make up an effective Committee – the right task, the right people and the right process. In most cases assistants will not be in a position to influence the tasks given to a Committee or the members that make up the group but they will have a huge influence over the process.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

The saying goes that there are three requirements to make up an effective Committee – the right task, the right people and the right process. In most cases assistants will not be in a position to influence the tasks given to a Committee or the members that make up the group but they will have a huge influence over the process.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. If it is an internal meeting, has a meeting space been booked?