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An Admin’s Guide to Effective Checklists

All Things Admin

It led me to create one of my favorite checklists ever – a four page travel planning checklist that I still use to this day. 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.

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Day in the life: Diana Brandl, Senior EA at Mister Spex

Practically Perfect PA

Today’s Day in the life: Diana Brandl, Senior EA at Mister Spex, Founder and CEO of The Socialista Projects, Head of IMA Berlin and National Social Relations Officer, speaker, coach and mentor and all round superstar EA! Inspire…my own office team as I mentor and coach them to see them growing. And they do get a lot of mail.

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Training budgets were ample; opportunity for advancement sparkled like diamonds for the taking. Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. Training budgets dissipated, opportunities dried up, and assistants had larger workloads without staffing backups.

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State of the Profession – Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

T raining and Development – organizations are investing more than ever before in specialized training. Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects. Cross-training, Mentoring – Open your heart and be a mentor to others. o Train your executives how to work with you.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

She even signed up for a fear-of-flying seminar to help calm her nerves, but she missed so many classes because of her schedule and constant traveling that her instructor told her, “I don’t know if I should be mad at you or proud of you, but you’re never here because you’re always on a plane.”

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How to stay on top of your marketing and networking tasks

Loosely Speaking

This blog will highlight the tip I provided at the meeting: Using the Marketing-Mentor 2009 Grow Your Business Marketing Plan + Calendar.  When you purchase the download for a nominal price, this combo marketing plan and calendar guides a business owner through the important tasks that so often get pushed off to the side.Â

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How to Master The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers

Office Dynamics

The primary manager may be traveling and/or unavailable to answer your questions. There are days when I have 15 calendars open on my computer in an effort to schedule meetings with elected officials, developers, executive team members, staff, and members of the general public. Find out who else has information related to the project.