Success

MARCH 28, 2024

If you’re wondering how to ask someone to be your mentor, ask them in person if they live locally, or ask via email or phone if they live a significant distance away from you. Don’t ask for last-minute reviews of documents or projects, and honor their preferred method of contact. Remember that your mentor is likely very busy.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 21, 2022

Of course, that’s just the beginning. If I happen to be away from my desk when something comes up that should be added to my journal, I often take a digital note in the form of an email or a text message to myself. It’s no surprise then that I recommend everyone keep a work journal. I then add it to my journal when I’m back at my desk.

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Success

AUGUST 14, 2021

We hadn’t used phones or computers, listened to music, read books, or written. Only my phone knew how many texts and emails awaited me. Total silence can’t be my new lifestyle, of course. Sometimes I even like my phone. The brain, of course, is a muscle. or “Will this project fail?” The bell rang.

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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. Below are a few: Throughout the year track each project and goal progress, additional duties added and positive feedback from others.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 30, 2012

So the task at hand is tackling the unread emails and sorting them as follow up, projects, inquiries, factory orders, catalog etc. They want to print them out and organized that way, but there are over a thousand emails. You have been tasked with a major project. My boss hired me to help them get organized.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

EAs will often have random projects that require them to collaborate with other departments - it’s essential to maintain those human connections. From task apps to full-blown project management tools, the software has never been easier for task management. Trello - Trello is a kanban (cards) style of project management tool.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

Of course, the more information you give it, the better the outcome. Please help me write a professional email to my boss, the senior managing partner, to ask for funds to attend the Project Management Learning Lab in September. You can ask it to do anything—teach, write, edit, outline, you name it. tools to be used.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    Of course, my awesome colleagues came through with possibilities and I'll share those here today. .  How will you use Basecamp?

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On The Job

AUGUST 10, 2016

Instead of completing a project, they’re focused on answering emails that could wait or checking out social media sites, he says, “ Research has shown that every time a worker checks email or goes online, he or she gets a rush of dopamine,” he says. Shut off your phone and your computer. Off,” he stresses.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I receive a lot of emails from admins who’ve lost their jobs unexpectedly. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Project plans. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. It lies within you.”. Procedures.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 20, 2024

Do you remember asking people in your household to hang up the phone so you could send an email? Or being tied to bulky, desktop computers that couldn’t function more than five feet away from a phone jack? But you have to make updating or refreshing our systems and procedures an ongoing quest rather an annual project.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 30, 2018

I tried my best to not be tethered to my phone, emails, texting and more. Of course, when you get home from vacation, you feel like you never even went away. As you view everything that has come across your desk whether they are phone calls, new assignments from your executive or your own project work: Assess all of it.

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Ideas.Ted

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And collaboration overload isn’t just about the meetings that fill up our calendars — it’s also the endless emails, Slacks, reports and work that every new project generates. The need to be right has a way of generating excess meetings and emails that consume many people’s time.

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Success

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. Of course, the investment in travel goes well beyond money. And it makes sense: When you’re away from your daily to-do list and you know an auto-response is catching your emails, your perspective changes.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Those in an office manager role need to know how to manage processes, procedures, documentation, project management and communications. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork. Low-cost training courses are available online.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Post-COVID-19, many employee tracking software programs started popping up, allowing companies to track employee productivity , computer activity, emails, and even individual keystrokes.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

Here are some tips and key questions to ask managers and executives as requests for your time are made throughout the week: When possible ask that projects and tasks be given to you verbally so you can ask clarifying questions and better understand the work that is being given to you. Find out who else has information related to the project.

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Tips From T. Marie

MARCH 10, 2016

If during the course of communication something isn’t crystal clear, don’t assume and don’t guess. If your virtual assistant asks a question, its quite likely they will not proceed with your project or task until they get the answer (see #2). After all, we’ve all dealt with email glitches or messages misdirected to spam folders.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. Of course, the numbers have gone way down because of technology which led to companies thinking “Let’s have an assistant support more than one person.”

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Productivityist

JULY 16, 2021

When you begin a working session, consider eliminating all existing distractions: phone access, noisy notifications, email, and even people who might interrupt you. It is really difficult, if not impossible, to sustain unbreakable levels of focus when switching between projects, tasks, and conversations.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 16, 2018

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. Of course, I must do that for the work I do. If your executive mentions a new project or talk force they will be working with, ask them to tell you more about the mission and the people.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For example, over the course of my career I’ve occupied the role of Fixer and Friend at times, but the Fighter is my go-to theme.). I didn’t realize that one idea from the CEO can easily create five projects, draw a dozen people into the loop and drag them away from other priorities. I would say, playfully of course.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 26, 2016

What are some of the complementary courses companies should be putting EA’s on? Are we being supported sufficiently by businesses in relation to undertaking training and other external courses to improve our skill set and to enable/encourage us to keep abreast of technological advancements.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 16, 2016

Get off Your Phone The best way to make sure you get work done is to limit all distractions; and your phone is probably the hub of almost all of them. You should never be on your phone at work; unless there’s some kind of emergency. There’s nothing on your phone that’s more important than your work. Of course not.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Just scroll down to the bottom of this email to see the day and hour I’ve chosen for you.). Put your phone in Airplane Mode. Capture the big projects you want to accomplish in the year ahead. Take the second sheet of paper and brainstorm all of the major project you want to work on over the next twelve months.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TIP 1: Canned Emails + Snippets. Create templated emails or snippets of text to answer frequently asked questions, inquiry responses, or additional information that may be requested. These are super easy to set up in any email client and mass emailing provider ( psst, my favorite is Convertkit.). But where do you start?

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TIP 1: Canned Emails + Snippets. Create templated emails or snippets of text to answer frequently asked questions, inquiry responses, or additional information that may be requested. These are super easy to set up in any email client and mass emailing provider ( psst, my favorite is Convertkit.). But where do you start?

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The Marq

APRIL 29, 2010

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need Technology Review I’m writing today about the use of a single phone line for all business and/or personal phone and SMS communication. A complete UC package involves other services such as email, IM, and presence meta data.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Okay, back to the project. First— Standardize.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

So when a new project rolls around, you feel like you're the best choice for the new assignment and await word from your boss that you got the job. Of course, the good news is that you get a clue that you need to work on establishing a much better professional reputation and immediately focus on listening and collaborating more.

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Clutter Coach

JUNE 29, 2013

You’ll learn important, basic concepts that you can use for any organizing project. You’ll feel calm and in control even if your project isn’t finished because now you know how to finish it. I offer free clutter coaching in person if you’re in my area and over the phone (video calls are available!) if you’re not.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Take on a new task or project. See what your manager is working on and ask that they delegate a piece of that project to you. Your manager may have to teach you that piece of the project but that is how you will expand. This gave them freedom to focus on other important projects. Then determine your goal.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

This could take the form of additional solo emails, or joint venturing with other business owners to get the word out. During this stage you want to: Create a sequence of follow-up emails that checks in with your customer to make sure they are happy with their purchase. Post-Launch. Send any ‘surprise’ or unannounced bonuses.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 1, 2011

This phone is definitely an upgrade from my Nokia E71. Mobile – It’s in my BlackBerry phone, so obviously it’s mobile. And of course the battery life (I need a backup battery). The BlackBerry World App myTasks’ page describes the tool like this: myTasks allows you to sort your tasks into projects.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 11, 2013

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Okay, back to the project. First— Standardize.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 17, 2014

How many times do you just whiz through responding to emails to get them out of your Inbox? More than the daily “stuff,” we need an extra boost of mental energy when we have to tackle tough projects, develop new concepts or products, delicately manage an immediate stressful situation, and deal with an immediate crisis. Just think.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 4, 2012

I was at a course recently for new supervisors and they recommended smiling on the phone. It is hard to smile without it changing your outlook and reaching others, even over the phone. Never have half an eye on them and the other reading a document, typing an email or tidying your desk.

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