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"Going Green" With Your Documents

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise "Going Green" With Your Documents By The Professional Assistant on Monday, July 13, 2009 Filed Under: Productivity D o you recycle your unwanted papers at work? Do you try to "go green" by not printing e-mails or other documents that you could be e-mailing to others that you want to share this information with?

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Want Confidential Documents to Stay Confidential?

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Want Confidential Documents to Stay Confidential? If you would like more information on keeping your documents safe, take a look at the "How Safe Are Your Documents?" Do you have confidential information that you need to send to someone, but want to make sure that it gets treated like registered mail?

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. Quick fix: Pretty obvious here: Use your organization's internal phone book’s Employee Search tool to verify names and ensure that you have the right person in mind. In an organization that is a multicultural company, it’s easy to get surnames and first names mixed up.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I left employment there when a union was successful in organizing the clerical staff. I open up a Word document and every time I see something in my emails that needs to be taken care of – I put it on that Word list. I had 11 years as an Administrative Secretary to an IT Director at my local municipality.

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Employee Monitoring: How to (and not to) track employee productivity

BMT Office Administration

That comes in handy when most of the work done at your organization is completed through files, such as Word documents or spreadsheets on a shared drive. As an organization, it’s crucial for employees to follow your policies for document handling and retention. File tracking has other benefits as well. Keystroke logging.

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Revolutionary Insights Into Self-Leadership for Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics

They guide the organization, make important decisions and steer the team toward success. They guide the organization, make important decisions and steer the team toward success. Here is an excel document. Administrative professionals don’t typically think of themselves as leaders; even the most successful struggle with the idea!

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Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

Professional Assistant Blog

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 19, 2009 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Organize , Productivity D oes your department have an administrative procedures manual? One of my readers asks: The organization I work for has no administrative procedure manual.

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