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Reviewing Your Administrative Career

Office Dynamics

Having one binder or online file of past performance evaluations, thank you notes and emails from coworkers, clients, etc., a copy of your resume, examples of projects completed such as forms, spreadsheets, graphs, etc. You were hired for a reason…remind them (and yourself) why with a career portfolio and by reviewing your career.

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Ep 247: Email Management for Executive Assistants

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

In this chapter, I cover tactics for managing your own email inbox, as well as your executive’s. Of course, I’d love to hear your email tips and tricks as I’m always down to get more efficient and productive, so please reach out! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Email is the gateway drug of work; Slack is the crack.

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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

ProAssisting Blog

Familiarize yourself with categories of each vertical of software (some examples would be: project management, CRM, LMS, CMS, social media scheduling, image editing/creation, etc.) Being able to ‘feel/read’ their tone of voice and facial expressions or how they express their feelings in email and via text can also be to your advantage.

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5 SOP examples for your business

BMT Office Administration

To help you visualize what an SOP should look like and include, we’ve created five simple SOP examples. Take a look at the following examples to see what a basic SOP should look like. SOP Example 1 – Employee onboarding. Example 2 – Posting a job opening. However, writing them can be an intimidating task.

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A look back at The Stoddart Review: the once and future guide to workplace productivity?

Workplace Insight

The Stoddart Review , published in 2016, was one of the most significant reports of recent years to explore the role of the workplace for employee productivity in extensive detail and why the office environment was key for productivity purposes. The Stoddart Review provided a great analogy for this.

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What Do You Need? Lauren Wesley Wilson’s Playbook for Unspoken Workplace Rules

Success

Wilson was motivated to write her book—which covers everything from advice on making personal connections (always email, and keep it short and sweet) to avoiding people-pleasing—because she wants to address the unspoken rules in the workplace we often break simply because we don’t know them. “I It’s really about cutting through the crap.

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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

Success

A 2016 Harvard Business Review article found that over the past two decades, time spent by leadership and employees in collaborative activities has grown by more than 50%. For example, if you get too many emails, sit in too many meetings or spend too much time waiting for sign-offs, you can be left with little time to complete your tasks.