Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2014

I had just spent 2 months travelling around a freezing USA and although back in the UK my body was still a little cold, a little jet lagged and in serious need of some rest and relaxation. Similar to a lot of spa hotels the Nutfield’s Cloister restaurant offers a three course meal (£38 per head) as part of the weekend package rates.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 5, 2015

I manage his schedule and monitor his emails, as well as help organise some of his travel, company events, and client dinners, occasional research, expenses and ad hoc tasks – all the general PA duties. There are some fab vietnamese restaurants – I’m partial to a kimchi banh mi.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

I travel far to try and find a full-serve station, but they are becoming extinct. It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. I could see him looking after himself, trying to organise his diary and all his emails etc, and he wasn't sure what to give me.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. This is an important thing to know.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Time Zones IAAP 2010 International 100

Productivityist

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

She is a lawyer, freelance writer, and dedicated traveler. That childlike wonder of experiencing a new place for the first time is what draws me to travel as much as possible, both internationally and domestically within the US. Start reading travel sites online (Trip Advisor, Frommer''s, Lonely Planet, Yelp, etc.),

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." He relied totally on spell check so you can imagine what typos were missed. He was a lawyer and in this particular letter he was writing to a prospective client. Good thing I checked.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Where the press interview was taking place also becomes an issue - pick too nice of a restaurant and they have expensive taste. So when you book travel, be mindful how it can portray your boss and if they care. Personal details do come to light in articles, expense reports, and in social media. You can just write “Thx!”

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

I printed his e-ticket and had everything prepared for his travel. Linda (our travel agent) was obviously having a bad day. He wrote in one sentence that he had "expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." I booked one of my former bosses on a flight to Toronto.

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Time Zones 2010 IAAP International 100

The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 13, 2010

Scudamore believes his philosophy so much that he has invited another competitor, Jason Mohr who runs Any Junk in London, to come visit their offices in Vancouver and even offered to pay half of his traveling costs! It’s expensive to develop your own resources so it makes sense to share. Think of the motor industry.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

On average, how often does your Executive travel for business? I asked this as the number of people travelling on business continues to rise and many Executive’s now spend more time on the road than they do in the office. It would certainly stop you checking emails at ungodly hours, which can only be a good thing!

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2010

Whether this involves setting the time of the event, or getting gas before a long trip, or picking the restaurant to meet at, this is your chance to impress everyone. Buy Expensive Things This is one of the most costly ways to impress others, and it is very temporary. Any of these things will be interesting to those you deal with.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I work at a travel and event planning agency. We are a great resource for Executive Assistants (we have several that we work with currently) booking high level travel globally but I am having trouble reaching out to the right people. Most large companies have in house travel department or a pre-approved vendor and agency list.

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Brilliantly Better

MAY 17, 2010

Take meditation, for example: less money, less time spent doing expensive things, might lend more time to meditate. Reply 7 Farnoosh May 18, 2010 at 6:51 pm A beautiful post, Dragos…reminds me also of restaurants who serve very small servings (less) of delicious delicacies that go a long way (more).

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Men With Pens

MARCH 9, 2010

The last time I went to a restaurant, I checked online for a menu before calling to make reservations. One friend refers you to someone who only has an email address, a generic address like annepottertherapist@mail.com. Would you search online for Anne Potter before writing her an email? It’s too expensive.&#

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. We have to consider that additional expense when we work out how much we’ll charge for our freelance services. We are buying attention and paying for it with our writing.

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Allwork

MAY 8, 2023

You should not be putting your head down, encoding or checking email or whatever. But generally speaking, there’s a chart that I cite in the book that compares I think it’s 97% pre pandemic levels with airplane travel, restaurants, sporting events, those types of things.

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