Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 8, 2007

The Bring-Forward System (or sometimes referred to as a BF system) might be an old term for the younger assistant, but the principle is similar to using your Tasks in Outlook: You need to have some sort of system to bring forward items that need to be handled at a future date.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Building a successful long-term profitable business isn't about "marketing" your business, it's about "managing" your business - the marketing comes once you have your management systems in place. So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 5, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs | Main | Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization » Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc. Mom, this is how twitter works. Link Lineup!

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 8, 2010

Poor Management System Do you feel as though your company does not value you as an employee? or a Poor Management System is condition that embodies many companies due to economic times, change in company practices, and company personnel. Lets grow together! Sunday, August 8, 2010 Dealing with Workplace P.M.S. Let your voice be heard.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Why Lock Your System at Work? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer? and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. A couple of places where you’ll want to create individual clients folders are: In your email program.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 17, 2009

A Welcome Packet is a document – it can either be printed and mailed or digital and emailed – that you send out to your new clients when they sign up to work with you, and cements the relationship you are about to have with them. Be sure to include this form on a separate page so that your client can fax back their credit card details to you.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

Don’t EVER send sensitive financial data via email – even if it is split across two emails. Sending info via email is like sending a postcard via mail. Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Home About Me Advertise How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity D o you find that some of your co-workers can be extremely annoying, rude or just plain inconsiderate? Anyhow, I could go on but Im sure you get the point.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

How to be successful by focusing on your core business. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk E-Mail me or follow me. Thank you for that. — ST.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Copy Tables from Word to Powerpoint By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 30, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Excel , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word P eople often ask me, "How do you copy a table from Word into Powerpoint?" This actually is quite easy to do.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Home About Me Advertise How to Cope With Co-Workers Arguing By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 21, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re on the phone with a client and an argument breaks out between two of your colleagues. You try to plug your other ear to drown out the noise. What do you do?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Hold Effective Meetings By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 07, 2007 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity H ave you ever wondered why you have so many meetings to attend and most of the time, you feel that you dont have a need to be there?

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Home About Me Advertise How to Lose a Customer and a Few More! How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? Do what's most natural for you.

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AUGUST 25, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Write Effective E-mails By The Professional Assistant on Saturday, August 25, 2007 Filed Under: A re you the type of person that likes to ramble on and on about something? Most Recent Questions How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Organize Tasks Effectively By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 23, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize A task here, a task there! Most Recent Questions How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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AUGUST 26, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Create Mail Merge Letters By The Professional Assistant on Sunday, August 26, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook E ver have trouble doing a mail merge in Microsoft Word? The mail merge wizard is the simplest tool to use to get your letters or e-mails out to your clients.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Creating a Client Contact Sheet which contains your client’s name, address, email, phone, fax and any other contact information that you want to keep a record of is a useful template to have. A couple of places where you’ll want to create individual clients folders are: In your email program.

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JULY 17, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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JULY 7, 2010

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 7, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc. Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Link Lineup!   If you can't make the call, ask your questions below and I'll be sure to answer them on the call.

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JUNE 8, 2010

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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JULY 16, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Did your boss just decide to install it on his/her system and yours then told you, "Read the manual, were going to be using this from now on"? In one of my previous jobs, when I was working for an Investment Advisor, he gave me the installation CD-ROM and asked me to read up on how to use it. as your client relationship manager (CRM)?

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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JULY 24, 2008

This basically shows you how to make your e-mails go directly into certain categories, folders, you name it. Then I have my faxes set up as green. Now you have a new prioritization system set up. Most Recent Questions How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Do you feel that you should have some sort of control over these files on how you find them, for future reference? Creating a filing system can be tricky, as you need to know exactly how to file your files and what type of information you would need to be able to access quickly. as you mentioned in your question. Whats next?

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JULY 14, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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JULY 10, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Copying Pictures To and From Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 28, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity H ave you ever wondered how to copy pictures from and to Microsoft Word ? Recently, someone asked me how this is done. Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

There are some companies that, unfortunately, don’t allow for purchases such as stationary , fax machines , toner , etc. Most Recent Questions How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Since I work for a large corporation, this is my case as well.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Having Trouble Planning A "Non-Religious" Office Party?

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Do you know how to create them? I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it. You can also read some more articles on System Security here. Most Recent Questions How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Whats next?

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