Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Kallout To Research Information By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 20, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity , Research Y ou’re reading an article for some research that you are doing for our boss. If you have any questions/comment feel free to email me at matt[a]kallout.com.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Link Lineup: Time Management, Org Tools, Focus Concentration and Top Mobil Phone Apps | Main | Are you Time-challenged Tim or Non-productive Nancy? » 12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without! Best Productivity Tool For Me. Then get in on this giveaway.   1. Smart Phone!!

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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. Link Lineup! Link Lineup! : Link Lineup!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  I asked my friends to share their favorite planning tool.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why?   If you use it, it is the right tool for you.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out | Main | Can You Define Social Media Clutter? Check out this great tool   If you are on Twitter, then I encourage you to consider this tool.  on using lists in social media, Formulalists found me and told me about their cool tool. 

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? DO use email for informational purposes (i.e.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Still others get completely overwhelmed with the information drowning their in-boxes on a daily basis. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

  The other day a colleague asked about our suggestions for tools.  Basecamp Both Joanne Lang and I recommended Basecamp. ( [link] ) The tool gives the ability for various team members to communicate and report in on status and there are some fantastic dashboard tools that give you an overall look at various sub projects. 

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Multi-tasking skills Office managers would be pulled left, right and centre every other day by different people in the office, requesting information and asking for advice, from changing the printer ink, to finding stationery, checking on courier packages and even finding out about the boss's day.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Yesterday I shared the secret tool that helps my business grow and keeps me connected to important followups. As a result, I received an overwhelming amount of questions from people asking me what CRM (Customer/Client Relationship Management) tool I use and how to pick one.   8 - Email Management.   (e.g.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

We are bombarded with information. While technology and the Internet is amazingly wonderful, we are flooded with information. Information is floating in the “cloud”. Assistants do not have access to all the information that they need to do their jobs well. Executives are working from multiple devices.

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The Office Professionals Place

MARCH 4, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010 The ‘Bcc’- Friend or Foe On average, we receive over 100 emails per day. Friendly Uses • If your email has a large recipient list, you can use the Bcc to hide email addresses and protect recipients privacy. Dewoun Hayes at worklifecoach@excite.com for more information. Contact Ms.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

  I like to share various tools that help to make you more productive. We started by asking this question: What tech tools (office machine, gadget, hardware, software or online tools) could you not live without, why and where can we find it?  " Stephanie you are such a geek."   OK! 

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Here are the 4 easy steps to do this: Highlight the information you want to change from vertical to horizontal or vice versa, depending on which way you need to change the information. Give it a try yourself and see how quick it can be to manipulate information from vertical to horizontal and vice versa. Click Transpose!

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 15, 2009

This community was created as a professional development networking tool and resource to discuss topics, get answers, and information that impact todays professional. Dewoun Hayes at worklifecoach@excite.com for more information. We never sell your personal information to third parties. Feel free to reply accordingly.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 10, 2009

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? You really have to be careful with these, as pertinent company information could leak out into the wrong hands. We are in week 3 now and cannot get rid of our recycling.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 16, 2009

.  After hearing Joanne Lang's extremely professional presentation and vision for an on-line tool that would help busy moms get and stay organized, I was hooked.  Up until this point, the AboutOne team has been diligently in the background planning and programming the awesome new tool. 

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The Office Professionals Place

JUNE 13, 2010

After copying the message, be sure that there isn’t additional or special information that needs to be added or deleted for specific individuals. Dewoun Hayes at worklifecoach@excite.com for more information. At The Office Professionals Place, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Contact Ms.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

  Today, I share links to a number of different blogs and sites with content on: Planning Productivity Tools Mindset/Focus Social Media Productivity Time Management Tweet Planning Plan for a Better 2011: [link] (post) -- Chris Brogan shares his straight forward approach to annual planning.  Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

My first office didn’t have a copy machine or a fax or anything like that. This is now the ultimate retention tool, right. I think learning and development is going to be that major tool to keep people in the company. But actually what we ended up doing is just send a lot more emails and communicate a lot more.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Work With Stephanie « 12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without! You, and anyone you would like to pass this message along to, can get lots of no cost information and resources on time management from time management experts all across the country. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Fax Blasts I remember someone from my IAAP Chapter asked me to fax the notice of our Chapter dinner to a list of about 60 companies to promote it. I dont know about you, but when I get these "flyer" type faxes, they go immediately in the recycle bin. I get those calls all the time. September 22, 2009 Jenny Tang said.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Information week's 20 best apps for Android can be found here: [link] iSmashPhone's 20 best productivity apps for iPhone can be found here: [link] PC World's top 5 free apps for the iPhone can be found here: [link] Your Turn! .  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? To your success!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Work With Stephanie « 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To | Main | Mon Motivation - Do You Believe What You Are Told, or What You Know to be True?   PS - Thanks to Denise Wakeman and Kathleen Gage who got me going on this route of information sharing.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 13, 2009

We as office professionals need to arm ourselves with the tools to combat the day. For more information on these certifications, click the link [link] 2. Effective Business Writing Skills Who wants to read a three page email? Get the knowledge and tools you need to go to combat. Great post, Dewoun! Contact Ms.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Do you have confidential information that you need to send to someone, but want to make sure that it gets treated like registered mail? For more information, visit www.reditag.com. If you would like more information on keeping your documents safe, take a look at the "How Safe Are Your Documents?"

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Posted on 21 November, 2009 10:51 PM Anonymous If you send an iCalendar as a follow up to a meeting request, do you have the option of updating your calendar or is it just for passing on updated information (or as you suggested possibly adding an agenda)? Thanks, Richard Posted on 4 January, 2010 11:32 AM soruba Thanks for the information.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information. Also, keep in mind that you don’t want anyone to alter the information in your report. This will enable you to create a PDF-like file where no one can manipulate information.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Finding the right tools to manage your business can be time consuming. No need to access multiple tools to access your information. By The Professional Assistant on Friday, February 29, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity A re you a Virtual/ Professional Assistant or want to become one?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Would you prefer the client to calmly and rationally give you information on their issue? Now put yourself in that persons shoes. Imagine that you were on the receiving end of the conversation. How would you feel?

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

Some of you might already know the answer to this, but I thought that Id give the information here anyways, since I was stumped in the beginning as well. They forget to do their own flight check-in and dont have time, so they call you up and ask you to do it. You scratch your head and wonder how this can be done.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2008

There are over 200 articles of information so far and growing. If you feel that you want to remain anonymous, please note that I never disclose any personal information such as your name, company, etc., I have been running this blog for just over a year now and it has grown quite a bit, as you can tell.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 24, 2010

Information will be categorized into three main categories: your office, your time and your home.  PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Posted on 21 April, 2010 5:12 AM Post a Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe to Posts via Feed Subscribe to Posts via Email Featured Posts Write An Effective Out Of Office Assistant Message Cubicle Etiquette Get A Job With A Thank You Letter How to Copy Tables from Word to Powerpoint Want to (..)

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

First of all, there is not a perfect tool or a perfect system. There are myriad options available and each one of us has to figure out what tool (or combination of tools) will work for us. So, this answer is based on my experimentation with the two main tools the question above refers to - a planner and a tickler file system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

"  Determine what steps you would need to take to get the information again should you need it.    Statistics show that 80 percent of the information we keep, we never refer to again.    You still get notified, but it is in your email rather than in physical form. . 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 15, 2009

  :-)  With that in mind, I figured it would be a fantastic time to ask my colleagues to help me keep you informed!    :-)  With that in mind, I figured it would be a fantastic time to ask my colleagues to help me keep you informed!  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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