All Things Admin

APRIL 17, 2024

Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. Color Coding for Clarity Color coding is a visually intuitive way to categorize and organize information, both in physical and digital formats.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

As an administrative professional, you need to be productive and organized wherever you go. Just forward your confirmation emails to the app (hotel, rental car, airline tickets, etc.), and Tripit will organize them all in one place including directions between locations. What are your favorite productivity and organization apps?

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. And we have to keep our executives organized, too. With so much to keep in order, it’s easy to neglect one vitally important area that requires a great deal of organization: our careers.

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Success

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Email is probably the easiest form of communication between team members; it’s also easily misinterpreted. You shouldn’t avoid email, but you shouldn’t use it as your sole mode of communication either. Keep your projects organized. Collaboration usually involves a lot of revisions and file updates.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. All Clients: Client Tracking Spreadsheet.

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As we head back to the office, a growing number of organizations have accepted the addition of remote work as a permanent part of their workplace strategy. Workplaces have traditionally been planned around the total number of offices and workstations needed based on current headcounts and projected business growth.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Call, write, pay, scan, enter data, read, file and write are all examples of the verbs you might have. 4 -- Pick up your SMEAD Stadium File Organizer (you can find them at most office supply stores) and take it out of the packaging. Use any remaining spots to hold project files or quick reference information. 

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion. Before you begin working with your first freelancer, it’s a good idea to have project management strategies in place to help you make the most of their expertise.

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BMT Office Administration

MAY 31, 2022

He put Laura in charge of going through a bunch of drawers with instructions to make folders to organize papers of current worth, box up other documents that somebody might need down the line, and toss insignificant and old material. Upon finishing the project, Laura expressed relief to her friend Jan at lunch.

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Success

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack also supports video calls with screen share features and integrations with outside organizations via a tool called Slack Connect. If you are doing any kind of serious project collaboration, you will likely need more than the free version. The Pro version of Slack, which the company says is ideal for small teams, costs $6.67

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Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

After purging the unnecessary stuff that mounted in your desk and anywhere else, it’s now time to prepare your filing system. Chaos can easily break anywhere in your living space if no filing system is set up to hold the different materials that you accumulate as you work. Physical File System. Digital File System.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Email is still, by a wide margin, the best way to reach out to both prospective clients & candidates. Trillions of emails get sent every year, but most end up being ignored. To increase the chances of your emails getting replied to, you need great email subjects & messages. Best regards, 2. Best regards, 3.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 28, 2017

His idea was that instead of idly perusing your email in box, you do it with intent. File what needs to be filed. Unfortunately, many people interpreted the concept to be that you must never let email build up in your in box at all. That meant they checked email constantly to get it back to zero.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 30, 2012

My boss hired me to help them get organized. So the task at hand is tackling the unread emails and sorting them as follow up, projects, inquiries, factory orders, catalog etc. They want to print them out and organized that way, but there are over a thousand emails. You have been tasked with a major project.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Communication Introduce them to the company’s communication channels and email distribution lists. Set up a branded email for the new hire, complete with an appropriate title and auto-signature.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result @QuietSpacing | Main | Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold » Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.  We used this as our project management tool when coordinating Extreme Makeover Home Edition too.

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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Productivity With Shared Files By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Organize , Productivity D o you share your files with others in your firm? Do you find that you are being bombarded with updates to the same files time and time again?

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. Digital: Create Client Folders.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » Top 9 Mistaken Organizing Statements There are a number of statements that I have heard people say over the years with regard to their organizing projects.  "   Wanting to do a good job on your projects is admirable. 

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Office Organization Success

JANUARY 6, 2016

Clear out your desk and files. Make way for those exciting new projects that have been put on the backburner while you were away. I recently did this and apart from getting rid of four grocery bags of papers, I felt much more motivated to start those projects that had been lurking for months! Get your finances organized.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Post-COVID-19, many employee tracking software programs started popping up, allowing companies to track employee productivity , computer activity, emails, and even individual keystrokes. Screen sharing of an employee’s computer will update managers on an employee’s progress on tasks, emails, and other workflows.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   If your business is not effectively organized, it’s costing you money.  What are the key projects to be completed this year?   Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

The writer immediately points out that technology and automation have chipped away at duties like papers to be filed and landlines to be answered. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. This is not communicating.

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Cloud-based project management software has revolutionized how companies manage their workflows, time-tracking, and communications for years now. In short, gone are the days of keeping track of umpteen email threads and Slack chats to stay on top of your team’s progress. They can even aid in forecasting future growth.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 8, 2022

Another perk is that a digital portfolio can include links, downloadable files, and audio and video components that are difficult or impossible to incorporate into a print version. Next, you need to setup your account with your username, email address, and password. Project Management. This isn’t the time to get cutesy.

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Clutter Coach

JANUARY 18, 2019

One such area is email. I’m not a fan of folders in my email app. I also see the utility of having folders for work projects if you find yourself constantly referring back to email conversations for information not recorded elsewhere, or it’s important to have an immediately available paper trail.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 28, 2016

Do you find projects/clients are falling through the cracks? Are you continually searching around looking for an email address? Or cannot tell at a glance if your project is on track? Set about creating your core office organization systems. For example, how do you create a new client file?

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 28, 2016

As a business owner, you’ll want to check in with your remote workers on a pretty regular basis, either through scheduled phone calls or with email updates. To make sure your remote group of employees accomplishes everything they need to do will require a great deal of transparency on their part about their projects and tasks.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 9, 2014

Like your desk becoming overrun with paper piles, or your PC becoming littered with folders and files, so too can you ecommerce system become disorganized and out-of-control. It’s a good idea to go through it, at least once a year, and see what can be re-organized or deleted. Some areas that you may want to look at: 1.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Admins are essential to providing leaders organize strategies for long-term success by taking on the tedious tasks that cause bottlenecks, allowing leaders to “keep the main thing, the main thing.” You can delegate all the work that keeps you “busy” - like filling out paperwork, filing, scheduling, budgeting, and making “quick” phone calls.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

Here are some tips and key questions to ask managers and executives as requests for your time are made throughout the week: When possible ask that projects and tasks be given to you verbally so you can ask clarifying questions and better understand the work that is being given to you. Find out who else has information related to the project.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

They are a roadmap to your task or project that you follow every time. It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Project management. Email template for circulating date/time options. Meeting invite/email template ?

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From secretly checking social media to focusing on less critical work tasks to avoid starting a crucial project – there are many different types of procrastination. Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. What’s that?

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We can’t remember passwords for our online banking account and lose critical emails or other bits of data important for our work. Become your own enforcer of no email or Internet for certain periods so you can sustain your concentration. Every day millions of us search for our car keys, our smartphones and our sunglasses. Just say “no.”

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Second— Organize. Okay, back to the project.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 29, 2012

Stacks of paperwork are one thing, but when they’re compounded by endless emails, Facebook updates, and text messages, it can become increasingly difficult to focus on the task at hand. A file cabinet can be your most useful accessory. If necessary, organize over your lunch break. That said, some people won’t give up their mess.

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