Practically Perfect PA

MAY 2, 2017

I’ve written a few blogs in the past about maximising Outlook for productivity and filing paperwork , but today I wanted to focus specifically on organising your outlook folders. I think the way people structure their email files can be quite a personal thing! So for me, I like to keep them filed away, just in case!

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Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 25, 2022

No one – I mean, no one – likes writing out the same information in emails over and over again. And then you spend about ten minutes looking for that specific email rather than just trying to recreate it. Save time and frustration by creating email templates to help with your everyday communications.

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Success

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Be realistic about your productivity and when your contributions will be available to the team—and accept the timeline your teammates lay out for their portion of the work. Email is probably the easiest form of communication between team members; it’s also easily misinterpreted. Create a file management system.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Managers and supervisors kept track of employee performance and productivity by directly monitoring them throughout the workday. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 threw a wrench into this tried and true system for most companies. Here are some of the most popular methods for measuring the productivity of your remote workforce.

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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. Your system will quickly become cluttered with all of these different lists, and it will make finding specific lists harder.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 2 Measures of effective productivity systems… Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 30, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I few years ago, when asked for my best productivity tip, I posted, use the system that works for you. Thanks for visiting!

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 31, 2023

Files, photos, passwords, apps, emails, and more fill our virtual space. As modern-day professionals, we are all overloaded with electronic stuff! Everything (the useful and the useless) gets mixed together, and it’s nearly impossible to find anything. This kind of digital clutter is mentally draining and physically distracting.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 12, 2017

So it goes without saying that you get tons of emails, oh and your Executive probably gets tons of emails too! One area that is my absolute weak spot is email. I am guilty of being an email addict and spending unnecessary amounts of time reading, replying and filing my emails.

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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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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

To do this, you need systems. . Whether you realize it or not, you probably already have systems in place, both personally and professionally. You use systems every day – often without even thinking about them – to perform tasks both simple (booting up your computer each morning) and complicated (planning meetings and events).

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a virtual assistant, I was managing up to 10 different email accounts for various projects, and I wasn’t keeping up. I needed to change, so I sought out books and training on email management. Empowered by this knowledge, I hit reset on my strategy for email management. Then COVID hit, and I just gave up on email entirely.

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Professional Assistant Blog

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? If you really do have to put a lot of files in a folder, place a rubber band around the folder.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

They achieve productivity more quickly; they cost less in total, and they’re a more flexible cost; they require less emotional investment from their employers; and they take less time and effort to replace. The cons of expert freelancers They can be tough to integrate into existing systems. Develop a file-sharing system.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 2, 2017

I’ve written a few blogs in the past about maximising Outlook for productivity and filing paperwork , but today I wanted to focus specifically on organising your outlook folders. I think the way people structure their email files can be quite a personal thing! So for me, I like to keep them filed away, just in case!

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Virtual Moxie

JANUARY 12, 2016

of the most important things a VA can do to improve her productivity in 2016! But first, if you’re new to me, you need to understand how I see productivity. Being productive is getting the stuff done that needs to be done, so that you can walk away and have a good time in your life. Whatever you need to do you can do it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review | Main | Caffeine-Free Ways to Increase Focus & Attention » You Can Steal Time Back From Email A few days ago I received an email from a reader. 

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

This Apple-only app offers comprehensive tracking systems to monitor good and bad habits, helps you set up SMART goals and provides charts and graphs to see your progress over time. But if you only need a way to check off that you went for a daily walk, you might not need (or want to pay for) all the premium features.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Retrieve Your Files With Ease By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you have quite a bit of filing to do? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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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? - First of all, there is not a perfect tool or a perfect system.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Nicole talks about the art of delegation, building a support system, being a mompreneur, and unlocking your productivity potential. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. Let’s talk about delegation and productivity.

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Success

JULY 13, 2021

To create my outline, I use a system knowable only unto myself that involves scraps of paper, many different colored pens, and files that sometimes get lost. My imperfect but functional system for noting the things I’ve gathered involves: Emailing the idea to myself: I include enough context so I’ll understand it months later.

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Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The phone comes with 2GB microSD (capacity is up to 32GB) which makes it a decent storage device for documents and other files. My BlackBerry Bold 9780 became an extension of my productivity system right out of the box. The built-in applications on the phone are enough to cover my basic need for productivity tools.

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Tips From T. Marie

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Not only will you be providing product or services to others, you’ll be running your own business as well. This can be done both in person, with a physical intro packet or via email or messenger with a digital file. Productivity is more important than the time you spend at your keyboard. Ditch the 9 to 5 mindset.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 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. CREATE your paper-based filing system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 17, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success | Main | Productivity and Organization Link Lineup » 10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider Do you have difficulty remembering important dates?  Great reminder system. Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Productivity Bits

MAY 12, 2011

And since it is a web-based device, you always have access to all your applications and files anytime and anywhere – that is if you have an access to the internet (a downside?). No applications (except the operating system that runs the device and other modules of its subsystem) are locally stored in the device. Here are the.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 9, 2022

When I combined the information on adult ADHD with what I’ve learned in treating my generalized anxiety disorder, and my Time and Space Style Inventory (TSSI) results, it helped me create some better systems for managing my work environment for improved focus and productivity. Creating detailed checklists on paper and in OneNote.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 2, 2012

It has never been easier to create and give away (or sell) information products. They are also known as free reports, eBooks, digital products, audio downloads, and pretty much anything you can create and email as an offer. If you have Microsoft Word, an information product can be created as a PDF file.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 14, 2014

Over the last year I have been testing a few more techniques to help improve my productivity that I want to share with you today! I will go back and forth to it; check my emails, answer a phone call, make a coffee or just generally procrastinate. Figure out when you are most productive. Set deadlines for completing each task.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

Here’s another round of Productivity Nuggets Of The Week, which is a list of interesting posts about productivity. Productivity, Efficiency and Effectiveness – We’ve been talking about productivity and efficiency in this blog as concrete concepts of maximizing our efforts at work. And not only that.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Whether it’s scribbled notes or complex digital files, the importance of procedures documentation cannot be overstated. One of the more labor-intensive procedures my team and I use covers how we add new courses to our learning management system. Having procedures in any form is better than having no documented procedures at all.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders. During a board meeting prep week, for instance, email may require more time and attention for last-minute submissions and changes. Figure out the best system for drafting your procedures.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Paper and Digital Files. Your systems have to be bullet proof if you want your executives to trust you and the partnership to remain strong. What are the most important systems an assistant should have mapped out to move from chaos to control? Filing – paper and digital. Her system for email management is outstanding.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Over the course of a working lifetime an office worker will drink an average of 24,684 cups of tea, disagree with colleagues 479 times and send a staggering 400,816 emails. So, getting organised and implementing policies or a filing system to help life in the office run a little more smoothly could be very worthwhile in the long run.

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