Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Prioritize I n my last job, I had my own office. Just remember, if your company has an “open door” policy, please adhere to it.

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BMT Office Administration

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Formally defined, business resilience refers to the ability of an organization to respond, adapt to, and correct disruptions or disasters that affect its: Operations. In a nutshell, business continuity refers to an organization’s ability to continue to deliver products and services as they usually would during a disruption. Reputation.

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BMT Office Administration

MAY 31, 2022

Internally, anyone from a manager looking for details of past dealings with a specific client to lawyers building a defense for an improper termination lawsuit benefits from the ability to quickly and easily find what they need. The need for company policies. Others, such as emails and social media posts, are not so obvious.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 22, 2013

After all, unless you operate on a purely paperless policy, your employees may need to use one for printing off assigned work, or completed work. You may need one for printing a hard copy of an important client presentation or for printing hand-outs for your internal meetings. Operate a paperless policy. Buy one machine.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 22, 2013

After all, unless you operate on a purely paperless policy, your employees may need to use one for printing off assigned work, or completed work. You may need one for printing a hard copy of an important client presentation or for printing hand-outs for your internal meetings. Operate a paperless policy. Buy one machine.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And so when you do it at a team level and you have all these teams basically having their own policy, their own team agreements, then it also works as a company. But actually what we ended up doing is just send a lot more emails and communicate a lot more. Oh, I don’t need to write long emails anymore. What is the result?

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The stages of the pipeline are visualized as cards (referred to as deals) on a kanban board. Besides concrete tasks, cards can also represent ideas and policies. Or you could create a card for crucial company policies that you don’t want anyone to forget. Their primary difference lies in the audiences they appeal to.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 12, 2012

Nothing worse than a bull-dog “gate keeper” – not just with external stakeholders but internal stakeholders. Well on a simply level I think the term refers to managing the boss’ time effectively and controlling how often they are interrupted. This could mean monitoring their phone calls, emails and meeting requests.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For instance, there are recruitment agency softwares in the market that help recruiters in really great ways like-managing and visualizing the candidates, has a powerful resume parser, lets you hotlist candidates in order to save time and for future reference, help in job management and so much more.

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Ideas.Ted

JUNE 24, 2021

In this book, she presents evidence that while large philanthropic donations and headline-making policy changes may get most of our media attention, they are not the only tools to achieve peace. White Americans today earn 13 times the median income as Black Americans, according to policy analyst and racial justice advocate Heather McGhee.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For instance, there are software for recruitment agencies in the market that help recruiters in managing and visualising the candidates, has a powerful resume parser , lets you hotlist candidates in order to save time and for future references, helps in job management and so much more. It makes the entire process smooth and organized.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. Check with your Human Resources Department or manager to see if this falls into your corporate policy.

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 11, 2010

For example, if you are talking about the organization of the meeting or its purpose, reference meeting materials or if this is a meeting that involves a specific group and there are written rules and regulations such as bylaws, make reference to them so that everyone understands the source of your concerns.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 6, 2009

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it. in my experience. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

You can purge the files as needed, depending on your companys situation and/or policy. Also, remember to archive these files, just in case you need to go back and check who called when for what reason. So try creating a spreadsheet yourself and let me know how it works out for you.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

The reason I use the latter method is because our company policy is that we cant download any software that IT doesnt approve. There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. One is the easier way, where you download a file; the other is the longer way. You can read my post on 8 Steps to Archiving E-mails , if you fall into this category.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number. Who are you?

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The Office Professionals Place

JANUARY 5, 2010

So many of us decide in February that since we haven’t accomplished the goal set on January 1, it is hopeless, be consistent and persistent and refer back to your goals often. Write your goals down and refer back to them often; you may have to change your focus or create a new sub-goal. Be consistent.

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 10, 2009

Let the Past Go Unless you are asked, dont reference the previous supervisor and do not compare your previous supervisor to the new one. Clear your workspace; make it look presentable. A cluttered work area says that you are disorganized or disheveled, dont make this a first impression. Never speak negatively about a previous employee.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 5, 2010

If information is missing or unreadable, the referring physician is called. New requests get faxed then emailed to customer service which then inputs the information into the appropriate system, whether that be policy changes into policy administration, benefits questions into follow up logs or new claims into the claims system.

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 22, 2010

Schedule time in the day to file documents or keep a pile of “frequently referred to&# files on your desk for easy access. How many times do you search through those piles in an attempt to look for a document that isn’t there? • Paper Documents Use the color coded system for filing (ie.

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The Marq

MAY 19, 2010

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life My Favorite Android Apps – Part 3: Cerebral Technology Recommendations This week we cover what I refer to as “Cerebral&# applications as part of My Favorite Android Apps series. I already use my Motorola CLIQ for reading emails and RSS feeds. So why not books?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

AKA – Kiyomi’s 21-Step Job Hunt Strategy 1) Contact everyone you know in a personalized, positive, fun email When I first graduated college and whenever I am seeking new opportunities, I will literally email everyone I know. The point of the email is to check in with that person - ask how they are and ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.

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The Marq

AUGUST 17, 2009

However, Im referring to a forest fire. These include the rise in prices for metals other than gold (gold prices rise in recession, while others drop), the drop in Libor rate (signaling that banks are lending to each other again), or the rise in cost of moving freight (signaling the resurgence of international trade), among others.

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The Marq

MAY 12, 2010

It’s often to translate a phrase and add it to an email I’m sending internationally, or to translate an international text found in an email. It would be nice to be able to track by reference as well, such as using your phone number (UPS provides this online).

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you are not the person who can assist them, refer them to someone who can. When they are finished, ask questions to clarify their feelings. Seek answers. Get to the root of their ill-behavior and offer solutions. Dealing with a boss who is a micromanager.

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The Marq

APRIL 29, 2010

This type of service is often referred to as part of a Unified Communications (UC) platform. A complete UC package involves other services such as email, IM, and presence meta data. Just like an email, you can also forward your voicemails or download and archive them on your computer or network.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Our workplace actually has a policy of not allowing them any longer. The world has to smell their cologne. Posted on 18 February, 2010 11:42 AM The Professional Assistant Yep, I know the feeling of perfumes and colognes.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 25, 2010

Written by Agent X - 25 Comments When I get an email from pro copywriter Dean Rieck , I’m always happy. Could I have chosen a more arcane reference?) Reply Kelly March 26, 2010 at 8:35 am Dean, I’m laughing out loud because I just wrote a post about missed homework when going international this week (link below).

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Loosely Speaking

MARCH 5, 2009

Following my own advice, I went to the forums and found references to the “Cannot Connect&# problem: [link] [link] None of these fixes worked to solve the problem. Also internal links broken since I need to reinstate my permalinks structure, but do I do that before categories are reinstated or not?? Love WordPress!

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

His emails are usually brief, casual, and mention something like, “Have a nice weekend,” or “Hope everything’s good with you.” So it was weird to get an email that was so stilted and formal that it sounded like it was written by the Queen of England’s chamberlain to someone she was too polite to outright call a waste of space.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

Like, say, emailing us to ask if this is the right email to email us at, when the email you should use to apply is written on the job ad. When the job ad says email us with information and samples, don’t tweet us and say, “Just click here.&# Someone wrote an email to “Mr. Read everything.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

I’d had it with the internal struggle. To me, this reeks of what psychologists call “internal validation&# … and previous descriptions (earlier in the post) revolve more around EXTERNAL validation (seeking approval from others). That way when you’re stuck you always have something to refer back to.

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BioTeams

JUNE 30, 2005

Transparency and clearly agreed policies are the foundations for all this to happen. Everything stops while somebody does not reply or somebody is away from his or her screen or someone’s email gets bounced. In other words what are the key internal team state changes that need to be constantly monitored? References.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 22, 2010

Also, referring to your line about standing up with conviction, I wanted to add that I’ve seen time and time again people who will test your confidence level just to see if you really believe in your services and product. Annie – was just talking to Sid yesterday…love what he’s doing. Good for you guys.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

What I think (personally) isn’t too smart is the people who rip themselves up to SHREDS, emotionally, internally and thoroughly trying to hit that stupid 50k marker without any clue why. I hope I did that but it is nice to have something to refer to. THAT’S not bright. Thanks for the list of six things to master.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

They don’t have to like it, mind you, but they DO have to internalize logical ways on HOW to think. Do I write routinely about Policy and Management or about Labor Relations? I often refer to it as my “Would You Like Fries With That?&# That’s one reason why I harp on my kids that they have to embrace math.

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