All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. The process for ordering office supplies and setting up the conference room for meetings was different. The Power of Documentation If you have everything documented and ready to go when a new hire begins, it expedites the onboarding process.

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Success

JUNE 23, 2021

You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If She relieves me from things I don’t need to be doing like email, booking travel and project planning. Executives need to be part of that trust process…. If you’re growing, or want to grow, someone has to take off a load.”.

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Tips From T. Marie

APRIL 3, 2019

Use the slower times in your business to simplify your processes. Create an intake process for new clients. Create automatic or templated email responses to requests for information. When you’re working on several projects for different clients at the same time, you can feel overwhelmed. Schedule phone calls.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity. I’ve spoken with several assistants that have voiced frustration at the standard process.

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2024

For some, a series of email surprises, expensive and time-consuming. They found that commuting offers a built-in support system for important daily processes, providing space to shift gears mentally and transition from work to home. This article was written by M Moser’s Jeni Durksen for Work Design Magazine.

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Success

MARCH 9, 2022

As a trainer, speaker and author, Meyer says contemplative goal setting is an early preparatory step that sets the stage for success throughout the entire sales process. Cathcart’s process of intelligent motivation is defining what’s important to you, what action is needed and then doing things to generate and sustain that action.

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Success

MARCH 28, 2024

If you’re wondering how to ask someone to be your mentor, ask them in person if they live locally, or ask via email or phone if they live a significant distance away from you. Finding the right candidate may take several attempts, so stay optimistic about the process and keep looking. Try not to take rejection personally.

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Recruit CRM

OCTOBER 11, 2021

But, unfortunately, there are hundreds of emails and InMails already bombarding your clients and candidates. Most recruitment agencies see an average response rate of 15-20% with cold emails. This means, on average, 2 out of 10 people will respond to your email (which is very low). Read more: Understanding cold emails.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

These “vampires” can be time-wasting tasks like checking your email too often, or they can be people who are not key to achieving your projects and have latched onto you in conversation because they are avoiding their own work. It forms the basis, too, for learned optimism.

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Ideas.Ted

JULY 27, 2021

Instead of listening as others share their ideas, now we often read them in an email or other digital medium. For example, here’s a recent email exchange I had with a client. A lot of the time, a misinterpreted email is the result of a dropped word or misleading punctuation mark. The solution is simple: Proofread your emails.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s able to make decisions, find connections and process information in a very sophisticated way. You’ve still gotten smarter in the process. Please help me write a professional email to my boss, the senior managing partner, to ask for funds to attend the Project Management Learning Lab in September. And that’s okay!

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

EAs will often have random projects that require them to collaborate with other departments - it’s essential to maintain those human connections. From task apps to full-blown project management tools, the software has never been easier for task management. Trello - Trello is a kanban (cards) style of project management tool.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

This resource is intended to equip you with the knowledge and tools to streamline the hiring process, ensuring a successful addition to your team. Traditionally, executive assistants were seen as secretarial staff, making copies and answering phone calls. Encourage candidates to apply by providing a straightforward application process.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 20, 2024

Do you remember asking people in your household to hang up the phone so you could send an email? Or being tied to bulky, desktop computers that couldn’t function more than five feet away from a phone jack? But you have to make updating or refreshing our systems and procedures an ongoing quest rather an annual project.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

As a result, my email went from around 30 a day to well over 150. I already knew the theories of inbox zero, yet here I was, drowning in email. This made finding a specific email very time consuming. Then I brainstormed how I was going to deal with hundreds of emails a day. The Process. For work, I use Outlook.

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Tips From T. Marie

JUNE 1, 2023

Schedule virtual meetings, video conferences, or phone calls to stay connected and aligned. Platforms like email, instant messaging, or project management software allow you to stay connected, share updates, and seek clarification on tasks. Stay organized by maintaining a to-do list or using project management tools.

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Ideas.Ted

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And collaboration overload isn’t just about the meetings that fill up our calendars — it’s also the endless emails, Slacks, reports and work that every new project generates. The need to be right has a way of generating excess meetings and emails that consume many people’s time.

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Success

JANUARY 7, 2023

I often find myself pulled in too many directions, reacting to phone calls, email and other stuff that pops up. There is a process you can follow to acquire it as a skill: Become aware of the need to improve your focusing skills. Do you ever feel like you have nothing left to give to a project or task? Don’t lose hope.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

  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.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place. How will you use Basecamp?

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 31, 2010

Many cell phone owners are not aware that both cell phones and portable computers have the capability to access the Internet from anywhere using wireless Bluetooth technology. Furthermore, they may already be paying for Bluetooth wireless access in their monthly cell phone plan.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Since all of you are part of the conference planning process, what is your favorite theme and/or part of the conference each year; Melia, Brian, Ernan, and Jill? I saw it during the welcome reception, all day during the trainings, and as we finished, the admins were sharing emails, phone numbers, and business/personal cards to keep in touch.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 17, 2016

Collaborate More Efficiently Before the cloud, working with other employees on a project could require countless emails and phone calls. These days, everyone has the same access to the information they need to work on a given project.

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Tips From T. Marie

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

I’ve used Slack a few times and I’ve tested various online project management apps, but they all seemed like overkill for my little business. If you’ve ever been through the process, it includes a lot of emailing. We can make notes in the same document as we are discussing a project on the phone or Skype.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 16, 2018

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. If your executive mentions a new project or talk force they will be working with, ask them to tell you more about the mission and the people. I identify tasks and projects as A, B, and C.

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Virtual Moxie

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Stay away from email! They’ve created an email naming convention that, for me, is beyond stupid. And when he was creating an address for her, what email address did he give her? We (and the tech we use) has moved so far beyond the days when it was “strange” and “uncommon” to have an email address or a domain.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Post-COVID-19, many employee tracking software programs started popping up, allowing companies to track employee productivity , computer activity, emails, and even individual keystrokes.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

opportunities for improvement—in every corner, from refinements to the business model, to small tweaks for existing products and processes to the micro-moments on the customer journey. I didn’t realize that one idea from the CEO can easily create five projects, draw a dozen people into the loop and drag them away from other priorities.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. I talk with thousands of assistants and managers who think they are communicating with each other because they text or email each other all day. This is not communicating.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

And as much as we may resist it, without it we’d still be using rotary phones and manual typewriters. You may have seen this change process diagram before. In order to shift the status quo, you have to go through a change process. Clearly communicate the plan, progress, and next steps throughout the change process.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Many business owners use autoresponders (automated emails) solely for communicating with their clients and sending them information at specified intervals, particularly if they’ve just registered for their “free taste”. Emails: Templates/Canned Responses. Reminders/Notifications via your autoresponder system.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 13, 2022

These recruitment marketing strategies encompass the use of different forms of social media, blogging, search engine optimisation (SEO), email marketing , and more, all of which integrate with recruiters' skills. It allows you to humanise your employer brand by providing information on your current projects, future goals, and achievements.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Those in an office manager role need to know how to manage processes, procedures, documentation, project management and communications. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork. Office management qualifications are useful for many reasons.

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 31, 2023

Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. There are many ways to go about this, including time-tracking apps, project management software, timesheets, screenshots, spreadsheets, and asking team members to track their own progress. Frees up office space. Why is that?

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The Marq

APRIL 29, 2010

TheMarq A Human Perspective on Business and Life Why a Single Phone Line is All You Need Technology Review I’m writing today about the use of a single phone line for all business and/or personal phone and SMS communication. A complete UC package involves other services such as email, IM, and presence meta data.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This file will contain things like the agreement form from your client, assessment forms, or details of any projects that you’ll be working on. As the majority of your communication is probably done via email with documents going back and forth, you’ll also want to create an individual client folder on your PC.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TIP 1: Canned Emails + Snippets. Create templated emails or snippets of text to answer frequently asked questions, inquiry responses, or additional information that may be requested. Think beyond your sales process and autoresponders. Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! TIP 3: Predictive Text.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

TIP 1: Canned Emails + Snippets. Create templated emails or snippets of text to answer frequently asked questions, inquiry responses, or additional information that may be requested. Think beyond your sales process and autoresponders. Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! TIP 3: Predictive Text.

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