All Things Admin

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft Word and Google Docs These word processing apps are your go-to for creating detailed, text-based procedures. Google Slides also allows you to transcribe speaker notes which can be helpful for converting audio instructions into typewritten text. It will insert it into the slide you have open.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 5, 2010

We have set up a Career Portfolio Photo Album in our photo gallery with pictures of administrative professionals showcasing their portfolio as well as pictures of examples of what these administrative professionals are putting in their own portfolios. If you have an innovative idea, please email it to us to be added to the album.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 5, 2010

We have set up a Career Portfolio Photo Album in our photo gallery with pictures of administrative professionals showcasing their portfolio as well as pictures of examples of what these administrative professionals are putting in their own portfolios. If you have an innovative idea, please email it to us to be added to the album.

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Tips From T. Marie

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

While we self-proclaimed geeks have been using Google docs, Google Drive, Dropbox and others, Office 365 provides those with a fear of the cloud a reason to finally get their cloud on. What does that additional cost get you besides software updates? Cloud storage and accessibility. And that’s huge.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Two-Step verification of your Gmail account and data you store on Google Docs is a very important security step you should consider taking if you keep any kind of information on a Google server. Chrome, Google Cloud Sync, and others are examples of applications where you enter your Gmail username and password.

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The Marq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Every time I open up the post in Google Docs, I either draw a blank, realize there are other things I want to add, or I’m overwhelmed with how much I still have to write, rewrite, omit or even other resources I want to reference. It’s been agonizing to sit down and write.

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Worxbee

MAY 17, 2021

You can try: Google Docs – easy to store and access and hey, it’s free! This might be things like falling down the rabbit hole when you respond on Twitter, for example… Blocking out “deep work” time, when there are to be no interruptions. Tracking to see how much time you spend on unimportant tasks.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 16, 2017

Try to think about your organisation’s brand in a more creative way – if for example the company colour is green do a Google search for ‘green’ and see what images appear and then use them for your slide backgrounds. Google Slides. Google Slides has all of the elements you would expect from a google product.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 16, 2017

Try to think about your organisation’s brand in a more creative way – if for example the company colour is green do a Google search for ‘green’ and see what images appear and then use them for your slide backgrounds. Google Slides. Google Slides has all of the elements you would expect from a google product.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

MAY 31, 2012

Another idea is to use Google docs to keep up-to-date on projects and stay in sync. For example, in my business, if a team member misses a deadline or something else that negatively impacts my clients, I know this won’t work. When people feel important and empowered they do their best work.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

It requires you download a spreadsheet and save it in your Google docs, but it’s such a huge timesaver. Plus there are tools, scripts, examples, mind maps, checklists, and resources throughout the entire program. And it was! Here’s a link to a video tutorial that shows you exactly how to create mail merges using Gmail.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Another idea is to use Google docs to keep up-to-date on projects and stay in sync. For example, in my business, if a team member misses a deadline or something else that negatively impacts my clients, I know this won’t work. When people feel important and empowered they do their best work.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 30, 2008

The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). Imagine your boss comes to your desk and asks you to provide him/her with details of how much each firm earned in revenue on this spreadsheet. You think to yourself, how can I do this quickly, without much manual work?

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The Marq

OCTOBER 10, 2019

For example, how can getting rid of weeds in the garden help in business , or what can I learn form pets that I can use in my meetings. In my case, that’s a specific document in Google Docs that I bookmark and go back to for mining ideas, adding details and, eventually, using to write a blog.or This is my actual Idea Box.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 30, 2012

For example, hide the people bar or the chat bar, and generally clean up Gmail’s appearance. Though Google boasts extremely secure and reliable servers, when your entire life is stored on Gmail, it’s good to have a backup. Access chat features through Google docs. Back up your account with Gmvault.

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Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 8, 2013

As a practical example, MajesticInvites.com is an 8-person company that designs online invitations. In fact, you can use cloud storage to push your documents to all of your mobile devices – services like Google Docs, iCloud, and Amazon all offer amazing storage solutions that turn the whole world into your business office.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

Here is how to calculate the difference between two numbers as a percentage: For example, your earnings are $2,342 in November and $2,500 in December. It kept providing me topics that werent relevant to the particular answer I was looking for. I then checked Excels help file and there it was.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. No, you are not making your screen more lively - well, if thats what you are intending to do, then go ahead. When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. Then I have my faxes set up as green.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 9, 2008

For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2008

F or example, if you want to make a million dollars before you die, write out exactly what you want and how you will achieve this. Another thing that helps people to get motivated is by writing some sort of mantra on a piece of paper or printing it out. This way, when you sit down, you can read it each and every day.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project. But of course, you don’t want to disturb others around you with the bell going off or some even have chickens clucking as the alarm. To avoid this, try using an online timer instead. Virtual Stopwatch gives you the option to set a predetermined amount of time.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

For example, if I need to send out a newsletter to all clients, I would call it "Newsletter" At this point, you would just start up a new e-mail, click on the "To:" button and select "Newsletter" from your address book. Add New, of course, would be used to add a brand new contact.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

For example, I will try to work on task A for 1 hour. Narrow them down to the amount that you can manage (usually 3 - 5), but some people can do more or less. Move all of the other tasks to the next day or time that you can tackle them. Next, add a time frame to each task. Then I will work on Task B for 30 minutes and so on and so forth.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Heres an example of what happened with me. The downfall of outsourcing is that youre not sure if the quality of the work will be presented, since you are relying one someone or a company to do the work for you and might not be to your standards.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 4, 2008

For example: Advertising inquiries, please contact John Doe at john.doe@company.com Billing inquiries, please contact Jane Smith at jane.smith@company.com And so on and so forth. I appreciate your example. And lastly, don’t forget to turn it on. Thanks, Richard Posted on 23 September, 2008 10:40 AM Delilah Thanks for the tip.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Note: Make sure to add the time in the meeting schedule (for example: Meeting with client, 1:00 pm Calgary time), so the manager knows that this is the correct time to meet with this client. Now you can see by the picture below that the new time zone has been added. You can now add in the meeting details for this time zone.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Explain to him that youre in a situation where you feel unproductive and give some examples. I usually follow up ever 3 business days on outstanding items. Another thing that I can suggest is to have a meeting with your boss. M ention him that you are here to help in any way you can. Remind him that this is why he hired you.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Giving clear instructions, but also examples of expected results. Visualizing these results using screenshots, highlights and possibly an example link. Review: Google Docs. This can be avoided by: Going through all the steps at least once yourself before delegating, if the task is repetitive.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work.

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Productivityist

MARCH 5, 2012

I know a lot of people who use Simplenote, nvALT, Google Docs ( don’t get me started ) or even the back-end of WordPress to capture their ideas for use in their writing. I suppose you could say that Evernote by its very nature is a journal of sorts, considering that it chronicles whatever you put in it by date or by tag.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 1, 2011

  For example, say you met someone at a networking meeting a year ago and had a conversation with that person.  Of course, we rely on our own tool, Batchbook, but we also look to tools such as Google Chat , Google Docs , TripIt or Skype for helping us staying organized. -    Delegate, delegate, delegate.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 27, 2011

  For example, those sites can't implement itunes ping, quora, or other new sites, but with ItsMyURLs you could add your profile link the first day that they were launched!    Google profiles allow you to add multiple photos, large bio, and other social networking features.    How does it work?

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Denise Aday

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Managing expectations and leading by example. Set up reminders, checklists and process docs for anything you do over and over again. I’m a virtual gal and a firm believer in storing these things in the cloud in such places as Google Docs and Dropbox. Acknowledgment and acceptance of the finite.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 22, 2008

Here is an example of some sub-folders and rules that I have set up that would work for a work e-mail or home account: I now send my subscribed feeds to a sub-folder that I can look at when I have the time. I get home at night and regularly find 40 new messages in my Inbox that I have to sift through.

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

An example would be setting the publishing of an article dependent on the completion of the copy editing first. For example, if you need to manage location logistics for international clients, the map view is a real lifesaver because of how much time it can save. Kanban board. Pie chart view. Winner: Monday.com.

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BMT Office Administration

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Examples include companies that don’t have a Board Secretary or instances where the Secretary cannot attend. If you use a program like Google Docs, you can quickly share the document with the rest of your team. Distribute the meeting minutes. The pre-planning phase. Concluding thoughts: How to take meeting minutes.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

For example, if all you need is a place to store contact information and keep your calendar, that is much different than a system that can prompt you for different types of follow up, keep templates, etc. For example, techno-phobes shouldn't force themselves to use a computerized calendar if they are more comfortable with a paper planner.

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