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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. Informal, yet professional environment which encouraged participants by all attendees.”. Joan Burge.

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Too much information.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 7 November, 2009 Too much information. Do you have a question or do you want to pass information along to the person. For example, "Further to our conversation this morning, attached is a template letter that should meet your needs." Preparing your boss for meetings away from the off.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. A system contains all the information you need to handle the accounting functions for your job. When you’re planning a staff meeting, what do you do and in what order?

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Art+Science=Success

Office Dynamics

For example, meeting planning requires that we take an art side (soft/intuitive) and science side (hard/logical approach). It means we use a check list throughout the pre-meeting phase to make sure we cover every step. For example, let's say you encounter a difficult person this week. The logical is easy.

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Art+Science=Success

Office Dynamics

For example, meeting planning requires that we take an art side (soft/intuitive) and science side (hard/logical approach). It means we use a check list throughout the pre-meeting phase to make sure we cover every step. For example, let's say you encounter a difficult person this week. The logical is easy.

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Housecleaning in Word 2007: Customizing your Dictionary

Laughing all the Way to Work

You would be surprised how many misspelled words get in there by mistake; for example, instead of pressing Change you press Add to Dictionary when you are going through your SpellCheck. FOR MORE INFORMATION CLICK ON THE IMAGE Subscribe To Posts Atom Posts Comments Atom Comments Subscribe to the blog here Search This Blog Loading.

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Under a Bushel

Office Dynamics

We all know to track our accomplishments and record achievements - but how valuable is that information if it is to be kept under wraps indefinitely? Additionally, start keeping a log of the quantity of work you produce in major areas such as telephone, meeting planning, travel planning, email management, etc. Martyrdom?

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