Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Closing Shared Files While Away From Desk By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you share files on a network within your office? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work? I am one of these people.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 19, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Building Habits Habitforge Another Tool for Creating Habits :: [link] -- Professional Organizer, Janine Adams, shares her experience using habitforge -- an online habit building tool.   Archive Network with Steph Is This You? What Have You Written?

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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? - Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 24, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! It Could Be Gone Faster Thank You Think - Ours Almost Was » The Great Organizing Giveaway is Here! The new year is a great time to think of ways that you can improve your life -- Getting Organized always lands in the top 10 lists of New Year Resolutions. 

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For many solopreneurs a large part of their business is working one-on-one with clients, and that means having a way of keeping all of their client information organized and easy to access. For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. Physical: Create a Client Contact Sheet.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Little Things Really Can Make a Big Impact » Check Out This Great Resource for Organizing Tips and Products (and maybe win some stuff too) Today's post is short since you received 2 earlier this week! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 8, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization | Main | My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action » Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show You are invited!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! and that's your managing. 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. ORGANIZE your Inbox.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 25, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! she and her consultants focus on conducting presentations, personal coaching, assessments and productivity / organizing services for entrepreneurs & time pressed professionals.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   John will interview Steph for 60 minutes.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers | Main | 5 Tips for Productivity, Organizing and Changing Your Life » Tips to Go Almost Paperless "Steph, do you have some ideas for how I can go paperless? 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » Top 9 Mistaken Organizing Statements There are a number of statements that I have heard people say over the years with regard to their organizing projects.  " If you are struggling to find time, then you have an even bigger need to get organized! 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Gaessler of Solace Wealth Management interviews Stephanie Calahan on his show on Blogtalkradio (global) in News & Updates! Personal Productivity Time & Priority Management Company/Group/Department Connect Today! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   I love it! 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! We May Not Have Heard From You » Personal Productivity & Organizing Link Lineup There is some fantastic content out on the web and I often have clients and readers ask me what I have found.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   Save 30 minutes a day = 3.5

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 years or so. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To | Main | Mon Motivation - Do You Believe What You Are Told, or What You Know to be True? Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways : Comments Rather Listen? » Rather Listen?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Personal Productivity Time & Priority Management Company/Group/Department Connect Today! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - Whether you want to create an innovative product or provide an unusual service, organizing your ideas is key to seeing your vision come to pass. You, too, can organize your ideas into a profitable business.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Time Management Month and More | Main | What is Your Done List Telling You? » 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort We are really close to wrapping up time management month!  It's a great way to save files and photos on the "cloud."

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 4, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed | Main | Office Organization - 5 Steps to Setting Up Your Core Systems » Life Coaching Tips to Organize Yourself For Success (Guest Post: Natalie Dee) Nothing succeeds like success.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   If your business is not effectively organized, it’s costing you money.    Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles.   There are different organization styles too. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   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.  We used this as our project management tool when coordinating Extreme Makeover Home Edition too.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » Link Lineup: Time Management, Org Tools, Focus Concentration and Top Mobil Phone Apps February is Time Management Month, so today I'll share some great articles to help you make the most of the time you have.  Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 7, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Main | 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity » Get Organized and Lose Weight!   By learning and acting on a few organization tactics, you can get back on track just in time for swimsuit weather!  Comments Get Organized and Lose Weight!

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 23, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Organize Tasks Effectively By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 23, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize A task here, a task there! Each and every day, Administrative Assistants alike face these challenges from either one or more Managers. When does it ever end?

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Always back up your files electronically. Normally, folks in an office would back up their essential files by photocopying it and filing it away in an aptly named folder, then placing it into a filing cabinet for archival purposes. Organize your folders by project, client, document or by any other means necessary.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.  Thanks to Stacey Anderson of Organized Innovations, LLC 2.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! I have been reading Productive and Organized for some time and the articles and tips are very effective not only for me personally but also for my business.  As a busy division manager, I frequently find myself wasting time checking, reading and responding to email.

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Ask your VA/service provider if she has a Credit Card Authorization form that she can send to you, and you fax back to her. Put your CC info in a Word document, and send to her via a secure file transfer service like Send This File or Dropbox. Instead use one of these options: 1.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » 7 Tips for Organizing Your Home-Based Business Home based businesses are more than a passing fade.    Getting organized is a challenge for most business owners.    There are many organizations that provide virtual assistance. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Personal Productivity Time & Priority Management Company/Group/Department Connect Today! family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Steph in the Media | Main | 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To » Dont Strangle Your Reminders!   Time Management Resources to Jump On THIS WEEK The Time Management giveaway is going on this week only! 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 10, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show | Main | Stephanie Hosts Jill Hively: What’s for Dinner? Personal Productivity Time & Priority Management Company/Group/Department Connect Today!

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The Office Professionals Place

AUGUST 22, 2010

Sunday, August 22, 2010 Miscommunication, Misfiled, and Misplaced = Misrepresentation A work day consists of filing, answering phones, greeting visitors, and a host of communication efforts with coworkers, supervisors, and customers, plus other duties and responsibilities that can get overwhelming. Lets grow together!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have trouble trying to book several managers’ meetings, yet you have access to their calendars in Microsoft Outlook 2007? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! YOU CANNOT MANAGE TIME! How you manage to focus your attention (or how long you keep your attention focused) will make or break your ability to get things done. WANT MORE ON TIME MANAGEMENT? Archive Network with Steph Is This You? How do we get it all done? Are they smarter?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 3, 2010

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! The Most Productive Lunch - Weigh in Your Thoughts | Main | Major Meltdown in Time Management - Tips to Avoid it Happening To You » It Everywhere! The Major Meltdown in Time Management - Have You Been Hit?   Procrastination is at an all time high. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Work With Stephanie « Link Lineup: Time Management, Org Tools, Focus Concentration and Top Mobil Phone Apps | Main | Are you Time-challenged Tim or Non-productive Nancy? It houses so much more than a file index. Thanks to Ellen Limes of Organized By L 5.   1. .

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