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DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, February 11, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you find that staff members leave their garbage around the kitchen area? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them?

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OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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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! The question is, “How do I prioritize and organize my tasks? When does it ever end?

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! » 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort We are really close to wrapping up time management month!  Thanks to Lisa Montanaro of LM Organizing Solutions, LLC 4. Thanks to Natalie Conrad of Organized Habits 5. Thanks to Elaine Quinn of Space Craft Organizing 6.

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When we talk about the spectrum of work and the decision making that goes into it, the decision making that one would use for a mature business person, let’s say, even with ten years of experience versus a new teammate that maybe was just joining an organization hired to work remotely, that landscape of work is changing so rapidly.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize D o you often wonder how you can add your countrys holidays into your calendar in Microsoft Outlook ? You can do this by clicking View, Arrange By, Current View, Events.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you have too many applications open on your computer? You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task.

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JULY 24, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, July 24, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you receive quite a bit of e-mail in your Inbox each day, but have trouble prioritizing them? Then I have my faxes set up as green.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Me Advertise Dealing With Unreasonable Requests By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 08, 2009 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail , among the many others that you receive each and every day. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?"

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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JANUARY 23, 2008

Do you already have a table set up in Microsoft Word, but dont want to copy to Microsoft Excel and back again, just to sort it? I wasnt sure if this was possible, but fiddled around on Google a bit and found that it is possible. One of my colleagues came to me and asked about this very question.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Sync Your Hand Held Device By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 15, 2007 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity , Travel A re you looking for software that can synchronize most of your hand held devices? Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that.

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JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Now put yourself in that persons shoes. Imagine that you were on the receiving end of the conversation.

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JULY 14, 2009

They forget to do their own flight check-in and dont have time, so they call you up and ask you to do it. How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Common Courtesy in the Workplace By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 10, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you always end up cleaning up after your colleagues? You start to wonder how they keep their personal items at home organized.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re walking around the office and someone comes up to you, asking for a pen. Home About Me Advertise Do You Have a Pen? You search your pockets and realize that you don’t have one. Has this ever happened to you?

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MARCH 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by James of Organize IT. Then yesterday I came across a similar post , claiming that the pursuit of productivity has ended up out of control.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

There are some companies that, unfortunately, don’t allow for purchases such as stationary , fax machines , toner , etc. to be obtained from outside sources, other than the specified and approved vendors that have been set up. Since I work for a large corporation, this is my case as well.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Your next step would be to Google it or hop onto Wikipedia to find out more information by opening your internet browser. The great part about Kallout is that a small window pops up within the application you’re currently using. You come across a piece of text that you are unfamiliar with.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Do you have trouble using the text box feature to place anchored text where you prefer, so that it shows up in a particular area of the page? I’ve searched Google and they say to use the drawing tool. Using text boxes can be a little tricky, since there are quite a few features that it comes with.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success | Main | Productivity and Organization Link Lineup » 10 Reminder Systems for You To Consider Do you have difficulty remembering important dates?  Mark the calendar everyday you get up early or hit the gym. Feel better!

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Do you have a big project coming up and want to show your boss that you can handle this type of task ? How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 4 Easy Steps to Finding Old E-mails By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, December 13, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you have trouble sifting through hundreds or even thousands of e-mails ? If it isnt, click on it and a new toolbar will pop up.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 08, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you wake up in the morning and think to yourself, "What do I have to do today? Rushing through your work will only create mistakes and you will end up doing the same task twice.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

You can post up to 80 different job sites, such as Workopolis , Monster , CareerBuilder and many more, just with one submission. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 26, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you worried about online identity theft online? Resume Rabbit will make all of this disappear.

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JANUARY 11, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, January 11, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you want to decorate your cubicle/office? Are you worried that you might put things up that are not appropriate for the office? This will help you with organizing and prioritizing any tasks that you are asked to do.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Home About Me Advertise "Stop Watch"ing Your Productivity By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you multi-task too much? Set up the preferences for yourself for one hour and click start. For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Tips on Handling Deadlines By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you hate deadlines? There are times when people come up to me and expect things to be done right away. Apparently, everyone comes to me all at the same time.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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