Eat Your Career

MARCH 21, 2022

If I happen to be away from my desk when something comes up that should be added to my journal, I often take a digital note in the form of an email or a text message to myself. I find it much easier and faster to take notes on paper when sitting at my desk (which is where I am the majority of the time when working). Be sure to keep it safe.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Retrieve Your Files With Ease By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you have quite a bit of filing to do? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The history of employee monitoring’s various forms. An example would be call centers, where employee phone calls and voicemails were recorded and closely monitored to ensure their quality and efficiency. Well, that’s a classic form of employee monitoring right there. Time tracking and file tracking.

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BMT Office Administration

MARCH 16, 2022

There’s a reason the IRS rolled out some new tools and beefed up some old tools on its website this filing season—it’s still bogged down with last year’s returns! The likely effect will be delayed tax refunds for taxpayers who file even minimally complex returns. 2021 Form 1040 tax filing stats so far. 25, 2022, (i.e.,

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? Or have you played the popular “phone tag&# game?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

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? - Sometimes I wonder if I am duplicating my efforts by using a calendar and the tickler files. What are your thoughts in this area?

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BMT Office Administration

JUNE 16, 2023

More practically, cancel the deceased employee’s company email and security card, and retrieve their company-issued cell phone and laptop. You also need to dig out the employee’s 401(k) beneficiary form—401(k) assets move independently from the employee’s will, so you need to know who the beneficiaries are.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The author says what I already knew and have podcasted about before; that willpower has little to do with forming good habits, or being successful, or even having self control. The best way to form a good habit is to set up your environment to make success easy. You can sign up with my special link here: [link]. Pretty simple.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Keep the file on your desktop or easily accessible. Update phone extension list to ensure callers are directed to the appropriate person. Create a project checklist and ask all team members to use the form when asking for project assistance. This may require you to do some research and meet with other departments.

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Success

JULY 20, 2021

The recommended emergency fund amount to save for is three to five months of living expenses (think rent, utilities, phone bills, and so forth) in some form of cash. In 2021, that limit is $140,000 for individuals and $208,000 for married people who file their taxes jointly. Time is your greatest asset.

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Success

JANUARY 17, 2023

With social media updates, near-constant news alerts and other forms of media—such as YouTube videos, new Netflix shows and podcasts —all competing for our attention, reading often falls by the wayside. Carve out a few minutes every day where you set your phone across the room, unplug and read a book you’ve been wanting to read.”.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Expense reports or any kind of form or report that requires you to gather information you have and compile it, just filling in the little blanks and sending it off. Do some filing. Get that pile off your desk and into the file drawer. Again, it works best with a good filing system. Nice and mindless. Out they go.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. One of the simplest ways of creating this file is by using a manila file folder in which you simply drop your paperwork into. You simply print it out and fill it in each time you take on new client. In your main client folder.

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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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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

This category includes bills, medical forms to file, an insurance or telephone plan to compare with what you have now, information about a product you intend to buy and a list of activities put on by a group you belong to. Do you really need to get a better phone plan, or would it just be a nice idea to know what’s out there?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 17, 2015

You have to learn a whole new way of doing things, from how to log onto the computer to filling out a purchase order form. Even though they can seem like small things, at the beginning you are trying to do your best to impress and can feel a bit helpless when the phone rings and you realize you don't know how to answer it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We May Not Have Heard From You Recently a wonderful reader responded to one of our posts via email to let us know that she had filled out our contact form and had not heard from us.    I went out right away to re-test our Contact Us form and found it was no longer working -- on any of our sites!

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

  Click this link to be taken to my contact form and let me know you would like to explore the possibility of working together.    I'll contact you via phone (no charge) and we'll talk about what your current challenges are.  Find anything you file or store in 5 seconds or less.

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The Office Professionals Place

JUNE 7, 2010

I was online completing a form that required a phone number and I didn’t have the phone number handy, while I was conducting a search on the internet, my friend got a regular phonebook and found the phone number before my page could load to show me the results of my search. Backup electronic files.

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Ideas.Ted

AUGUST 12, 2021

I have witnessed people suffering and dying since I was a child,” the 18-year-old from Pakistan told me over the phone. These climate-fueled melts have formed more than 3,000 glacial lakes, which now regularly break their banks and rush through surrounding villages, taking everything — and everyone — in their path with them.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 1, 2011

  He picked up a piece of paper that contained a name and phone number of a contact.    He told me that his next action was to make a phone call to that person for a project they were working on together.    So, the next action was not the phone call, it was the research. .    No. 

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. If managers catch employees constantly playing on their phones instead of working, they can take disciplinary action. Another form of procrastination at work is presenteeism, which often gets misunderstood.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. One of the simplest ways of creating this file is by using a manila file folder in which you simply drop your paperwork into. You simply print it out and fill it in each time you take on new client. In your main client folder.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Review every task that you perform on a regular basis.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 11, 2013

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Look at everything— the RFPs and email inquiries you respond to, requests you send out for different things, contracts, invoicing forms, etc. Review every task that you perform on a regular basis.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

" That is what I heard from her as we were talking on the phone.    Even if you are not the most technical person on your block, you probably have some form of technology in your life that you love.  OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. " Stephanie you are such a geek."   OK! 

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Both times I’ve replaced my phone as quickly as is humanly possible because I am just lost without it (sometimes I am literally lost without it thanks to my dependence on Google maps to get me about London!). Although I still do print everything off this is a great app to have on your phone so you can check your details on the go.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Both times I’ve replaced my phone as quickly as is humanly possible because I am just lost without it (sometimes I am literally lost without it thanks to my dependence on Google maps to get me about London!). Although I still do print everything off this is a great app to have on your phone so you can check your details on the go.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 29, 2010

  I have so many piles and I don't want to file it all."   If your computer files are organized, you will be able to do a search and find what you are looking for quickly. 3 -- Contact Your Bank for Paperless Statements Many people pay their bills on-line, but still receive their statements in paper form. 

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

If the email was a bit vague I either deleted it, filed it or well I probably did just deleted it. If the FYI is urgent perhaps a phone call would be better. Who is the email going to know, do they need it to clog up their inbox or will a phone call do or even walking over to talk to them (eek?!)

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 15, 2008

My mind is already planning the next Board meeting and how I will organize my desk and the filing at the new place. I want all my filing to be up to date and my desk to be neat and tidy. Filing - We all have filing to do and when you are leaving it is even more important to get it done. Update your filing list.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Home About Me Advertise The E-tiquette of E-mail By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Outlook E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing all the Way to Work: The Ultimate Secretarial Survival Blog. Writing all in caps is a form of e-mail shouting.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Office E-mail Templates By The Professional Assistant on Friday, February 08, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you wite reccurring e-mails on a regular basis? On the File menu, point to New , then click Mail Message. On the File menu, click Save As.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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.  I'll read and delete and save those of interest in a file. What remains in your in-box is actionable items, not filing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

  Here are a few tips to get started: Set up a filing system to store and manage your paperwork Your paperwork likely consists of three types of paper:  1) stuff you need to take action on 2) stuff you are saving for reference and 3) stuff that you should have tossed a long time ago, but haven't.    Avoid backlog. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 8, 2011

Using less-toxic, biodegradable cleaning products not only improves the environment, but did you know that many natural cleaning products are usually sold in a concentrated form?    Most of the time we look at the fax and file it electronically, or delete it.  .  Change Up Your Cleaning Products.

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