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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Checklists ensure that all steps or actions occur, not necessarily in a specific order (though that can be part of the process), but rather just that they are completed, while a template is an established pattern - form letters, resume designs - that you can use over and over to produce the same result.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Start brushing up and training on weak areas with PowerPoint, Photoshop, business writing, or anything you can think of. If you are out sick, a temp will have to sub for you. Are they type A and super organized so they like lists printed out so they can carry it around or do they like information only in digital form?

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

If you are hoping to learn more about advertising campaigns, market research, brand management, etc because your boss needs help with research, powerpoint decks, graphic design, but you are too busy and they give it to someone else then what you really may be hoping for is an entry level job in whatever specialty it is that you like.