Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 15, 2014

When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. Organize your office heart.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. Like any file storing system, you should create folders to organize your files. Know Your Mobile Device.

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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! The question is, “How do I prioritize and organize my tasks? When does it ever end? Well, you are not alone.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 20, 2017

Creating a paperless home office is a two-part process. Simply configure your scanner software to use optical character recognition (OCR) to automatically turn every scanned document into a searchable PDF, which allows you to find documents by searching for words they contain. He’s been blogging for Firefold.com for several years.

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Small Business CEO

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Do your auditors want to see the details of how transactions were processed, including approval signatures? Organizations typically rely on a combination of major systems and manual transactions that are done off system. Workflow software automates processes by moving a task through different stages of a process.

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Office Organization Success

JULY 17, 2015

Just add some extra details such as a header/footer, ensure the layout is neat, and then convert the document to a PDF file. As well as offering the audio recording of the call, you can take the notes that you’ve prepared for yourself and offer them to the participants.

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Productivityist

JULY 20, 2017

Organizing your desktop and throw out all those dumb pictures you keep around. Organizing your smartphone apps. If you are at home on this retreat: clean out your closets, organize your drawers, clean out your junk drawer, dust and clean off your bookshelves, donate old clothes to charity. and get it done. This is game time.

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Office Organization Success

MARCH 2, 2013

The product can be a PDF document, such as a workbook or report, and/or an audio file, maybe of a live teleclass. Passive Income: this is something that you create once , and then sell it via your website for a continuous income flow. The point is with passive income you spend time creating the product once and making many sales from it.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 13, 2016

This year Jesse and I met while I was in his city at an event and we came up with the idea of offering a printable PDF of the calendar this year. You can check out the new printable PDF version of the calendar here. Once again, this year’s printed and PDF versions come in both tall and wide formats.

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Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If the organization you are acquiring has proprietary technology, evaluating the personnel is critical as they support the technology. Are processes documented? If the top ten clients all have special processing that only one or two staff know how to accomplish, retaining those clients is suddenly a serious risk. Technology.

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 25, 2010

When you pay your doctor bill, do you compare that process against other doctors, or do you think about being able to pay your credit card bill online? Health care organizations get compared by consumers to their auto insurance company, their bank and their cell phone companies. Can your client look at its transactions online?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 7, 2011

If you’re not familiar with Evernote, it’s an application that helps you get organized and remember everything. If you organize and tag your notes as you go, they will be easier to find, using Evernote’s powerful search. Make sure you understand Evernote’s encryption process before setting this up.

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BioTeams

JANUARY 8, 2009

Can bioteams succeed in creating a competitive advantage where top-down management organizations have failed? Business Process Guru, Peter Fingar addresses these questions in his column in BUSINESS PROCESS TRENDS this month. Download the PDF. To find out more about Bioteams: Bioteams Book.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Networking , Organize , Productivity A re you in the process of looking for a job? Home About Me Advertise Cant Find a Job? Do you need some helpful tips on how to get that dream job that you always wanted?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 28, 2011

Shannon Reece is a colleague and friend that has participated in a number of my collaborative posts as well as shared her thoughts on eliminating fear right here at Productive & Organized.   Then, Dr. Reece also gives you a PDF file download to actively work on your business. Get In On The Contest for a Spot in the Challenge!

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Small Business CEO

JULY 6, 2011

In another case, the organization picked an outsourcer based on a board member’s recommendation. For a mid-sized organization, not so much. Make sure your outsourcer understands the strategy, and there is a process to approve projects. Are they a poor outsourcer? For a smaller company, they may be fine.

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Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 11, 2011

No one reviewed the process changes that would need to be undertaken by the acquirer to use the new system. It may be a lack of understanding the IT environments up front, a lack of planning, or even cultural issues between the two companies’ IT organizations. Obvious choice, right? What is the impact?

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Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 1, 2010

A poor relationship with IT can be extremely detrimental to the efficiency, productivity and cost-effectiveness of your organization. IT helps make operations more efficient, but change in organizations can be stressful and can create uncertainty. IT is regularly in a reactive mode. • IT has its own jargon.

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Small Business CEO

MAY 5, 2010

If you haven’t yet taken advantage of the slower business cycle to make the day-to-day processes in your company more efficient, start now. Inefficient process examples: Your employees record their time on paper or in Excel. Are the people, processes and technology ready to support significant growth?

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

            Dawn McCloskey Ultra Organized, LLC. Microsoft's OneNote is my go-to organizing tool for anything that I do online.I create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer. Evernote Enables Paperless Organization.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 14, 2008

Insert the CD, reboot from CD drive, and then just follow the process of instruction. 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? as follows: 1.Free

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 9, 2010

Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. For a 15% sales commission, with no upfront fees, they will convert your book into several ebook formats and handle the online orders and payment processing for you. Smashwords is a good way to get started with ebooks.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 9, 2010

Ebooks The easiest way to create an ebook is to convert your printed book to a PDF document. For a 15% sales commission, with no upfront fees, they will convert your book into several ebook formats and handle the online orders and payment processing for you. Smashwords is a good way to get started with ebooks.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

First of all Ive worked for an organization as an admin asst for years and during this time I have seen many co-workers leave and have had to put up with a lot. Now its time to begin the process of gossiping about co-workers, belittling co-workers, making snide comments about other staff.

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Denise Aday

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

The process of creating and sharing documents was straightforward, and we could upload and download those documents in most popular formats. Central Desktop provides powerful search options : We searched across the Web; in text; and through documents in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and HTML.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Outlook Rules That Rule By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant. It will be worth the effort.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Last year I was invited write articles for ACCO's "Organize Your Desk Day" To give some structure to the series of 30 blogposts, I decided to create a 10-week "How-to" course in setting up an organized and productive workspace. Thanks to Julie Bestry of Best Results Organizing. One Tree With Many Limbs.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 13, 2023

If working with a team, what was my personal contribution to the process? applied to your work sample, here are some options for sharing it in your professional portfolio: Create or upload one single PDF of this work sample that includes the P.A.R. Upload the PDF to your social portfolio on LinkedIn and/or your digital portfolio site.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 16, 2023

There are sample procedures in PDF format that can be viewed online. They don’t just show that you can do something; they also show that you’re willing to document the process so that others can benefit from your expertise. And it links to related articles I’ve written on my blog.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Pros of Planning Tool: Very organized product. It's the great planning tool debate - should I use paper or an electronic organizer (PDA) to organize my time and keep me on track? Make sure you choose an organizer that you feel confident and comfortable using.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

My suggestion – to keep the process short but to acknowledge the receipt of information and your appreciation – is to put the thank you on the subject line along with the indicator END. They were merely doing their job and didn’t need to be thanked.

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 28, 2012

You can download a PDF of the full thesis (Portuguese) from Fabio's website here : Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the specific case of Bioteaming, a discipline developed in the United Kingdom and based on social animals behavior, that means, those organized on societies that operate in swarms, herds or groups.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 4, 2014

How can you take a step back, create a presentation worth experiencing and not get overwhelmed in the process? By capturing, labeling and organizing this material, you are prepared to build your presentation with all the content your little heart desires. Here’s why: your brain cannot parallel process. It will do neither.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 4, 2014

How can you take a step back, create a presentation worth experiencing and not get overwhelmed in the process? By capturing, labeling and organizing this material, you are prepared to build your presentation with all the content your little heart desires. Here’s why: your brain cannot parallel process. It will do neither.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Once the amount of information completely overwhelms anyone’s ability to process it, people will pay for trust. Any money you make in the process (or turning it into a viable full-time living) should be a luxury, an extra added bonus. First, it’s a crappy way to organize content. Dave Doolin´s last blog.

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