Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. To access online systems, you have to (duh!)

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 28, 2016

As a business owner, you’ll want to check in with your remote workers on a pretty regular basis, either through scheduled phone calls or with email updates. To make sure your remote group of employees accomplishes everything they need to do will require a great deal of transparency on their part about their projects and tasks.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

Project Management Apps: Teamwork is, by far, my favorite project management app. You can update statuses, track time and tasks, and get real-time updates on all your projects. Chat by phone or video conferencing, record meetings, and share screens to keep each other up to date, even if you’re continents apart!

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Whether you’re a freelancer or supervise small teams for enterprise-level companies, project management tools are a must if you want to stay efficient and organized. Today, two apps that dominate the project management workspace are Trello and Asana. If you’re after more features and flexibility, you may prefer Asana.

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 31, 2023

Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. While that’s great news for employees who enjoy the increased flexibility of working from home, it poses a significant challenge for managers. However, there’s a difference between trust and having no system for accountability.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From secretly checking social media to focusing on less critical work tasks to avoid starting a crucial project – there are many different types of procrastination. Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. Online Procrastination. What’s that?

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Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 1, 2022

Create a fillable form and type directly into it while on the phone with your client. Then you can save the form to their project privately for your records or send it to your client to contribute to. Project Punch, Change, or Approvals List. Keep track of all those nitty-gritty details.

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

I can’t tell you how many people are shocked to hear that, as a systems expert, I still do quite a bit of work manually. Sure, your system can send out emails precisely at the right time, but does it send a super cheery message in the middle of a national crisis? Sound like a contradiction? Not if you zoom out a little.

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

I can’t tell you how many people are shocked to hear that, as a systems expert, I still do quite a bit of work manually. Sure, your system can send out emails precisely at the right time, but does it send a super cheery message in the middle of a national crisis? Sound like a contradiction? Not if you zoom out a little.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 19, 2013

Evernote is software designed for note taking and archiving, which is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone, as well as for OS X and Microsoft. The app is focused on entering and completing to-dos; moreover, you can add, tag, and organize your to-dos into lists, projects and nested lists. MindMeister. Thoughtback.

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Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 3, 2020

Create email signatures for new emails, replies, and from your phone that include, at a minimum, your full name, email address, and phone number. Emails are easily forwarded and delegated and if you’re difficult to get ahold of, you may slow the speed of business or even miss opportunities. services.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Set a date for an initial call to clearly outline your strategies and goals for the project, and to solidify the lines of communication between you and the client. Nobody wants a call to their home phone late at night or during family times if it’s not an absolute emergency. Do you prefer e-mail or telephone communication?

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! Jen Lawrence is a productivity and systems expert passionate about creating ease through systems. Using checklist templates allow you to build an operations library to make future delegation easier and gives you a foundation to build upon. TIP 3: Predictive Text.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Use the predictive text function in your phone (or on Instagram! Jen Lawrence is a productivity and systems expert passionate about creating ease through systems. Using checklist templates allow you to build an operations library to make future delegation easier and gives you a foundation to build upon. TIP 3: Predictive Text.

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Eco-Office Gals

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Online project managers allow you to post schedules and updates, assign tasks, communicate with team members, and virtually keep everyone on the same page, even when working remotely. These options are certainly quicker and less costly than managing everything through phone calls and snail mail.

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Jen Lawrence

JULY 27, 2020

STEP 2: Create a task management system that works for you. There’s a natural cycle to tasks and your system should solve for each phase of the cycle: capture, organize, and prioritize. For phone calls/meetings? For more resources to improve your skills and systems, check out my on-demand course library.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Managers and supervisors kept track of employee performance and productivity by directly monitoring them throughout the workday. Yet, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 threw a wrench into this tried and true system for most companies. As a manager, that makes it effortless to find out how much work got done on any given day.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

And as much as we may resist it, without it we’d still be using rotary phones and manual typewriters. weekly calls, status meetings, email updates, project management tools)? Then update your project plan for the next use. Change is inevitable. Change tends to get a bad rap, yet it can be a very positive thing.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 18, 2010

Because you don’t see each other coming and going all day, you tend to forget to communicate the little details that can be important to a project. Depending on the time difference, you probably want to have a regular phone time set up at least once and possibly twice a day. Lastly, I seriously recommend having a business cell phone.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 18, 2010

Because you don’t see each other coming and going all day, you tend to forget to communicate the little details that can be important to a project. Depending on the time difference, you probably want to have a regular phone time set up at least once and possibly twice a day. Lastly, I seriously recommend having a business cell phone.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 14, 2012

Set a date for an initial call to clearly outline your strategies and goals for the project, and to solidify the lines of communication between you and the client. Nobody wants a call to their home phone late at night or during family times if it’s not an absolute emergency. Do you prefer e-mail or telephone communication?

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 12, 2014

With more and more content generated on Twitter, LinkedIn and other platforms for assistants it is really important that you have a system in place that helps you get the most out of social media. Our mobile phones are already an integral part of our lives but in 2015 o ver 3 billion people will only access the internet by phone next year.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

Event Management, Project Management, Human Resources and Finance have become a big part of my job. In the past I’d be answering phones, taking memos and maintaining files – nowadays you are an extension of your Executive. Indeed, this is not your mother’s admin role anymore.” I’ve had one 2.5%

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Small Business CEO

AUGUST 9, 2013

With the growth in BYOD (bring your own devices) over the past five years small businesses are now able to hire dispersed staff located remotely, globally, as well as from a home or assigned virtual hub through secure systems. Mobile devices combined with powerful apps essentially allow a contemporary ‘phone to morph into the remote office.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Also include your mobile phone plan (or a portion of it) if you use that for your business. Software applications and online products are also an expense, including Anti-virus software, project management, online backup, and online greeting card services, to name a few.

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Success

JULY 27, 2022

Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. For project management, Devesh Dwivedi of BreakingThe9to5Jail.com says “I love BaseCamp. For that matter, who needs to travel to a meeting?

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www.officearrow.com

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Creating a business system or standard operating procedure (SOP) may be the right move for you. A good business system summarizes everything you know about your role in the company and how to do your job. If you have a good system, anyone who follows it will get the same result every time. Business systems are beneficial, too.

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Productivityist

JUNE 2, 2016

A quarter of a year – which is 12 weeks or 90 days however you wish to think of it – is long enough to complete a project of some substance. I also realized that by adopting a minimum of two goals per quarter, I was going to complete at least eight projects in the coming year. Written a project management book.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Some say the traditional paper planner is the best, while others swear by their smart-phone or on line tool.  If you aren't particularly tech-savvy, you might feel more comfortable using a paper planner, rather than having to learn the ins and outs of an electronic diary system. Choose what you will use!

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Recruit CRM

JUNE 17, 2021

You should have hands-on experience with web analytics instruments and have imaginative ideas for effective advertising projects, also to develop and manage marketing programs in specific channels. Marketing Manager Requirements and Skills: A bachelor's degree and master's degree in marketing, business administration.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

My title is unimportant, but project manager is one of the many hats I wear. That’s where a system like GTD is particularly useful.” You still need to plan projects. You can even have one giant next action list and one project list if that’s how you want to roll. ” – Bob R.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

My title is unimportant, but project manager is one of the many hats I wear. That’s where a system like GTD is particularly useful.” You still need to plan projects. You can even have one giant next action list and one project list if that’s how you want to roll. ” – Bob R.

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The Marq

MAY 6, 2010

Company: Ingram Micro Duration: 3 months Location: Santa Ana Overall responsibility to coordinate the technical implementation of the infrastructure for global web platform Plans and manages the support of new technologies, application and system performance and reliability.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

My system uses two e-mail folders ONLY. When you receive an email with a key project or business decision, this should be archived straight away in your corporate project management tool (SharePoint, Asana etc) with the appropriate metadata assigned. I use my phone for this. But What About the Important People?

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Which three phone apps can you not live without? If you really think you want to do this role, you have to be ready to take on a number of projects and issues at any given time.” “After one particularly nightmarish project that I was left to do on my own, I stumbled across the Chief of Staff role and what it required.

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The Marq

MARCH 23, 2010

One of the professionals I worked with a number of years back told me he wanted to become a project lead and, possibly, a project manager. We knew his goal of becoming a lead and a project manager would be three to five years out. For the sake of anonymity let’s call him Sam.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 24, 2011

My first step was to talk to my manager and my in-house coach to see how they tracked their time.    Both had systems, but they weren't really all that reliable.      Professionals who need to keep very close track of their time - usually for billing and/or project tracking purposes. 

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