Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Do you feel that you could find better buys, not just by going to the different stores such as Staples or Grand & Toy , but online as well? By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity A re you the person that purchases stationary and other items for your department?

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Before we proceed further, let me stop referring to this method as “this method&#. The 3 staples that hold the paper look sturdy enough to withstand daily use and the constant shoving in the back pocket. Knowing the right tools to use and the amount of resources needed beforehand can mitigate your job by a large percentage.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 15, 2008

One of my co-workers told me that I was already using "we" and "us" when referring to my new employer. It is my junk drawer with clips and staples and just about anything I might need during the day. I am physically still in my current job, but my mind is already on my new one. Sometimes it has been hard.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

They are then placed in a reference (Rolodex) file by type of business and not the name. Otherwise I will simply put them into my business card binder to have for future reference. Staple the cards into a little notebook, one card per page. I have them synced to my IPhone and IPad for easy access and reference.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 24, 2013

You asked many questions so I will answer all of them and also encourage you to read all my old posts and refer to my other site since they all answer your question in one way or another: [link] To create a good relationship with the other assistant and the other secretary is a two part answer.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

  She did not have faith in her tools and did not have a consistent way to reference or write out her objectives.    I carry a Note Jotter by Staples in my purse and love it.  .  Often, the papers were on sticky notes, random scraps of paper, formal to-do pads and everything in between. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

You can find it here: Amazon, Staples and other office supply stores Thanks to Julie Bestry of Best Results Organizing 6. when I conduct research, or just come across something I want to reference at a later date. When You Just Need An Extra Brain My favorite is: Evernote Because: It literally is like having a second brain.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 23, 2009

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 1, 2011

From scribbling on the back of cards, to stapling the card to literature or a blank notebook, to electronic solutions. Contact Keeper helps organize important contacts and critical notes for future reference. I also watched many others struggle with this.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Evernote allows me to upload, add, bookmark, etc anything that I would like to store as a "note" for future reference. Shred All Your Papers At Once, Credit Cards And Even Staples, Instead Of Spending Hours Feeding In Each Item. The tech tool that I could not live without is an online tool called Evernote.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 14, 2024

Whether he would have recognised it as such, Ballard was a pioneer of the principle we now refer to as psychogeography, defined by one of its founders, Guy Debord, as ‘the study of the precise effects of setting, consciously managed or not, acting directly on the mood and behaviour of the individual’.

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Success

AUGUST 2, 2021

When you work remotely, the hallway conversations, office banter and overheard learning experiences—long a staple of office environments—are replaced with a vacuum of silence, save for the ping of chat notifications. If you’re inconsistent, there will likely be a record for people to refer to. Be consistent.

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BMT Office Administration

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. For future reference. To remind employees/team members of specific tasks assigned to them.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Only file things in your workspace if you know you are going to refer back them. If it’s actually been a week since you needed to staple something, why is that stapler still next to your phone? Don’t consider a job done until you have determined the right place for the paperwork it leaves behind.

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