Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 19, 2014

We have some very exciting plans in the diary for 2015 and I want to share them with you today. Travel management. We have also introduced two regular features – ‘ A day in the life ‘ and ‘ Technology of the week ‘, both of which will continue into 2015. Practically Perfect PA. Key skills.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Google Glass and the Apple iWatch really do seem like something out of a sci-fi film but they will be available in 2015. Images are going to be even more popular in 2015 than they were this year. This is an oldie but a goldie and it is still going to be the top tip for all social media users in 2015. Wearable technology.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 19, 2015

First up we have Assist Travel taking place on Friday 4th September 2015 from 10am to 4pm in London. Why should you attend Assist Travel? Choosing a supplier for your office is not easy, particuarly when it comes to business travel. Travel best practice. Travel technology. Travel trends.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 15, 2015

With Assist Travel coming up in September in London I wanted to share one of our most popular blogs with you – The Ultimate Travel Itinerary. A well organised travel itinerary is an essential service that assistants can provide for their managers. I will be presenting on this very topic at the conference.

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 31, 2014

I wanted to do a Practically Perfect round up for 2014. Thanks again to all of my guest writers this year – I hope to have a few more of you next year, so do get in touch if you are interested in writing for Practically Perfect PA in 2015. Which tasks should assistants manage? Stakeholder management tips for assistants.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 29, 2015

Booking business travel can be a lengthy process. Apps are taking advantage of this user fatigue by aiming to make booking travel a simple and quick process. But are apps the way forward in business travel today? Startup Native is a travel assistant app, evolved from a need to add a human touch to mobile bookings.

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Clutter Coach

MARCH 15, 2016

by I’ve been reading Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. Travel is a great way to unclutter the mind of the daily grind and relax. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Originally posted 2015-03-31 12:38:05. Be specific about what you want and also why you want it.

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

Is the metric based on how many new ideas you can come up with ? On how you dress, what music you listen to and with whom you strike up conversations? Relationships involve inventive problem-solving at every turn, for example, as does the management of our own emotional well-being. After all, how do you measure? a paperweight!

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

Now this came from an executive who traveled around the world, would work until 2:00 a.m., This is the best advice you will ever receive on how to build a strategic partnership with your executive, manage their day, and stay on top of the volumes of tasks and projects you have to handle. Upcoming Travel. Follow-up Items.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With years of experience running a coworking space in Berlin and extensive research and travel to over 500 coworking spaces across 50 cities, Pauline has gained deep insights into the uniqueness, importance, and impact of collaborative work environments on people and communities. It can really be where it needs. That’s a great quote.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When I was an assistant 40 years ago we complained about not getting time with our executives; we complained about not getting enough information from our managers; we complained about not getting support for training. The idea is to come up with revolutionary answers that will create change and therefore create better conversations.

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Success

JULY 29, 2022

Virtual events also saw a rise in popularity, as they allowed audiences to attend without paying for travel or worrying about exposure to COVID-19. Although friends often understand gaps in communication, when receiving messages from employers and managers, even after hours, it’s often more difficult to stay away from the phone.

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MARCH 31, 2023

“I just do it because—darn it—there are a lot of women [in the world] who don’t have the opportunity to get up in the morning and even get an education, so I can get my butt on a plane and deal with it. In the show, a group of budding entrepreneurs traveled the world tackling a series of challenges. I’m scared. I was on high alert.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

During Assist Travel 2015 we are running a brilliant interactive session called …What happened next ? I’m really looking forward to this one because we will look at how assistants have worked their magic to fix all manner of travel mishaps from cancelled flights, erupting volcanos to the wrong visas and flat tires.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 30, 2015

IAAP teamed up with Staples to #CelebrateAdmins. Business Management Daily had a daily free download or gift. Here’s a recap of the great content that was discussed this month: 10 Steps to Supporting Multiple Managers (4/1/2015). Qualities Of A Great Assistant (4/2/2015). Guest Post by Judi Moreo (4/14/2015).

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 24, 2015

I arrived on a wet and windy Sunday morning and was immediately whisked up to my room. In no particular order I took a bath, called up for a big fluffy bathrobe and got back into bed for a few hours. Advertised minimum rate per night is £104 (January 2015). After a lovely nap I took in the rest of the room.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

As I write this, there are 37 hours left in 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

As I write this, there are 37 hours left in 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 22, 2015

We were greeted in a small reception area on the ground floor, most of which was taken up by an art exhibition. Advertised minimum rate per night is €179 (February 2015). Practically Perfect PA stays admin administrators business travel EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Travel Virtual Assistant'

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 18, 2015

Once I had my keys I was whisked up to the room and found a fantastic selection of Scottish products waiting for me to sample! Advertised minimum rate per night is £84 (January 2015). The hotel itself is a little dated but it is clean and comfortable. Our opinions are entirely our own.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

If you haven’t already subscribed for this weekly pick-you-up you can do so here: Subscribe to Monday Motivators. October: Managing Your Executive’s Day (Part 1) Webinar. October: Managing Your Executive’s Day (Part 2) Webinar. September: Challenge Your Comfort Zone with Jasmine Freeman Webinar.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Having grown up in a pub owning family I must admit to being sceptical about my stay in one of the five rooms atop the Orange Pub. For me staying over at the pub meant waking up after a very noisy evening to find large empty whiskey bottles at the bottom of the stairs and various family members in drunken slumber.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 14, 2015

The staff were attentive and polite, your drink was always being topped up. As a breakfast goes it was adequate to set us up for our day of sightseeing. Advertised minimum rate per night is €207 (February 2015). It very much catered for business lunches and most parties seemed to come and go at speed.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 8, 2015

To meet them is to make them mortal, to remove the glean, to open yourself up for a cold shower and a dose of reality. Walking into the Peter Street entrance, up a few small steps, somehow seems too plain a way to initially experience this particular hotel. Advertised minimum rate per night is £653 (February 2015).

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 11, 2015

This will probably amaze most occasional travellers to one of London’s busiest stations but Eccleston Square and its superb five star Eccleston Square Hotel really does offer quiet amongst the madness. Apparently this is pretty common among travellers as a way to relax and unwind after a long journey or a hard day. Indeed I answered.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 15, 2016

A lot of people assume that EAs just look after the diary and book the travel, but in reality we do so much more. We are the right hand person, the key strategic partner within the management team – we really do spin many plates at the same time and my first job, as Andrew’s assistant was to help him understand my role.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As we have operations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, amongst others, I am already looking at ways to improve how all of the EAs spread across the globe can work more efficiently as a team, and make a more telling contribution to the ExCo and Senior Management Teams. What do you enjoy least? What has been your career highlight?

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 15, 2015

To continue our travels through this special month of June, the official month of the 25 th year anniversary of Office Dynamics, I found more goodies to share with you! For years, secretaries and administrative assistants traveled at low levels. Quit traveling close to the ground. Hello Monday Motivators! They were invisible.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Management and administrative support professionals, as all employees, feel like they don’t have enough hours in the day to complete their work. Plus, the downside is that executives and managers have to share delegating their workload to the Assistant thus keeping projects or basic tasks on their plate. Employees feel time-compressed.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

Over the last few years there are plenty more online communities and in more recent times we have taken networking to a whole new level with local networks, organised by assistants, springing up all over the place. First up we have the Edinburgh PA Network. Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 21, 2016

We will help assistants to skill up to ensure they are on top of any work related social media tasks as well as helping them understand how to best use social media to improve their own core skills. We are currently scouring the internet to bring you all of the latest, coolest and most up to date office tech.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

I grew up in a different age where working hard and being humble were par for the course for the PA. You need to reinforce that your work is under control and manage expectations. Getting buy-in IS ACHIEVABLE and I managed to successfully get the following approved: Business Cards. Millennials belong to a Show and Tell Culture.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 5, 2015

I have a dual role: my primary responsibility is being the PA to the managing director. I manage his schedule and monitor his emails, as well as help organise some of his travel, company events, and client dinners, occasional research, expenses and ad hoc tasks – all the general PA duties.

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Allwork

JULY 14, 2022

Tim is the author of the book The Business Romantic (HarperCollins, 2015), which has been translated into nine languages to date. So my surname, the labor in proper German where I grew up, means right to live or live the right life. I believe that change always happens from, if you will, from the grassroots up. Can you tell us?

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The group was a mix of returning attendees and first timers, all excited about the days to come, with participants having traveled from all corners of the US, Canada, and even Israel! Next, the conference mixed things up with a teambuilding exercise that challenged everyone to connect, collaborate and put their creative nature to work.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Historically we have only allowed our speakers to set up tables and sell their books. Last year, we had several companies interested in setting up a display in our Success Store and it was great. I encourage you to at least sign up for the webinar so you will get the replay link in the event you miss it. And Jasmine, too.)

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 16, 2018

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. I was fortunate to work with some amazing managers and executives who were happy to mentor me about business and how to be a business partner. There is a team behind the amazing conference event.

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