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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management.

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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. Did he say it because I was an administrator, or because I was female? The remark wasn’t directed at another attorney, just the lone female administrative professional seated at that table. The other lawyers and I sat there, speechless.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

Learn the lingo… The other benefit of reading other minutes from within your business is that you’ll get to learn the company lingo and acronyms and any other common business/ industry language found in minute documents. So your prep is done, and you’re walking in with your document all prepared and ready to go.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Career organization is essential for any administrative professional who wants to have a long-lasting, successful career. What I’ve found over time is a lot of people don’t take the time to properly organize the documents and materials that support their career growth and development. Forms and Checklists. Project plans.

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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. Thank you for this extremely educational and thought-provoking article.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Can you bring in new business, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, help build the strategy that will form the company’s future? And of course you don’t want to completely control the meeting, or otherwise disregard the other person’s agenda. Help them better leverage partners and suppliers?

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Put it in a folder for your boss’s signature in completed form, i.e. envelope clipped to letter and attachments. If you are sending the letter by regular mail, courier or registered mail, make sure you have the proper postage, courier slips or forms filled out. I usually put a sticky note on it for that as well. 411 Look Up 411.ca