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Dana’s Administrative Professional Advice – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

From Ernan: When we created Ask an Admin we had hopes that we’d get questions from administrative professionals having trouble finding answers to their problems. We also hoped that we’d get answers from administrative assistants and executive assistants that wanted to help.

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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

He cited an example where someone worked month on, month off as a sea-going launderer, earning $400,000 annually. 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? Everything cost so much. I wasn’t sure.

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When “Start to” and “Decide to” Creep into Your Writing

Office Dynamics

These examples show how you can write a stronger statement by going straight to the action verb rather than “beginning” to go for it. Example 1: Slowly begin to approach your teammate with your idea. Example 2: Start to make an agenda for the meeting. Better: Make an agenda for the meeting.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. 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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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. For example, the content of the learning needs to be directly related to the body of knowledge used for the certification and cannot be a sales-oriented presentation. For example, I have the PMP certification.

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Looking Forward in 2011

Laughing all the Way to Work

The new year is a good time to bring up the Look-Forward Agenda. The Look-Forward Agenda is very helpful for this. It is basically a list of items that are regularly dealt with throughout the year and provides a timetable of when these items need to be added to the agenda. Happy New Year everyone!

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Calendar Clarity

Laughing all the Way to Work

You can add the agenda to the meeting request by attaching it. For example if he is travelling to Vienna I will start a meeting request for each part of the journey and categorize it as Red. Tags: administrative professional Outlook calendar tip calendar tips Administrative Assistant.

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