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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

If you don’t have procedures in place, one approach to onboarding involves having the new hire document the procedures as they learn. This method serves a dual purpose: it ensures that your procedures are up-to-date and allows the new employee to reinforce their learning through the act of documentation.

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How to Share Your Procedures With Your Team

All Things Admin

Regularly revisit and review your procedures manual with your team. Make improving and updating your procedures an agenda item at every staff meeting. Knowing that they exist and are there for their use helps cement procedures as a part of the company culture. This is a strategic way to make process improvement an ongoing project.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

BUT, I learned and I learned quickly by making some mistakes early on. What I also learned was that I liked what I was doing and that I was good at it – or had the potential to be. I believe meeting planners and administrative professionals possess similar skills/traits that enable them to be good at what they do.

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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. Criticism and/or negative feedback during a performance review.

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Certain Truths That Never Change In Professional Development

Office Dynamics

It’s been a long, hard, fascinating journey and I am forever grateful to the thousands of assistants and administrators I have met and served; the hundreds of companies who believed in me and investing in their administrative professionals’ development; the hundreds of executives I have met who have been champions for the profession.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. Prepare a meeting package for your boss and bring forward prior to the meeting to give them adequate time to review (hardcopy or electronic depending on your boss’s preference). Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. 23, 1 p.m. (New

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared. Again, explain the benefits to requesting projects ahead of time and put it in writing.

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