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Ep 185: Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

If you look at your role through this lens, then you’ll stop viewing “calendar management” as an uninteresting part of your job. In this chapter, I cover managing your executive’s calendar before it manages you, setting up and maintaining the “ Ideal Week ” tactic, and auditing your executive’s time.

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Administrative Assistant vs. Executive Assistant: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

As many of my regular readers already know, I am a proud former administrative professional. I have a deep admiration and appreciation for those who dedicate themselves to support roles, which is one of the reasons I now focus a large part of my corporate training business on working with administrative teams.

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5 Productivity Apps You Probably Already Have on Your Smartphone

Office Dynamics

This article is part one in a two-part series on productivity apps for administrative professionals by Julie Perrine. With a calendar app , you’ll never forget an important date again. Enter the specifics – description, due date, etc. – and you’ll be able to see at a glance what needs to be done and when.

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars & Tasks Webinar 12/7/11

Office Dynamics

The subject, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars & Tasks is one I am sure you will draw great tips and tricks from. Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars & Tasks. Some use it for both e-mail and calendaring. But few of us know how to get calendaring and tasks to really help us manage our time and workload. Calendars Only.

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Solution for Major Travel Planning Pain Points

Office Dynamics

Travel planning is infamous for being a huge time, patience, and sanity suck for administrative professionals. Administrative professionals are the second largest employment group in the United States and nearly every single admin doubles as a travel agent. Hey, can you book me a trip to San Francisco next week?”

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Tips for Planning Someone Else’s Travel

Office Dynamics

Planning travel for others is no simple matter and administrative professionals know this better than anyone else! If you choose to use Uber and Lyft for your the traveler, make sure their phone already has the app downloaded and is properly linked to their credit cards.

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The Admin’s Guide to Organizing Digital Files

Office Dynamics

Create a designated folder for downloads. When you’re online and you download a file or save an image, you need a single, default location on your computer for saving these items. Many computers have a default downloads folder already. If you know how to find it and use it when you’re looking for downloaded files, great!

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