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Elevate Admins: Gaining Support for Administrative Professionals

Eat Your Career

The role is absolutely essential to the success of any business, and yet, administrative professionals are often overlooked, under-appreciated and under-utilized. Ironically, “support” professionals often lack the very thing they provide. Businesses simply don’t support their administrative professionals the way they deserve.

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Celebrate Admin Professionals Month by Resolving to Write “Right”

Office Dynamics

You want to be successful in your job as an administrative professional, but you feel your writing may not be as good as it should. Do you typically communicate with customers in writing, in person, or by phone? Needs to approve every document or only specific kinds before you send them? Ltd, vs. Limited).

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How to Set Communication Standards: Tips for Admins, Leaders and Teams

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This can create serious problems for teams—and especially for administrative professionals and the people they support. For example: When speed is the most important factor, pick up the phone. When formality and documentation are the most important factors, send an email. For casual, non-urgent conversations, use Slack.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

Procedures are more than just documents; they are a roadmap for new hires, guiding them through the complexities of their new role and the company culture without constant supervision. You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Think back to the last time you started a new job.

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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. The following are five apps you probably already have on your phone, and how you can use them to be more productive. So pick up that phone, test them out, and put them to use today! Audio recorders.

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Being an Administrative Assistant for Two Different Types of Managers – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Ask an Admin was created by Office Dynamics to help administrative professionals with their problems through the help of their peers. an administrative assistant for two different types of managers. The other Chief, older, but very organized and uses online calendars and his phone as well. This week Carrie S.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

All Things Admin

Do you remember asking people in your household to hang up the phone so you could send an email? Or being tied to bulky, desktop computers that couldn’t function more than five feet away from a phone jack? When you do achieve operational gains, be sure to document and share those with your manager.