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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. They save you time and unnecessary stress. Systems have many benefits. Travel planning.

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Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

All Things Admin

Or you may have set days of the week where you do certain reports or perform routine tasks like expense reporting or payroll. At that point, it’s overwhelming and stressful. For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders.

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Tips For a Memorable Office Gift Exchange

Office Dynamics

Organizing an office gift exchange can be an opportunity to create meaningful memories with your coworkers, or, as a recent article on The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) blog makes clear, a potential minefield of stress and unintentional offense. Holiday gift baskets.

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Hearing the Message

Office Dynamics

What example am I setting for our teenage daughter about pursuing dreams at a fairly expensive price? Admin Assistant Training Current Events Self Development Stress Management clues Kemetia Foley message roles we play Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy Thrive what are you missing wisdom'

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Getting People to Notice You: Cultivating High Self-Esteem Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

Questions from your admin peers: Administrative Professional blogs, Facebook, and Linked In resources. The scholarship award does NOT include travel expenses. Honorees are responsible for their own travel, hotel and incidental expenses; this scholarship applies to tuition only. What are your favorites?

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An Admin’s Guide to Documenting Systems

All Things Admin

Organization is a pain point for many administrative professionals. Whether you realize it or not, you probably already have systems in place, both personally and professionally. Systems are ordered and proven processes that save you time, effort, and stress. To do this, you need systems. . com to find out more.

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Accepting a New Job? Be Sure to “Date” Before You Get Married!

Bonnie Low Kramen

The Assistant never met their new executives in person before saying “yes to the stress.”. It turned out that rental properties in the new city were not only more expensive but scarce. This article first appeared in Executive Support Magazine, a global training publication, and must read for any administrative professional.

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