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Say Goodbye To Calendar Tetris And Say Hello To Strategic Calendar Planning

Melissa Peoples

Let's face it: As an Executive Assistant, sometimes calendar management can feel like a nightmare. But the truth is that there are keys to unlocking the power of a strategic calendar. Calendar management can be tough. There are endless variables that go into successful calendar management. Oh yes, we have all been there!

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

Success

You can write whatever comes to mind without a theme or specific agenda. The Scheduler Tool: calendar Method: Write just a sentence or two in every calendar day’s box. The Traditionalist Tool: notebook Method: Throughout the day, take handwritten notes about what’s happening and how you feel about it.

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Science Shows How to Have Better Meetings

On The Job

Forget an agenda. Don't let a calendar dictate. Just because Google or Outlook blocks out 30 minutes or 60 minutes for a meeting doesn't mean you have to follow it. His findings: 1. It really doesn't do anything in terms of meeting effectiveness despite all the advice that You. Stop holding people hostage.

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4 Top Project Management Tools

Office Organization Success

Google Calendars. Good ole’ Google calendars are a really quick and simple project management tool. You can overlay your calendars with one another so you can see if there are any conflicts or gaps with your planning. And similarly you can just view one calendar at a time. Actually it’s the one I use myself!

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Podcast 099: The virtual team

Clutter Coach

Google Play. Having the calls on his calendar gave more structure to the timeline. It also encourages me to put tasks on the calendar and complete them because I’ve given myself a reason that they should happen now, not next month or next year or sometime in the future. by Subscribe: iTunes ? Soundcloud ?

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Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007

Professional Assistant Blog

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#.

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Review: Shifts for iOS

Productivityist

If you’ve ever put your work calendar into your Google Calendar (or equivalent) and you are an iPhone user then Shifts is an app that will allow you to “shift” away from that and enter your work schedule into it instead. Apps Reviews calendar productivity shift shift worker shifts work' Think again.