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10 Simple Tips to Improve Your Time Management Skills

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Then put them in your calendar before anything else. Even with the best intentions, you can find yourself subject to someone else’s agenda. Pick up the phone Making a call can often generate a quicker—and more accurate—response than a time-consuming email exchange. Don’t let the low-value ones hijack time and mental energy.

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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

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economy up to $187 billion every year between lost productivity and health care and medical costs. Tip: Make yourself laugh first Humor doesn’t come naturally to everyone, so before doing a standup routine at a company meeting, it’s a good idea to build up your humor muscle. “I Lighten up” or “You’re too sensitive.”

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

The Account Manager role was a little side step along my career path but required the same skills I would need in my next role as a PA and Administrative Manager. Getting to grips with calendar and email management. Taking minutes, writing agendas and attending meetings. Dressing professionally. Helping with projects.

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The ultimate guide to diary management

Practically Perfect PA

I have written a lot about diary management over the years, which is not surprising when you think assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their manager’s calendars. Prior to confirming a meeting in the calendar always look at what your boss has schedule either side of the meeting.

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Shorter, More Effective Meetings

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If you have a key meeting coming up with your boss, or your best client, and you know its purpose, when should most of the thinking for that session be completed? As a result, meetings that should last 20 to 30 minutes end up lasting one, two, three hours or more. Send out an agenda far enough in advance for participants to prepare.

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Technology to help with minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

It is designed specifically for people who handle tasks and need to follow up on actions from meetings. Again it is a digital notebook but it also has an automated To-Do organiser which syncs with calendars and address books. This app makes meeting preparation, participation and follow up easier. Meeting Gold - £6.99.

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Manage Your Time. Schedule Your Workflow. Save Your Sanity.

Step It Up VA Coaching

It becomes an important relationship-building gesture as well as a statement about my time management skills. Calendar everything and stick to it. Bring highly-skilled people into your company who can take things off your plate, whether it’s client-related or work that needs to be done for your own business. Guess what?