Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 23, 2014

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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Clutter Coach

JUNE 28, 2018

This is podcast 99 and it’s about a productivity tool I call the virtual team. Having the calls on his calendar gave more structure to the timeline. We don’t have a specific agenda for our calls, although that’s a great idea. by Subscribe: iTunes ? Soundcloud ? Google Play. You can leave a review here!

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

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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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Part III – Tools. Part III – Tools. This is the reason why we need a dependable tool that will keep our sanity and productivity system glued together. We will take a quick look at some productivity tools that could help us push our productivity objectives to the next level. Follow me on t witte r.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 23, 2015

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. So Shifts becomes a budgeting tool and a scheduling tool in that sense. Think again.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

  What tools do you use? T hen I just review each night for the next day to make sure I am on task - I take my daily to-dos from my master and I schedule my to-do mistycb   @ StephCalahan using iPhone apps:etodo,calendar & www.hassleme.co.uk/ deusami   @ StephCalahan Trying out a moleskin plan. To dos in back.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? First of all, there is not a perfect tool or a perfect system.

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Loosely Speaking

MARCH 12, 2009

That being said, our agenda calls for each attendee to provide a valuable tip.  When you purchase the download for a nominal price, this combo marketing plan and calendar guides a business owner through the important tasks that so often get pushed off to the side. I love this thing! That’s impressive.  I was hooked!

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 18, 2016

She wrote that during “a busy work day, my online calendar is tucked away. if you so choose) are the only tools you need in those instances. She also has agendas where, if you want to, you can print and build your own papers.) It can also help to have something physical in front of you. She has already put together planners.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

My favourite to-do list is a calendar timeline so I can see at a glance where I am at and what I need to do to get there. It is simply using an on-line calendar with space on each day to enter what needs to be done. To generate a calendar in Word 2007, click on the Office Button (in the top left-hand corner). No surprises!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 16, 2010

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Dealing in real time.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

While technology has given us tools to improve and simplify our lives, we have added so much more to our schedules that we are as pressed for time as any generation. List #1 – The weekly calendar. How you manage your time is part of your personal agenda. If you’re anything like me, your day is full of things to do.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

As the Personal Assistant to a quite renowned chef, my tasks might vary from the ones of a regular PA, like calendar and email management, to most specific tasks such as taking care of the journalists that come visit the restaurants and to interview Albert. These kinds of tools have helped me optimize our time together.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc.

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

An app can have many exciting features, like monitoring multiple goals, a task manager or to-do lists, access to a personal coach and integration with your calendar or other apps. Todoist is available on multiple devices and offers templates to tackle meeting agendas, accounting, wedding planning and even packing for a vacation.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Walsh praises the virtues of creating frameworks and boundaries, as well as “scripting” — the notion of setting things up in advance so that your chance to success is much greater than if you just go by the agenda to presents itself throughout the game (or in our case, the day). We do it for the greater good.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Walsh praises the virtues of creating frameworks and boundaries, as well as “scripting” — the notion of setting things up in advance so that your chance to success is much greater than if you just go by the agenda to presents itself throughout the game (or in our case, the day). We do it for the greater good.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Walsh praises the virtues of creating frameworks and boundaries, as well as “scripting” — the notion of setting things up in advance so that your chance to success is much greater than if you just go by the agenda to presents itself throughout the game (or in our case, the day). We do it for the greater good.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

A tip she passed along had to do with the bring-forward system and has been a great tool for me. My boss likes me to print his weekly calendar on Monday so he can see at a glance what he has for the week so I clip that to the front of the folder. One of my friends was able to help me with many things I needed to know.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

Once a date is finalized I put it in my bosss calendar and confirm the meeting with the other participants. Another benefit to writing it down is if your boss asks you to cancel it or to quickly tell you when the meeting is, you can look at the sheet rather than trying to search for it in your calendar. Minute taking made easier.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

I also drag items from my Inbox if someone sends me an email to advise they will be sending an agenda or some other item by a certain date. The Reminders box is the same box where your calendar items pop up when they are due, so should be familiar to everyone. So how can we know what we dont know? Minute taking made easier.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? I believe someone mentioned there were almost 500 to choose from.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

INCOMING MAIL: As with e-mail, you should read the letter to see if there are any action items for your boss (or yourself) and diarize them or put the appropriate dates in the calendar. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

The night before I go to a Board meeting, I review all my templates, agendas, binder, attendance sheets and everything I am going to need or might need. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? no tickets. Do I have everything?

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 8, 2012

For those seeking to marry the digital and analog experience of productivity into a finely-tuned machine, the Livescribe is a tool that can make that happen. NeuYear calendar. I’m big on visuals, and the NeuYear calendar gives me a bird’s eye view of my year in one place. Agenda Calendar. NeatDesk. TextExpander.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

She had an agenda and was going to let him have it. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? The longer she couldnt get in touch with him, the angrier she became. When she finally did reach him she started off really nice. "Hi,

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Posted by Patricia Robb at 4:16 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , agenda , checklist , executive assistant , minutes , motions , professional assistant , to-do list , voting Reactions: Newer Post Older Post Home Join me for a Webinar, Sept. Being organized helps de-clutter any task and makes it more manageable and doable.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

Under Leader, click the leader option that suits your needs i.e. ……1 or --1 Click OK Type text you want i.e. Agenda as in example below. To set a recurring 9-5 meeting (as opposed to clicking all-day meeting) I dont like the all-day meeting settings as they are out of sight at the top of the calendar and easily missed.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Below are a few tips so the task is not as daunting: Filling in the blanks I take minutes on a laptop so it is easy to make a template ahead of time which is based on the agenda. I put the items from the agenda on the template in the same order and with a space to put the discussion and decisions/actions from the meeting.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

The best tool for this is Post-It notes. Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks. Sit down at your calendar and block out the time for your tasks. If you need to write/send your holiday cards then look at your calendar and schedule it in. In the calendar. Schedule those activities on your calendar.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Blog posts and articles can turn into: ebooks, presentations, calendar/tip-of-the-day. The online tool Odiogo allows you to transform your blog post into what it calls high-fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device. Thanks to Derrick Hayes of WOE Enterprises.

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