Productivity Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Ground Rules And Meeting Agenda. Tip #1 : Make sure that you have a firm meeting agenda and that you have communicated this agenda to all of the meeting’s attendees. Tip #4 : Have all of the materials and equipment already set up before the start of the meeting.

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 7, 2009

In Arizona, we’re gearing up for a late summer meeting for Virtual Assistants. Love to hear from you about your thoughts on an agenda for a VA retreat, or any similar event you’ve hosted for peers. RSS Comments RSS Subscribe in a reader Copyright 2004. Have you hosted such a gathering? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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Productivity Bits

JULY 18, 2011

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. We have a lot on our agenda, and we carry an oversized to do list that limits our ability to use strategy and plan our day to achieve our goals. Instead, prioritize tasks that you need to clear from your agenda because they are more pressing. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest post.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 12, 2010

Louis found that people who sleep after storing a memory end up following through on their intentions much more effectively than people who jump right in without sleeping. Take a lesson from this research the next time you have a full agenda at work the following day. Researchers at Washington University in St.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. I hope these videos will help you to make up your mind to start your own business, it does not cost the earth. If providing additional income for your family is on your agenda, this could be one of your opportunities. Maybe we will make them into a video.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 14, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 14 June, 2009 Meeting preparation. To prepare a minute template simply use your agenda and put it in minute format. Under each agenda heading you can then record the appropriate information when you are in the meeting. I use the meeting agenda as an index with each item as a tab number.

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. You don’t actually try closing them out but must control them so that they won’t blow you up into pieces. The only thing that you can do is to prevent the build up of new “open loops&# on top of your existing “open loops&#. Visit the original article at [link].

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 12, 2010

We expend energy rushing through the day trying to keep up with ourselves. Look for ways to free-up time. A few minutes saved here and there can add up to a significant portion of time. How you manage your time is part of your personal agenda. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail.

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Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 16, 2009

If you reside in Northern Arizona and your VA practice meets the * criteria listed below, then you won’t want to miss this local meet-up of seasoned professionals. Agenda will be provided once you RSVP to either tara-at-cableone-dot-net or ktcosmos-at-LooseEnds-dot-net. I may show up. Sounds like fun. Happy New Year!

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 12, 2015

While I grew up in Ohio and lived there into my mid-20s, I did move away and have been gone ever since. ’ What’s Your Agenda This Year? Are my goals aligned with higher-ups, as well as with my employer? Post ideas (with copyright and Office Dynamics International logo) on intranet sites. Do you know what?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Make meetings effective – Managers can spend an average of 17 hours a week in meetings, and that doesn’t include preparation and follow-up time. If you’re holding a meeting, draw up an agenda and circulate it to the staff attending beforehand. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

I set up alerts to remind me that they're coming up. List Tasks (example) a- Plan Agenda b- Billy Bob’s Review c- Draft budget report d- Clean out my inbox 2.     B Which is more important: “a-Plan Agenda” or “c-Draft budget report”? I set up alerts to remind me that they're coming up.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 8 November, 2009 Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home I had a good tip from my boss that I have used to help me prepare him for meetings whether they are away or at home. Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc.

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

We’ll post the names of the companies offering these goodies and they are firmed up. This needs to be written up for IVAACast, too. I think we’ll easily find a laptop user that you can buddy up with during the event to access the sessions that are being presented. It might encourage other areas to do the same thing.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 March, 2010 Are you prepared? I take the bus to work and I often see people getting on a busy bus and then going through their backpack or purse looking for their bus tickets and holding up the line. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 5 July, 2009 Psst! I was at the cottage with a friend and she was cranky and started to get wound up about something to do with her husband. She had an agenda and was going to let him have it. She ended up calling her husband back and apologizing for her bad mood. Hi, how are you?,"

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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?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 18 September, 2009 Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles I recently arrived in Atlanta, Georgia to attend OfficeArrow s Lift Summit on Social Media. Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 August, 2010 Pass it on. I think Tasks is one of Outlooks best-kept secrets, but it shouldnt be and is a great way to follow up on items. Note: The original email will remain in your Sent items and a copy will open up in your Tasks notes page). 411 Look Up 411.ca " Warning!

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. This will allow you to stay in close touch with your supplier, and get real time up-dates and feed-back – there are other benefits too. Get a back-up. outsource effectively , plan your business , start-up in business , use online IT. Do It Online.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 December, 2009 Meetings Plus: Taking them offline I organize a lot of meetings in a day, week, month; heck, even into next year. There are some meetings that are currently on my radar for next summer and beyond, but I still have a sheet for it and move it up the pile as the date for planning gets closer.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 12 December, 2009 On the job tips for new Admins. I started this blog to share the knowledge I had picked up over the years either from other administrative assistants, my bosses or from trial and error. I also use Tasks in Outlook to follow up on electronic items. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Admins4Admins

MARCH 29, 2010

Are you prepared? I take the bus to work and I often see people getting on a busy bus and then going through their backpack or purse looking for their bus tickets and holding up the line. I always shake my head when I see that because I think they should have had that ready before they boarded. no tickets. Do I have everything?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 6 September, 2008 Going Checklist Crazy I am organizing a Board meeting and I have checklists and to-do lists coming out of my ears. A memory stick is my back up if my laptop and I part ways. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views. Do you have any suggestions for my OVERWHELMINGLY large "to follow up on" folder. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. While the Bank of England has lowered the interest rate to the lowest level on record, the banks have doubled the interest they demand from small business owners, up to almost 20% for certain loans – that is a 19.5% Concentrate on your business, not your office.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. and will outstrip our economies within the next decades, unless our politicians, will finally stop putting barriers up for micro businesses. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 20 February, 2010 Minute taking made easier. 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. 411 Look Up 411.ca Lets enjoy our day together.© " Warning!

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Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

So you’re up there on a cloud or something and some other spirit-guy, maybe your friend, comes by your cloud and says, “Hey. If the world had ended and you were up on a cloud right now thinking about it, would you have been proud of yesterday? Especially since I have to get up early and get back to work. I went to sleep.”

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 24 May, 2009 Word and Outlook 2007 tips I use Word 2007 at my new job and have never really had a chance to go through it to find the quick tips and how-tos that I had in Word 2003. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 6, 2010

I wasn’t from their league, I was just a strange guy who gave up a fancy job at a radio just to write stupid documentations in French. After a few more days, as I was entering the kitchen in the first lunch break of the week, one of my colleagues got up of this chair and offered it to me. It can take you up or it can take you down.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

There are lots of other people out there getting seriously up in arms about it, though. How Relationships Work When you’re a tiny little kid and you don’t have any friends yet, the grown-ups around you explain what is and is not friendly behavior. If it is not valuable, don’t give up your day job. Bengt´s last blog.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2010

If you want to impress, you can’t let up as quickly as others. You keep yourself from telling 20 people you are going to do things for them, ending up only doing the things for 5 of them, and instead tell 5 people you will do things for them, and do them a little better than you described.

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Most of the time, digital friendships last as long as the underlying hidden agenda’s of both parties last. Even though I haven’t met the majority of my online friends, I know that if I’m ever in their city or they are in mine we will surely meet up. Shake it Up! Outstanding set of guidelines my friend.

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The Small Business Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. So I saw little of my family and especially my son who is now grown-up and ready to go to university. So for the past eight years I have been there when my son came home from school, I even picked him up often enough. What do you think?

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 9, 2010

Some of my army colleagues decided to withdraw from their duty, calling in sick and stacking up at the infirmary beds. Fearlessness Reply 2 dragos August 9, 2010 at 8:02 pm That was a nice one, I also hope the same thing: that my readers won’t have to endure the same thing I did, before realizing what they are up to.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall. I can then either leave them up on the wall, and tweak them throughout the day, or I can generate a formal to-do list. Not Really!"

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