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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. Customer service. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Meeting Agenda. Finance and accounting.

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Answering Reader Mail: What Do Employers Look for in High-Level EA Candidates?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First and foremost, your job as an EA is to master working with many different people in a customer service role, and the admin work is actually secondary. I often turn these extra documents in before my first interview or bring them to the interview. So I state I don’t talk about work with anyone just to be safe.

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Small Business Checklist: Business Process Outsourcing | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

You want good service, pay on time. If you don’t, you’ll be last on the work and service agenda, that means you business suffers. If you can’t afford the service don’t hire them. Just to make sure you don’t get taken to the proverbial cleaners, and to compare service levels.

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