Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Once you have this information you will know when is the best time to schedule meetings for them, when to leave time free for them to get stuck into their emails or write reports. I colour code and categorise everything from birthdays, client meetings, 1-2-1s with colleagues, reading and email time, holding meetings and even lunch.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I receive a lot of emails from admins who’ve lost their jobs unexpectedly. What I’ve found over time is a lot of people don’t take the time to properly organize the documents and materials that support their career growth and development. Most admins have a resume, but not many consider it a living document. This is so true.

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On The Job

APRIL 19, 2013

Text messages and emails are a constant distraction," he says. Eventoff advises: • A call-to-action agenda. It''s not enough to have a general agenda that gives the meeting time and who will attend. Does a document need to be written? A determination of what success will look like. Is a decision needed?

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 29, 2010

Always start on time and do your best to end on time by following the agenda and "table" topics that require more discussion. If they are late, it is helpful to let them know what agenda item is being discussed--do not go over what has already been discussed--its a time waster. Distribute the agenda/handouts prior to the meeting.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 17, 2014

I have often sent a section of the draft minutes to the person who was reporting on that particular agenda item to review and make any changes before I sent the draft on to the chairman. They are official documents for your organisation, so it is important that the minutes are accurate and objective. Be prepared.

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Productivity Bits

JULY 18, 2011

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. Please signup to my email list to receive free updates from Productivity Bits.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 14, 2011

After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. He cited an example where someone worked month on, month off as a sea-going launderer, earning $400,000 annually. The guy seated across from me turned to me, saying, “Nancy, you might want to look into that.”. The other lawyers and I sat there, speechless.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 21, 2014

Ensure that the conference call has an agenda and make sure that all of the participants have the correct paperwork. During the conference call it can be a little disruptive if the participants cannot all see the same documents. Send clear instructions. Conferencecall.co.uk

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You can have a daily agenda emailed to you so you know what you need to focus on on that particular day. You can manage calendars, projects, tasks, upload documents; in fact you can do all kinds of really neat stuff with this tool. You can easily access your calendar on your Smartphone for planning on the go. Central Desktop.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 2, 2010

You can add the agenda to the meeting request by attaching it. To add an attachment, click on the Insert tab and choose Attach File or Attach Item. When you send it to the attendees they will have all the information they need for the meeting.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2015

I provide extensive diary management including global travel arrangements, compile reports, agendas and for Committee and Board meetings. I also act as the central point of contact for both Directors which might include meeting clients/suppliers, telephone liaison and managing emails whilst they are away.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I’ve only sent a handful of emails to the Productivityist team over the last year. Slack allows us to focus on using email for other areas of our work. If this was done via group email, it is easy to see how this could flood an email inbox with unnecessary information. Training Documentation. Slack gives us that.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Julie Morgenstern, author of many books including Never Check Email in the Morning (and Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work and Organizing from the Inside Out, 2nd ed: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life says that what we need to do is "anchor" our systems. "The Ph.D.

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Success

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We fear that slowing down and organizing will kill our productivity, but the facts suggest otherwise: The average office employee spends “at least two hours a day—or 25% of their workweek—looking for the documents, information or people they need to do their jobs,” according to Glean ’s 2022 Hybrid Workplace Habits & Hangups survey. “54%

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The Office Professionals Place

APRIL 11, 2010

This weeks agenda has the same items as last weeks and again nothing is resolved. Sunday, April 11, 2010 Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room Here we go again another Monday morning meeting. It is a difficult meeting to attend because it is a time waster - unproductive and boring.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 27, 2010

Prior to interacting with this person, you should have an agenda or objective and seek to accomplish the goal(s). Enter your email address in the ‘subscribe’ field on this page to get automatic updates from the Office Professionals Place Blog. Enjoyed this article?

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How are you supposed to document everything for reference, as well? If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project. So, the trick is to find a way to integrate procedures documentation and process improvement into the natural flow of your daily work.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

I answered that while it is nice to have friends to go to lunch with occasionally, I mention how I was groomed the same way by all the CEO’s offices where one never knows if they befriend you at the office for hidden agendas. I often turn these extra documents in before my first interview or bring them to the interview.

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

And of course you don’t want to completely control the meeting, or otherwise disregard the other person’s agenda. You don’t want to have to rush through it too much – just a few high-impact slides should do the trick.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting.

Administrative Professionals 100

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

i.e. My boss will send an email with a cc to me and on the last line or buried in the message he will write something like “I have copied Patricia to set up a teleconference at a mutually convenient time.&# This is especially helpful in the case that there are attachments in the email. There could be a message for you.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

If you don’t, you’ll be last on the work and service agenda, that means you business suffers. Thanks Paul Legal Outsourcing Said on August 28th, 2008 at 5:43 pm Legal process outsourcing deals in legal research,document review,deposition,intellectualproperety,IPR,transcription,patents,copyright,research. Pay on time.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 21, 2014

Set aside emails from colleagues and clients they have hundreds of emails from professional organisations, upcoming conferences, travel companies and not to mention lots and lots of sales requests. Keep the standard responses saved in a separate document and simply copy and paste the response into an email and hit send.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

. ……1 or --1 Click OK Type text you want i.e. Agenda as in example below. spacing To insert a document i.d. or a filename path to your document Insert Footer, Edit Footer On Insert Tab, click on drop down menu for Quick Parts. spacing To insert a document i.d. Then open a new document and paste (Ctrl v).

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For example, when Ludwig noticed her Executive’s one-on-one meetings with team members were taking twice as long as necessary, she suggested team members come to the check ins with an agenda — a move that saved her leader several hours each week. “For example, have specific conversations about when to use text and when to use email.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2015

I have two lovely grandsons so they were definitely going to be in the picture with Granny spending a lot more time with them instead of continually saying "I'll be with you in a minute, I just have one more thing to finish for work" as I madly tried to draft an agenda while babysitting them on the weekend.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 6, 2010

I started to test a few projects and also begun to write the documentation. 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. Or that a “requette” means in fact “an SQL query”? Well, these little things made that job a little less boring.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. As my business continues to grow from it's inception in 2004, I've added a lot more to my agenda, including blogging on my website, guest blogging, writing articles for e-zines and in print for local magazines, creating a monthly newsletter and doing public speaking.

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Productivityist

MAY 17, 2016

When I’m trying to get something out of my head, I don’t want to see everything else on my agenda. Once that’s done, I copy and paste the drive document to my writing app of choice for blog posts – Byword – and get it ready for WordPress. I want to work intentionally with as little friction as possible.

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