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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. This most crucial part of your business cards is your contact information, such as your name, phone number, and email. Forms and Checklists.

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How to Hold Effective Meetings

Professional Assistant Blog

Plan out an agenda of all points that will need to be discussed. The Timekeeper would make sure each topic is covered within the amount of time mentioned on the agenda. A template can be downloaded here. If the person isnt responsible for any of the items discussed in this meeting, dont invite them.

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Are You Stealing from Your Profitability (and don’t even know it)?

Stephanie LH Calahan

At one point I did this exercise and I found that I was spending over 30 minutes a day just on downloading and uploading files for my daily podcast! Be careful not to get caught up in the “how” at this point. Just identify what needs to change.

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3 Steps to Manifest Your Goals In Life—Yes, It Really Does Work

Success

Whittaker offers his success plan template , which you can download for free. By grabbing our phone first thing in the morning, all we’re doing is reacting to someone else’s agenda for our time,” Whittaker says. Put them in your calendar, and every 90 days, you repeat the process.”. Do you need help creating your success plan?

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Anchoring the system in the tickler file: You will find your "Next action" sheets, your project sheets, agendas, documents you need to work with, etc. Network with Stephanie or Connect with Your Smart Phone Become a Fan Follow this blog Categories News & Updates! "The Ph.D. of Productivity"(tm).

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Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers

Stephanie LH Calahan

If you are an evening person and you plan last thing, make sure you are looking at the next day's agenda! Network with Stephanie or Connect with Your Smart Phone Become a Fan Follow this blog Categories News & Updates! For some that may be first thing in the morning, for others it may be the last thing done in the day.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

When you sit in a meeting for hours on end, ears pricked up, needing to listen and capture every word, the last thing you want to be doing is jumping around the page, creating headings and subheadings against the agenda items on the fly, or jumping from one agenda item to the next.

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