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How Paperless Meetings Can Help the Environment and the Office

Eco-Office Gals

Paper-based meetings are becoming a major inconvenience at the office and in the environment. Offices spend a lot of resources on paper, while the environment suffers from the carbon that paper usage emits. Online document storage saves the environment. Fortunately, paperless meetings have come to take those nuisances away.

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Is Document Scanning Green?

Eco-Office Gals

I think most of us in business are pragmatic enough to realize that whilst we all want to do our bit it is the cost saving agenda rather than the green agenda that drives change. It has to be stored in a secure controlled environment and it consumes electricity. Again there is a real business cost and a cost to the environment.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

Gaining awareness of a business environment. Establishing and maintaining filing systems. Taking minutes, writing agendas and attending meetings. Speaking to clients and customers in a professional and helpful manner. Dressing professionally. Working to deadlines and for a number of people. Understanding basic office procedures.

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Thinking Differently about Difficult People

The Office Professionals Place

When you change your attitude, you are able to focus on the issue and get the job done in a stress free environment. Prior to interacting with this person, you should have an agenda or objective and seek to accomplish the goal(s). Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

When a meeting is finalized, I put the scheduling sheet in a completed file. I tend to keep my scheduling sheets in chronological order and each morning I go through them to see if there is any action I need to take, i.e. follow up to ask for an agenda or see if I can start scheduling. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared?

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Pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This is useful if you want to file the email and change the Subject line to something that better describes what the email is about or to put notes in the email. 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.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I use hanging file folders labelled from January through to December. Every afternoon before I leave for the day, I go through the hanging file for that month to see if there is anything I need to bring forward for the next day. A tip she passed along had to do with the bring-forward system and has been a great tool for me.