Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Home About Me Advertise Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007 By The Professional Assistant on Friday, November 20, 2009 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook Y ou sent a meeting request to a bunch of people. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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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. Dont make references to people. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. Sunday, April 11, 2010 Acknowledge the Elephant in the Room Here we go again another Monday morning meeting.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 9, 2010

Manage paper effectively – Barbara Hemphill, author of The Paper Tiger, offers the FAT principle for paper burden: file it, act on it, or toss it. Reference Files: store in a convenient location close to your desk. Archive Files: store in a filing cabinet or an off-site location.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Hold Effective Meetings By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 07, 2007 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity H ave you ever wondered why you have so many meetings to attend and most of the time, you feel that you dont have a need to be there?

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Take that time to ask questions about his meetings, are there any action items you can follow up on from the meetings, are there any impending phone calls or situations you need to be aware of, can you create a template for his staff meeting agenda. Also start referring to yourself as an administrative professional or as an assistant.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Take that time to ask questions about his meetings, are there any action items you can follow up on from the meetings, are there any impending phone calls or situations you need to be aware of, can you create a template for his staff meeting agenda. Also start referring to yourself as an administrative professional or as an assistant.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 09, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you find that when you receive phone calls or voice mail messages, you cant remember who called, what time they called, who they were trying to call, etc? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you are not the person who can assist them, refer them to someone who can. 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.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

List Tasks (example) a- Plan Agenda b- Billy Bob’s Review c- Draft budget report d- Clean out my inbox 2. Compare tasks and put a check mark next to the higher Priority task: a to b then, a to c and then, a to d b to c then, b to d c to d Using the example above: Which is more important: “a-Plan Agenda” or “b-Billy Bob’s Review”?   

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Admins4Admins

MARCH 29, 2010

Leave a Comment Filed under Blogs , Featured , Opportunities This post was written by Patricia Robb, author of Laughing All The Way To Work: A Survival Guide For Today’s Administrative Assistant. Are You Prepared? no tickets. Do I have everything? This is where a checklist really comes in handy. Click here to cancel reply.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 27, 2010

If you are an evening person and you plan last thing, make sure you are looking at the next day's agenda! For some that may be first thing in the morning, for others it may be the last thing done in the day. What Did I Miss? I know that there are a lot of other ideas out there to save time.    What do you do? To your success!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

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. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

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. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

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.

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The Small Business Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Get references, if you can. Anybody who has been in business for 12 month or more should be able to give you at least one or two references. If you don’t, you’ll be last on the work and service agenda, that means you business suffers. Pay on time. You want good service, pay on time.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Putting the date on the pages helps reference notes from meetings, etc. Create email folders same as you would for word doc and paper files. Review your tickler file, "to do" lists, Outlook tasks, or whatever you use to track your action items. Create a file folder January through December. "Heads Up.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

This can be as simple as having hanging file folders marked from January to December and then you just put items in the appropriate month that you need to bring forward for your boss. Bring Forward System or Using Tasks in Outlook Have a system to follow up on items your boss has asked you to do or things you know you need to do.

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