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10 Simple Tips to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Success

An unexpected phone call or a drop-in visitor may be urgent, but the consequences of dealing with either may not be important in the long run. Do you receive phone calls that divide your focus? Even with the best intentions, you can find yourself subject to someone else’s agenda. Has a crisis caused you to drop everything?

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Five tips for keeping a meeting on track

Practically Perfect PA

You know those meetings that go on and on forever with no agenda, no purpose and no end? Often, they can be a phone call or an email, and they never require everyone in the […]. Yup, we’ve all been there, and we all know how much of a waste of time these meetings can be.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

The Account Manager role was a little side step along my career path but required the same skills I would need in my next role as a PA and Administrative Manager. Speaking with confidence on the phone and forwarding calls. Taking minutes, writing agendas and attending meetings. Dressing professionally. Learning to multi-task.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Here’s a glimpse into our comprehensive onboarding agenda: Introduction to Team Dynamics Schedule regular daily huddles in the initial weeks, adjusting to fewer meetings as the new hire becomes more integrated.

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Ground rules for team meetings

Practically Perfect PA

Turn their phone onto vibrate. Every meeting must have an agenda . Make sure every meeting has an agenda, it can be very simple for example: Date, time, location. Agenda / meeting’s purpose. The most important aspect of the agenda is the timing of each item. Listen to each other and not interrupt.

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People have to create great leadership in the face of unrealistic expectations

Workplace Insight

Here’s are five leadership skills that all leaders should develop: Resilience It’s important to find ways to develop resilience to criticism. Set times when you will switch off your phone and laptop so you aren’t always available. But we need good leaders now more than ever. This doesn’t mean you stop taking feedback.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Second Paragraph – Features : Talk about what you have to offer, and summarize your experience, qualifications, and skills, as well as their importance to the position you’re seeking. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Showcase your skills.