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How to Organize Your Work [or Figure out what to do first!]

Office Dynamics

¨ Ask for specific deadlines – not simply “ASAP.” Stay tuned to announcements about online courses related to this topic and other administrative fundamentals like meeting planning and organizational skills. Every business professional must daily assess, hour by hour, what must get done. Joan Burge.'

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

And who bothers writing out the words e-mail, TV, ASAP or FYI when everyone will know what you mean anyway? Does anyone even know what CNN stands for? It has become such a common initialism that it is recognized immediately and everyone knows what it is.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you are sent an email with a request to do something either asap or later, did you do it or have you diarized it to do it later? Next week I would like to talk about meeting planning and give you some scheduling tips that have worked well for me. So it is important to read the whole message. I hope you find it helpful.

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Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog

Laughing all the Way to Work

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Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her.

Laughing all the Way to Work

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Go with your gut feeling!

Laughing all the Way to Work

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Happy Administrative Professionals' Day!

Laughing all the Way to Work

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