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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel. Can you really fit in another meeting on Wednesday?

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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I gave at the office

Laughing all the Way to Work

Whether they had or hadn`t I was never sure, but I know today that offices do fundraise for charities and workers are happy to participate. Whether they had or hadn`t I was never sure, but I know today that offices do fundraise for charities and workers are happy to participate. He raised over $1,000. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Calling all Northern Arizona Virtual Assistants: Is there anyone.

Loosely Speaking

If you reside in Northern Arizona and your VA practice meets the * criteria listed below, then you won’t want to miss this local meet-up of seasoned professionals. We’ll meet at The Raven on Cortez Street (in Prescott Arizona) at 9 a.m. Join Katie Baird , Loose Ends , and Tara Fort , Versatility4U!

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

How many times I have booked a meeting thinking the day was free, only to notice later that an all-day event was put in unnoticed at the top. They really should have asked assistants for their input on what would be the best features to have to accommodate our hectic and fast-paced world of meeting scheduling. Another one I never use.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I travel far to try and find a full-serve station, but they are becoming extinct. Many young executives have never had an assistant before and are so used to not having one, that they don't know how to utilize one. He's found having a PA a great thing now and says he wouldn't be without one again!! 002 cents a litre.

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Dealing in real time.

Laughing all the Way to Work

By the same token, I appreciate it when someone lets me know by when they will have something for me and if they can’t have it done by that date, then I like it when they get back to me to say when I can expect it. So that is what I like, but it isn’t always what I get. I can only guess when I might get it.