Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review | Main | Caffeine-Free Ways to Increase Focus & Attention » You Can Steal Time Back From Email A few days ago I received an email from a reader.  " Email is something that many of us struggle with. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

The Most Productive Lunch - Weigh in Your Thoughts » Mon Motivation - Build up your courage to take action!   Build up your courage!  PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )? 

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Want to Blog About Your Work? Blogging about your firm is one of the ways to do this. More and more firms are allowing their employees to blog, whether it be internal or external. Internal blogging refers to employees writing blogs that are stored on an intranet or company server.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Nothing wakes you up quicker than a walk through the building or if you can, outside to get some air. Stand up and stretch.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Do you start wondering if they treat their own house the same way? right away. right away.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 6, 2010

So what I'd like to share with you today are my top 5 steps to setting up your core office organization systems. When setting up your filing system it's important that you design a system that fits YOUR style. Use the same system again to store and manage all your emails. CREATE a PC and file back up system.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

  Read on to learn how to clean up your Facebook stream -- getting rid of the games, while still seeing the funny/engaging things your friends talk about. Clearing up your Facebook stream is quite simple.   The hide command will pick up everyone playing that particular game and hid the game activity.   2. . 

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. « Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? You want a little more. Do you think.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Tips From T. Marie

JUNE 26, 2018

With more of us enjoying job flexibility today, and with the probability of up to 58% of workers expected to be independent contractors by 2027 , if you’re not using your smartphone for more than texting, calls and email you should be. Connecting with your market via social media or a business blog is the new full color brochure.

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Productivity Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2010

To put it into perspective, try imagining all of your emails from the last month coming to you on paper – now that’s a scary thought! Always back up your files electronically. However, you cannot just create these files – you need to back them up. Back them up to an external hard drive off-site.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I think the thing that would be the wrong way to do it, and we’ve seen some examples there, too, is that someone very high up in a company says, everyone has to work like this, and that typically doesn’t work. Frank Cottle 00:09:45 ]: I think you need to add one more word to that, and that’s responsibility went up.

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 20, 2008

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. Small Business Start-Up Idea – C.V. You want a little more. You want the whole tree." Do you think.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity | Main | Tips to Go Almost Paperless » Save Time Doing Simple Things that ADD UP to Major Time Savers There are a number of simple things that you can tweak to give you loads of extra time in your day, week, month and even year. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Finding the right CRM software/system -- like many purchases we make for our business -- is not always simple and I'm sure that I can't solve this question in one blog post. single entry from my mobile phone, online or via my email  integration with social media (e.g.   8 - Email Management.   (e.g.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post soruba Nice blog. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I turned off my email notification a long time ago (about 15 years) because I did not want to be taken out of the important state of concentration when working on projects.  100 emails a day x 220 work days a year.   So let's really do the math!  HOURS A YEAR LOST TO EMAIL PINGS!   Consider this one. 

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The Office Professionals Place

MARCH 4, 2010

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Thursday, March 4, 2010 The ‘Bcc’- Friend or Foe On average, we receive over 100 emails per day. Lets grow together!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

You search around to find the best deal (check out Travel Links on the right side of this blog for some suggestions) and book what your boss needed. They forget to do their own flight check-in and dont have time, so they call you up and ask you to do it. You scratch your head and wonder how this can be done.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Executives do not share necessary information with their Assistants and do not always include their Assistant in their email communications. Executives and Assistants cannot keep up with the emails that flood their Inbox on a 24/7 basis. Employees feel time-compressed. Executives are independent and tech savvy.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Other Great Business Blogs Social Media for Business WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Martin Everard Benefits Of Building A Home Business Is There More Financial Hardship To Come? One I would add would be to blog as we. I’m told that most antivirus products are up-to-date and can deal with this virus. You want a little more.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work.

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Eco-Office Gals

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Consider following the example of The Blog of Tim Ferriss and liven up this section by including some of your more colorful accomplishments. This can include business addresses and mailing information, telephone numbers, email addresses, a fax number, and alternate websites or URLs.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

I recently added a post called " Outlook Rules That Rule " from a fellow Administrative Assistants blog. When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. This will show up in red, since I know I have to get to this one first, before I can even touch any other one.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Sometimes we just have to laugh @ our procrastination (video from @AgentXPQ) | Main | Clean up the Clutter on Your Facebook Newsfeed » Mon.   Anyway, I was out on her blog the other day and saw this video showing her very unique desk setup and I wanted to share it with you. 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 15, 2009

  I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.    So, over the next few weeks, you will continue to receive blog postings from me, but they will all be guest posts.    I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog. 

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Lets enjoy our day together.© Going, going, gone.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

  Every other Wednesday, I share links to a number of different blogs and sites.  5 Ways Disorganization Wastes Your Money - [link] - Monica Ricci cracked me up in this post.  5 Ways Disorganization Wastes Your Money - [link] - Monica Ricci cracked me up in this post.    Great insights.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?" Has this ever happened to you? I am sure most of you are nodding your heads as you are reading this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. I originally wrote a post on this entitled " Travel Plans " explaining that you can use Travelocity and Expedia to find the best deals. Theres even a better site that helps you find the best deals on these and other airlines, hotels and car rental agencies.

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