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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 11 Tips To Improve Your Performance By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 08, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity A re you asking yourself, “How can I improve my workplace?&# Here are 11 quick tips for helping you overcome those office blues: Think of the positives, not the negatives.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Blogging Tips for Company Blogs By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Filed Under: Client Service , Productivity D o you blog for your company? Here are 9 great tips on making you a better blogger: Credentials are a must. Dont be afraid to spice it up a little. Post regularly.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

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 The tip she sent me was how to edit an email that you have received. The tip my co-worker sent is much better, but if she hadnt shared, I would still be doing it the old way. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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OCTOBER 18, 2008

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 Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well. Earlier in this article, I shared three tips to keep in mind while networking. Keep in touch.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

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

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2013

If your manager needs to pick up a souvenir for their kids this app will tell them (or you!) Tipping in restaurants around the world can be very confusing. So this app calculates what to tip and also splits the bill between everyone at the table. Meetup Time Lite: Free. where exactly they need to go in the airport.

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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. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post deals nice site about deals thank you Posted on 30 October, 2009 5:56 PM Anonymous Thank you! Whats next?

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! 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. Whats next?

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Do you follow particular religious holidays, but arent showing up in your calendar? In this case, I dont have to worry about taking extra days off, since I dont really follow the religious holidays that I was brought up with, which in turn, are part of the regular holidays that come up each year.

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JULY 24, 2008

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. Then I have my faxes set up as green. Now you have a new prioritization system set up.

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JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Now put yourself in that persons shoes. Imagine that you were on the receiving end of the conversation. Whats next?

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JULY 14, 2009

The time finally comes when your boss is flying out to that all important business trip. They forget to do their own flight check-in and dont have time, so they call you up and ask you to do it. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! You scratch your head and wonder how this can be done. Whats next?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Do you need some helpful tips on how to get that dream job that you always wanted? When I least expected it, the skies opened up and a job fell in my lap. Here are 3 simple search tips that you can follow to get you through the rough patches: If you feel stuck, as for help! Here are some more articles on job seeking tips.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

They most likely will stop using your product/service, but also, they would end up telling their friends. Here are some tips to consider: Even if you dont know the answer to their question, tell them that you will get back to them via e-mail, phone, etc. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 08, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you wake up in the morning and think to yourself, "What do I have to do today? Dont rush - Take the time to make sure youve dotted your Is and crossed your Ts. Home About Me Advertise Are Eu-Stressing or Dis-Stressing?

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

In one of my previous jobs, when I was working for an Investment Advisor, he gave me the installation CD-ROM and asked me to read up on how to use it. I am sure that this will beef up your productivity with the system. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! This same thing happened to me as well as one of my readers.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Virtual Stopwatch gives you the option to set a predetermined amount of time. Set up the preferences for yourself for one hour and click start. When the hour has passed, a pop up window will show telling you that your time is up. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Whats next?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

If you are more of a person who likes to use Outlook for reminders to pop up a few minutes, hours or days before the task needs to be completed or you need to attend a meeting, here are some tips on how to go about it: Write up the task in your Outlook, but make sure to give yourself enough time to be able to complete the task.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

to be obtained from outside sources, other than the specified and approved vendors that have been set up. But there are firms that allow for bargain hunting, such as small and medium sized businesses – even large corporations (but rarely). Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Whats next?

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MARCH 4, 2008

Are you going to be out of the office for a short or even long period of time? Don’t forget to set up and turn on your “Out of Office Assistant&# on Microsoft Outlook. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant 4comments for this post Mercedes Great tip.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If they try to call you, they can be fined up to $15,000.00. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Keep in mind that it telemarketers have 31 days to take you off of their list and you have to re-register your numbers every three years, but it’s worth the small effort. Whats next?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

So next time you want to make a reservation via phone, hang it up and try OpenTable.com instead! Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! I even keep particular restaurants that I have to make reservations for on a regular basis in my Favourites on my browser.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

All the deleted text should now show up automatically. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post Administrative Jobs Thanks for the great tips here. Keep up the great work! Make sure that you are in the document that you’ve changed.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

If not, heres a quick technical tip for you: Hold down the "Windows" key (located between the CTRL and ALT keys) and hit the "L" key. and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system. Do you feel safe enough to leave your computer on and everyone can see what you are doing?

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JANUARY 22, 2008

They either block off time that they shouldn’t have or they block it off so that it either shows that they’re busy, but really out of the office or vice versa. Then you end up going back and forth to try to figure out what works for everyone. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Here are some to-do tips before you head into the meeting: Create a list of all of the main tasks that you are doing. This might be getting someone else to do some of the work for a short period of time or asking people to e-mail you urgent requests using the High Importance icon in Microsoft Outlook.

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AUGUST 25, 2007

Most people these days don’t have the time to read spam, nor do they enjoy receiving it. If you want to get your point across, here are some tips to lighten the load: Think of what you want to tell the person you are writing to. Write a “get-to-the-point&# subject line. Click send!

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Do you feel sluggish in the mornings and would like to lift up your spirits, without having to use a caffeine boost (well, some people feel they need this and you can read a post on this as well here )? Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! You drudge into the office and plop yourself at your computer. Whats next?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2008

You can sign up and use any or as many services as you wish. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post Chelsea McNabb Nice post. Keep up the good posting! Theres also the "more."

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

As I got up in the morning, I got ready for work, feeling tired. You can also find more tips by reading 6 Easy Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Even if you are the type of person that exercises regularly, you could still benefit from this article.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post Jodith I have no problems with shorts in the office if its a casual environment (and I mean casual, not business casual). I find it quite odd that men would wear "business" shorts. That goes for men and women.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Then, all files are set up in an excel file with columns for File #, property address, closing date, owner (whatever data important) - then sorts are run and printed so files can be referenced and found by whatever criteria you need. You can find more filing tips by reading my article entitled " 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System ".

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MARCH 5, 2008

If you have any tips and tricks that you would like to offer, please click the comment link below (if you are reading this via feed or e-mail, click on the title of this post first) and inspire us. You asked for tips that we find useful in the job and my favourite is ctrl Y. Otherwise, you would be working somewhere else.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

The great part about Kallout is that a small window pops up within the application you’re currently using. So the next time your boss asks you to do some research and you get stuck at some point, make sure to use Kallout for your research needs. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Whats next? Thanks Richard.

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