Productivityist

JULY 3, 2023

Slow travel, whether walking or biking, offers a unique perspective. Keep your calendar for the broad strokes and your to-do list for the finer details. Set up an email vacation message before you go on holiday. Use a wall calendar for a bird’s-eye view of your year. Decouple your personal and work emails.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Check out this great tool » Favorite Planning/Calendar Tool - Readers Speak Out There are many ways to manage your time and activities.  What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? What is your favorite planning/calendar tool and why? Of all the calendar tools I know, this one handles tasks the best.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 13, 2019

We learn how the assistant manages day-to-day processes and make recommendations for greater efficiency when necessary. When I or one of the Office Dynamics trainers goes on site, we sit at the assistant’s workspace for at least one day and sometimes two days and observe everything that goes on in the space.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

This resource is intended to equip you with the knowledge and tools to streamline the hiring process, ensuring a successful addition to your team. Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Traveling, getting up early/staying up late, walking around, engaging in conversations, and generally exerting energy can drain you. This may mean taking the next day off of work or simply keeping your calendar clear of obligations. Connect on social media and send emails to connect. Do a Debrief. Check-in and see.

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Worxbee

MARCH 1, 2021

These are our top three suggestions for tasks to give your virtual executive assistant: Calendar management. Calendar management falls under “must be done, but you’re not adding any value by doing it.” You’re likely spending a lot of time on managing your calendar that could otherwise be spent on other things.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

Travel planning. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Look for logical breaks in the process. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Email template for circulating date/time options. Meeting and event planning. Meeting Agenda ?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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C-Suite Assistants

APRIL 3, 2023

If you love making your own travel plans and following up on calendar invites and conflicts, calling outside vendors when things don’t go right, and following up on project deadlines and deliverables, then having an EA may deprive you of satisfaction and maybe the money-saving isn’t worth as much to you.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Need for access to his email. Blocking his calendar to work on his projects. Talking about calendar and upcoming meetings. Executive manages their own email therefore the assistant is out of the loop. #2 3 Struggle: Executive’s calendar. . #2 3 Struggle: Executive’s calendar. Can you relate? Mind reading!

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Worxbee

MAY 3, 2021

Calendar management, email taming, and process design and management are our top three tasks, but executive assistants can do more. An EA might be kept very busy with calendars and emails for two executives, leaving little time for other tasks. Strong project management and process management skills.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

There are so many ways we can help them with this from managing their calendar effectively, minimising interruptions and generally keeping them on track. Email and diary management. Assistants should manage all of their executive’s emails. Business travel. The same applies for board papers and board level reports.

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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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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A modern PA’s role is pretty diverse; one day they may be assisting one executive with personal tasks, the next they may be making business travel arrangements for a different person. This means that you process documents as soon as they are received. Do you dread logging into your email accounts?

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some of the tasks that executive assistants can take on include: Become your right-hand gatekeeper by managing complex personal and professional calendars and scheduling internal and external meetings. It’s easy to think your business can function without the presence of assistants, and it likely can- but not at its full potential.

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

Sure, your system can send out emails precisely at the right time, but does it send a super cheery message in the middle of a national crisis? Does your calendar scheduler effortlessly distinguish between travel arrangements and regular phone calls when deciding when you’re available?

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

Sure, your system can send out emails precisely at the right time, but does it send a super cheery message in the middle of a national crisis? Does your calendar scheduler effortlessly distinguish between travel arrangements and regular phone calls when deciding when you’re available?

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

Those in an office manager role need to know how to manage processes, procedures, documentation, project management and communications. Office managers may also draft documents, help with payroll, keep an organised office environment and communicate via phone, email and fax (yes, some companies are still using fax machines).

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Productivityist

AUGUST 30, 2012

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Postbox: A Powerful Cross-Platform Email Client [Review] Posted on 08/30/2012 // 8 Comments It turns out that when I decided to search for a new e-mail app of choice , that Postbox won out. It is perhaps the most powerful email app out there – for any platform.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. Today’s Admin needs to be a MobileOfficePro™. Know Your Mobile Device. Google Drive.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Your manager read emails, texts, and took phone calls between those times and the situation may have unfolded completely differently, requiring you to have new priorities this morning. These need to center around process and people. Process: You can have the best process in the world, and then your company grows and it no longer works.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Depending on the tool you choose, you can use color codes, set priority levels, track progress, establish deadlines and even ask your system to remind you (via text or email or pop-up usually) of appointments or to-do items or anything else you so desire. This is where I mark travel and other significant events throughout the month.

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Virtual Moxie

APRIL 15, 2013

I keep my email inbox empty and I never answer the phone unless I''m expecting a call. I don''t take or make calls outside those hours, and most of the time, I don''t answer email, either (see 1c for the exception to the email rule). I calendar everything and work from my calendar. I plan my work around time away.

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

That way, you’re organised and have your own processes and systems set up. They are wearing all of the hats: email marketing, bookkeeping, admin, social media, advertising, website maintenance, blog writing, finding and managing clients, PR, setting up and maintaining tech tools, processes and so much more.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

The recipe must be handled as a process, or you’ll end up with a sticky mess. As long as you maintain this boundary, you don’t have to travel far. Kayla Matthews is a productivity blogger and calendar-planning enthusiast. Assignments. Phone calls. Some days the demands of the job seem never-ending. How do you spot it?

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C-Suite Assistants

JULY 26, 2021

With the right technology and communication styles, virtual assistants work in remote locations and can successfully take over tasks such as: Calendar management, such as booking meetings with clients Email filtering and management Data entry Client follow-ups Transcription and note-taking Social media management Recruitment tasks.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 19, 2017

One of the reasons I worked with NeuYear was to build a calendar I could use for this process. I will be offering more depth to these in the MMT series emails, so if you want to get the finer points of each month’s themes then sign up to receive the monthly email here. Read the MMT series email for December 2016.

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Productivityist

APRIL 15, 2014

My "gateway" email addresses. I use multiple email addresses rather than filters for a number of reasons, which I discussed in an earlier post. Having a virtual assistant (or Zirtual Assistant, in this case) afforded me the opportunity to offload my "gateway" email addresses to someone else. The 3 Things I Learned. It''s great.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. State the purpose of the meeting in the calendar appointment as well as who will be at the meeting (i.e. Enter it in calendar. Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If she’s traveling or in closed-door meetings, I work from home.” “Ask, ‘When you’re traveling or in meetings all day, do you mind if we try this arrangement?'” “Monthly, bi-weekly, weekly — choose a cadence to start with, and put it on the calendars,” she says. ” Hayes advises.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 12, 2010

  While it is really from the grass family, bamboo has some amazing strategic growth processes --heck some can even grow up to 100 feet tall!    The more you can put systems and processes to the work you do, the stronger you become and the more you can grow and even survive harsh conditions.   Bamboo? 

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Productivityist

JULY 20, 2017

A wall calendar. Answering those seven emails you’ve been putting off. Plan one week, one month, one year out around these areas: travel, financial, family, friendships, career, fitness. Whatever it is, get it down on a calendar. Go deep on this list. All the books you’ll need to reference. Pens/paper/Sharpies.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

This role included updating my Executive’s CV, keeping licenses current for my exec, helping with the immigration process (my exec wasn’t a citizen at the time), and my absolute favourite, figuring out how to get a lot of expensive furniture imported from Asia! I started out as a receptionist and ended up as an EA.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For the past two years, Productivityist has published an annual gift guide that features gifts that won’t just help the “productivityist” get more of the right things done, but they’ll have some tools that they can use that will make the process all the more enjoyable. FitDesk Yep. I ride a bike at work.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For the past two years, Productivityist has published an annual gift guide that features gifts that won''t just help the "productivityist" get more of the right things done, but they''ll have some tools that they can use that will make the process all the more enjoyable. NeuYear Calendar. Still my analog calendar of choice.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Maybe You Should | Main | The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In » Do You Hate Your To-Do List?   When we explored her process we found what I see a number of people experience.    Then, when you are back in the office, you put those cards in your in-box and process accordingly. 

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