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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

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For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork. 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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Spring Clean Your Business

Step It Up VA Coaching

In the future, try to deal with mail or faxes as they come in – either respond, toss or file – and make it a goal to touch each piece of paper only ONCE. Toss any old supplies or equipment that is no longer working or has gone unused for a year. File or toss that pile of papers into your newly streamlined filing system.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Since I work at home (and because we're full-time RVers, always on the road), I need to be able to fax/copy/convert from anywhere. But I live and work in less than 200 square feet -- so I don't have the room for a lot of equipment. Coordinating equipment requests and advancing concerts with vendors overseas was a nightmare.

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

Your co-workers are probably all new to you, you dont know how to use the photocopier or fax machine and more importantly "where is the bathroom?" I was taken on a tour of the premises and they pointed out the office equipment I would need to use and introduced me to everyone we met. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.

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Start 2011 off Organized! - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Go around the room and collect up every homeless item you find, creating a set spot for each: Supplies and equipment: Only keep what you use on a regular basis at your desk - then store the “extras” in a cabinet or closet.  family of sites · 8 Shoreline, Suite 100, Bloomington IL 61704 TEL 309.663.1360 · FAX 309.422.7665

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks. Sit down at your calendar and block out the time for your tasks. If you need to write/send your holiday cards then look at your calendar and schedule it in. In the calendar. Schedule those activities on your calendar. Don't fill your calendar to the max.

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