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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

Handing the minutiae of backend support tasks off to a qualified professional allows leaders the calendar capacity to focus on their company’s growth and, more importantly, their own personal peace of mind. “A This article originally appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of SUCCESS magazine. Photo by fizkes/Shutterstock.

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Today’s Admin Needs to Become a Mobile Office Pro

Office Dynamics

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. (I Backup and store your files via a cloud service. Share and collaborate on files.

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Snail Mail 101

Clutter Coach

Reading material includes magazines, newspapers, annual reports, tip sheets from the garden center and professional association bulletins. An article buried in a months-old magazine is not accessible to you and therefore irrelevant. Be careful about filing too much. Keep files you refer to near your desk. ” Read.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. Review calendars and compile date and time options. This article first appeared in Executive Support Magazine, a global training publication and must read for any administrative professional. Travel planning.

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Practically Perfect PA

Calendar – For quick reference I have a one sheet per day calendar block on my desk. Files – see my previous blog on my filing system. This is kept neatly in an upright plastic magazine rack and I cull out of date information every few months. I use the small post-it index flags all the time as well. .

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Showing Initiative When Using Your Letter Opener

Laughing all the Way to Work

Put the dates in your boss’s calendar or tasks. Get any files your boss will need to go with the correspondence. I open the junk mail and open any plastic wrappings on magazines to make it easier for my boss to review). Check the envelope for any enclosures. Quickly read over the correspondence and look for dates and deadlines.

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6 Areas of Your Business Life that You MUST Have Flow to Make More.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  Rather than having sticky notes all over your desk for things you want to get done, put the tasks on your calendar.    Entrepreneur magazine's " Become a Follow-Up Fanatic " shared the following: "Findings from a recent study by lead-generation firm Resource Nation support his contention. .