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How Assistants Can Save Time and Be More Efficient

Office Dynamics

o Calendaring. During down time, draft work on larger projects coming due. Read your executive’s sent mail file. Use the P-O-S-T method for strategic calendar planning/invitations. Meeting planning template- yearly with six month check-in. Print calendar and prepare meeting folders for the next day.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

They are a roadmap to your task or project that you follow every time. It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Travel planning. Meeting and event planning. Project management. Meeting Agenda.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I use hanging file folders labelled from January through to December. Every afternoon before I leave for the day, I go through the hanging file for that month to see if there is anything I need to bring forward for the next day. A tip she passed along had to do with the bring-forward system and has been a great tool for me.

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

When the results were in, I met with the person who administered it and one of the things it showed, other than the fact that I ranked very high in administration, was that I work best on short-term projects where I can see the end in sight. I will have all kinds of energy to work on a project if I know it is ending at one point.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

Office Dynamics

Paper and Digital Files. Meetings/Events. Travel Planning. Filing – paper and digital. Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning. Project Management. Comprehensive-Business-Travel-Planning-Guide-Office-Dynamics. The answer was overwhelmingly getting (and staying) organized.

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Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am part of the project management office at my company and I hear the term roadblocks all the time. Cant wait till the next meeting (this afternoon actually) when I can ask them if they really see the problem as a roadblock, or is it just a hurdle? Hi Patricia: What an encouraging message this is. to hurdles/obstructions at work.