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How Assistants Can Save Time and Be More Efficient

Office Dynamics

o Calendaring. List the focus for the day and obtain agreement up front. 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

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. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. Meeting Agenda.

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Having a good outlook when it comes to Outlook

Laughing all the Way to Work

Organizing someone else’s calendar can be challenging. In other words, you will probably not be able to speak to the person, but you have to communicate to them in some way that you have updated their calendar. It involves an understanding that you have to look ahead and see what is in the calendar.

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The pronouns you use can reveal a lot about where your head is

Laughing all the Way to Work

My mind is already planning the next Board meeting and how I will organize my desk and the filing at the new place. I want all my filing to be up to date and my desk to be neat and tidy. I want to tie up any loose ends. You can't expect somebody new to know where to file your old filing.

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Try to anticipate the need so you can have the file or the answer your boss needs, before he or she even knows they need it. A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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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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Oh where or where is my password?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Along with our multiple work passwords, we have a password for our home computer, and if we sign up for Facebook, Twitter or any other website, we have another password to remember. I hope you keep your address book locked up as that would be a very valuable source of information for someone up to no good. Works so far!