Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2015

I’m usually woken up by my two cat’s way before the alarm clock goes off, so my morning is usually cleaning out their trays, feeding them and then getting myself ready. I have no appetite when I wake up so tend to have a small bowl of cereal when I get into the office – which has to be with coconut milk. Busy – sometimes crazy busy!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 17, 2011

Information Overload is a topic that comes up frequently when I talk with people about what holds their productivity back. And, at the same time, people were increasingly starting to rely on their mobile devices for much more than making phone calls.      Can you really coordinate calendars using Springpad? 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 10, 2010

.)  To make it even better, for a strictly limited time, Michael will give you a free Bonus video – along with other gifts and prizes valued at $1800 – when you order this ground-breaking new book. P.S. Remember, the bonus gifts are yours only when you reserve your copy before the cut-off. To your success! The fact is.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 28, 2009

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 28 December, 2009 Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donates kidney to her boss My assistant sent me a link to a story about an Executive Assistant in British Columbia, Canada, who gave the gift of life by donating a kidney to her boss. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Recently, we conducted an informal poll of the 1000 participants that signed up for Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life and found that over half of our respondents had questions around procrastination, lack of motivation and generally just not getting things done! Thanks to Margit Crane of Gifted With ADD. Eliminate The Hate!

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Loosely Speaking

OCTOBER 8, 2008

If you have already cleaned and reorganized your office and written up a new marketing plan, what to do next if you are finding less and less in the inbox these days? But, if you do this at your office, you’ll be noticing that the office phone isn’t ringing, and that you aren’t getting any biz emails.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office. Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 11, 2012

They have ranged from gifts, event tickets/access, to swag, and cash. These add up to amazing perks. Moreover, their "gifts" weren't offered in exchange for a job well done, but more often were DAILY AND WEEKLY occurrences because that is HOW they manage people. Here are some examples. Yes, I got my raise.)

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

This is a powerful gift and must be used wisely. They came up with some great ideas. It is not getting a drink or seeing what your buds are up to on Twitter/Facebook. Network with Stephanie or Connect with Your Smart Phone Become a Fan Follow this blog Categories News & Updates! Archive Network with Steph Is This You?

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Productivityist

APRIL 8, 2014

I wanted to look into more direct options for the purposes of this experiment, and was hoping to have pricing information listed up front. Things like ensuring that I send birthday cards off well in advance, monitoring certain gift ideas I might have for family members, and ensuring that I don''t over-schedule myself during family days.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 3, 2013

Surely, as executive assistants we may feel this way when we have to do all the boring stuff - filing, expenses, travel, calendaring, and phones. I went to pick up dinner tonight and a lovely girl behind me commented how we just ordered the same dish - a salad with extra lettuce and mild and medium salsa.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 31, 2010

No, its not e-cards (I am not a fan of e-cards as one more e-mail cluttering up my Inbox is not a welcome thing), but these are actual hard copy cards that you can customize and send out with your own special message. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

She has always shown up as herself and for that she can proudly say her success has been built through complete authenticity. So took it from there and worked my way up to working in C suite at just 20 years old, I actually wasn’t even old enough to drink yet. So worked my way up from there, I held five c suites at the age of 20.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The subject, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars & Tasks is one I am sure you will draw great tips and tricks from. Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars & Tasks. Some use it for both e-mail and calendaring. But few of us know how to get calendaring and tasks to really help us manage our time and workload. Calendars Only.

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Microsoft Outlook 2007 Calendars Administrative Professionals 100

Success

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Is there one thing that will make the difference between actually achieving your goals and chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? Call one of your children on the phone. Sign up for a birthday/anniversary reminder service. I want to set up a schedule that is devoted only to my family. Take a nap.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. or Gifts or Ideas for Administrative Professionals Week. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But in having so much suddenly taken away, I was given the gift of seeing what all the busyness was actually costing me. The time when my kid wanted my attention but I was glued to my phone, to some email — so glued that my NO was implicit. The decision to agree to that coffee meeting means giving up an hour of reading.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 10, 2012

More than ever before, Microsoft ® Outlook ® is designed to manage your entire workflow, from calendars to tasks to emails and more! There are now faster and better ways to keep you up to date and working on the right things with the right information. Tricks on how to send notes to a contact or an email to your calendar.

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2010 Administrative Professionals Calendars Phones 100

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JULY 17, 2022

And when I realized like, “Oh, I could still party it up on Friday nights and, you know, and I can… and Saturday nights and just enjoy my life and, and go out there and then do my job. Well, so how did you end up as Conan’s assistant, is this your first assistant gig, and how did that all come, come to be?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 5, 2019

We didn’t get an update from the assistant and when the executive showed up, they didn’t acknowledge how late they were, nor that they were even late. We learned this was the norm for the executive to show up 30 min or more late without notice every single time. They either didn’t show up at all or were an hour late.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Throw in collaboration and communication tools like Slack, workflow managers, chat, text, *gasp* the phone… and the idea of unplugging becomes downright laughable. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. If you hate baby showers, send a thoughtful gift and be done with it. Don’t go.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. Use the notebook for everything you want to keep track of: to do lists, grocery lists, client meetings, phone calls, dreams and goals. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

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Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you don’t like where you end up, reinvent, change the. Every morning, for instance, I get out of bed, scan my calendar on my Blackberry to just remind myself of what's on tap for the day, do yoga. grow big and strong and reach up and out to the sky before I hung. answer, and further that I won't do the phone tag thing.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

One statistic found that, “The average desk worker has 36 hours worth of work on their desk and wastes up to 3 hours a week just “looking” for STUFF!&# Round them all up and transfer their information to something a little more permanent, efficient, and user-friendly. You might be less inclined to mess up a shiny desk.

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2007 Filing 2009 AT&T 100

Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Throw in collaboration and communication tools like Slack, workflow managers, chat, text, *gasp* the phone… and the idea of unplugging becomes downright laughable. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. If you hate baby showers, send a thoughtful gift and be done with it. Don’t go.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service AT&T Assertiveness Social Media 40

Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Even though the articles were on specific topics, I could take one or up to three sentences from one article and morph it into another article on a different topic. Blog posts and articles can turn into: ebooks, presentations, calendar/tip-of-the-day. Thanks to Rachel Minihan of Purple Phone PR & Marketing.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

‘I have this big project, he’s not letting me on his calendar, how can I remedy that?’ ” Using that data point, you can follow up with, “How can we drive that number downward?” Instead, they reached out via phone calls, emails, and texts. or “How can we best support you as we work on this?”.

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