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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Many believe that the terms “procedures” and “systems” are interchangeable, but that’s not exactly true. A system contains all the information you need to handle the accounting functions for your job. Procedures, forms, and checklists combine to create systems for how you get things done efficiently. Systems have many benefits.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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The Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

Worxbee

From other executive assistants to business owners, travel agents, corporate event specialists, the IT people, even the person who has connections for hard-to-get tickets or bookings can all be great “tools” in your network. A Reliable System for Tracking Tasks We’re not going to suggest one “right” system for how you manage tasks.

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My Time Management Reboot: The Pros and Cons of Electronic Systems and Why I Created a Hybrid

Eat Your Career

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. To access online systems, you have to (duh!)

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The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Try This Instead | Main | Be Smart About Using the Telephone » The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In We are in the home stretch of 2009 -- bring on 2010!!    One item frequently purchased at this time of year is a calendar or planner for the upcoming year. 

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

Office Dynamics

To Do Lists – Task Management. Travel Planning. Your systems have to be bullet proof if you want your executives to trust you and the partnership to remain strong. What are the most important systems an assistant should have mapped out to move from chaos to control? Travel Planning. Project Management.

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What’s the Difference Between an Executive Assistant and Senior Executive Assistant?

Worxbee

For example, someone who has previously held a project manager role but opted for a career change to executive assistant may have a head start for a senior role. Longevity within the same company is often valued because the executive assistant knows it inside out and has efficient processes and procedures down pat.

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