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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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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

While your management team or HR organization may have certain ideas on what’s essential for retaining a loyal, productive workforce, go directly to your workers, such as via a survey, and identify their priorities. . Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. Immersive technology will only get much better.

Basecamp 352
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The Industry Snapshot: The influence of Personal Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

However, following our recent Industry Snapshot survey, we have a lot of interesting data that shows us the areas in which you have the most influence. According to the Practically Perfect PA survey, 69% of assistants screen calls on a regular basis while over 85% look after their Executive’s emails and calendars.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

In 2015, Jasmine Freeman sent out a survey to our webinar attendees and asked them to identify one thing that was standing in the way or was a barrier in their relationship with their manager. Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. Shared calendar. We received 700 responses!!!

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

I understand a company would be interested in knowing why people unsubscribe so they can improve their business, but a quick voluntary survey back would have been more appropriate. I know I am dating myself with this ad, but advertising does influence our decisions on what we purchase. Minute taking made easier. Dealing in real time.

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

The Spiral Notebook Purchase (and then use!) Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks. Sit down at your calendar and block out the time for your tasks. If you need to write/send your holiday cards then look at your calendar and schedule it in. In the calendar. Schedule those activities on your calendar.

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Master the Art of Re-purposing Your Work and You'll Save Multiple Hours - 50 Ideas To Get You Started

Stephanie LH Calahan

Blog posts and articles can turn into: ebooks, presentations, calendar/tip-of-the-day. However, we've decided instead to put all the exercises together into a workbook and market it alongside the book as a "free bonus" to make the purchase of the book that much more attractive. Thanks to Derrick Hayes of WOE Enterprises.