Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. Excellent calendaring skills. What qualities do assistants think you need to be a great assistant? Positive, can-do attitude.

Assertiveness 100

Assertiveness Etiquette Administrative Professionals Skills 100

Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. Tell your executive about upcoming seminars and workshops you would like to attend and why.

Management 100

Management Calendars Assertiveness Administrative Professionals 100

The Office Professionals Place

JULY 16, 2010

Enhancing your worklife will increase productivity, reduce stress, and maintain focus on job tasks. Enroll in a class or attend a seminar. Resolve stress related issues. Stress causes us to loose focus and this is when mistakes are made. Unfortunately, stress is unavoidable. Be proactive. Learn from mistakes.

Stress 100

Stress 2010 Filing Resume 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Oh, did I mention that your meeting confirmation hits your google, outlook or web calendar as well as generates a confirmation email. I conduct free seminars on twice a month using SKYPE.COM Without free webconferencing tools like skype, I would not be able to afford to provide and share free information to people around the world.

Credit Card 100

Credit Card Google Docs Dropbox Filing 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

Not Worth Stressing Out About. I enter data from business cards into a cloud based Customer Relationship Management system that can sync with the contacts, calendar and tasks in my mobile. And workshops or seminars are separated by the name of the trainer, especially if it was a big training event that lasted a few days.

Business Cards 100

Business Cards Networking ASAP Etiquette 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Perhaps we put a lot of the stress on ourselves because we feel that every e-mail has to be replied to immediately. I also learned at a "Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook" seminar that we should not use e-mails as urgent requests. Anyway, it taught me to re-read, more than once if necessary, an e-mail that I think is negative.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International 2008 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

" The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet. Utilize your calendar to schedule tasks. In the calendar.

AT&T 100

AT&T Calendars Social Media Stress 100