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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. Using OneNote with PowerPoint (e.g. Sharing notebooks.

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How to create an assistant handbook

Practically Perfect PA

Policy & Procedure , for HR documents, travel and expense policies, health and safety etc.; User Guides , for programs such as “Concur” and “Salesforce”, telephone manuals or step guides on how to book travel; 3. Allow the team to shine naturally whilst working collaboratively. Outcomes for your team.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

For most C-Suite executives, expertise in booking travel domestically and/or internationally is critical. On the other hand, is the ability to create PowerPoint presentations critical or is it only necessary to be able to “edit” them. Flexibility in this area will broaden your candidate pool. What level of expertise is needed?

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Today’s Admin Needs to Become a Mobile Office Pro

Office Dynamics

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. An added benefit is the ability to share and collaborate on files of various types with others. Google Drive.

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Guest Post: Tips & Tricks for Using Skype for Business

Tips From T. Marie

She wears many hats, including fashionista, food critic, world traveler, ESL instructor, web marketer and more. Recently, Skype revealed a new application aptly named “ Skype for Business ” that is designed to connect businesses and their members not just socially but in ways that are especially useful for work collaborations.

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Productivity With Shared Files

Professional Assistant Blog

IM or iChat)with collaborators while working on the project. You can share documents, spreadsheets, and photos across computers and networks: since your document is stored on Googles server, its accessible from anywhere ! Also, a fun feature is you can chat (i.e. Posted on 2 April, 2008 6:28 PM The Professional Assistant This is a great idea.

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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  They say: " Over 5 million people worldwide have used Basecamp to collaborate on over 4 million projects, track 57 million hours of work, share 46 million files, and complete 43 million to-dos.   According to their site, they are an on-line collaboration suite that allows team members to communicate and share.