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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

One of the toughest, but most rewarding, jobs an Administrative or Executive Assistant can have is helping a young executive learn how to partner with an assistant. Learning the Role of the Administrative or Executive Assistant. It takes time for new executives to learn to trust the abilities of their assistants.

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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

One of the toughest, but most rewarding, jobs an Administrative or Executive Assistant can have is helping a young executive learn how to partner with an assistant. Learning the Role of the Administrative or Executive Assistant. It takes time for new executives to learn to trust the abilities of their assistants.

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Try to anticipate the need so you can have the file or the answer your boss needs, before he or she even knows they need it. A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.

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Oh where or where is my password?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I leave an excel sheet on the company Server that only my IP & station login can Access and keep it updated. I keep mine in an encrypted Word file on my computer. I also have an encrypted file with various other important numbers like my and my husbands social security numbers and the like. August 02, 2010 Anonymoussaid.

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Grrr! moments

Laughing all the Way to Work

At one office I worked in we had a mail cart with slots for everyones mail, but it was filed First name, Last name. the phone book, standard filing practices etc.) This goes for filing and also how your contacts are ordered in Outlook. If you open the contact card you will see in the first section File As.

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

When a meeting is finalized, I put the scheduling sheet in a completed file. Never underestimate what you can learn from other assistants. Learning from each other is a necessity. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. Taking Effective Meeting Minutes ► August (3) Pass it on.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

Ctrl + Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the open file or document and Ctrl + End moves the cursor to the end of the open file or document, but if you are in the middle of a document and want to select everything from there down, press Ctrl + Shift + End or if you want to select everything from there up, press Ctrl + Shift + Home.

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