Workplace Insight

JANUARY 17, 2024

Comparably, 84 percent of home workers surveyed felt most productive at home, illustrating the shift that has taken place when it comes to the perceptions of productivity in the workplace now the home is a viable option. This dropped to 64 percent in 2021 , demonstrating the drop in office productivity and preference.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 28, 2016

The first Practically Perfect PA eBook is available for everyone to download and I am just about to launch this year’s Industry Snapshot survey… So busy, busy! On top of all of that, we have opened up bookings for next year’s Assist Conference. Email and Diary Management. Minute Taking. Social Media Management.

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, a recent survey by The Conference Board shows that nearly half of CEOs globally are promoting the hybrid work model to attract, recruit and retain employees. According to JLL’s Workforce Barometer 2022 research , 60% of employees prefer hybrid working for the foreseeable future.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 11, 2022

A recent survey from AT&T and Dubber found that 81 percent of respondents believe hybrid work will be the foremost working model by 2024, with 56 percent of work done off site. Forget switching conference rooms, just click into the new link. On top of that, while working from home we live in our ‘virtual office’. Need lunch?

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 25, 2015

For all of you that could not attend the Assist Conference this year I wanted to share my presentation with you – Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry. We conducted a survey last year and one of the questions asked what session would the readers like to see at a conference.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 26, 2016

This webinar offers a special “sneak peek” at the topic Peggy will be presenting at the 23rd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. Send them an email of thanks, good job, and high five! Take our survey if you are interested in having Office Dynamics International come to your city for a live training event.

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Administrative Professionals Facebook Administrative Training Networking 189

Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 19, 2014

We received some fantastic feedback from the 2014 Practically Perfect PA survey and will take onboard all of your comments going forward. As you can imagine I am super excited about the Assist Conference – Practically Perfect PA’s first conference for our UK based readers taking place on the 27th February.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Sometimes they’ll pick up those clues via written channels : They note the tone of your email. They check your email footer for info. They take part in a conference call with you. They survey the state of your desk. They Google your website for a biography. They search for your LinkedIn profile. They Skype you.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 26, 2016

Last month I asked you all to complete a survey which asked what are the big topics for discussion at the moment. Thanks to the hundreds of you that completed that survey. She sees them infrequently (about once a month), but talks to them daily via phone and email. How do we continually grow in our roles.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 24, 2010

The Three Rs aren't cutting it for today's workforce, according to the American Management Association's 2010 Critical Skills Survey of 2,115 managers and other executives. According to the AMA survey, 51.4% I notice many misspelled words in emails to me, or assignments from classes or especially in resume cover letters.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 24, 2010

The Three Rs aren't cutting it for today's workforce, according to the American Management Association's 2010 Critical Skills Survey of 2,115 managers and other executives. According to the AMA survey, 51.4% I notice many misspelled words in emails to me, or assignments from classes or especially in resume cover letters.

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On The Job

MARCH 25, 2011

They may not be able to define what is considered bad manners, but they know the terrible behavior when they see an employee's email, text, tweet, blog entry, Facebook posting or YouTube video — or see someone trying to create one on the fly. It appears others do, too. I think the best idea is to follow the Golden Rule," Grotts says.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 4, 2013

This could be as simple a step as setting up a LinkedIn profile to using twitter for networking with other assistants through to blogging and taking part in virtual conferences. It is getting so much easier for Committees to meet virtually and this will become more and more popular over the next year as will virtual conferences and events.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ask employees recently recruited or run surveys on what content they would have liked to see or found useful. Likewise, other events, conferences, or key dates in the life of your company should be acknowledged through the content you share, the ideas you draw on, even the people you've mentioned and spoken to.

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On The Job

JULY 24, 2012

Creative skills will be a more important driver of the economy than technical skills, according to a DreamWorks survey of 150 senior human resources executives. Satterthwaite says the company finds that in a time of emails, instant messages and texts, personal interactions are critical.

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Energage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

And yet, one report after another still names employee engagement and workplace culture at the top of a CEO’s many challenges: • The Conference Board’s annual CEO survey lists six top challenges for CEOs today, five of them related to engaging and aligning talent. We can have observations, but the survey bears them out.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 10, 2016

I can keep up to date with the Guernsey PA Connect website and emails, my personal and work emails, along with always being able to call anyone if I need to. Cath is always on the end of the phone/email when I need her and I appreciate that. We put a survey together for them and have given them the results.

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Allwork

JUNE 30, 2022

Cheryl Sinclair [00:21:30] The thing is, as I mentioned, that we’re going to be for as we did a recent employee survey where again, three quarters of our workforce still likes to work from home setup. The first one is technology and not as simple as let’s just get people, computers and cameras and we get on video calls.

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Service Untitled

AUGUST 27, 2012

As in any organization whose customer service procedures are honed to being efficient, all emails should be responded to within 24 hours during the workweek. School districts can survey parents and students for suggestions. Letters should be answered within a five-day period.

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Productivityist

APRIL 15, 2014

My "gateway" email addresses. I use multiple email addresses rather than filters for a number of reasons, which I discussed in an earlier post. Having a virtual assistant (or Zirtual Assistant, in this case) afforded me the opportunity to offload my "gateway" email addresses to someone else. The 3 Things I Learned. It''s great.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

OR if you want to EMAIL me why you would PAY to hire someone like me, I'd love to hear your thoughts. At the same time ask to reschedule ASAP and mention you will email them once you take care of the emergency, hopefully later that night or first thing in the morning. I also write over at Jobstr.com under Hollywood Executive Assistant.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 2, 2011

Nifty systems for organizing your email. Why are you spending so much time on email in the first place? Email is not your job. If that conference call requires so little of your attention that you can return emails at the same time, why are you on it? It’s that most of us use the time we do have badly.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. This skill has expedited the growth of my audience from under a hundred to over two thousand email subscribers in eight months. I have also learned how to survey my readers and understand their specific career challenges.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

Here's a tip: you talk to, email several people a day. 1) Send an email response. 2) Turn your email into a blog post - at least 250 words, spell-checked and edited. (3) white paper, article, guide) and then list all of its off-shoots (blog, social media, media pitch, emails, forums, etc). Let the articles begin.

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Social Media PowerPoint Facebook Gifts 100

Service Untitled

JUNE 24, 2010

and after a quick email exchange, John was nice enough to agree to an interview. We conduct customer satisfaction surveys annually to ensure our services and processes meet customer demands. In case you aren’t aware, Sennheiser is a major manufacturer of microphones, headphones, and wireless transmission systems.

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Interviewing Customer Service 2010 Etiquette 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

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. After the third e-mail back and forth I finally just told the person I was not interested and to please stop e-mailing me. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Tame Your Email 1. Turn off email alerts when emails arrive in your inbox. If you know that you will never answer an email, delete it right away. Create email folders same as you would for word doc and paper files. Examples: If you have a full email box, then schedule an hour each morning to tackle it.

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