Office Dynamics

MAY 6, 2015

Women Traveling Alone Should Enjoy Themselves. Traveling alone has many benefits. I have been traveling for business for 25 years and 90% of the time, I travel alone. Most of my work as a female professional speaker and corporate trainer takes me across the United States with little international travel (by choice).

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Success

JULY 26, 2023

Throughout her roughly 15-year career in investment banking, international development and renewable energy financing, she traveled to over 30 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. At a client dinner one evening, she was buying everyone wine and realized there was nothing for her to drink.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 31, 2010

But it can also be a bit stressful if you don't plan ahead. I thought since many of us are always searching for ways to make business travel a bit more rewarding, some road warriors could share their insight on how they do it. Don't be too ambitious with your first forays into combining business and family travels.

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Complex travel arrangements, calendar management, and keeping up with technical innovations are only part of what an excellent executive assistant needs to do for you. There are many hidden costs in recruiting—some estimates suggest the recruitment process can cost an organization as much as three to four times that employee’s annual salary.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 13, 2007

Making travel arrangements for your boss can sometimes be stressful. I remember making travel arrangements for a boss who was travelling to New York City for a meeting. Here are some questions you can ask: what kind of travel: Air, Train, Car? is the business travel being charged to the company or a client?

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A group of executive assistants and I were talking about self-management vs. stress management. While the group and I discussed what things create stress for us at work, this group enlightened me that they are trying to stay abreast of daily changes in their organization. Encourage others to travel with you; it’s more fun! .

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

More free webinar events with Office Dynamics International: The post Qualities Of A Great Assistant appeared first on Office Dynamics. If you want to hear the real secrets of star-performing assistants, join our free webinar on June 4 called The Star Performer’s Secret Sauce: 25 Proven Tips to Administrative Excellence!

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Office Dynamics International has been serving the Administrative Profession for 24 years (since 1990). As we prepare to say goodbye to 2014 and head into 2015, Office Dynamics International plans to celebrate our 25 th year in very big ways! This is the fastest and most cost effective way to get a free gift into your hands.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

A stellar Executive Assistant must think of every detail for every function such as calendar management, travel planning, meeting preparation and execution, and e-mail management. Stress reducer. These people are naïve, to say the least. A true Executive Assistants must do over 100 things well. Those are just the fundamentals.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 14, 2014

All you have to do is book a car to Heathrow Airport, organise transfers on arrival at the foreign destination and then make sure that all your travellers get to every meeting in their jam-packed itinerary without a hitch. Are your passengers travelling within London, going on to Manchester or are they jetting off around the world?

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Best Online Travel Websites. Best Airlines: (International). DeskDemon brings office professionals tangible benefits through savings in time, cost and stress from everyday tasks. It presents the latest news; hints and tips in various sectors including career, events and travel. Best Label/Label Makers. Hammermill.

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All Things Admin

MAY 18, 2022

The pandemic has shown us that putting business travelers first is more important than ever. Whenever employees are ready to get back on the road, administrative professionals have an opportunity to offer their teams a more streamlined, flexible business traveler experience. Offer Ride Options for Every Traveler.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

If you schedule your appointment directly before or after my conference, I'll waive my travel fees.  Streamline your office and lower your stress level. What is the cost to you for you to do nothing?   I'll be going to a conference in October and will be making my flight plans early this week.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

As founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International, I have been on the “other side of the desk” for 25 years. The cost to companies can be huge. I had other relationships that weren’t so rewarding and I did not stay very long at those jobs. I have had some good Assistants and one bad Assistant. Assistants are being underutilized.

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Service Untitled

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The next time you’re sitting in one of those impossibly uncomfortable hard plastic seats at Newark International Airport and you see a suggestion box hidden somewhere, slip a picture of Singapore’s Changi International Airport in there. It’s certain to be an experience any traveler will remember for years to come.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 14, 2008

Using e-mail is a great tool, especially if you are trying to cut down on company costs via international phone calls and postage fees. Another point I would like to stress is to archive your e-mails for a certain period of time that either you or your company feels would be appropriate. At least you will have proof of it.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

At Office Dynamics International we love what we do. Part of what we do is provide tools and services to administrative professionals to enhance the quality of their work-life that promote administrative excellence.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 30, 2015

Who Is Office Dynamics International? (4/15/2015). Is Your Company Failing At Recognition Guest Post by Officeteam (4/14/2015). How To Do More With Less Effort Guest Post by Adam Timm (4/15/2015). 4/15/2015). What Makes Your Proud? Guest Post by Kemetia Foley (4/16/2015). An Admirable Profession (4/20/2015).

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. They write. “Hi It’s because they trust you.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

          Dr. Shannon Reece Reece International LLC. With a myriad of hot spots wherever I go, there's little need for a wireless card, so my computing is no to low-cost, easily transportable, & right at my finger tips wherever I happen to be conducting business. Find here: steph.bz/iB5cj3.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

Your internal voices will start telling you: “nothing good will come out of this, because you didn’t respond with kindness”. And, depending on how powerful your script is, those internal voices can be pretty strong. Fact is that even if your internal script was broken, the outside reality was modified in your favor. You see now?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’? Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office.

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Success

MARCH 4, 2024

Hyatt’s approach is to develop a research-based process for determining how to set your individual goals and take the steps needed to achieve them despite feeling overwhelmed by daily stress. Florence Williams, who has been a contributing editor to Outside magazine, scoured the latest science while traveling the world for examples.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

This really translates to the following questions… Will you be humble enough to take direction and do minor tasks like get coffee, scheduling, and travel? The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. The kicker was, since the event was international, there was a time zone difference.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 17, 2010

Avoid it at all cost. Simple ways to control your daily stress Reply 27 dragos March 18, 2010 at 8:28 am That’s an insightful comment, thank you for it. BlogBuzzer – The Regular Dose for Search Engines & Directories Reply 33 Reeta Luthra | Stress and Health March 19, 2010 at 2:29 am I love the tips you’ve listed.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. It was my way of healing the strange illness I got by this foreign image which I glued on me, at the cost of my own authentic being. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”.

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