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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

Success

In a typical year, Jared Neff, owner of Neff Yacht Sales in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, travels for work a few times a month. Last year, COVID-related international travel bans kept Neff mostly grounded. He took three round-trip domestic flights the entire year and didn’t travel internationally at all. 1 Business or personal?

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Launching Assist Travel 2016

Practically Perfect PA

In last year’s Practically Perfect PA reader’s survey I asked you lovely lot “What area of your role do you think you need to learn more about? ”. Business travel was a pretty clear winner. From this Assist Travel was born. The aim of Assist Travel. The aims of Assist Travel are three fold.

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Ultimate travel itinerary

Practically Perfect PA

With Assist Travel coming up in September in London I wanted to share one of our most popular blogs with you – The Ultimate Travel Itinerary. A well organised travel itinerary is an essential service that assistants can provide for their managers. One of my directors travelled from Sydney to Tokyo on the same trip.

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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

Success

What I’ve come to learn since opening up about my mental health is that I’m not alone, and it does get better,” Deer said. For the past 12 years, its entire supply chain traveled less than 250 miles. “We Deer and her team went into global research and development mode seeking suppliers. An abrupt stop.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. Liaising with staff, suppliers and clients will be a regular duty, and there will often be a need to chair meetings and allocate leadership roles among the staff.

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How to ensure your admin improvement projects stick!

Practically Perfect PA

I was able to learn some of the tools they used which have been really invaluable. During my hotel accommodation project I used the define phase to focus solely on hotel accommodation and not travel costs or any other types of costs related to my department. In the end I reduced hotel costs by 40%.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

Work with other parts of the business (Marketing, Facilities, IT and HR) to create a more effective and detailed monthly monitoring system for supplier spending. Arrange 1-2-1 meetings with him once a week (either on the phone or face to face) so that we can plan all of his travel arrangements as far in advance as possible.

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