Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Administration of documents. Assistants should manage the administration of documents on behalf of their manager. Assistants should also ensure that all confidential documents are securely locked away or shredded. Email and diary management. Assistants should manage all of their executive’s emails.

Management 100

Management Suppliers Holidays Calendars 100

Success

MARCH 17, 2022

If I didn’t nap in time, I would lie there forever missing important emails and sacrificing deadlines. Writing became easy as words flowed from my brain to my fingers to a blank Google document. When I’m worrying about deadlines or missed emails, the last thing I want to do is rest. Why did it take me so long to accept this?

Learning 317

Learning Google Stress Phones 317

Go Burrows

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Download a questionnaire to help your team get to know each other better -> Best of Me EA Ice Breaker Document. Ken and Elise and their team can accommodate large or small orders for all your holiday gifting needs this season. So visit ElkhornPeak.com ASAP to get your holiday wine packages ordered in time for the holidays.

Gifts 52

Gifts Holidays ASAP Interviewing 52

BMT Office Administration

MAY 9, 2022

Implementing and documenting standard operating procedures (SOPs) is a great way to make sure that all staff members are completing their tasks in the correct manner. A standard operating procedure (SOP) is a detailed document with step-by-step instructions on how to properly complete a task. What is an SOP? How to format an SOP.

Payroll 72

Payroll Forms Expenses International 72

Tips From T. Marie

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

To have one person who can assist on so many business levels, from formatting documents to building a website with tons of specialties in-between is not only a time-saver, it’s a business builder. Of course, once I read that first email I was lost and suddenly I found myself working when I wasn’t supposed to be. Embracing Change.

Holidays 105

Holidays 2007 2016 Email 105

Tips From T. Marie

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Although I have an office printer for the rare occasions when a client may need a traditional letter or document mailed via snail mail, I seldom remove the dust cover. Online technology is my thing, so I utilize electronic files, cloud storage, social media and email on a regular basis. My thoughts on the test drive. I’m not sure.

Holidays 100

Holidays Gifts Purchasing Social Media 100

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 5, 2017

First thing I do is check my emails, I signed up to get alerts if there were any delays on my train route into Waterloo. Once I’ve done that difficult or boring task I get through both my boss’ and my emails, making sure I’m up to date with everything. What is your morning routine before you get into the office? just in case!!)

Training 170

Training Agencies Interviewing Email 170

Office Organization Success

JANUARY 6, 2016

Whether it’s time taken off during the summer, a break during the Holiday season, or simply a week’s vacation, the first few days back at your desk are usually spent playing catch-up. Getting back into the swings of things after a break is always challenging! Set up a Resource Folder.

Filing 100

Filing Finance 2016 Holidays 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 2, 2010

I also like to turn on the stat holiday alerts in Outlook so you will see all the stat holidays in a calendar year. To add holidays, go under Tools, Options, choose Calendar Options and in the middle you will see Add Holidays. Stat holidays will now be added as all-day items.

Calendars 100

Calendars Holidays Agenda Administrative Professionals 100

Ian's Messy Desk

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Tear/shred receipts, copies of credit applications, other documentation containing personal information, don’t just throw it in the garbage. name, address, phone number) will be used.

Credit Card 100

Credit Card Holidays Policies Ergonomics 100

Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Rather, they cut out tiny strips of paper in the corner of documents and use the strips to hold the pieces together. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: katewillson2@gmail.com. Eco-friendly paper stapler. These crafty office staplers use no metal staples to hold pieces of paper together. Cost: $12.49. Gift Basket.

Gifts 100

Gifts Staples Lifestyle Calendars 100

Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

If you are a Lotus Notes user, this long-awaited document is for you! Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. The two have come together in an ebook from David Allen Company. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

Ergonomics 100

Ergonomics Calendars Health 2006 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 27 February, 2009 Different spellings: British, Canadian and American I was proofing a document the other day, but since Ive been reading documents from the United States and Canada, I couldnt remember if behaviorial was the American or the Canadian spelling. Lets enjoy our day together.©

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Meeting Minutes Google 100

The Office Professionals Place

JANUARY 21, 2010

Now Google can help you do things like…… Google Docs – Create and share your online documents, presentations and spreadsheets Google Voice - Don’t have time to listen to voicemails? I even look forward to the different holiday themes that the word ‘Google’ will have on the search engine page.

Google 100

Google Google Docs Filing IAAP 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 26, 2007

We all take holidays and when we are gone someone needs to fill in for us. If you are using the assistant's Outlook, do change the signature line to indicate you are sending the email on their behalf. Do change the initials on correspondence you type to your initials. I think a job well done needs to be acknowledged and recognized.

Filing 100

Filing Holidays Email Forms 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 26, 2008

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 26 October, 2008 Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections Someone was asking on another site how to repeat a footer for just one section in a document, i.e. a table. She said it would be the same instructions for a table or a document in Word. These are instructions for Word 2003. "I

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International Meeting Minutes 100

Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 26, 2010

We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have. Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo.

Management 100

Management Filing Ergonomics Health 100

Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 25, 2010

Determine what documents you need for school registration. X Chelsea Comment by Chelsea on August 13, 2009 @ 5:16 am Trackbacks Some ways to keep your family active All the little things » GTD Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Round up your papers.

Clothes 100

Clothes 2007 Ergonomics Calendars 100

Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.

Ergonomics 100

Ergonomics Health Medical Forms 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 26, 2009

Recently I was working with someone on an Excel document. They sent an e-mail wondering if any of the assistants could help them export a document from Excel to Word. Unlike Word you will only see the header repeated when you do a print preview or print the document. To automatically insert a new row at the end of a table.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones ASAP IAAP International 100

The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The holidays are quickly approaching and this is the time of year when we reflect on our successes and goals and also begin thinking about what we can do to reach the next level the following year. Lets grow together! Wednesday, November 25, 2009 What Are You Thankful For?

IAAP 100

IAAP Filing Health Mentoring 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." Excellent material! Congratulations on this achievement/labour of love! 411 Look Up 411.ca

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office. Don't forget about official, company, school, and religious holidays. Should you be brainstorming business gifts for the holidays?

Holidays 40

Holidays Calendars Credit Card Restaurants 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

Proofing documents can also be funny. I am on holidays right now, but am always interested in what others are doing. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. What a start to a Monday morning. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Holidays 2009 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 1, 2009

Now dont forget to put the correct year on your documents. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine." Lets enjoy our day together.© Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones 2009 IAAP 2008 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 17, 2008

A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Filing IAAP 2008 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 15, 2009

For paper things that I need to remember to follow up on, I put the letter or document in my Wait Bin (which is a tray for things I am waiting on). That wouldnt work for me because I dont have that many paper documents to bring forward, but I can see it being necessary if you have lots of items. Where can I put this paper? Thats great!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International Meeting Minutes 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

i.e. My boss will send an email with a cc to me and on the last line or buried in the message he will write something like “I have copied Patricia to set up a teleconference at a mutually convenient time.&# This is especially helpful in the case that there are attachments in the email. There could be a message for you.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International 2009 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 29, 2009

Of course my comments are limited because the subject matter is not my expertise, but he relies on my input and corrections to make the document look good. Some emails are obviously junk. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

Management 100

Management Time Zones IAAP 2009 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 29, 2009

In this new age of not doing anything more than a quick spell check on documents, make sure you do not have any spelling mistakes in your resume. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Resume IAAP Interviewing 100

All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How are you supposed to document everything for reference, as well? If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project. So, the trick is to find a way to integrate procedures documentation and process improvement into the natural flow of your daily work.

2024 52

2024 Mentoring Administrative Professionals Payroll 52

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The impact of one person to another, even as total strangers is evident and scientifically documented. When was the last time you wrote a thank you card or a long thank you letter - not an email or a word of thanks, or not a thank you for a birthday gift or a job interview? I’ll give you an example from my personal life.

Clothes 40

Clothes Gifts Holidays Travel 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 8, 2013

I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. I am copied on highly confidential information and I read emails that seem to be written in a new language – sales speak. Thank you so much for your email!

Attire 40

Attire Etiquette Clothes Time Zones 40

Service Untitled

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We used to have every twice a year, once a year, whatever, HR would email all the leadership teams so all the managers from all the different departments and stuff, and say okay, it’s review time and everybody gets an email of the most up–to–date review form and all that stuff. It’s a little different. We used to do that.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing Customer Service Skills Goals 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. Ctrl + a - Selects the whole document.

Keyboards 100

Keyboards Time Zones IAAP PowerPoint 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

spacing To insert a document i.d. or a filename path to your document Insert Footer, Edit Footer On Insert Tab, click on drop down menu for Quick Parts. Then open a new document and paste (Ctrl v). To print the entire screen, press the PrintScreen key and then paste it into a blank document. Choose Field.

2007 100

2007 Time Zones IAAP 2003 100