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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. They save you time and unnecessary stress. A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you. Did something not go as planned?

Agenda 90
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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

Humour is a powerful stress reliever if done in good taste, but timing is everything. Proofing documents can also be funny. Its not that Im funny, because Im not, but I find a lot of things funny. Both of these positions were in the busiest offices I have ever worked in, but when the going gets tough, humour seems to abound!

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When working isn't fun: Ho hum, ho hum, it's off to work I go.

Laughing all the Way to Work

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. An interview can be as stressful on those conducting it as on the person being interviewed if the conversation does not flow. There are still jobs to be had, you just have to find them.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

IAAP 100
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10 Things = Frustration

Laughing all the Way to Work

Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. It is very hard to follow along when not all members have the document printed the same way. It is comical watching everyone trying to sort out which way to hold the paper. I shut it off! January 20, 2009 Foley-In-Charge said.