Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor. That’s what The Weather Network is for. No one wants you to report the weather.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.  Send emails to others that you would like to receive back.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Do you start wondering if they treat their own house the same way? right away. right away.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4 Ways to do a Midday Power Up It’s 3 o’clock and your sitting at your computer with heavy eyes, slow fingers, and slightly blurred vision. You are ready to curl up under the desk, grab a pillow and take a much needed nap, but wait, you are at work and your boss would not approve of such behavior!

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Clutter Free Up Your Time!    Take those two numbers and add them together and subtract it on a clock from the time you need to wake up. The time you come up with will be your goal bed time. Tweet Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? I turned off my email notification a long time ago (about 15 years) because I did not want to be taken out of the important state of concentration when working on projects.  100 emails a day x 220 work days a year.   So let's really do the math!  You got it.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   After I posted Productive Social Networking-Making the Most of Your Twitter & Facebook Experience - Do You Use Lists?   After I posted Productive Social Networking-Making the Most of Your Twitter & Facebook Experience - Do You Use Lists?   It took me about 2.75

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FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Aren't we all fortunate that the people mentioned in this video did not give up?    Look up almost any successful person and you will see their history contains a number of failures.   Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Have you failed in life?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? In under 5 minutes, I had my account set up and my first recording complete. PS -- If youve enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )? Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? 5 Ways Disorganization Wastes Your Money - [link] - Monica Ricci cracked me up in this post.  5 Ways Disorganization Wastes Your Money - [link] - Monica Ricci cracked me up in this post.  Click to get posts as we publish in email or you might be interested in less email? 

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JANUARY 17, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? savvyspaces Steph: birthdayalarm.com - sends an email reminder 1 week before and again a couple days. savvyspaces Steph: birthdayalarm.com - sends an email reminder 1 week before and again a couple days. Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!   Get your calendar on the go. 

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Sometimes we just have to laugh @ our procrastination (video from @AgentXPQ) | Main | Clean up the Clutter on Your Facebook Newsfeed » Mon. Your environment and how it is set up will always have a big impact on what you can get done in a day. 

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JANUARY 24, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Go to [link]  and sign up to get resources such as e-books, tip sheets, audio programs, complementary consulting and more!    My amazing colleagues have really stepped up to the plate to deliver quality content just for you and it will cost you nothing!

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Go to [link] You’ll be able to sign up for free resources such as e-books, tip sheets, audio programs and more, all on the subject of time management! Use a few minutes of your time to check out the website and pick up some great new ideas! Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!

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JANUARY 7, 2011

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The Small Business Blog

MAY 20, 2008

Build your own network! Small Business Start-Up Idea – C.V. You will operate through your website and have a number of options (e-mail, fax or phone) about the way you collate personal data (such work experience and qualifications) from your client. How to be successful and eco-friendly.

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DECEMBER 15, 2009

Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.    I wanted to give you a little heads up about some short-term changes for my blog.  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Main | AboutOne is About YOU!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 28, 2010

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

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OCTOBER 8, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? To get unstuck I come back to 'now' And right now, I am sitting at my computer, writing this out, the sun is shining, there is a whole day before me with great connections lined up, and all is good and exactly as it should be at this moment. I had to "slow down to speed up."

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? » 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort We are really close to wrapping up time management month!  Email the report to the boss while you're sitting by the pool. No need to load and check USB flash drives or email documents back and forth from work to home.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Sync Your Hand Held Device By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 15, 2007 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity , Travel A re you looking for software that can synchronize most of your hand held devices? Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 12, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Main | Mon Motivation - 16 Failed Predictions - Limiting Your Beliefs Can Limit Your Success » 6 Areas of Your Business Life that You MUST Have Flow to Make More Money (be like Bamboo) How often do you wake up in the morning and say "ug, I don't really want to go in today"? . 

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Archive Network with Steph Is This You? This post started with a direct message on Twitter from a fellow organizer (who shall remain nameless) that told me that she felt everyone that shared quotes on Twitter was "cluttering up the place.   So, then I asked QUESTION: What do YOU think clutters up Twitter/Facebook?

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The Office Professionals Place

MARCH 4, 2010

Thursday, March 4, 2010 The ‘Bcc’- Friend or Foe On average, we receive over 100 emails per day. Friendly Uses • If your email has a large recipient list, you can use the Bcc to hide email addresses and protect recipients privacy. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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JANUARY 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, January 10, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Networking , Productivity A re you stuck at home because youre sick? It happens each and every year, even if you end up getting the flu shot. Make sure that you have a faster connection than dial-up, since the speed will be a nightmare.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?" Has this ever happened to you? I am sure most of you are nodding your heads as you are reading this. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Archive Network with Steph Is This You?   My husband and I grew up cheering for the Bulls and watching Jordan sail through the air.    My husband and I grew up cheering for the Bulls and watching Jordan sail through the air.  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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JULY 24, 2008

When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. This will show up in red, since I know I have to get to this one first, before I can even touch any other one. Then I have my faxes set up as green. Now you have a new prioritization system set up.

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