Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Over the course of a working lifetime an office worker will drink an average of 24,684 cups of tea, disagree with colleagues 479 times and send a staggering 400,816 emails. So, getting organised and implementing policies or a filing system to help life in the office run a little more smoothly could be very worthwhile in the long run.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Are Eu-Stressing or Dis-Stressing? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 08, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you wake up in the morning and think to yourself, "What do I have to do today? Do you feel tired and stressed throughout each work day?

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The Office Professionals Place

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Take the “Jingle&# out of Holiday Stress Are you planning the holiday party in your office? Or are you stressed just thinking about the holidays? So, sub-committees would be helpful to ease some of the stress and incorporate organization and proper planning for the holiday party.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

For most business owners there will be a physical client file that you’ll need to create. One of the simplest ways of creating this file is by using a manila file folder in which you simply drop your paperwork into. Physical: Create a Client Contact Sheet. Click here to activate your Membership.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Contest: Best Stress Tips - Win $1500 By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 02, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you feel stressed at work? People get stressed all of the time. Getting rid of stress in your life can make you more productive , keep you healthy and even keep you sane.

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All Things Admin

APRIL 5, 2022

However, with many admins continuing to work from home under stressful conditions, here are several thoughtful ideas that can brighten their day and show them how much you appreciate them: Work-from-home accessories/office supplies. It may include file folders, spiral notebooks, pens, and sticky notes. Online skills training.

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Office Organization Success

JANUARY 6, 2016

Clear out your desk and files. And it’s amazing what you come across too … your next big program could have been lurking for months in your filing cabinet! The First Step In Getting Back On Track … Get Your FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist. Click here for immediate access.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders. During a board meeting prep week, for instance, email may require more time and attention for last-minute submissions and changes. At that point, it’s overwhelming and stressful. Try some of them!

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All Things Admin

JULY 27, 2022

It worked out in the end, but I’ll never forget that moment of stress and panic. Read emails. Check tickler files. My executive was leaving for a trip, and he was almost out the door before I realized I hadn’t made arrangements with a car service! You don’t have to create a checklist for everything all at once. Log into PC.

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Tips From T. Marie

JULY 21, 2016

We’re well into the 21 st century, so why is it that so many business offices are still using outdated office machines and systems? Fax Machine- At this point, everyone should be capable of sending attachments via email. Oh, and be sure to stress you are a paperless office and encourage electronic documents only.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

You are still trying to ‘sort out’ the dump, when you are interrupted and told that 3 motions need to be filed before 4 p.m. 80% of filed papers are never referenced again. 50% of all filed materials are duplicates or expired information. In 2005, there was 50% more paper and filing in offices than there was in 1995.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

You can delegate all the work that keeps you “busy” - like filling out paperwork, filing, scheduling, budgeting, and making “quick” phone calls. No more endless emails to check or impromptu calls to answer: your admin is your gatekeeper. Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. More creativity.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

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.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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On The Job

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We can’t remember passwords for our online banking account and lose critical emails or other bits of data important for our work. While dealing with such stress and frustration, we’re being constantly bombarded with information from thousands of different sources. Just say “no.” Control incoming messages.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). In fact, I’m going to give you a complete overview of my brand new time management system. I moved to electronic systems after I lost my paper planner on an airplane in 2010.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 28, 2016

These are some of the classic signs of a LACK of systems – you’re not effectively managing you business so how can you effectively market your business? You don’t have your core systems in place and your business is running you when it should be you running your business! Review your current systems. Systemize repetitive tasks.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Productivity in Bite Sized Pieces - Weekly #Cinch Audiocast Review | Main | Caffeine-Free Ways to Increase Focus & Attention » You Can Steal Time Back From Email A few days ago I received an email from a reader.  " Email is something that many of us struggle with. 

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Paper and Digital Files. Your systems have to be bullet proof if you want your executives to trust you and the partnership to remain strong. What are the most important systems an assistant should have mapped out to move from chaos to control? Filing – paper and digital. Her system for email management is outstanding.

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Office Organization Success

MAY 15, 2015

Now all you need to do is get your web site visitors to part with their name and email address so that you can start and build your database of potential clients. An audio file of, say, one of your teleclasses. FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist. FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

You are still trying to ‘sort out’ the dump, when you are interrupted and told that 3 motions need to be filed before 4 p.m. 80% of filed papers are never referenced again. 50% of all filed materials are duplicates or expired information. In 2005, there was 50% more paper and filing in offices than there was in 1995.

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Office Organization Success

MAY 30, 2014

I’ve always maintained that 1ShoppingCart is a great all-in-one ecommerce system; you can do so much more with the system than most people realize. For one thing, it stores the form, so you don’t have to recreate it each time you want to add the code on your website (or store it in a Notepad file, which I’d been doing).

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

How To Reduce Job Stress And Increase Work Productivity – Negative stress at work can kill productivity. Bad stress can have a negative domino-effect on the things that we care about. This post gives us tips on how to manage task-related and people-related stress. Your email will remain private. There you go.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

As a result, my email went from around 30 a day to well over 150. I already knew the theories of inbox zero, yet here I was, drowning in email. This made finding a specific email very time consuming. Then I brainstormed how I was going to deal with hundreds of emails a day. My system uses two e-mail folders ONLY.

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Success

MARCH 4, 2024

The book is divided into 13 chapters filled with gems of deep insight, such as, “Mental attitude attracts to you the physical counterparts of your dominating thoughts as surely as an electromagnet attracts steel filings. It’s a system you can apply to your business, personal, fitness and/or relationship goals.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 27, 2011

I started to implement the approach explained in the book, using notebooks, excel files and the like, and my life got better until a certain point. Grab a copy now of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ]. Grab a copy now of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ].

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

If your desk harbours mounds of papers, books, files and personal accessories, you may be adding unnecessary stress to your day. Set up a good filing system. Colour–coded files are especially helpful — they show you at a glance where something should go. Put items that must be looked at in a special folder or file.

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Page Personnel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Being part of a new company can be intimidating, if not stressful and distracting. Even a simple welcome email from the team can go a long way. Organising documents on a cloud-based file-sharing platform means that materials are accessible at all times, making collaborative efforts within the team easier.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 30, 2011

The software is a very powerful, yet simple indexing system for paper office files. It works like a search engine for paper files to help you stay organized. Rather, the software uses the power of the computer to index the hanging file folders in office file cabinets. SMEAD Viewables® Color Labeling System.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I receive a lot of emails from admins who’ve lost their jobs unexpectedly. This makes a stressful time even tenser. Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 27, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Thinking Differently about Difficult People Dealing with difficult people can cause us to lose focus, productivity, and increase stress levels. The ability to handle people we have negative feelings about can cause the office atmosphere to become unmanageable, stressful, and in some cases hostile.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST | Main | Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc.   They do not have systems for handling their most important areas of life.    Then use the system.  Link Lineup!

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

If so, you know that having a boss that you hate is truly one of the easiest ways to increase your stress level and decrease your overall quality of life. This may also be the one who turns to you the minute before a major presentation and asks you for files you've never heard of before. You may be in that situation now.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Then I have a plan for you to implement today, right now, that will help you increase your productivity, lessen your stress and actually cross things off your to-do list at the end of the day.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This is the time of year that most people stress over because we are waiting for documents like W2’s, mortgage statements, 1099’s, and other information in order to file taxes. Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. Worklife Line Chat Every Monday at 7 p.m

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Part II – Systems. Our inability to control things causes us to stress out. The thing is – and I cannot stress this enough – you don’t try closing them out but must control them. The open loops can become constant source of stress if not controlled. File System. Introduction.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 11, 2013

Perhaps you spend too much time recreating every proposal or contract, every form, every letter or email each time you need it. Then I have a plan for you to implement today, right now, that will help you increase your productivity, lessen your stress and actually cross things off your to-do list at the end of the day.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

  Yet, we try to do it all of the time by putting systems in place that don’t match our personal or our organizations’ styles. There are some that think that one system should work for everyone.    Understanding your style and developing systems that fit with who you are sets you up for success. . 

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