Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 17, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Here are the top qualities that an assistant must have: Be organized. Can I say that again – BE ORGANIZED! Can I say that again – BE ORGANIZED! Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 13, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets In some organizations raises are tied to how well you do and it is also a record that is kept on your personnel file. One of the hardest questions for me on my performance appraisal is the one about my goals.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Would you take a job just to get your foot in the door of an organization you really wanted to work for, even if it was a position that you didnt want to make a career out of? Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 12, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets The Stevie® Awards is a prestigious award honouring the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and business people worldwide. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Manage: Consider these points as you organize your workload. Manage: Once tasks are prioritized, it helps to pencil in a date and time goal. Lets enjoy our day together.© Check: Do you set deadlines?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets The head of your organization can often set the tone for how the rest of the office functions. Everyone helping each other and working together to achieve the goals of the organization.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 6 September, 2008 Going Checklist Crazy I am organizing a Board meeting and I have checklists and to-do lists coming out of my ears. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 10, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets The argument could be said that the role of the assistant is to assist and keep your boss organized so we shouldnt complain when we have to do it. I have found the best way to cope is to keep yourself organized.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 23, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Another office raised almost $1,000 in a fundraising effort they organized. Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 9, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I breathe a sigh of relief when I get someones assistant on the phone or receive an email from them. If I deal with someone and can see that they have organized something well, I will make sure to ask them about it.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Follow up with the meeting organizer to request agenda and/or meeting materials, pre-reading, etc. Lets enjoy our day together.© Meeting with Mr. Brown and Ms. Where is the meeting being held?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Each organization we work for will have their own acronyms that we have to get familiar with fairly quickly if you want to know what they are talking about. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 10, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I find the best way for me to keep my Inbox organized is to immediately deal with the e-mail when it arrives. Lets enjoy our day together.© Here are five buts you can do without: But I dont have time! (for

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 14, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets I love the planning, organizing and running around that goes into bringing a conference from a thought to a successful event. Lets enjoy our day together.© You couldnt survive if you werent. 23, 1 p.m. (for

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 September, 2008 Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your Boss Of all the articles I have written, the one I wrote on the bring-forward system by far gets the most views.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 13, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets The office party can be a good time for some networking with the different people in your organization. RSVP If you are not able to attend the party, it is always a good idea to let the organizer know and your boss.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 11, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets There are some assistants however who enjoy the organizing and the business of being an administrative or executive assistant and they are good at their job and get great satisfaction in what they do.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 8, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Is everything organized and in the proper place so when you need it you can just grab it? Lets enjoy our day together.© What about your work space? Is it neat and tidy?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your. Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! Why I love my job?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets 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.&#

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Once you have completed a task, send your boss a quick e-mail to let them know you have done it or cc them on your email. Show your boss that you want to contribute to their success and to the organization.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 5, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets The worst time to write an email is when you are angry. I find talking it over with a friend can be a good way to organize your thoughts. Lets enjoy our day together.© Im in a bad mood, pass it on.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets If a conference comes up and they are looking for someone to do the registration, we can step in and do that or we can organize it from start to finish. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets There is value in getting to know people, even if it is just over email or the phone. Lets enjoy our day together.© What a relief -- that was the best lunch I ever had.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 11, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Check out some of the sites and organizations and see which you would find to be most useful. Lets enjoy our day together.© I understand! Ask yourself if you have the time to go to a meeting once a month.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Send a Meeting Request, without getting replies You know how it is when you send a meeting request to the whole organization and then get 40 replies in your Inbox. Click Apply and OK To set your email to view b.c.c.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Using a Bring-Forward System to Help Organize Your. Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! Why I love my job?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 15, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Quotations Marks Rules for numbers Saying thank you in an email Seasons greetings or Seasons greetings? Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 29, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Some emails are obviously junk. Going through some major organizing and filing here at our office and this is another 'a propos' topic that hits home. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets This of course prompted me to write the following thought of the day on my blog, "The location of your Office Suggestion Box can give you a good idea of how important it is to your organization.

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