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? Eclipse gum is offering employees this and all you need to do is submit your best stress relief tip and how chewing gum helps you get rid of the bad stuff at work.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Any co-worker checking social media notifications instead of reading employee emails qualifies as online procrastination. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. For instance, an employee may spend all day sorting and filing their emails instead of outlining and working on a project that has closely approaching due dates.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Blogging Tips for Company Blogs By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Filed Under: Client Service , Productivity D o you blog for your company? Here are 9 great tips on making you a better blogger: Credentials are a must. Do you feel like you want to voice your opinion about other topics?

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Tips on Handling Deadlines By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you hate deadlines? Do you feel jittery each time you receive a task that needs to be completed yesterday? Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Home About Me Advertise How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity D o you find that some of your co-workers can be extremely annoying, rude or just plain inconsiderate? Try as I may, but she annoys the heck out of me.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Here are 10 random tips I’ve culled over the years on how to be a better assistant. Here are my tips for you. And don’t ask for gossip or stories. You can find the images online at Getty Images, Wire Image, IMDB, and any Hollywood site that covers events and gossip such as Perez Hilton. Don’t gossip. Don't gush.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 21, 2010

Discourage gossip. Related articles by Zemanta The Right Way to Say I’m Sorry (notquitecookiecutter.com) Related Posts: Do Good Anyway The Paradoxical Commandments Four Tips to Unclutter Your Life Motivation Did you enjoy this post? It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. What’s maybe a couple tips that you’ve seen done well, as far as promoting positive company culture. So yeah, you can email me on there.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 7, 2010

You can also find more Microsoft Excel tips and tricks here. Give it a try yourself and see how quick it can be to manipulate information from vertical to horizontal and vice versa. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 12, 2013

So, the 15 tips are below. Don't gossip or share confidential things, but you get my point. This break from ringing phones, a constant stream of visitors, pinging emails, and all sorts of stimuli will allow you to breathe, sit, and "meditate" for 5 minutes. Sure, sure. Nuff said. You can just write “Thx!”

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post soruba Nice blog. Now you have a larger area to work with. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 31, 2007 Filed Under: Meetings , Office Gossip , Productivity A re your co-workers annoying you at work by talking to loudly? Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Annoying You? Do you wish you could take a fog horn and toot it around, just so that they would quiet down?

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 27, 2010

In order to effectively deal with the backstabbers, stubborn, mean-spirited, micromanagers, gossips, and the host of others that make the list, we must evaluate our own perceptions of these people. Enter your email address in the ‘subscribe’ field on this page to get automatic updates from the Office Professionals Place Blog.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Here are 10 random tips I’ve culled over the years on how to be a better assistant. As soon as you get an email or piece of paper, deal with it. If I flag it for later I at least say I got their email. In all emails with other assistants we started referring to our bosses by initials only. This is part 3.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 1 comments for this post Katie Cohen-Hausman It is GREAT to see you post again! Pass this along to other colleagues, so that they can share the wealth of this knowledge as well. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post deals nice site about deals thank you Posted on 30 October, 2009 5:56 PM Anonymous Thank you! Whats next? Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

I have been updating my firms website stats for quite some time now and wanted to share some tips on getting the information correct - the first time. Another tip that I would like to add is to make sure to exclude any IP addresses or pages that spiders or other crawlers might hit your site with. Do you have software in place for it?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Do you need some helpful tips on how to get that dream job that you always wanted? Here are 3 simple search tips that you can follow to get you through the rough patches: If you feel stuck, as for help! Here are some more articles on job seeking tips. I actually had a short period in my career when I was unemployed.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 5comments for this post Patricia Robb Thanks Richard. Work From Home India Posted on 19 March, 2010 10:01 PM Justine I really like this tip and used it twice today. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. I'm going to try this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Here are some tips to consider: Even if you dont know the answer to their question, tell them that you will get back to them via e-mail, phone, etc. For more great tips on customer service, check out my post entitled 7 Ways to Great Customer Service. Then those friends would tell those friends, and so on and so forth.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

Tip: Make sure not to use too many colors, since you might forget to distinguish the important from the less important. Now you have a new prioritization system set up. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 10, 2009

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

If you want to take your tasks to the next level, follow these tips: Make sure that you have your list in front of you and try to figure out how many tasks you can accomplish for that day. Try to use these tips in your everyday life and see how much better and easier things will get done. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 4, 2008

Ill be checking email _(once a week, every day, etc) __, but will have limited ability to respond. Post from: Administrative Assistant 4comments for this post Mercedes Great tip. Thanks, Richard Posted on 23 September, 2008 10:40 AM Delilah Thanks for the tip. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

I always find myself sending pretty much the same emails. Thanks for the great tips! Post from: Administrative Assistant 2comments for this post Jenna Thats actually really helpful! I figured there must be an efficient way to do that. Posted on 15 February, 2008 4:22 PM The Professional Assistant Hi Jenna, Thanks for the comment.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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AUGUST 21, 2008

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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

Post from: Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Jodith One thing I find helpful when having multiple people performing file updates is to keep track changes turned on. Thanks for the tip, Richard Posted on 1 April, 2008 12:33 PM Anonymous Google docs is the best way Ive found to do this. Thanks for the tip! Leave a comment!

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post matt lorenzen Awesome post! If you have any questions/comment feel free to email me at matt[a]kallout.com. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter! Thanks Richard.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

If not, heres a quick technical tip for you: Hold down the "Windows" key (located between the CTRL and ALT keys) and hit the "L" key. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer?

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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 24, 2008

Post from: Assistant Tips 1 comments for this post Mr.galle Hello, this brog is nice!! I already link to this page. If you dont mind.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, Take care - of your clutter!

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips Update: Please make sure to delete the current holidays that you have in your Outlook. Subscribe to The Professional Assistant feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you today. Until next time, T ake care - of your clutter! You can do this by clicking View, Arrange By, Current View, Events.

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