Office Dynamics

MAY 3, 2018

You can actively participate in team meetings, professional development training, reading and discussion of a book the group picks, or encourage more face to face interaction rather than numerous emails. There are numerous free webinars, courses and a variety of professional conferences and seminars.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 28, 2010

Top 5 Tips for Training Employees on a Budget by Stefan Töpfer on Mar 29, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Many equipment manufacturers offer free training to companies that purchase their products. Don’t overlook the usefulness of this.

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On The Job

APRIL 4, 2018

Set up an auto respond to emails, turn off notifications of the latest basketball score and get away from screens. You can't fly a kite while checking your email. Would you like to talk to your boss about training in a new department? Do you want to attend a few seminars to learn some new skills or come up with new ideas?

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

5 tips for Sourcing Employee Training for Small Businesses by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 09, 2009 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Contact local development agencies – some may offer training programs Hire local teachers or consultants to run short training schedules.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. But do you always “listen” or do you distract yourself with reading emails while someone is talking to you?

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

He or she also needs to understand supervision, training, and administration, and how they can benefit the business. Office managers may also draft documents, help with payroll, keep an organised office environment and communicate via phone, email and fax (yes, some companies are still using fax machines).

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Page Personnel

MAY 23, 2021

While the various tasks and duties of their role may look easy or straightforward, it’s highly likely that they invested their time into training and applying their skills with real experiences, in order to become known as the expert they are today. Mentoring – this works particularly well for training younger or new employees.

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Page Personnel

APRIL 8, 2021

You can gain new skills and knowledge through in-house training, distance learning, and online courses. Online seminars and industry publications are also a great way to keep up with your industry, making it easier to transfer into a new career in the future. Get a free weekly update via email here and help kick start your career.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 12, 2010

Workbooks Stress Management Workbook Time Management Magic Reinvent Your Career Workbook More Tasty Goodness Career Management Consulting Job Interview Coaching Resume Revision Group Training & Public Speaking Eat My WHAT?! Your email address will be kept confidential. Trackback URL [link] Get the FREE Mini-Workbook! I HATE SPAM!

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Ian's Messy Desk

OCTOBER 8, 2010

For example: Your manager wants to improve employee technical skills; mentions the benefits of having a needs analysis to plan the training ; and asks you to look into self-study manuals, seminars, teleconferencing and cheaper training options. Identify specific ways to strengthen technical training.

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The Office Professionals Place

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The fact of the matter is that in today’s economy, acquiring additional education and training is becoming a requirement from the employer and for your professional development. Register for a professional development workshop or seminar. These seminars may enlist 1-2 day training. Check out Free training online.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 29, 2010

If this is what you need, a training or seminar is where to get it. Please signup to my email list to receive free updates from Productivity Bits. Your email will remain private. Remember, the purpose of a mentor is to bring out the best in you. The mentor is not there to feed you the things you don’t know yet.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Building on your skills Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:46 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources It’s the time of year when we all do some self assessment and then look ahead to changes we want to make in the coming year.Â

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out. Will it be a large lecture hall or small seminar room? Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life!

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

Is it possible to get a list of attendee email addresses to network after the webinar? It is very hard for small business to find the money to support training. I wrote an article called Getting To Yes that outlines the steps you need to take to persuade your executive to support your training. It can be a very hard sell.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For just a little more, you can attend classes, workshops, webinars, seminars, etc. Aside from incredible networking, most professional associations also give you access to valuable learning opportunities—whether through featured speakers at meetings, annual training conferences, or newsletters highlighting trends in your field.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 20, 2015

Be a ninja Whenever I go into people’s offices, I try to train them to understand that if I need them, I wait in the doorway until they see me or acknowledge me so I can ask them a question. Save emails and details I very rarely delete any emails. This is part 6.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

Thanks to Peter Coombs of FRONTLINE Training & Consulting. I make sure that I send an email to the contacts I met and set up coffee meetings to make a better connection with the ones that I am most interested in pursuing further. Next I import them into IContact and send them a nice to meet you eMail. The business cards?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You reminisce about that Seinfeld episode where Elaine gets stuck on the subway and starts talking to herself about how the train isn’t moving and starts to get claustrophobic. You start to feel the same way and wonder when your floor will hit next.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it.

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www.officearrow.com

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Plus, well-documented business systems are a useful tool for training someone new or for meeting regulatory compliance. Step Three: Train Others to Use It. Ensure that someone else has been properly trained and can demonstrate their proficiency. It is a great system and helps with training.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

            Peter Coombs FRONTLINE Training & Consulting. It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in. They each had forward-thinking employers who allowed them to have vision and encouraged them to work towards their goal and made room for that new role within their organization.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 13, 2009

As wonderful as online learning can be, going to a live conference or seminar with other assistants is something that you should try to do a few times a year. I use a place based in Toronto called Last Minute Training. Training On-line 10 Things = Frustration "Mom, I'm sick!" Happy New Year to you as well.

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Loosely Speaking

AUGUST 6, 2009

They will conduct a panel discussion on this topic and invite you to submit your questions in advance: please post them in the comment area below or send an email with your questions to ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net. Deadline is midnight, Arizona time, Monday, August 31, 2009.

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The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Also, this is the perfect time to ask for some professional development training in the areas your supervisor has highlighted you may need improvement. For example, my supervisor is great at prioritizing, so I asked her about prioritizing skills. This shows that I am interested in improving and that I am watching her work ethic.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I also learned at a "Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook" seminar that we should not use e-mails as urgent requests. In response to the email comment "why do we feel the need to answer an email/ or get an answer so quickly." Anyway, it taught me to re-read, more than once if necessary, an e-mail that I think is negative.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 16, 2010

Enroll in a class or attend a seminar. For more formal training, take a class or workshop. Here are 10 ways to enhance your worklife and feel more satisfied in your job. Be proactive. Look for ways to improve your professional development within your industry or field. Self teaching is easy via the internet.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 14, 2009

If you're not an active listener or not paying attention by multitasking while the tele-meeting is in progress (because they can't see you checking your email), it will be difficult for you to understand whatever it is you need to know or make meaningful contribution to the discussion or connection with the people you're talking with.

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

Only allow yourself a certain amount of time for tasks that can become time consuming, such as reading and responding to email. I made a time table and I was fully determined that i’ll follow it regularly, but one day I a seminar to attend and came back home and slept. Establish time limits for specific tasks.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 28, 2010

The employees in this case need to shell out their personal resources if they want to go for training which is impractical to do for most people. Self-Train To Gain Additional Skills. If you can’t afford to enroll in a formal training program, there are many other options you can take advantage of. Free Seminars.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 23, 2012

We are often asked about doing etiquette seminars/programs onsite for administrative professionals across the country. Since we can't be everywhere at once and you can't always travel for the training we thought we would share this awesome resource with you. Wishing you all the best with your training. Email etiquette.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 7, 2011

One very outdated proofing tip you’ll hear about at practically every writing seminar. Most readers of reports and emails are skeptical of the information contained in documents that are riddled with easily corrected surface errors. is a training and adult education consultant. Should bulleted items have periods? Executives.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

When I had staff as a Training/Performance Manager, we had very specific meetings designed to set goals and report on progress quarterly. I sent out an email to the whole team each day that I worked. I referred to the Legend of the Starfish, i.e., 'it matters to that one', in each email. would start the email.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 24, 2015

As I deliver sessions at seminars and conferences throughout North America in every kind of business you can think of, I often encounter people who are pleased, even proud, that they can multi-task. Do you regularly multi-task, such as reading emails while someone is talking to you on the telephone? What about you?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Paul works with individuals, groups and organizations to create more productive working environments and drive individual success via high-content keynote addresses, interactive training seminars, and one-on-one coaching sessions. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? A different take on the to-do list.

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Service Untitled

JUNE 24, 2010

and after a quick email exchange, John was nice enough to agree to an interview. We invest a lot of resources into employee training and offer several seminar programs and consultations for our customers. We cover educational services through our Sound Academy series of audio seminars, and we offer product setup services.

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