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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. Words to describe left-brain thinking are: Logic Order Structure Scientific Rules Analytical Methodical.

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

Worxbee

Here’s a short list of things EAs can do: Screening or making phone calls Scheduling or moving meetings Planning a business trip to meet with clients Bookkeeping or budgeting Completing paperwork Initial brainstorming on new projects Two heads are better than one It’s easier to remember or collaborate when two heads are involved.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. Meeting Agenda. Meeting Invitations.

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4 Fresh Meeting Trends and Where to Find Them

Office Dynamics

Environmental friendliness has crept slowly into our culture over the last decade, touching every industry including meeting planning. Making meetings more sustainable, or ‘green,’ is all the rage and venue owners and companies alike are designing their spaces with sustainability in mind. A great example of this.

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Art+Science=Success

Office Dynamics

For example, meeting planning requires that we take an art side (soft/intuitive) and science side (hard/logical approach). It means we use a check list throughout the pre-meeting phase to make sure we cover every step. For example, let's say you encounter a difficult person this week. The logical is easy.

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Art+Science=Success

Office Dynamics

For example, meeting planning requires that we take an art side (soft/intuitive) and science side (hard/logical approach). It means we use a check list throughout the pre-meeting phase to make sure we cover every step. For example, let's say you encounter a difficult person this week. The logical is easy.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work.

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