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5 Habits to Help You Handle Rejection Gracefully

Success

Pick up the phone, knock on the door, reach out to those people, and go for what you want. Let the other person finish their train of thought. Oh, and I’m going to fax a poem to you. The weather’s always good with online training. Pick up the phone and let’s make some money! That’s the easy part. Did I hear back?

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Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress By The Professional Assistant on Friday, January 18, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity D o you get staff members coming to you for all sorts of questions? When youre on a phone call, do people hover over you?

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

He or she also needs to understand supervision, training, and administration, and how they can benefit the business. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork. Low-cost training courses are available online.

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Five Things Small Businesses Need to Know About Free

Tips From T. Marie

Even so, I cut back on the things that I could in order to get a business phone line, a multi-function fax/printer/copier and a couple of business books. Yes, it’s true I felt I had little choice but to look for free alternatives to things like Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and marketing training. You get what you pay for.

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

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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Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word

Professional Assistant Blog

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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10 Tips to be a Better Executive Assistant - Part 6

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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. This will likely cut down on a lot of basic questions like the what the fax number is or your boss’ parking spot number. This is part 6.