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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. For example, answering phones, taking messages, purchasing office equipment, working with relevant software and filing paperwork.

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Pandora's Office May Have Been Worse than Her Box

The Office Professionals Place

File According to Sara Caputo, OfficeArrow’s Productivity Guru, 80% of what is filed is never looked at again. If possible, “Go Green,&# eliminate the paper clutter and file documents electronically. If you are reverting to electronic filing, be sure to have a backup just in case your computer crashes.

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10 Tips to Get Your Office Organized

Productivity Bits

Most of the time, presentations and documents can be sent via email instead of giving a hard copy to the intended person. An accordion file is also a great way to organize documents. You will also need a file or folder in which you can put completed papers that you might need at a later date. Tip #2: Manage Your Papers.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

If you are interviewing for a sales position, prepare a sales presentation targeting one of their clients or prospects; for marketing come up with a marketing plan for them. If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. Need a speaker/presenter?

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6 Creative Ways to Solve a Problem

Success

Although it sounds complicated, a graphic example shows how easy it is: Sales are Down Store Inventory is Low Supplier is Unreliable Some Items Discontinued Outside Sales Team Below Goals High Team Turnover Low Team Morale. Once you know root causes, solutions present themselves more easily.

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Convert excel spreadsheets into online simulations and dashboards

BioTeams

Crystal offers a 30-day free trial and starts at about £70 for the entry level version (Crystal Presentation Design) going up to about £400 for the all bells and whistles version. The main difference is that all Crystal development is done on the windows desktop whereas Forio development is done in a browser.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/03

The Small Business Blog

CIT Group Files for Bankruptcy Protection : Small Business Loan Giant Has Struggled for Months to Stay Afloat; 5th Biggest Bankruptcy Filing in History Free cash for your business : When hunting for cash, desperate small business owners may find themselves sucked into buying books and software packages promising “Billions in Free Grants!

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