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A Conversation with Joan

Office Dynamics

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. The organizations I work with and the executives I interact with at large organizations are dealing with change minute by minute and their support staff needs to move fast. This is a must!

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Meetings Plus: Taking them offline

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 December, 2009 Meetings Plus: Taking them offline I organize a lot of meetings in a day, week, month; heck, even into next year. If the meeting is internal, I send a meeting request, but for external meetings I tend to just confirm with them the meeting details by phone or e-mail.

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When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Does your boss ever organize a meeting behind your back? That makes it difficult when I am supposed to be organizing his calendar, but since I am responsible to organize his time and in spite of my frustration, I have to make it work. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Oh where or where is my password?

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April 22nd - Administrative Professionals' Day

Laughing all the Way to Work

How often I have organized a conference or arranged a Board meeting and after all the organization and planning it goes off without a hitch. I like organizing and feel satisfied when everything comes together nicely, but it takes a lot of work to get there. Have you ever been at an event that isnt well organized?

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Would you take a job just to get your foot in the door of an organization you really wanted to work for, even if it was a position that you didnt want to make a career out of? You should stay in the position for long enough to make what youve learned stick to be fair to yourself and the organization who hired you. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Here are the top qualities that an assistant must have: Be organized. Can I say that again – BE ORGANIZED! An assistant’s job is to organize the boss and in order to do that we must be organized ourselves. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Be one step ahead of your boss.

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Keeping focussed in a busy environment

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you have to answer the phone, deal with an email or attend to something for your boss, do so, as that is the nature of the admin job -- multi-tasking, but once you have done it, go right back to your to-do list, re-focus and continue what you were doing. Keep your desk organized with a place for everything.