BMT Office Administration

APRIL 22, 2024

You can’t just take your employees’ word for the hours they worked, which is where the timesheet approval process enters the picture. It’s up to each department manager to review the timesheets their employees submit to ensure accuracy. Does your time approval process cause you more headaches than benefits?

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Allwork

APRIL 10, 2024

The current top 100 AI tools in the workforce are mainly being used in content creation, research, programming and project management. However, an advancement in AI technology of this kind has the potential to revolutionize decision-making processes across various industries — including healthcare, finance, and transportation.

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Allwork

AUGUST 4, 2023

By harnessing the power of AI, remote workers can leverage smart tools to enhance video conferencing, document sharing, and project management. AI can curate and organize information from various sources and present it in a user-friendly way, streamlining the process of locating and absorbing knowledge.

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All Things Admin

APRIL 17, 2024

As administrative professionals, managing large amounts of information efficiently is crucial for ensuring smooth operations. Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. Here are two examples of this.

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Allwork

MAY 24, 2023

A surprising Mercer study recently revealed that only one in three companies has official regulations for managing flexible work. At a medium-sized IT services firm, employees enjoyed the liberty of remote work, yet were bereft of instructions on time management or intercommunication.

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Worxbee

MAY 18, 2023

As a savvy and forward-thinking business owner, it is crucial to equip yourself with the top virtual leadership skills necessary to successfully manage teams from a distance. We will delve into the seven essential virtual leadership skills that every manager should cultivate to thrive in the virtual work environment.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To avoid that kind of unnecessary stress, it’s important to properly manage and track your continuing education requirements. Why CEUs Matter CEUs are a really important part of the certification process. A free training session, for example, would qualify as long as it meets the content requirement.

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Success

JANUARY 1, 2024

I went from rags to riches in eight, nine months, and I know it was specifically because of the mind-mapping process.” Most people that know of it use it for project management, brainstorming, note taking—those kinds of things,” he explains. It really transformed who I am,” he says. “I

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

It’s able to make decisions, find connections and process information in a very sophisticated way. You’ve still gotten smarter in the process. For example, you might enter something like this: I am a senior executive assistant at a small wealth management firm in Northern California. And that’s okay! tools to be used.

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Small Business Labs

MARCH 19, 2019

To help with this problem, the MBO Partners 2019 Client of Choice study used natural language processing tools to help categorize independent workers who provide services to businesses. Other popular professions include education and training (9 percent), sales and marketing (8 percent), and healthcare and sciences (8 percent). 

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

This resource is intended to equip you with the knowledge and tools to streamline the hiring process, ensuring a successful addition to your team. Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

What does it take to be a successful office manager? simonewu 24/01/2023 Office managers are responsible for making sure everything runs smoothly in the office. Office managers are responsible for keeping businesses running smoothly. Office managers should know how to manage their time effectively on a daily basis.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 13, 2017

Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. As your days are getting busier and you are taking on more projects and assignments, you need these skills more than ever. Be consistent with your processes.

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Worxbee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You’ll find them engaging in project management, process management, strategic research, reporting and a range of dynamic, managerial functions. Here are some examples of key skills that may warrant development opportunities: Time management. Process management. What makes for a good process?

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 24, 2023

In a world where people are living and working longer, and having multiple careers, the Skills Outlook series provides guidance to employers, employees, and job seekers on where they should focus their training, education, and learning.

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Skills 2022 Project Management Training 74

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 22, 2019

Planners utilize their project management. They add value to an organization by drawing upon their knowledge of the hospitality industry to manage expenses and minimize risk by negotiating the best all-around rates and paying attention to contract terms. They tend to be life-long learners and students of experiential learning.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

EAs will often have random projects that require them to collaborate with other departments - it’s essential to maintain those human connections. A Reliable System for Tracking Tasks We’re not going to suggest one “right” system for how you manage tasks. Trello - Trello is a kanban (cards) style of project management tool.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For example, someone who has previously held a project manager role but opted for a career change to executive assistant may have a head start for a senior role. Longevity within the same company is often valued because the executive assistant knows it inside out and has efficient processes and procedures down pat.

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All Things Admin

MAY 3, 2023

Thankfully, the company I worked for provided an employee training certification course that introduced all of the principles of insurance, and made sure we could all speak and understand the language. SEO – Search Engine Optimization: This is the process of optimizing a website to improve its visibility and ranking on search engines.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity. I’ve spoken with several assistants that have voiced frustration at the standard process.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 23, 2020

In fact, it’s one of the reasons why administrative training is more necessary than ever. Executives are tech-savvy, self-sufficient and independent, so they manage a lot of their own administrative needs. Executives don’t want to “manage” another person. At the same time, we need to advocate for changes in the model.

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Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 27, 2011

PRINCE2 is a process-based methodology that offers non-proprietorial best practice guidance on project management, encompassing the management, control and organisation of a project. Leadership is also an important part of the PRINCE2 project manager’s role, particularly knowing the right approach to take.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

With over 15 years of experience in training and development, project management, and organizational and strategic vision, Eileen Coombes is passionate about helping others make the most of their time and energy. She enjoys streamlining the workload to create effective processes which leverage leaders. ABOUT EILEEN.

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Worxbee

JUNE 14, 2021

This should directly impact your training plans for team members. Then there’s the cost of training someone new. Developing talent internally is much better bang for your buck than headhunting and other hiring and training activities. There’s your HR department and individual managers, of course, but current EAs can also help.

Skills 78

Skills Training International Retirement 78

Eat Your Career

JUNE 12, 2017

Some people enjoy the process of certification because it enhances their confidence and allows them to connect with other like-minded professionals. Just because that’s what it’s called doesn’t mean the training is especially relevant or unique. That’s not to say that other certifications don’t matter. Do you trust them?

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Allwork

JULY 28, 2022

support specialists or user experience designers, project managers or e-commerce and digital marketing managers as well. And what’s exciting about that is all of those career fields are not only really in demand and projected to grow their outstanding careers from a from an economic perspective as well.

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Success

JANUARY 4, 2023

Paterson has people who take his assertiveness training make reservations at a restaurant, then call back a couple of hours later and cancel. Paterson advises composing sensitive emails in a word-processing program so you can’t accidentally send them too soon.) Learn it from the inside out. Email has pros and cons, Paterson says.

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Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 18, 2011

As for social media, three years ago, I said, for the first time, that the social media train was leaving the station and anyone not on it would be left behind. Being late to the train station myself, I could absolutely see the writing on the wall: social media was changing and would continue to change the way people connect and communicate.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 22, 2013

How many times are we asked to make improvements to administrative processes without any real guidance on what to do or where to start? Most managers will hire professional consultants for business improvement projects but will ask their assistants to make changes to the fundamental administrative structures without instruction or training.

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Suppliers Project Management Training Management 100

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

When the pressure is on to find an impressive venue to wow your clients, or source the ideal training venue for your delegates, or book the perfect executive meeting room, it’s good to know that help is at hand. In fact, you’ll be wondering how you ever managed without a venue finder. A low stress solution.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

That’s why it’s important to find proactive and productive ways to manage and champion change — because it’s the only way for us to stay engaged and relevant. You may have seen this change process diagram before. In order to shift the status quo, you have to go through a change process. It won’t be pretty.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management. Project management. Look for logical breaks in the process. Travel planning. Meeting and event planning. Finance and accounting. Human resources.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. But now, I’m back to paper (sort of). Extra steps.

Management 100

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Discuss and implement consistent processes. In last week’s Monday Motivators™, I said the magic formula for a stellar executive and assistant team is People + Processes = Success. An executive and assistant will be much more productive when they have proven processes in place and consistently use them.

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2017 Administrative Professionals Travel Project Management 100

All Things Admin

JUNE 8, 2022

Once you complete the setup process, you can start creating pages for your website. Project Management. You can — just as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Julie Perrine, CAP-OM, is the founder and CEO of All Things Admin, providing training, mentoring and resources for administrative professionals worldwide.

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Resume Mentoring Skills Social Media 98

C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Not only are you focusing on how to grow your business through hiring, training and fundraising, but you are also juggling the million administrative tasks that come up during the day. Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation.

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