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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. Consider recording your training sessions, whether they’re in person or via platforms like Teams or Zoom. Software and Technology: User guides for phone systems, voicemail, online meeting platforms, and other specific software tools, etc.

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The 4 Most Common Excuses for Not Delegating

Success

Outsourcing isn’t always easy for leaders and entrepreneurs to wrap their minds around, says mentor Harry Hecht of Orlando, Florida-based SCORE. The phone and email are time-wasters,” Hecht says. Training someone will take too much time.” It’s true that training will take time. And that’s one of their downfalls.”

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Live to 100: 4 Takeaways from the Netflix Docuseries to Help You Live Better and Longer

Success

We text, email and message instead of talking on the phone. We have lost opportunities for meaningful engagement, for volunteering, mentoring and sharing wisdom. They create opportunities for meaningful engagement and contribution, such as volunteering, mentoring and sharing wisdom. Connect to a greater purpose God.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

When Harry Hecht, an Orlando, Florida-based mentor with SCORE—originally named the Service Corps of Retired Executives—encounters business owners who are reluctant to outsource, he has them track their time. “I If it’s answering the phone, you should have a script. If it’s data entry, you need to train them on the program.

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From Executive Assistant to CEO

ProAssisting Blog

She has held many different positions throughout her 30 years working for the company but what is particularly interesting to us here at ProAssisting is how Ursula was mentored in the executive assistant position by her two different bosses. And then this too: Later, the phone rang. She figured that it was not good news.

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Hired as C Suite EA and role description reads like an Office Assistant – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

I do very minimal tasks for him as well and my role description consists of miscellaneous things from issuing credit cards for anyone to issuing cell phones to anyone to ordering catering for anyone in the building to filling the frig in the boardroom when it gets low. They hired a new VP to take the current CEO’s job in about 2 yrs.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

All Things Admin

Do you remember asking people in your household to hang up the phone so you could send an email? Or being tied to bulky, desktop computers that couldn’t function more than five feet away from a phone jack? So, you end up doing a lot of manual work that could be automated if you had more training in this area.