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Day in the life: Tracy Reid

Practically Perfect PA

Complex travel arrangements – flights, hotels, trains, visas. Processing expense claims. I would be lost without the Microsoft Outlook calendar reminders, the Snipping Tool and Skyscanner! Can you recommend any events, books, publications, websites, and training programmes for other assistants?

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Email Triage: What it is and how it can help you

ProAssisting Blog

Then, I go through the number of Microsoft Outlook invites that are sprinkled throughout and delete the ones that I can and leave the ones that need to be accepted on Monday morning in my inbox. Then I quickly scan through for any emails from my boss as action items for the upcoming week. Stay in the know!

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Day in the life: Tracy Reid

Practically Perfect PA

Complex travel arrangements – flights, hotels, trains, visas. Processing expense claims. I would be lost without the Microsoft Outlook calendar reminders, the Snipping Tool and Skyscanner! Can you recommend any events, books, publications, websites, and training programmes for other assistants?

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5 Steps to a Clean Inbox

All Things Admin

I needed to change, so I sought out books and training on email management. You will also need to create a new system for how you manage your inbox, and that system has to include a task and project management component so you process email out of your inbox and into that system. I asked experts for tips. And it helped – for a bit.

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I wish I had known sooner

Practically Perfect PA

Within my first week I was being asked and expected to assist the team with various admin tasks using systems that I had never used or had training on. Even though my team members didn’t know the processes, I searched out other PAs in the overall department, and invited them to a ‘get to know each other’ lunch.

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Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result.

Stephanie LH Calahan

However, at its core, productivity results from better workload processing behaviors. For example, one of the most repeated productivity recommendations in today's world is to turn off the new e-mail notifications received via Microsoft Outlook or other e-mail clients. People are the ones doing the behaving.

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Building Traffic With SEO: Five All-Purpose Tips

Andrea Kalli

Once you’ve perfected processes, automate them. From online bots to outsourced employees, there are hundreds of ways to cut down on development time and eliminate labor-intensive processes. Target your rivals, not the search engine itself, and you will enjoy a great level of search-related success.