Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 15, 2014

When the HVAC system was installed, someone thought we might want the user manual for the system: a 400 page PDF document. Instead of filing the PDF on the network, the document was printed and placed in a filing cabinet , where it will sit until doomsday or at least until someone cleans out those files. It adds up.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 7 Steps to Improve Your Filing System By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 27, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you having trouble with your filing system? Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Why Lock Your System at Work? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 24, 2007 Filed Under: System Security D o you feel that your colleagues might do something through your computer? and then our computers automatically lock, which is a good back-up system.

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 20, 2017

The first part is building your paperless system , while the second is all about how you maintain your paperless office. Putting in the time up front and investing in the right tools is absolutely essential to creating an efficient paperless home office. System Now that you have your tools, it is time to set up a system.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor.

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Office Organization Success

JULY 17, 2015

Setting up your teleclass is relatively straightforward too – all you need is a: Registration page. Follow-up system usually via an autoresponder. If it’s a hot topic you’re presenting on, people are usually clamoring to sign up … great! FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Do you start wondering if they treat their own house the same way? right away. right away.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2016

Note : if you are using an iOS device, at minimum, you should keep your device backed up using iCloud. Note: Subscribe to Executive Secretary Magazine , and read my detailed article on Clearing Up The Fog Around Cloud Storage , in the January, 2016 issue. Like any file storing system, you should create folders to organize your files.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

You’ll end up thinking you’ve lost them when they’re actually just in a different place. You’ll just end up wasting precious time. And the cost of replacement can quickly stack up to far more than that. A final step to keeping your documents safe is to ensure sensitive information does not end up in the wrong hands.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 2, 2014

Noteshelf – Notes & PDF £3.99. The user can type their notes using the iPad keyboard, add photos, import and annotate PDFs, organise pages and tag each notebook. It is designed specifically for people who handle tasks and need to follow up on actions from meetings. This is a quick and easy online minute taking system.

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Plants in the office promote a healthier environment, tone down the sterile look of many offices which many employees find ‘ toxic ’, soak up CO2 and give off oxygen, and make your workforce more productive. Most offices are open plan and generally poorly designed when it comes to the number of heating systems they have. Power down.

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Recruit CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It will help you ensure if they’re still interested and haven’t accepted a position elsewhere You can send the letter in PDF format by email or send it by courier overnight Have your lawyer on board, so you’re aware of all legal considerations while making the offer What to Include in a Job Offer Letter?

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Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 2, 2012

If you have Microsoft Word, an information product can be created as a PDF file. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer? Donna Toothaker is CEO, founder and coach of Step It Up VA Coaching, and the creator of the 6 Steps to 6-Figure VA Success System.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

If you have a business partner but not an office manager, divide up responsibilities. I know they have fascinating and important information in them, but you don’t have time to read them and keep up with what came in today. Whether you shred or not is up to you. Sign up for electronic bills and statements.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Then you finally do reach a live person and you are so fed up with all of the time wasted, that you start fuming towards the person on the other end of the phone.

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Office Organization Success

JANUARY 22, 2010

Setting up your teleclass is relatively straightforward too – all you need is a: Registration page. Follow-up system usually via an autoresponder. Again, knowing that they can listen to the recording at their leisure will make the difference between them signing up and not signing up. Teleconference bridge line.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Did your boss just decide to install it on his/her system and yours then told you, "Read the manual, were going to be using this from now on"? In one of my previous jobs, when I was working for an Investment Advisor, he gave me the installation CD-ROM and asked me to read up on how to use it. as your client relationship manager (CRM)?

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

If you have Microsoft Word, an information product can be created as a PDF file. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer? Donna Toothaker is CEO, founder and coach of Step It Up VA Coaching, and the creator of the 6 Steps to 6-Figure VA Success System.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Categories Client Service (23) Ergonomics (6) Job Seeking (20) Meetings (43) MS-Access (8) MS-Excel (23) MS-Outlook (34) MS-PowerPoint (11) MS-Word (22) Networking (27) Office Gossip (18) Organize (91) Prioritize (42) Productivity (202) Research (7) System Security (16) Travel (20) The Archives The Archives July 2010 (4) June 2010 (4) November 2009 (..)

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 4 Easy Steps to Finding Old E-mails By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, December 13, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you have trouble sifting through hundreds or even thousands of e-mails ? If it isnt, click on it and a new toolbar will pop up.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Creating a filing system can be tricky, as you need to know exactly how to file your files and what type of information you would need to be able to access quickly. One of my readers asks: I am trying to organize a file room based not on traditional alphabetical filing, but on a retrieval system. as you mentioned in your question.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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Recruit CRM

MAY 26, 2021

Suppose you own a recruitment agency with just 30 recruiters and you're looking for an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) that suits your small business needs but guess what? So keep reading to find more about the best applicant tracking system out of the lot below and begin your recruiting journey with ease. Ratings 4.9/5

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 13, 2008

Do you follow particular religious holidays, but arent showing up in your calendar? In this case, I dont have to worry about taking extra days off, since I dont really follow the religious holidays that I was brought up with, which in turn, are part of the regular holidays that come up each year.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. You think to yourself, "What?!? Is this person crazy?!?" Has this ever happened to you? I am sure most of you are nodding your heads as you are reading this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re walking around the office and someone comes up to you, asking for a pen. Home About Me Advertise Do You Have a Pen? You search your pockets and realize that you don’t have one. Has this ever happened to you?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 3, 2008

Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday. It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. You can easily set up a Gmail account to forward copies of all messages to other accounts for backup purposes.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

You can find instructions to setting up this software here and the software download page here. Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that. In the near future, Blackberries, Apple iCals and many different types of phones will be supported on this software as well.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. I originally wrote a post on this entitled " Travel Plans " explaining that you can use Travelocity and Expedia to find the best deals. Theres even a better site that helps you find the best deals on these and other airlines, hotels and car rental agencies.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. This will show up in red, since I know I have to get to this one first, before I can even touch any other one. Then I have my faxes set up as green. Now you have a new prioritization system set up.

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