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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place.

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Administrative Assistant Job Descriptions

Administrative Arts

Answering Phones and Screening Calls. This one item can become a whole list on some job descriptions if they get specific as to the particular documents you’ll manage. This can also include creating and modifying PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets. Project Management. Receive and Distribute mail.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Software such as PowerPoint, Visio or SmartDraw can aid in the development. You can add audio, convert PowerPoint slides to video (including exact slide timing, animations, sound effects, narration, webcam video, and any web pages or applications displayed onscreen during the presentation), and you can record podcasts. Get Organized!

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

This morning the phone rang - youve got an interview! If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. Structure: This is like an elaborate version of your résumé, perhaps most easily done in PowerPoint.

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Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If it is with an outside contact, a phone call apologizing for your error and being open to whatever steps you need to take to make it right will go a long way to fixing it. I am part of the project management office at my company and I hear the term roadblocks all the time. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Yes – I’ve qualified since as an ISO programme manager and auditor, a Health & Safety manager and assessor, completed various MS Office and bespoke applications courses and a facilities management course. Also attended general Excel/Word/Powerpoint courses.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

So I’m not exactly sure what other high level tasks/responsibilities you may be missing out on when you have to manage the office. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc.