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News from Assist Travel

Practically Perfect PA

With Assist Travel just a few month’s away, I thought I would share everything that I have been working on behind the scenes. We really do have world-class speakers talking all thing business travel. Why should you attend Assist Travel? Well, I actually have three reasons why you should attend Assist Travel!

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Teach Your Executive How to Work with You

Office Dynamics

Maintain your processes even during busy times. You and your executive should have clear processes on every aspect of the typical tasks that need to be performed. What often happens is when work or business gets really crazy, processes get put aside such as regular huddles. So first, you must have excellent processes in place.

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Why an Executive Assistant is One of the Most Important Hires You Can Make

C-Suite Assistants

Time Management : manage your calendar as well as coordinate your work and personal calendars, schedule meetings, and most importantly help you set scheduling priorities on your calendar Organization : Help you set up standard operating procedures and improve business processes including “electronic organization.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. Then, as a next step, you must figure out how to identify and evaluate these executive assistant skills as you go through the interview and screening process.

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How to create an assistant handbook

Practically Perfect PA

Having led the development of a handbook for two global organisations, my session focussed on the process from start to finish: Systematically planning the handbook. Policy & Procedure , for HR documents, travel and expense policies, health and safety etc.; Who will use the guide?

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Travel planning. Look for logical breaks in the process. Then I need to go back through my brain dump and number things so I get them in the right order as I proceed through the system development process. PowerPoint template for presenting meeting materials ? Meeting and event planning. Project management.

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Today’s Admin Needs to Become a Mobile Office Pro

Office Dynamics

Apps for file access, e-mail, calendar, password protection, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, virtual meetings, news, weather and travel are examples of key productivity tools mobile devices should have installed. Take advantage of the free mobile app versions of Microsoft Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.

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