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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

Office Dynamics

What surprised me after looking at the list was that many of the requests had to do with the typical administrative skills or tasks such as: managing multiple managers, dealing with difficult people, managing stress, calendar management, and troubleshooting. For example, what are the skills you need to be excellent at meeting planning?

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. Words to describe left-brain thinking are: Logic Order Structure Scientific Rules Analytical Methodical.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. Let’s use meeting and event planning as our example, and focus on creating a system for planning monthly staff meetings. Meeting Agenda. Meeting Invitations.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

Office Dynamics

Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Process your emails OUT of your inbox and into a TASK or CALENDAR appointment so you get them into your system for follow up, tracking, and completion.

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Word and Outlook 2007 tips

Laughing all the Way to Work

Under Leader, click the leader option that suits your needs i.e. ……1 or --1 Click OK Type text you want i.e. Agenda as in example below. To set a recurring 9-5 meeting (as opposed to clicking all-day meeting) I dont like the all-day meeting settings as they are out of sight at the top of the calendar and easily missed.

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Housecleaning in Word 2007: Customizing your Dictionary

Laughing all the Way to Work

You would be surprised how many misspelled words get in there by mistake; for example, instead of pressing Change you press Add to Dictionary when you are going through your SpellCheck. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

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Working for the Disorganized.

Laughing all the Way to Work

In my readers example, the problem was the trials of working for multiple bosses when one or more of them is disorganized. If that is not happening, schedule yourself in their calendar. If you do arrange to meet with them, be prepared with questions and information so they will see the benefit. Minute taking made easier.