Office Dynamics

MARCH 9, 2018

Under that umbrella, we addressed topics such as self-management vs. stress management, learning specific difficult people types and how to handle each of them, the benefits of conflict and much more. I’ll give you a perfect example that just happened to me this morning as I was traveling. This is becoming a huge problem.

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Success

JULY 29, 2022

Virtual events also saw a rise in popularity, as they allowed audiences to attend without paying for travel or worrying about exposure to COVID-19. Zoom, Google Meet, Discord and other chat services allowed families and friends to communicate across long and prolonged distances and for school and work to continue.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 22, 2015

At our recent Assist Travel event one of the most interesting topics discussed was the trials and tribulations of organising visas for our Executives. Key rules: Before completing a Visa application, familiarise yourself with any Embassy closures or rule changes – these will affect your Visa processing time.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. They save you time and unnecessary stress. Travel planning. Look for logical breaks in the process. Email template for circulating date/time options. Systems have many benefits. Meeting and event planning. Project management.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 7, 2016

As I write this, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Seattle preparing to head off for a week of travel. It doesn’t matter when travel takes place, it is disruptive. This disruption can wreak havoc on your productivity and can even carry over beyond your travel period if you don’t deal with it accordingly.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways » 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To E-mail, it is the form of communication that we love to hate and love to love.    Multiple studies on business productivity will tell you that huge amounts of time are wasted on email.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 14, 2014

All you have to do is book a car to Heathrow Airport, organise transfers on arrival at the foreign destination and then make sure that all your travellers get to every meeting in their jam-packed itinerary without a hitch. Are your passengers travelling within London, going on to Manchester or are they jetting off around the world?

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2023

Another time, the editors emailed with an assignment while I was on a trip to ask Laura if she’d like to get married. When I saw one fellow’s mood profiles, his unhappiness when he was with his wife just jumped out,” he wrote in an email. I got to make up my own schedule and travel on assignments. Dinner was at 5; church at 8.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

When you prepare for a road trip, a little foresight before and during the trip can result in a great time devoid of stress. But it’s more realistic if productivity is kept in mind throughout the entire process. Take Time to Research and Use Travel Apps. Document Your Packing List on Phone Instead of Paper. Avoid Over-Packing.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

The recipe must be handled as a process, or you’ll end up with a sticky mess. You won’t stress out as much about finishing. As long as you maintain this boundary, you don’t have to travel far. When you start feeling stressed, overworked, underappreciated and exhausted, steer in another direction. Assignments. Phone calls.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Stress levels are astronomical. Your manager read emails, texts, and took phone calls between those times and the situation may have unfolded completely differently, requiring you to have new priorities this morning. These need to center around process and people. You need to constantly access your process, and then fine tune.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

One way to alleviate some of the stress is to work with an executive assistant. Additionally, assistants also play a big part in establishing processes and procedures and laying the groundwork for operating the business in a more organized fashion, enabling it to grow and avoid growing pains.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 12, 2010

  While it is really from the grass family, bamboo has some amazing strategic growth processes --heck some can even grow up to 100 feet tall!    The more you can put systems and processes to the work you do, the stronger you become and the more you can grow and even survive harsh conditions.   Bamboo? 

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. Because in my mind, I’m like, it actually could be helpful to have some sort of onboarding process for that, for our role, to give us hands on experience, like my wife worked in construction, and she was on the track to be a superintendent.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Depending on the tool you choose, you can use color codes, set priority levels, track progress, establish deadlines and even ask your system to remind you (via text or email or pop-up usually) of appointments or to-do items or anything else you so desire. This is where I mark travel and other significant events throughout the month.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic has caused a drastic shift to remote working and has highlighted the need for better processes and tools to streamline work. Andrew founded Wrike back in 2006 as a way to help people and companies work more productively, cut down on inefficient communication like email, and be more time efficient and cost efficient.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 2, 2010

Process: Once you’ve collected all the open loops, figure out what you need to do to close them. Comment by Ian Hunter on May 30, 2007 @ 2:18 pm Ian: that’s a good point and the process would certainly work for any kind of absence. This is also a good time to thank them for covering your unexpected absence.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 5, 2015

I manage his schedule and monitor his emails, as well as help organise some of his travel, company events, and client dinners, occasional research, expenses and ad hoc tasks – all the general PA duties. What are the main aspects of your role? I have a dual role: my primary responsibility is being the PA to the managing director.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JULY 18, 2012

Today, I'm going to address a question that I hear often in networking meetings and was expressed to me recently in a reader email.    My job was high profile, high travel and high stress.    This process of formally going to work makes all of the difference for him.    Seriously!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 30, 2010

" 3 - Get Solid Systems in Place – Make Good Use of Routines and Processes Routines/processes are habits that support your efforts in an effortless way.    That is true of any routine or process you put into place.   Do you have a process manual and an employee manual outlining expectations and procedure? 

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

They can carry the to appointments, allowing their physician to review it & connect symptoms w/factors such as stress/other environmental causes.   For some, just the process of writing can help put the information into your memory and make it a solid committment.  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact How To Manage Your Receipts by dragos on September 9, 2010 · 5 comments in Digital Tools , Productivity & Effectiveness Tweet I like to travel. Namely, receipts. A lot of receipts.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

Now its time to begin the process of gossiping about co-workers, belittling co-workers, making snide comments about other staff. Lifes too short to stress out! Then she spends at least the first hour discussing what she did the day before at home; cooking, cleaning, shopping, gossiping , what ever she did after she left work.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. By recording payments as we receive them, we can just as easily monitor overdue payments and send email reminders. I travel by car to see many of my clients, in their homes. I sit in my car and check my email.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 3, 2010

2 - Stop the "time sucking" activities -- Email and social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, etc.)   Is your role closely related to revenue generation, process improvement or client satisfaction?    Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? 6 - Identify the Frog!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 30, 2010

Work With Stephanie « Increase Productivity: Focus on What You CAN Control - Free Yourself from Feeling Overwhelmed/Stressed | Main | Check Out This Great Resource for Organizing Tips and Products (and maybe win some stuff too) » Productive Social Networking-Making the Most of Your Twitter & Facebook Experience - Do You Use Lists?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 3, 2011

Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST | Main | Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc.   Read, sort and process your email and snail mail daily.  Tweet Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email?

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Eat Your Career

JULY 29, 2010

Workbooks Stress Management Workbook Time Management Magic Reinvent Your Career Workbook More Tasty Goodness Career Management Consulting Job Interview Coaching Resume Revision Group Training & Public Speaking Eat My WHAT?! Career Management is an Active Process You can’t simply sit back and let others do the work for you.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

And then the process begins again with new ideas and new ways of doing business being developed as the old ones become stale. Producers: these people execute a repeatable process. Improvers: these people upgrade, change or make a repeatable process better. This is the fourth job. You can just write “Thx!”

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

If something isn’t working with your system, having the process documented allows you to see where the breakdown occurred. Systems are ordered and proven processes that save you time, effort, and stress. Travel planning. Here’s the process. Look for logical breaks in the process. Identify inefficiencies.

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Allwork

JULY 21, 2022

So, he sent an email to I had an hour and said, hey, Christine, I’ve got this crazy idea. She apparently deleted that email because she’s thinking, I’m not having any of that. So, but what then happened for us is that whenever we travelled there, people were like, oh, well, you know, hey, I’d love to catch up.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office. You answer the phone, book travel, offer beverages to guests, book meetings, prepare the conference room, order food, etc.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Travel Planning. Travel Planning. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Travel Planning Example: Your travel planning system involves lots of different forms, templates, and checklists. Her system for email management is outstanding.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

Check your email. Look at your email. Read that long chain email someone forwarded to you. Forward that chain email to all your friends. Write a detailed apology to the friend you sent that chain email to who asked you not to send stuff like that anymore. You’re really stressed and deserve some down time.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 4, 2010

The moment you’re starting saying things you don’t really mean, your communication process becomes heavily ineffective, hence you’re going to emit huge amounts of toxic gas, just like that ugly, noisy truck. I think judgmental people make their travels miserable, and they make it hard for others around them as well.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

So, if you’re into it, just hit me up with an email in which you’re telling me your blog address, a few words about yourself and why would you like to review it. I’m glad the new book is going to have a comprehensive overview of both the process and the app. Lyman Reed´s last blog. I love your perception.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

I was stressed out from the pace of work and also the length of a couple of special projects with a long lead time. We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. A week or two ago, it was one of those weeks where my brain just felt tired.

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