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Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress

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Home About Me Advertise Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress By The Professional Assistant on Friday, January 18, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity D o you get staff members coming to you for all sorts of questions? When youre on a phone call, do people hover over you?

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7 Ways to Free Up an Extra 25 Hours a Week

Success

Fax me a copy of that minute-by-minute breakdown and let’s chat. We are talking about highly skilled, well-trained leaders spending the majority of their time emailing (a low-level skill) on the days when their unique abilities are needed the most. Instead, pick up the phone, have a quick chat, close the loop and move on.

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Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word

Professional Assistant Blog

The more difficult macros are the ones that are programming code related and require knowledge of Visual Basic (you can find some books here) , which unfortunately, I have no training in. I am going to show you how to record a simple macro function and to implement it.

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

You reminisce about that Seinfeld episode where Elaine gets stuck on the subway and starts talking to herself about how the train isn’t moving and starts to get claustrophobic. You start to feel the same way and wonder when your floor will hit next.

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Five Things Small Businesses Need to Know About Free

Tips From T. Marie

Even so, I cut back on the things that I could in order to get a business phone line, a multi-function fax/printer/copier and a couple of business books. Yes, it’s true I felt I had little choice but to look for free alternatives to things like Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, and marketing training. You get what you pay for.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in. They each had forward-thinking employers who allowed them to have vision and encouraged them to work towards their goal and made room for that new role within their organization.

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Becoming a Go-To Assistant

Laughing all the Way to Work

Lynn Crosbie a Medical Assistant at a Research Hospital says, “Every time I learn something new, I write it in my manual, i.e. how to use the fax machine, information about the phone system, where the photocopier is located, who my contacts are in this position, who I can call for help, etc.

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