Success

AUGUST 17, 2021

No phones, emails or interruptions allowed. Sometimes you’ll plan white space around your calendar. If you have back-to-back meetings five minutes apart, for example, it makes sense to use those five minutes as white space. For example, when you’re driving or on the train. Think of it as strategic rather than indulgent.

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Success

JULY 30, 2024

Now, three times per day, an email goes out to 22,000 users for free, with a zero-tolerance policy for AI, spam and fake accounts. To help verify legitimate journalists, he’s partnering with MuckRack, where many journalists have profiles and examples of their work, to ensure growth and legitimacy. “If

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APRIL 25, 2024

I have a calendar full of the total time I’ve moved each month on my desk. Why bother when we have email, social media, text and so forth? Your email inbox will thank you. Kate Winick, former editor and former senior director of social media at Peloton, shares more examples of how to try it on LinkedIn. I walked again.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Automated calendars replace monotonous back-and-forth email communications between community managers and prospective members. For example, chat apps facilitate effective communication across a virtual and physical community. These expectations align with the expectations of the modern tech-savvy worker.

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Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2022

As we communicate a consistent message over time, we can also provide specific examples of how the vision was brought to life,” said Sabina Nawaz, global CEO coach, leadership keynote speaker, and writer, in the Harvard Business Review. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. Be cognizant of the time zones.

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Success

MAY 3, 2023

If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted. For example, Shangri-La The Shard, London is offering a fourth night free when booking three nights until Dec.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 29, 2019

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. Pay attention to non-verbal cues when working with others to schedule meetings, if you are talking face-to-face or on the telephone or even in an email. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 21, 2017

If you’ve ever spent a morning trying to track down a lost file on your hard drive or searching through a decade of email, you know that digital disorder can also take a toll on your wellbeing. Most people handle a constant flow of text messages, emails, photos, videos, and other digital information. Automate Email Organization.

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Success

JANUARY 6, 2022

Everything we do at work takes a little bit of water out of the bottle: from answering emails, to jumping on meetings, and even listening to others talk. Kogan recommends blocking out a specific time of day to do your check-in and marking it down in your calendar. Kogan describes it as an “energy reservoir,” not unlike a water bottle.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 27, 2018

I put items in my calendar as a reminder, but the problem with calendar reminders is unless you know which day you put it on or what you named it, you can't easily find it. When I receive an email relating to a meeting, I create a meeting sheet and cut and paste the email in there and make any relevant notes.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Debbie Gross (Strategy) suggested administrative assistants to work at a higher level by using their Outlook calendar like their own personal admin to help keep them on track with the many projects to be managed. She has a 3-point system for managing email: first pass. Second pass, Do (as in under two minutes).

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Success

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I recently wrote about the energy reservoir in my weekly Happier email , and a woman wrote back saying it made her realize that she only practiced self-care after she crashed and burned from endless overworking. Think about the simplest example, like writing an email to your colleague. Wow, that hit home.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Below are a few examples of general and job-specific goals: Set a professional development goal whether it’s attending a conference, completing an online course or program, reading a certain book or two, scheduling time each week or month for webinars, computer program training, time management courses, etc.

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Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recurring tasks, delegation, comments, calendar integration, kanban-style productivity visualizations and subtasks are some of the most notable features of Todoist. A real-world example might be something like, “If I get an email with an attachment, upload the attachment to Google Drive.”

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BMT Office Administration

MAY 9, 2022

To help you visualize what an SOP should look like and include, we’ve created five simple SOP examples. Take a look at the following examples to see what a basic SOP should look like. SOP Example 1 – Employee onboarding. Example 2 – Posting a job opening. Example 4 – Ordering office supplies.

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Pay attention to those things that disrupt you—maybe you need to put your smartphone away or close out your email while you work on important tasks,” adds Blair Thomas, co-founder of eMerchantBroker. Limit how often you check and answer emails. Broken flow can really impede progress. Another time management technique to try?

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For example, we know executive assistants who had to find popular tickets to a game or dinner reservations at the last minute for clients. Here are some examples: Todoist - Todoist is a practical task list app because of its simplicity and portability. For example, you might follow strategies to get to I nbox Zero.

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Worxbee

JANUARY 3, 2022

Inbox Zero is often touted as the holy grail of email management. Considering that the average office worker receives 121 emails per day (and that checking emails isn’t their primary job!), it’s easy to see why the emails tend to pile up. Ending your day with nothing left pending in your inbox? Sounds great!

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

In this chapter, I cover tactics for managing your own email inbox, as well as your executive’s. Of course, I’d love to hear your email tips and tricks as I’m always down to get more efficient and productive, so please reach out! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Email is the gateway drug of work; Slack is the crack.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Maybe it’s a 10% increase in email sales in Q1 — but is that a year-over-year increase, or a quarter-over-quarter one? Offer relevant marketing examples. But it also helps to include some project-relevant examples of what you do and don’t like, Rao observed. Set up a calendar for regular check-ins and deadlines.

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Tips From T. Marie

DECEMBER 7, 2018

With the increase in virtual services and communication done entirely via email, Skype and Slack, you may not even have a physical address to send a gift to. For example, real estate agents often give their buyers a gift upon the successful purchase of a new home. For example, one year I created personalized notecards for clients.

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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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Success

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, in the early 2010s, one Ottawa-based employee tried to push back against a concerning payroll system, but was told she “wasn’t being a team player.” Similarly, notifying your boss in advance of your planned topic via an email or a conversation can help prepare them.”

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2017

Phenomenal examples include manufacturing, mechanized farming, retail, and many other sectors. An app such as Evernote can be linked to task running apps like Trello and Asana and even to your Google calendar. In the entire history of human development, the need to make work easier, faster and even cheaper comes naturally.

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Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. After only two hours, I had the copy for a squeeze page, a 12-page sales page, 20 social media posts, 11 marketing emails and ad copy. But many late-night TikTok videos later, I noticed people using it in increasingly creative ways.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 13, 2020

For example: Legal Assistant, Marketing Assistant, Project Coordinator, Program Administrator, Training Coordinator, Event Coordinator, etc. Admin assistants generally provide support to a team or group of people, a department, or a specific business function.

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Virtual Moxie

MAY 6, 2014

The problem is that “later today,” and “as soon as you can,” aren’t times you can point to on a clock and calendar. The examples I gave above, that use words like "later today" and "as soon as you can" are all examples of implicit agreements. Put everything on your calendar. Tho solution? Make only explicit agreements.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

For example…. Checking emails instead of reaching out to potential joint venture partners or organizations to secure speaking gigs. Don’t be a slave to your emails or your phone. Plan to check your emails twice a day (morning and afternoon) and let unscheduled calls go to voicemail. Plan your calendar.

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Make or Break Moments

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Here is a perfect example of marketing driving the traffic and a sales person dropping the ball. We only get one chance at a first impression and Leslie’s first impression clearly isn’t positive in this example. I assume the purpose of Internet marketing is to create sales. I walked into the small store.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 28, 2011

I’m at the time of year where I begin to map out the coming year – not with mind mapping apps 1 , but on my various calendars. My family routinely receives/orders a wall calendar that has photos of our closest relatives on my wife’s side, mainly (and appropriately) featuring the kids. It’s decluttering time. MacBook Air. It’s there.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I have written a lot about diary management over the years, which is not surprising when you think assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their manager’s calendars. Prior to confirming a meeting in the calendar always look at what your boss has schedule either side of the meeting.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The first step, and most important step, is to actually schedule your time off in your calendar. Once it’s on your calendar and you can see it you’re unlikely to accidentally schedule in a client call, meeting, or other event that will encroach upon your down time. Also plan your programs and trainings around your vacation time.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

  I've tried delegating through email, google and drop box.  You can set a due date, and even sych the due date to your calendar. For example, if the due date changes for a task, it shows who changed the due date and when. 3 - Declutter Your Email Inbox. " "We're just not getting stuff done. 

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The solution is simple … you plan it in your calendar. The first step, and most important step, is to actually schedule your time off in your calendar. Once it’s on your calendar and you can see it you’re unlikely to accidentally schedule in a client call, meeting, or other event that will encroach upon your down time.

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Office Organization Success

JULY 31, 2009

Are you continually searching around looking for an email address? For example, how do you create a new client file? One example could be you’re answering the same client enquiries again and again. The easy way to resolve this is to put all those questions together in one place and create an email template.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

For example, write all tasks related to recruitment on blue cards and items related to resident evaluations on red cards. For example, after receiving an e-mail request, don’t let it sit in your in-box until you remember or miss the deadline.     * Master calendars.     * Master calendars.

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Productivity Bits

MARCH 29, 2011

Plancake has got everything that you would expect from a GTD-oriented task manager: lists, tags, notes, calendar, next actions, repetitive tasks and an Inbox. It is not like your email Inbox, when half of times the message has nothing to do with you. Adding an event to your Google Calendar account (coming soon). 100% No Spam.

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