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Keeping focussed in a busy environment

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 17 April, 2010 Keeping focussed in a busy environment There are so many distractions in the office -- the telephone, your co-workers, email and your boss! Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway?

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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. Informal, yet professional environment which encouraged participants by all attendees.”.

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Multigenerational Communication & Cross-mentorship

Office Dynamics

The diverse team has combined organizational and time management skills, event and meeting planning, business savvy, continued professional development drive and so much more to ensure success and positive outcomes. We are all contributors to that mapping.

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4 Fresh Meeting Trends and Where to Find Them

Office Dynamics

Four major trends in meeting room styles are featured below and all four (and hundreds more) meeting rooms can be found on Spacebase along with many other. budding meeting industry trends. Green Meetings. spectacular wooden decorations do more than just create a natural atmosphere: they also help the environment.

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The pronouns you use can reveal a lot about where your head is

Laughing all the Way to Work

Meetings - Are you in the middle of planning a meeting? I keep a meeting scheduling form at my desk. I know exactly where I am at with the meeting planning just by looking at the form. Making myself at home in my new environment. Have you called a few people and are waiting to hear back from them.

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

Office Dynamics

Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning. Your systems will need to evolve to match the personalities and work environments you are in. What are the most important systems an assistant should have mapped out to move from chaos to control? Filing – paper and digital. Project Management.

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Kings and Queens of the Office

Laughing all the Way to Work

How can you survive in this kind of a working environment? Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway? ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared? ► February (5) We did it Canada!