Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Microsoft Outlook Shared Mailboxes Etiquette By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, January 31, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have more than one mailbox in your Microsoft Outlook , other than your inbox? Do you share these other mailboxes with other staff members?

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Whether you’re meeting by phone, video conference or in person, don’t arrive late. If you have a phone call on the schedule, block an additional 15 minutes before the start time so you can be sure you’re at your desk and prepared. It’s hard to believe how many ways people have found to mess up something as simple as a handshake!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

With the increasing use of email as the first choice for business correspondence it opens a whole new world of dos and don'ts for the assistant.Here are Some Good-Sense Email Etiquette Tips: Email Salutations: Although email is less formal than writing a letter it is still polite to open with a greeting.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 30, 2007

She has been an Administrative Assistant for over 25 years. You can contact her through this blogspot or by emailing me at pattyannrobb@rogers.com.

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The Office Professionals Place

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Monday, October 19, 2009 Choose Your Method of Communication Effectively – Email, Phone, In-person, “Snail&# Mail/Memos Have you ever received an email from someone who just started at the company asking you to do something and you haven’t been introduced? Or have you played the popular “phone tag&# game?

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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Allwork

MARCH 15, 2024

There is a certain etiquette and unspoken rule that comes to working remotely from a library and this is expected to be respected. If a park doesn’t have WiFi set up, a remote worker would need to get a data plan and computer that has an embedded Sim card (eSIM) so they can access the internet like they could with a cellphone.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Do you start wondering if they treat their own house the same way? right away. right away.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 4comments for this post Feng Liang I stumbled upon this corporate presentation template at Cone Trees that I can actually use for my work, it wasnt cheesy types that usually come up in the search, so it thought id share :D.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 27, 2012

The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Bonus fix: Using a separate field indicator (“Flag for Follow-up”) is better than pre-fixing subjects with “AR”.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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Allwork

JULY 7, 2024

This can be achieved by: Switching up in-office days: Incentivize teams to come into the office on non-peak days with food and drinks and a promise that leadership will be present. Space can be repurposed simply by moving furniture or by establishing a new etiquette for the area. Not necessarily.

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On The Job

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

My cell phone reception is lousy in this part of the city." "OK, Phone disconnects. I've interviewed hundreds of people over the phone as a journalist, and I've been on the other end as I was interviewed over the phone for magazines, newspapers, radio and television. Avoid cell phones. Sure.prob.lots of." "Mr.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! He sent me an e-mail saying his computer-based web phone had unexpectedly stopped working. Social Networking Tips. Do your homework and learn to use social networking to your professional advantage. Send no more than one news story a day.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! He sent me an e-mail saying his computer-based web phone had unexpectedly stopped working. Social Networking Tips. Do your homework and learn to use social networking to your professional advantage. Send no more than one news story a day.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! He sent me an e-mail saying his computer-based web phone had unexpectedly stopped working. Social Networking Tips. Do your homework and learn to use social networking to your professional advantage. Send no more than one news story a day.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! He sent me an e-mail saying his computer-based web phone had unexpectedly stopped working. Social Networking Tips. Do your homework and learn to use social networking to your professional advantage. Send no more than one news story a day.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 4, 2014

Remember your etiquette in all settings is vital, even when they are “virtual” settings! He sent me an e-mail saying his computer-based web phone had unexpectedly stopped working. Social Networking Tips. Do your homework and learn to use social networking to your professional advantage. Send no more than one news story a day.

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 26, 2023

People set up home offices and found ways to avoid interruptions. Dress for Success We all want to feel comfortable in our own homes, but showing up for a video meeting undergroomed or underdressed is unacceptable. Proper Video Etiquette Enhances Your Personal Brand! They rediscovered the value of professionalism.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 5, 2008

I take the time to get to know them as we communicate back and forth either by phone, e-mail or in person. When you build up a relationship with clients, you can almost hear a sigh of relief when they have been unable to reach the boss, but have been able to reach the assistant. I am interested in our clients and their assistants.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you receive junk mail, junk faxes and the occasional irritating phone call from telemarketers? Do you even receive voice mails that are left by people trying to sell you something, but you didn’t even hear the phone ring?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

You can find instructions to setting up this software here and the software download page here. In the near future, Blackberries, Apple iCals and many different types of phones will be supported on this software as well. Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 18, 2008

When youre on a phone call, do people hover over you? You dont want people coming up to you, hovering and waiting for you to put down the phone for a few seconds to let them know that you are in a training session. Are you the main contact in your department? Its inevitable, but its part of your job description.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re walking around the office and someone comes up to you, asking for a pen. Home About Me Advertise Do You Have a Pen? You search your pockets and realize that you don’t have one. Has this ever happened to you?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Common Courtesy in the Workplace By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 10, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you always end up cleaning up after your colleagues? Do you neatly put all labels, papers, etc. on the printer table and then a few minutes later, you come back to a messy area?

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 23, 2015

Pick up the phone and speak to the person? Written or e-mailed messages, or quick phone calls, are most effective. Write back and ask for clarification? Craft a carefully worded reply that remains positive and avoids any possible negative interpretation (skirting potential conflict)? None of the above? The best solution is “c”.

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Tips From T. Marie

AUGUST 19, 2011

Despite iPads, 3D television, and the wonders of Skype , one of technology’s greatest wonders, in my own opinion, is the cell phone. It seems in a matter of 10 years (10 years ago I had my first Nokia bar phone), we have gone from owning ‘mobile telephones’ to ‘mobile do-everything devices’. Can we text an RSVP?

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Success

AUGUST 8, 2024

Why resignation etiquette matters Quitting now doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll never work with that boss or company again. “We Should your significant other break up with you by text or phone or email? She also put together a comprehensive packet to kick-start her successor’s onboarding and set them up for success. “I

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 15, 2009

Sometimes I wish I had something to warn me when I am with someone with a cell phone so I can know that we are going to be interrupted. I find it frustrating when people either text while in a conversation or are constantly taking phone calls. Apparently not, when its by phone. In an emergency, the cell phone is a useful tool.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

You can post up to 80 different job sites, such as Workopolis , Monster , CareerBuilder and many more, just with one submission. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 26, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you worried about online identity theft online? Resume Rabbit will make all of this disappear.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 23, 2008

Do you already have a table set up in Microsoft Word, but dont want to copy to Microsoft Excel and back again, just to sort it? One of my colleagues came to me and asked about this very question. I wasnt sure if this was possible, but fiddled around on Google a bit and found that it is possible.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 28, 2008

Do you have a big project coming up and want to show your boss that you can handle this type of task ? Home About Me Advertise Copying Pictures To and From Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, January 28, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity H ave you ever wondered how to copy pictures from and to Microsoft Word ?

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Does your boss come up to you and ask you to find information on an e-mail that youve received and needs it yesterday? If it isnt, click on it and a new toolbar will pop up. A new window will pop up with results that will populate as the system retrieves this information. Then click on Options, Advanced Find.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 13, 2008

Do you follow particular religious holidays, but arent showing up in your calendar? In this case, I dont have to worry about taking extra days off, since I dont really follow the religious holidays that I was brought up with, which in turn, are part of the regular holidays that come up each year.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

A large number of people that wake up in the morning need their coffee to jump start their mornings and help them throughout the day. By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 29, 2007 Filed Under: Productivity D o you feel like you need a coffee fix every day? Can you really survive your morning without that cup of Joe?

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