Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

There is nothing worse than putting up with an uncomfortable sitting position or straining to see our screens but many of us do and many of us have aches and pains as a consequence. RollerMouse is an ergonomic alternative to the traditional mouse that sits directly in front of your keyboard. ctrl c & ctrl v).

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Karen Vivarelli

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Let’s get inspired First, consider what your goals are in the following areas: relationships, careers, finances, home, travel, personal growth (including spirituality, social life, education), and health and wellness. It is where we will set up your new visualisation board. I am manifesting my dream life!

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Keyboards Goals Lifestyle Finance 52

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 16, 2018

From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. She and I had a lot of opportunities to interact because of the work we did and my executives reporting up and we physically sat near each other. They are my: * Follow-up system.

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Mentoring Skills Learning IAAP 189

Productivityist

JANUARY 30, 2013

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact iOS Only Posted on 01/30/2013 // 5 Comments I’ve left my trusty MacBook Air at home for the first time ever while traveling. With Poster set up on both devices as well, my regular publication schedule won’t be interrupted either. Too much money otherwise.

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Keyboards 2013 AT&T Social Media 40

Productivityist

AUGUST 25, 2014

When he''s not chained to a computer, he''s out hiking the mountains of Colorado and traveling the world. If we''re not purposeful about it, non-creative busyness will take up our entire lives. He started playing the keyboard at the age of three after overhearing his sister''s lessons. You can follow him on Twitter as @jpsowin.

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Keyboards AT&T Twitter Travel 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 30, 2008

I draft letters, schedule his time, set reminders for deadlines, bring forward items, make travel arrangements, make some business decisions, arrange conferences, manage client relations and some bookkeeping. New executives are computer savvy and are comfortable on a keyboard. Why hire an assistant? But how can we help?

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Keyboards Assertiveness Filing Administrative Professionals 100

Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 4, 2008

I have discovered that by keeping my hands on those knitting needles (and off of the keyboard) and looking around to see what I have to share with others through my area Freecycle group, I can experience that oh-so-good feeling of fulfillment and wealth. Yes, I can see that we’ll have to meet up in March. It’s pretty funny.

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2008 Holidays 2004 Keyboards 100

Virtual Moxie

MAY 31, 2011

But I do use the Task list to hold ideas that spontaneously come up during the day that I know I’ll want to consider when I have time, but that I don’t have time to given even two minutes to right then. So everything ends up in just one place. . I’m a keyboarder most of the time. Tasks are calendared, too.

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Calendars Filing Keyboards Travel 100

Small Business Labs

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Good News - The Unemployment Rate Went Up in August | Main | Wall Street Journal on the Two-Track Economy » September 07, 2010 Our iPad Review The iPad is a huge success.    Many of these are being used by small businesses.

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Small Business CEO

JULY 26, 2011

Interacting with like-minded people are just a click and several keyboard strokes away. For those in the know however, there’s a mad scramble to check what the latest trends are and what social networking site has recently popped up. Simply because there is no good that can come from bad publicity.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

What a blast the last two weeks have been, but I dont think I could have taken any more late nights staying up to watch the Olympics in Eastern Standard Time. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Time Zones IAAP 2010 International 100

On The Job

AUGUST 21, 2007

In fact, when my kids have homework that starts off with something like “If a train leaves the station and is traveling at 80 m.p.h…” I sort of hear this buzzing sound in my ears and my vision starts to blur around the edges. I’m the first to admit I have never been a math whiz. Sharing ideas.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Credit Card Agencies Keyboards 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Everyone up here calls him Obama and our Prime Minister is called Harper. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca Their new role must seem awesome to them. " Warning!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Etiquette IAAP 2009 100

Productivityist

AUGUST 30, 2012

In the Advanced/General preferences panel, you can set Postbox to use Gmail’s keyboard shortcuts and you can also create events within Google Calendar for detected dates. In my job I travel and take my laptop, and with that I use a WIFI modem. It looks a lot like the native Apple Mail.app, but has a whole lot more under the hood.

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Email Dropbox Keyboards Filing 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 8, 2013

For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. Any books or reading up on this would be helpful too please.

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Attire Etiquette Clothes Time Zones 40

Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Thanks to Deborah Erickson, CPO of No Where But Up,Organizing 4. You can set them up to send all emails from a particular sender to a folder to make it easy for you to find. Sometimes we end up on a lot of lists that we had not intended to be on. On a daily basis, I make liberal use of the following two keyboard keys: 1.

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Email Management Filing Monster 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 10 August, 2010 Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys I am on vacation and on my home computer I do not have a mouse so rely on keyboard shortcut keys, which reminded me again how helpful they are and how they are a big timesaver rather than reaching for the mouse all the time.

Keyboards 100

Keyboards Time Zones IAAP PowerPoint 100

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 11, 2010

I always enjoyed watching nature and travel shows because the hosts seemed like the luckiest people in the world to me. They could travel all around the world, do fun stuff and get paid for enjoying their lives. I can never come up with post ideas while I am wearing my pajamas). Now that’s what I call life!

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2010 AT&T Twitter Travel 40

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 19, 2010

After a few frustrating episodes (in which I even tried some mild self-hypnosis in order to recall “that brilliant idea” I had this morning in the car) I gave up trying to remember those bits and pieces and set up a capturing environment. That’s the time when I quickly fire up the iPhone Voice Recorder and start talking.

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2010 Email Twitter AT&T 40

Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

That’s a key point and a very important question for every blogger who had been wrecked more than one keyboard writing. You will also have to do some tidying up, editing your cover artwork and making the pages look good, which you usually don’t do at your blog (your theme does this for you). Why would you want to convert that traffic?

2010 40

2010 AT&T Lifestyle Skills 40

Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

And then you graduated, spent some time in the real world and ended up working in a field that was wildly different from the one you’d studied. That’s what you should be playing up. Of course my on-the-job experience was invaluable too, but the things I picked up at University are embedded in a different way.

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2009 AT&T Learning Resume 40

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

You can also add this macro to your toolbar or assign a keyboard shortcut by clicking on the buttons below and following the instructions. Click on either the toolbar icon that you created, the keyboard shortcut or click Tools, Macro, and Macros…, then click run. All the deleted text should now show up automatically.

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Microsoft Word 2008 Keyboards 2007 100

Productivityist

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

I love the way the keyboard works on the device and it really speeds everything up for me on an OS that I''m still getting acquainted with right now. I started mine up with the beer edition, Drink Local (I mean, I have a beer cellar after all), and the latest edition, Cold Horizon, features winter colours. I''m glad I did.

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Gifts 2013 Holidays Dropbox 40

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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2008 Cubicle Google Docs 2007 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I personally use a Franklin Covey planner because I love the look of the pages, but many other companies make planner pages with the same set-up.  Thinking Through A Pen As a writer, I enjoy being able to open up my planner to jot things down. Keeps all your appointments, contacts and email in one spot so it's all synched up.

Calendars 100

Calendars Microsoft Outlook Twitter Purchasing 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 15, 2010

The topic was on personal branding and they were making recommendations to executives on how to polish up their image. I use this all the time on my calendar and my boss's calendar, and it helps us both to know which events are phone calls which he can take in the office or on the road (yellow) or which events will require travel (blue).

Calendars 100

Calendars IAAP Time Zones 2010 100

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 14, 2008

Defeat Keyloggers by not using the keyboard to type passwords. Back up your passwords and copy them between computers. Encrypt your passwords to achieve complete security. Generate random passwords to maximize password strength. Fight Phishing by entering passwords only on matching web sites.

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2008 Cubicle 2007 Google Docs 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another time I was trying to find a full-serve gas station to fill up, but there was nothing to be found. I travel far to try and find a full-serve station, but they are becoming extinct. It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. Recently, I bought a new laptop.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2010 Meeting Minutes 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

In-camera If the Chair says this part of the meeting is in-camera, take your fingers off the keyboard, or put your pen down. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Time Zones Agenda IAAP 2010 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 20, 2010

It works well when it is a co-worker who sits closest to you, but depending on how your office is set up that might not be possible. She had to set up an away voicemail message and fortunately had kept a script of what her away message usually said, She worked for a doctor so it was important that the proper referral numbers were given.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Meeting Minutes International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

APRIL 5, 2010

He will have a quick conversation with a staff member and set up a meeting, but not tell me anything about it. laughs* I had one boss who was absolutely forbidden to schedule his own appointments because he would foul up his calendar so badly. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. 411 Look Up 411.ca

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2010 Calendars 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Some people in the office were trying to get the remote working as we had a PowerPoint presentation coming up and were calling it things like remote thingy , remote slide clicker, wireless mouse so I finally asked, "Does anyone know what the official name for that thing is?" Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh.

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PowerPoint Time Zones IAAP 2010 100

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 5, 2008

This saves a bunch of time if you have to do a function several times and there isnt a keyboard short cut. If successful, I will write a post to everyone letting them know its up and running. If I do end up coming up with a little extra time in the future, I will write a post on it. Also, Facebook has a few I believe.

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2008 2007 Cubicle PowerPoint 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 13, 2010

I take the bus to work and I often see people getting on a busy bus and then going through their backpack or purse looking for their bus tickets and holding up the line. I like to be prepared and I find life just works better for me at home, work and even on the bus, when I am organized and ready for whatever is coming up. no tickets.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2010 Meeting Minutes 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 31, 2009

He takes about 12 steps, squats and rejoices in his accomplishment, then he gets up and walks another 12 steps and squats again to repeat the process. Come up with a plan on how you are going to improve in the areas you identified as needing improvement. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. 411 Look Up 411.ca

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Meeting Minutes International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I started this blog to share the knowledge I had picked up over the years either from other administrative assistants, my bosses or from trial and error. Bring Forward System or Using Tasks in Outlook Have a system to follow up on items your boss has asked you to do or things you know you need to do. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 19, 2009

I tend to keep my scheduling sheets in chronological order and each morning I go through them to see if there is any action I need to take, i.e. follow up to ask for an agenda or see if I can start scheduling. I dont want to miss a step so always go through the checklist on the travel sheet. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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