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File Sharing
Last week I was on annual leave and as I’m sure you can imagine on my first day back in the office I was confronted with a shed load of emails and a pile of paperwork **cough cough junk cough** … Continue reading
Posted in Filing, Tasks, Uncategorized
Tagged admin, administrators, Executive Assistant, File Management, My Documents, PA, Personal Assistant, Time management, Virtual Assistant
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Trip Advisors: managing holiday records
As I look out on another wet and windy day in London I’ve really started to think about when to take my next week off work. I think we all daydream about sitting on the beach with a good book … Continue reading
Posted in Holiday Records, Tasks, Uncategorized
Tagged admin, administrators, Annual leave, Executive Assistant, holiday, Personal Assistant, Tasks, Virtual Assistant
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Are we still going green?
When I first started working in London in 2003 one of the key initiatives for most companies was corporate social responsibility and more specifically making the office environmentally friendly. Throughout the early years of the last decade it was imperative that … Continue reading
You’ve got mail…
Managing your boss’ emails is one of the crucial tasks that we as assistants are asked to perform. I remember starting out as a PA and found this to be particularly difficult because I just didn’t know if my manager … Continue reading
Gatekeeping: what does it actually mean?
According to Wikipedia the word ‘gatekeeper’ is a person that controls access to something or more recently an individual who decides whether a given message will be distributed to a wider audience. The term ‘gatekeeper’ is used in association with … Continue reading
