Category: General Office Practices
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Essential Cybersecurity Tips for Administrative Assistants
Cybersecurity is on the minds of most corporations. From top down, there’s a need to protect company secrets, employee and customer personal identification, and financial management access. Yet, it often seems like this is a job for the IT team, not the administrative assistant. While you do have your own long list of tasks, there…
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Make Conscious Choices to Elevate Your Time Management Skills
To improve time management, adopt conscious time choices by planning your day. Start with listing tasks and estimating their duration, then prioritize them into categories: must do, should do, may do, and not do yet. Schedule these tasks using a calendar, and adhere to the plan to boost productivity and reduce procrastination.
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How to Delegate
Delegation is critical to good business management. It’s not a skill everyone has. Sometimes it feels as though doing the work yourself is the only way to get it all done properly without a hassle. Yet, to be an effective executive assistant, you have to delegate, and you have to do so in an effective…