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Category: Productivity

10 crucial reminders about your records policy

Think managing and protecting your HR and business records is easy? Think again. Ideally, you already have a records-management policy in place. An up-to-date records policy is vital if your company has moved to remote or hybrid work and not made updates. Here are 10 points to keep in mind when drafting remote-records policies.

Confidentiality in the information age

One of the hallmarks of an accomplished administrative professional is discretion and the ability to manage the handling of confidential information. In the digital information world, this goes beyond the character traits of the individual to the ability to utilize digital tools wisely.

New platform aids contract workflow

As an administrative or executive assistant, is one of your assignments helping your company’s legal department or executive offices index and track various contracts? A relatively new contract intelligence platform called Evisort is helping legal, procurement and sales departments to reduce manual work in the creation and lifecycle of contracts.

Project management, one step at a time

Administrative assistants who are tasked with project management must fully consider the “triple constraint” of scope, time and cost. That’s advice from admin trainer and coach Rhonda Scharf, founder of the On the Right Track consulting service.

Teams can do that?

Q. I’ve found a list template that works for me in Teams, but I don’t need all the columns. How can I change it to fit what I need?