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.
According to a study by Adobe, we spend an average of 4.1 hours checking our work email each day. That’s 20.5 hours each week! Try these tips to control the situation.
Create calm out of chaos by remembering the story of Apollo 13.
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?
Many of us have adopted a popular email maintenance routine: It’s called truly haphazard. Sure, we develop strategies. In moments of minimizing zeal, you might unsubscribe to a couple of things. Then, exhilarated, you might delete 100 emails. There might be a way of getting around this undignified cycle of failure.
Too late for spring cleaning? You can still make a dent in all that clutter piling up at work and at home. In 10 minutes or less, you can tackle any of these tasks.
Procrastinators wait to complete a project for a variety of reasons. But what they all have in common is not planning for doing—and thus, they essentially plan to accomplish nothing. Here are tips to stop stalling.
How should you prioritize your workload? Well, maybe you just shouldn’t.
Using proper project management techniques will help you keep things on track and have eyes on ways to improve your processes. There are a few tech tools you have right in front of you that can help.
In many organizations, administrative professionals are the unofficial, de facto help desk people. People go to you because you’re always doing miracles, seem to be able to figure anything out and get everything done. Here are two techniques you can employ to make the most of the time you spend helping people and reduce the number of repeat performances necessary for a single issue.