All Things Admin® Blog
Dealing With Distractions and Interruptions: Strategies for Staying Focused on Important Tasks
This article was originally published on TheProductivityPro.com and is reprinted here with permission. More than ever, modern workers are bedeviled by distractions and interruptions that pull us away from the key activities of our jobs. If it's not your noisy...
Personal Note from Julie: Gain Better Time Awareness by Tracking Your Time
Last week, we talked about how to prioritize your admin tasks and responsibilities to keep yourself on track. But there’s another component to staying efficient and effective in your admin job: scheduling your time. It’s easy to throw our hands up and declare we’re...
I Spend Waaaaay Too Much Time on…
By Laura Stack This article was originally published on TheProductivityPro.com and is reprinted here with permission. I asked readers to fill in the blank on our last monthly survey and received some great responses. There were tons of interesting answers, but it...
Personal Note from Julie: Become a Pro at Prioritizing
Priorities. They can change in an instant. All it takes is one call from your executive, a customer, or even a family member. And suddenly your best laid plans for the day, week, or even month can go up in smoke. That’s why it’s crucial to our success that we become...
Personal Note from Julie: Hunting Down Resources You Need to Get Organized
When it comes to getting organized, office supplies are an admin’s best friends. I know it doesn’t take much encouragement to get admins to go office supply shopping. For most of us, it’s one of the fun parts of the job because we’re always looking for the latest and...
Put Online Travel Planning Resources to Use
The web is a valuable source for travel information – whether you want to make reservations, get recommendations, or learn more about a particular destination. Below are some of the online resources I’ve come to rely on for travel planning. Make a point to visit each...
Personal Note from Julie: The Delicate Details of Organizing Others
One organizational challenge admins often share with us is their trouble keeping their executives organized. And sometimes this can be harder than keeping yourself organized. Throughout my career, I’ve worked with a lot of executives who I’ve tried to help organize....
3 Tips for Organizing Your Executive & Team Members
You can’t make others work the way you work. This is the first thing you have to accept if you want to help someone, such as your executive or team member, get and stay organized. Chances are the person you’re trying to help doesn’t have the same style preferences as...
Webinar: Overcome Outlook Overload: 3 Simple Strategies for Setting Up Your System, Taking Control of Your Inbox, and Increasing Productivity
Time is precious, productivity is critical, and your Outlook inbox is overflowing. What’s wrong with this picture? One way every professional can recapture precious time in their day, and increase their personal productivity by up to an hour a day, is by becoming a...
Personal Note from Julie: Get Yourself Organized First!
With January being National Get Organized Month and the beginning of a new year, there’s a lot of talk everywhere about getting organized. As I wrap up my new book about organization and a couple of other big projects, I’ve taken some time in the past week to get...
