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sushiluv (f)
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HI landers,
while u all throw advices on sec post please i need your help just got this job and im asked to compose a letter to clients wishin thema happy birthday and informin them about services available please can anyone post me a model.thanks
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Funzat (f)
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Hello everyone!!! I'm new on this forum and will like to be an active member of the group. A friend invited me and since I logged on, all I've read so far has been really inspiring. Kudos to the initiator of this forum and to all of you in the house. You guys are doing a great job. I wish everyone a wonderful week ahead. cheers  I read something on "THE NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL SECRETARIES" what about this institute please? Can anyone enlighten me more?
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MyPeace (f)
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@Funzat u are welcome to our forum. on the NIPS, all u read so far is all the info we could gather for now. YOu may go to their site for more details or preferable call the DG's number listed here as l did. Would be glad to read more from u.  |
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Funzat (f)
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hello everyone, I just took up a PA job some two months back and since then I've been trying to lay my hands on information that will help me give my best to the job until a friend introduced me to this forum some days back. I need someone to help me with this please: I need to draft a felicitation message for my boss whose husband is to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree by one of the Nigerian Universities and sincerely I do not know how to go about it. I've drafted one or two but want to get other people's idea before submitting them to her tomorrow morning. Thanks |
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chy (f)
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Hi
why don't you flip through pages of News dailies you will
surely come across some and also serach the goggle engine
it will help
Have a nice day
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nasirtofa
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Hi everyone
Does anybody remember that this week i.e. (April 20 - 25, 2008) is the Secretaries Week (aka Admin Prof. week - American). Are you aware that Wednesday, April 23, 2008 was the Secretaries day. Do you celebrate the week/day. If yes how?
Please let me hear from my professional colleagues.
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MyPeace (f)
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@nasirtofa Have heard about it to be every April 26. never celebrated it. na Oyibo mentality  . no mind my " africanity" mentality o. Lets hear from others. |
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dominobaby (f)
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i've just been made an unofficial Personal Assistant to my boss at work!
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MyPeace (f)
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To all concerned UNILAG postgraduate forms are out. closes May 30, 2008. Hurry if you are interested like my humble self. |
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Funzat (f)
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Thanks for your suggestion Chy. I did that but you know how it is when you have a boss who is prim and proper. Anyway, I was able to come up with few ones and she was able to make her final choice.
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chy (f)
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Hi People,
Just wanted to find out who wil be attending the NIPS programme this may
or if anybody has attended the training before?
Thanks people
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nasirtofa
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Hi People, Just wanted to find out who wil be attending the NIPS programme this may or if anybody has attended the training before? Yes I have attended before but I somewhat reserve my comment.
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Angelmart (f)
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Hello Fellow P.A's and Secs. It really a long time. How is work? I welcom all new Members.
MyPeace, please kindly text your Number to me on 08036584845.
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MyPeace (f)
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hello my people long time!! MTNN, has opening for Personal Assistant. Try your luck at www.mtnonline.com. l have applied. |
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chy (f)
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Why should you reserve your comments we are all here to help each other
if its not good that means you will allow your fellow PA to fall into the same trap
its not fair
TELL ME SO THAT I WONT WASTE MY TIME AND THE COMPANY'S RESOURCES
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Angelmart (f)
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@nasirtofa
Please tell us if the stuff didn't worth, let us know for the best of the interested members.
MyPeace thanks for the information. God will help us.
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nasirtofa
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Hi Colleagues,
I don't mean to be mischievous about the NIPS Seminar.
The way they do it is that, they reserve a room in a Hotel - Otta, Lagos, Kaduna, Jos, etc. That is where they normally hold the seminar. Two or three resource persons invited from some other organisations will be the ones to take turn in covering the eight or more topics intended to cover. But don't be supprise if you find yourself among participants of different course (meaning, they can convine two or three courses at the same time - mostly the courses contain similar topics, just change of name).
But actually, they will treat you well, provide you with a very good breakfast and lunch.
You will also meet different people and make friends. Above all, you will definitely learn one or two things that you are not aware of before.
Hope I am O.K. now.
I wish you luck.
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tytylayor (f)
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fellow secretaries and PAs, just seeing this forum, can't go through all d pages so i only went through d first page, found it very interesting, thanx to mypeace et al.
please kindly differentiate between a PA and secretary, cozz in my office i'm being refered to as PA and sec. so i'll like to kno d difference. thankx
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MyPeace (f)
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@nasirtofa thx for that clarification. fellow secretaries and PAs, just seeing thid forum, can't go through all d pages so i only went through d first page, found it very interesting, thanx to mypeace et al.
please kindly differentiate between a PA and secretary, cozz in my office i'm being refered to as PA and sec. so i'll like to kno d difference. thankx
u are welcome to the forum. Most PAs are refered to as PA/Sec, so don't be surprised if you are called the Sec. But the point is that you have a higher responsibility than mere Admin Sec or other departmental Sec. More is entrusted to your hand. One member did justice to the role of a PA if you can read 4-5 pages back. l want to tell us that there are some PAs who are like Aide, nothing secretarial attached to their duty. ln summary, any administrative PA can be refered to as a Sec. |
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tytylayor (f)
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@mypeace
thanx
another thing happened today, and as an experienced PA, i want u to tell if i've done d rite thing.
there's this coy below ours, and d boss is a very close pal to my boss (when i say very close , i mean very close to my own understanding). so, today a form was brught up to my boss to sign and give them a reference letter, concerning a property they'r getting, but unfortunately my boss is not arround, so i had to sign onbehalf of my boss, den typed d letter of reference.
my boss is not yet back, so i don't know what his reaction would be. but tell me av i done d wrong thin or am ok?
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MyPeace (f)
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l don't know how your boss would react either, but if l were you, l won't sign the letter neither would l give the reference letter. Personal relationship is quite different from official relationship. Your boss may not be against your action, but giving a reference is like staking your integrity, so it would have been well done by your boss or advised by him.
My action would have been:
1. To collect the doc from them, and keep it till my boss comes back.
2. lf its urgent, l would contact my boss on phone and seek his advice.
3. lf he could not be reached on phone, l will pass the doc to the next snr Manager.
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chy (f)
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1.To collect the doc from them, and keep it till my boss comes back.
2. lf its urgent, l would contact my boss on phone and seek his advice.
3. lf he could not be reached on phone, l will pass the doc to the next snr Manager.
thats exactly what i could have done
because business is different from pleasure
if his your boss's friend he should know that your boss is not around
so why bringing the docs in his absence
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chy (f)
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@ nasirtofa
thanks for the info but there venue for theone i chose is there
secretariat
Well i want to ask this question esp for the married and expectant PAs
1.if u re pregnant and would want to go for maternity leave how will u coordinate
who will take over from you?
2. Will u inform your boss or take leave?
3. In your organisation how may months are you entitled to stay at home?
4. When you resume how will you cope with the baby if you have a tight schedule and work far from where
you reside.
i need this answers to prepare ahead because i just got married and needs o plan ahed . After marriage na belle de follow
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nasirtofa
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1.To collect the doc from them, and keep it till my boss comes back.
2. lf its urgent, l would contact my boss on phone and seek his advice.
3. lf he could not be reached on phone, l will pass the doc to the next snr Manager.
Yes, that is what any reasonable person will have done. But since you have decided to take that singular action and your Boss is still not back, I think you should find a means of letting him know about your action. This will allow him to take the necessary step in case he has an opinion different from yours. This will save you too.
I hope I am not taking the matter too far.
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tytylayor (f)
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tnx fellas, i got to realise that after av already done it, but i think i knw hw to cover up if my boss flared up,
he's bak but not yet in d office, i'll let u know what next. tnx all
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MyPeace (f)
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tnx fellas, i got to realise that after av already done it, but i think i knw hw to cover up if my boss flared up,
he's bak but not yet in d office, i'll let u know what next. tnx all
my ear is itching  no mind me, he may not take it serious,as we are taking it here. @Chy lt depends on your kind of office, l don't think u should worry over that, lf you are already up to one year in your office. in my coy, it is: 3 months maternity leave, which runs concurrently with your annual leave, meaning no annual leave for you in that year. After the 3 months, you will either resume 1 hr late or close 1 hr early. so either u resume by 9am instead of 8am or close by 4pm instead of 5pm for another 3months. none of the secretaries in my office has been on maternity leave, but when am on my annual leave, the Admin secretary combines my work with her and vice versa. l don't have a baby yet. But as a worker, its always better to get a matured house-help (they are necessary evil, whether we believe it or not, a career mom needs them) who will take care of your baby while u are at work. l have a friend, who takes her baby to a day-care close to her office, and picks up the baby when she closes from work. l don't seem to like this arrangement, its a stress on the baby. shes wakes up by 4am everyday to bath the baby and dress up for work, gets home late to wash the baby's clothes and prepare for next day. She said her baby sleeps by 11pm to 12am, which is a lot of stress to the baby even herself. l think its better to hv a househelp who will take care of the baby, instead of all the stress. Just my opinion, l may be wrong, since l don't have a baby yet! |
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tytylayor (f)
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mypeace, y's your ear itching  anyway, he's bak n av explained to him, that is all |
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MyPeace (f)
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mypeace, y's your ear itching anyway, he's bak n av explained to him, that is all itching to hear his reaction  . am glad, he's the carefree type. cheers! |
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nasirtofa
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mypeace, y's your ear itching
anyway, he's bak n av explained to him, that is all Congratulations. My office will have been query, then suspension, then disciplinary Committee and if you are lucky, a warning letter, if not, a sack letter. You are lucky men to have a such type of a boss. |
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tytylayor (f)
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Congratulations. My office will have been query, then suspension, then disciplinary Committee and if you are lucky, a warning letter, if not, a sack letter.
You are lucky men to have a such type of a boss.
eh yah, my boss is not harsh, and he understands quickly, may be b'cozz he's an older man, once u can giv d reason for doing what u did, den you're free |
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MyPeace (f)
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hello mates, how was the induction? abeg make una gist us. |
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nasirtofa
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hello mates,
how was the induction? abeg make una gist us . MyPeace, which induction are you referring to? |
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