Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show, Admin Trip folders, part one of two.

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All right, with the end of that commercial message,

here we go with a show. I know that you believe as I do that one of the most unsung casts that we have in our entire

manager tools inventory has to be the cast about effective use of admins right?

Yeah in fact it's a series of casts. Yeah, if you're listening and you have an

admin, it is likely that you are seriously under-utilizing him or her. Great admins, well-managed, improve the performance of executives or

manager that support by at least 50% in all cases. And in our opinion,

literally as much as 100% in many cases that we've seen.

Good admins honestly make that much difference.

We're not kidding and we see what amounts to admin abuse,

we don't mean that pejorativeordably admin abuse or the lack of

effectiveness with admins all the time it's very frustrating yeah yeah and in our

original cast we talked about really just the beginning of how to have a great relationship with our admins leading of course to our effectiveness.

Right, exactly. And there's literally hundreds of actions that admins take that add up to our noteworthy gains and efficiencies,

many of which anyone with an admin can get to and use right away.

Right. And we didn't talk specifically about this particular area but here's one of them and that's

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