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Service, Not Subservience: A Guide for Executive Assistants and Administrative Support Professionals

My EA Career

As an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or Administrative Professional, your role is critical in supporting your organisation and your colleagues. In contrast, subservience involves sacrificing your autonomy and values to please others, often at the expense of your own well-being.

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Getting People to Notice You: Cultivating High Self-Esteem Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

Questions from your admin peers: Administrative Professional blogs, Facebook, and Linked In resources. The scholarship award does NOT include travel expenses. Honorees are responsible for their own travel, hotel and incidental expenses; this scholarship applies to tuition only. What are your favorites?

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

Many administrators are now handling their executive’s pre-read meeting materials by printing, reviewing and flagging them as appropriate. Many administrative professionals are doing research, preparing outgoing pre-reads and filtering e-mail note strings for their executive in preparation for a meeting. Department Issues.

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Handling Ethical Issues in the Workplace

Office Dynamics

If a co-worker asks you to fudge some numbers on a travel expense report, you can give yourself the space to react with a few responses like the following: “I need to think on that. Beginning in May, she will be a contributor for Admin Pro – a monthly newsletter for administrative professionals. Give me an hour.”.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. What about in the office, are we asking our bosses to self-serve or are we providing quality administrative services? Now, there doesnt seem to be a difference in price at all, it is just common practice that we have to do it ourselves.