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Executive Assistants –Developing Your “Wow” Factor

Office Dynamics

It has nothing to do with your title or pay grade; it’s about who you are as a professional. The wow factor is a term we use in the World Class Assistant™ Certification and Professional Designation program to describe the powerful executive presence that the most successful administrative professionals exude.

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Developing Your “Wow” Factor

Office Dynamics

It has nothing to do with your title or pay grade; it’s about who you are as a professional. The wow factor is a term we use in the World Class Assistant™ certificate program to describe the powerful executive presence that the most successful administrative professionals exude. They are World Class Assistants.

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Sprinkle Similes into Your Writing

Office Dynamics

Teaching a weekly fitness class—like writing weekly business messages—can get repetitious. Here’s an example of her colorful use of language. Examples from a fitness class: “Drop your head to your shoulder like it’s a 10-pound bowling ball.”. A good instructor motivates action while guiding people in their exercises.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

For example, a recent OfficeTeam survey of the administrative profession found that employers pay up to 8% more on average (in the U.S.) Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Sometimes, yes, but not necessarily. Not all are created equal.

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Create Your Professional Development Plan Free Webinar

Office Dynamics

What you can expect Joan to touch on: • building your professional development plan, • promotions, • seeing the BIG picture, • approaching your career with a positive attitude, • ask specific questions regarding your professional development challenges as an administrative professional, • and much more.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

All Things Admin

For example, let’s say you spend three hours each week assembling the weekly sales reports in Excel to present at the Monday morning team meeting. If you take a couple Excel classes, learn how to streamline the report assembly process, and save yourself at least an hour per week, that’s 50+ hours over the course of the year.

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Looking Forward – Skills to Learn for 2011 and Beyond?

Office Dynamics

Consider taking on learning these new skills: Foreign Language: Learn Spanish. The friend in the field also told me their call board can receive up to six requests per day for an administrative assistant that is bilingual in Spanish. Again, if you don’t have access to training at your workplace- take a class.

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