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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

All Things Admin

As the days fly by toward a new year, now is the perfect time to start setting your goals for next year. While that sounds good in theory, it can be a bit more challenging in practice when it comes to putting your goals in print. What are some goals to consider for the upcoming year? Is your career where you want it to be?

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Top 9 Communication Tips for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Ask yourself if your goal is to communicate or to win. When we have conflicting views or opinions, usually our goal is “someone has to win and someone has to lose. This article is an excerpt from the World Class Assistant™ certification and designation course. This is especially important during conflict resolution.

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Avoid Burnout by Creating Your Own Utopia

Office Dynamics

Unfortunately, burnout is real, it’s draining, emotional, stressful and typically affects both professional and personal lives. As an administrative professional for the past 20 plus years, I have learned how important it is to avoid burnout in one of the largest career fields in the world.

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Is Project Management Certification Right for You?

Eat Your Career

Like many of you reading or watching this, I also managed projects (in an unofficial capacity) throughout my career as an administrative professional. Since obtaining my PMP certification, I’ve had a lot of people (including many administrative professionals) ask if they should consider it. Know Your Goals.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

All Things Admin

Since the goal is to make them as efficient as possible, it’s important to constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve them. Strategies for Implementing Continuous Improvement Sometimes a company will already have clear, measurable goals for what they want to achieve with continuous improvement.

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Secretary vs Assistant – do they think differently?

Office Dynamics

it can be a big thing in how non-administrative professionals view the role. In my World Class Assistant™ Certificate Program held in Las Vegas, the attendees and I delve into this topic. PS check out a presentation assemble by my World Class Assistant students on what they learned from the program. just one word.

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Free Chapters From Joan’s Book: Who Took My Pen…Again?

Office Dynamics

To pick up a book on a subject you want to learn more about, taking a class at the gym, volunteer at your local soup kitchen – you discover more about yourself by taking the time to step back from routine living to do these types of things, such as to set a goal and attain it. To invest in you means to believe in you. Chapter 13, Lead.

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