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Top 9 Communication Tips for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

While everyone must competently use today’s information technology tools, too many of us are ignoring the proven importance and effectiveness of interpersonal communication skills. Ask yourself if your goal is to communicate or to win. Use assertive communication skills to manage these situations. This solves nothing.

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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. Connection brings comfort and control.

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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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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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Choosing Administrative Training That’s Right for You

Office Dynamics

As 2016 comes to an end, I hope you are working on your goals for your 2017 development. The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. Conferences for Administrative Professionals.

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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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Travel Planning for Others – Putting Yourself in Your Traveler’s Shoes

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And each hat requires a different set of skills and a different set of tools. TRAVO ’s goal is to boil down your arsenal of travel tools, ranging from sticky notes to Excel spreadsheets, to one single booking and planning platform. Many administrative professionals are responsible for organising travel for an entire team.

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