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Make Educated Decisions When Choosing an Administrative Conference (Part 1 of 6)

Office Dynamics

Since there are so many administrative conferences being offered, I would like to walk you through a series of blogs on how to select the conference that is right for you, gain approval and how to get the most for your investment. I am keeping these blogs to the point. Inquire about the quality of the workshop materials?

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How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci

Office Dynamics

The book was so empowering that I worked to develop a one day workshop for assistants titled What it Takes to Be Great! Busy lives and job responsibilities often drive us toward hard conclusions and agenda driven tasks, but the free-flowing practice of keeping a notebook encourages freedom of thought and a healthy perspective.

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. How to deal with it: Provide written materials and information about the training or workshop you wish to attend.

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In The Beginning: 3 Capture Tools I Use to Simply Start

Productivityist

When I’m trying to get something out of my head, I don’t want to see everything else on my agenda. Once that’s done, I copy and paste the drive document to my writing app of choice for blog posts – Byword – and get it ready for WordPress. I want to work intentionally with as little friction as possible.

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The Good, Better, Best of Professional Development for Admins

Jen Lawrence

The agendas are filled back-to-back learning sessions, overflowing with material designed to help admins think outside the box, be exposed to new techniques and philosophies, and drive innovation within their roles and their companies. Be the Ultimate Assistant 2-Day Workshop. Executive Secretary Live. IVAA Live Summit.

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The Stakeholder Collaboration Game

BioTeams

One of the challenges for teams is that the achievement of some of their goals are not fully under their own control - they need to be achieved in partnership with, or even in spite of, external parties (stakeholders) who are working to their own agendas and priorities. Image Source: en.battlestarwiki.org.