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Celebrating Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics

Join our April Blog-A-Thon. In honor of Administrative Professionals Week (4/20 – 4/24) and Office Dynamics 25th Year in business educating administrative professionals and their executives, we are bringing back our Blog-a-Thon. Feel free to respond to our blogs every day! Administrative Assistants Rock!

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

If you are an assistant reading this blog, check off the ones that describe you. If you are a manager reading this blog, check off the ones that apply to your administrative partner. Excellent calendaring skills. Over the years, I have collected more than 300 ideas. This might give you an idea of areas that need to be developed.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. You may want to have weekly or monthly one-on-one time with some of the key executives you support.

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Assistants Speak Out: The Biggest Struggles In Partnering With Their Executive

Office Dynamics

Blocking his calendar to work on his projects. Talking about calendar and upcoming meetings. 3 Struggle: Executive’s calendar. . #2 3 Struggle: Executive’s calendar. Doesn’t let assistant control his/her calendar. Finding the time to “corner” him for input on issues that pop up throughout the day.

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Have you got game?

Loosely Speaking

If you’re a female executive, add that other balancing act, appropriate assertiveness versus perceived bitchiness, and you may find your carefully honed professionalism isn’t cutting it. Comments: 0 Leave a Reply Site Pages Commenting Policy About ktcosmos Got Loose Change? Get Loosely Speaking Products.

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Why Being An Executive Assistant Is A Rewarding Career

Office Dynamics

A stellar Executive Assistant must think of every detail for every function such as calendar management, travel planning, meeting preparation and execution, and e-mail management. Don’t forget that comments received in April 2016 are entered to win prizes in our Administrative Professional Blog-a-Thon ! Or has it been a struggle?

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

Discuss the importance of a calendar time block for your manager to focus on emails, presentations, budget, etc. You can read and follow Dana’s blogs at Success Encourager. Create email templates for responses to most frequently asked questions to save time. without interruption then create the blocks by a certain deadline.

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