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Celebrating Administrative Professionals

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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

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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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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

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Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. I have personally experienced stress in the past too! There are ways to decrease the stress levels and frustration though! You can read and follow Dana’s blogs at Success Encourager.

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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. Reduces stress. WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT? Technology is not perfect and neither are humans.

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Why Being An Executive Assistant Is A Rewarding Career

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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. Stress reducer. Don’t forget that comments received in April 2016 are entered to win prizes in our Administrative Professional Blog-a-Thon !

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Are You Too Busy for The Most Important Partner In Your Office? The Importance of Daily Huddles

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She posed a typical problem that I have heard for years and I want to respond to her question in a blog as I bet many executive and administrative assistants run into the same problem. They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. Reduces stress for both the executive and assistant. The Benefits of One-on-One Meetings.

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State of the Administrative Profession

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Joan then presented the Full Spectrum Competency Model for Star-performing Administrative Professionals , stressing the Advanced Adminology Skill Set , which will provide administrative professionals with a solid foundation. The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.”