Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

As we all know being an assistant means that our super organised skills are second to none. We are the most organised profession there is available to the working world and our skills can be transferable to many different tasks, including managing an event from start to finish. I sound marvellous don’t I!? She was fabulous!

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Suppliers Skills Agencies 100

Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

As we all know being an assistant means that our super organised skills are second to none. We are the most organised profession there is available to the working world and our skills can be transferable to many different tasks, including managing an event from start to finish. I sound marvellous don’t I!? She was fabulous!

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Suppliers Skills Agencies 100

On The Job

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I'll be the first to admit I've not always been a great negotiator. Growing up with two sisters, negotiation wasn't in our vocabulary. You wanted something, you took it by force or by stealth, but there was no negotiating involved. Negotiation -- no. They believe negotiations are a win-lose proposition.

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Collaborate Stress Promotion 100

All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Gone are the days when filing, phone skills, and semi-legible shorthand were key requirements for an admin job. Today’s job descriptions are more likely to include analytical reasoning, critical thinking, complex problem-solving skills, and UX design. What skills should you focus on honing and which should be left behind?

Administrative Professionals 98

Administrative Professionals Social Media 2025 Mentoring 98

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 22, 2019

experience, planning skills and attention to detail to help create and deliver events that meet or exceed expectations. They add value to an organization by drawing upon their knowledge of the hospitality industry to manage expenses and minimize risk by negotiating the best all-around rates and paying attention to contract terms.

Meeting Planning 214

Meeting Planning Negotiating Project Management Expenses 214

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 18, 2016

You may want to volunteer to organise the office move, the Christmas party, run a training course for the other support staff or organise an event. Ask your client or stakeholder, the person who asked you to take on the project, what are the primary parameters for the project, what are the secondary and what is most negotiable.

Project Management 100

Project Management Management Budget 2017 100

Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 10, 2017

It is imperative to be proactive about self-promotion in order to showcase your skills, achievements and personal brand. Highlight WIFM (what’s in it for me) and help them to see that you will gain skills and knowledge that will be essential for future growth. Be prepared to negotiate if necessary. Magazine Subscriptions.

Business Cards 100

Business Cards International Training Networking 100

Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The solution to every problem you’ve ever had is written in a self-improvement book somewhere. Here’s an alternative list of self-improvement books that you may have missed. Self-Improvement Books About Overcoming the Odds. These books will show you how. Best Self-Improvement Books About Following Your Heart.

Payroll 317

Payroll Confidence Goals Cubicle 317

Service Untitled

APRIL 10, 2013

Gallagher, a practicing psychotherapist and the author of many customer service books who has trained over 20,000 people on how to handle the most daunting situations with customers while improving their confidence and an organization’s customer relations. The Customer Service Survival Kit was written by Richard S.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Social Media Negotiating Facebook 40

Success

MARCH 23, 2022

Relationships like that can be formed in any number of ways; it could be over books or wine or musicals. I lack the necessary detail-oriented skills to turn it into a reality. I teach her not to negotiate against herself and shell out $20 to her. Mine happen to come via adventure with friends. They encourage me, too.

Social Media 290

Social Media Forms Negotiating Learning 290

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

When the pressure is on to find an impressive venue to wow your clients, or source the ideal training venue for your delegates, or book the perfect executive meeting room, it’s good to know that help is at hand. The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct.

Budget 159

Budget Negotiating Agencies Stress 159

Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 11, 2023

” Low-Kramen left that role in 2011 to create her own company , which specializes in training would-be celebrity personal assistants, as well as write books and give speeches on what VIP life was like IRL. Quickly, Low-Kramen realized that prioritizing was a vital movie-set skill.

Salary 52

Salary Training AT&T Temping 52

Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 5, 2015

One of my highly-requested topics is a speech that is based on my best-selling book, “Become an Inner Circle Assistant,” which explores various ways assistants can partner with management to pursue excellence and create effective, productive work teams that have real impact on the bottom line.

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Administrative Professionals Skills Management 100

Practically Perfect PA

MAY 11, 2014

Here are some of Hemsley Fraser’s top success skills tips! Your personal effectiveness includes how you communicate, how you manage your time, how assertive and confident you are and your power to negotiate and persuade. So what can you do to ensure you have success in your career? Tip 1: Working Relationships.

Assertiveness 100

Assertiveness Confidence Negotiating Skills 100

Practically Perfect PA

JULY 2, 2015

A lot of Job Specs tend to focus on a standard set of skills rather than the actual responsibilities. It is imperative to be proactive about self-promotion in order to showcase your skills, achievements and personal brand. CPD – Active learning in relation to both hard and soft skills. Gifts and Entertainment Policy.

Social Media 100

Social Media Fax Skills Suppliers 100

Office Dynamics

MAY 2, 2010

The speech was based on my best-selling book, " Become an Inner Circle Assistant ," which explores various ways assistants can partner with management to pursue excellence and create effective, productive work teams that have real impact on the bottom line. Tags: Admin Assistant Training Career Management Motivators.

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Negotiating Skills 2010 100

Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Develop Your Skills. You should always be looking for ways to expand your existing professional skills and develop new ones. Look for opportunities to practice different skills, implement new processes, take on new responsibilities or try out new technology. Sadly, too many people buy books they never read—not a wise investment.)

Networking 100

Networking Skills Negotiating Budget 100

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 29, 2010

How To Train Your Brain First of all, let me tell you that I was in search for something similar to Lumosity for a long time. Brain Exercises Just like physical exercise, brain training must be performed in a balanced way. Train Brain for Attention: Lost In Migration Apparently, this was the most difficult game for me.

Training 40

Training 2010 Social Media AT&T 40

Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Ask questions to assess degrees of urgency, and practice negotiating timelines or redirecting requests. Have a look at your time management skills, and how best to invest your efforts on a daily and weekly basis. Turn to peer networks, blogs and books to support your turnaround. What to do? Separate ideals from necessities.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Administrative Professionals Negotiating Budget 100

Office Dynamics

MAY 2, 2010

The speech was based on my best-selling book, " Become an Inner Circle Assistant ," which explores various ways assistants can partner with management to pursue excellence and create effective, productive work teams that have real impact on the bottom line.

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Negotiating Skills 2010 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

They had booked the space for November 8th. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. It is always worth asking.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Negotiating International 100

Service Untitled

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Many agents politely listen, but consider the training course just a supplement to common sense. Training needs to start with a clear objective, and role-playing places the service representative into the shoes of the customer, and helps to bring clarity to particular situations. Focus and build skills that can handle the issues.

Customer Service 40

Customer Service Training Etiquette Negotiating 40

Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Get on that train and figure it out while you’re on it. Get on a bus and negotiate your arrival later. Only TV, printed papers and books. Yet, we almost never get on a bus, ready to negotiate our arrival later on. Some of them even have presentation skills. And then went on with our lives. There was no internet.

Expenses 40

Expenses Negotiating 2011 Twitter 40

BMT Office Administration

MAY 9, 2024

Opportunity for profit or loss depending on managerial skill. If the worker has the power to negotiate their pay and hire other workers, they’re an independent contractor. Use of skill and initiative. This factor looks at the worker’s skills. If it’s an essential part (i.e.,

Payroll 52

Payroll 2024 Filing 2023 52

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 21, 2024

She has experience building and leading Admin teams from scratch and effectively training new hires. THE LEADER ASSISTANT BOOK Download the first 3 chapters of The Leader Assistant: Four Pillars of Game-Changing Assistant for FREE here or buy it on Amazon and listen to the audiobook on Audible.

International 75

International ASAP Negotiating Administrative Professionals 75

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

We also possess a unique set of skills, many of which are transferable into lots of different disciplines. Oh yes PAs are no doubt equipped with a much broader skill set than most people (and maybe you) would give you credit for. HR, Project Management, Accounts, Training or Events. Be a sponge. Get a mentor.

Project Management 195

Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

We also possess a unique set of skills, many of which are transferable into lots of different disciplines. Oh yes PAs are no doubt equipped with a much broader skill set than most people (and maybe you) would give you credit for. HR, Project Management, Accounts, Training or Events. Be a sponge. Get a mentor.

Project Management 195

Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Success

MARCH 4, 2024

In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Professional development books give insight on how to grow in our careers, grow as people and better approach work-related challenges, shifting work environments and new opportunities.

UPS 277

UPS Social Media Etiquette Health 277

Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

In the last two months I started a consulting project (quite a big one, it will end in March next year) where I have to spend a few hours every day in an office, evaluating progress of a team, provisioning, negotiating deals, creating and implementing strategies and so on. Being aware of your own reactions is a great point.

2010 40

2010 AT&T Learning Twitter 40

Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

I was putting to work some skills, but without putting my soul, my self or my life into it. If the brain was trained to give a pre-established answer, it will most likely give it, of course, but fact is there is some reaction time. Eduard @ People Skills Decoded´s last blog. And they lasted only a few days.

2010 40

2010 AT&T Skills Travel 40

Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Due to an emergency for the executive speaker just a couple days before the conference, we were provided with an amazing alternative: six administrative participants shared their interviews with their executives on three important questions: What five skills are most important for an assistant to be successful? Throughout the 2.5

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Skills Negotiating Clothes 100

Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Due to an emergency for the executive speaker just a couple days before the conference, we were provided with an amazing alternative: six administrative participants shared their interviews with their executives on three important questions: What five skills are most important for an assistant to be successful? Throughout the 2.5

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Skills Negotiating Clothes 100

Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Listening to music or reading a book are processed in more recent parts of the brain, which are specialized in performing these types of tasks. My book of life is written in a different way from yours, and I’m copy pasting in completely different areas. After the book talks about black swans – what they are, gives examples, etc.

2010 40

2010 AT&T International Learning 40

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

In fact, it was a rather slow process, which culminated with the book 30 Sentences For A Millionaire Mindset. For me, writing that book was a therapeutic process. After I finished the book, I realized that being a millionaire is just an external image, it has nothing to do with me. Suddenly, it became useless.

2010 40

2010 Health AT&T Skills 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. I would rather buy used books on half.com vs driving in Los Angeles traffic to go the library for free books. When you leave your job, other companies will only consider you for jobs of equal or higher pay and skills.

Job Hunting 40

Job Hunting Salary Temping Learning 40

Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

No more arguing or negotiating, I just started to code it. I guess I could write a mini-book on this topic ). Nevertheless, even at that bare bone level I agreed to stop, there was still so much work to do to bring the app at the Minimum Product Demo level. I also added a Help and FAQ section.

2010 40

2010 AT&T Learning Promotion 40

Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The manager had been asked to participate in some leadership training opportunities, and he passed on those — he thought they were stupid. In your role, you can help people understand what’s in it for them if they adopt something or if they take certain training. “And we give them the book.” ” GATHER THE DATA.

Administrative Professionals 40

Administrative Professionals AT&T Retirement Environment 40