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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners. Not only did I set the meetings up, but I also took notes (in shorthand no less), transcribed the notes and prepared final reports for dissemination.

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Several years ago, I came up with Adminology. Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain. It was a formula for success for assistants.

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

Worxbee

EAs support the growth of the company One of the main draws to having an EA is that they increase productivity and provide problem-solving. Problems come up in business all the time, and a great EA takes the initiative to listen to the issues, understand the context and collaborate with you to provide solutions. Let’s talk.

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How To Leverage Criticism At Work

Office Dynamics

To me, fall represents cozying up at home, days ending a little earlier, a new television season, football, cooler evenings and mornings, sweater weather and. An administrative peer thinks his process for approaching meeting planning is the best way and you feel your approach is better. Autumn is here and I’m loving it.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve worked with quite a few Boards and Committees over the years and have organised some worthwhile meetings and also some useless time wasting meetings so I understand the balance needs to be right and steps have to be followed to ensure the meeting is a success. The timing of meetings. Post meeting.

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Effective Committee meeting management

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve worked with quite a few Boards and Committees over the years and have organised some worthwhile meetings and also some useless time wasting meetings so I understand the balance needs to be right and steps have to be followed to ensure the meeting is a success. The timing of meetings. Post meeting.

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Under a Bushel

Office Dynamics

Now in a period of forced retirements and suspended recruitments—and as low man on the totem pole—the overwhelmed assistant is in no position to decline additional long-term assignments, especially if that assistant has hopes of moving up the ladder when economic times improve. I myself am loving being more challenged by my work.