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Choosing the Best Administrative Assistant or Executive Assistant Conference

Office Dynamics

An administrative conference should feed your brain and soul! You have finally gotten the approval to attend an administrative conference, maybe you have decided to invest in yourself by attending an administrative conference but choosing the best administrative assistant or executive assistant conference is no easy task.

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Conference for Administrative Assistants – How to Get Your Executive’s Approval

Office Dynamics

Most of the time assistants tell me they can’t attend our conference for administrative assistants or training because of budget cuts or not getting financial support. But often, it’s just lack of knowing how to sell the conference to the executive. How will your executive benefit from you attending the conference?

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Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 27 February, 2010 Wheres the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? Here we were, professional assistants talking about the thingy for the PowerPoint. Nobody seems to really know what its called, but Powerpoint Remote was given as a common name. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?

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Captivate Business Conference Guests With Their Own Devices

Small Business CEO

There’s nothing worse than meticulously planning a meeting replete with carefully crafted PowerPoint slides, handouts, and a speech you worked on for weeks, only to look up and discover that everyone is playing Angry Birds and checking the weather on their devices. This frustration is magnified tenfold for conference planners.

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How to Make a Good Impression in Video Conferences

On The Job

Whether you're on Skype interviewing for a job or running a meeting via video conference, it's important to understand that people are, well, staring at you. His administrative assistant quickly moved in to stop the behavior when another conference participant notified her. It's not enough to have a great PowerPoint.

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Ground rules for team meetings

Practically Perfect PA

Type of meeting (conference call, face to face etc.). No PowerPoint . Death by PowerPoint is real peeps! During your team meetings do you need people to present on PowerPoint? Make sure every meeting has an agenda, it can be very simple for example: Date, time, location. Agenda / meeting’s purpose.

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Creating Powerful Presentations

Practically Perfect PA

At the Assist Conference a few weeks ago I did a session entitled ‘creating powerful presentations’ I wanted to share the slides and notes with you guys today… Here you go! As most assistants are advanced users of PowerPoint the temptation to use all of the features can be high. Keep the slides simple.