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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Never have more people believed—with more reason—that success hinges on reading, workshopping, boot-camping, seminar-ing, and otherwise launching yourself into new realms of skill or knowledge. It’s part of my job,” she says—a part she spends about 100 hours and $3,000 to $5,000 on each year as she takes seminars and travels to conferences.

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A business case outline for an internal PA network

Practically Perfect PA

Put every PA on a shared distribution list and ideally a closed SharePoint site for sharing information such as training & seminars. Create a PA Calendar of relevant Internal & External PA Events for e.g. internal and external networking opportunities and information on approved trainers & ad-hoc training/conference days.

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How Assistants Manage Their Workload (and all the extras, like training!)

Office Dynamics

When I’m presenting onsite workshops and seminars for assistants, I am usually escorted by an executive assistant who assists me through security, shows me around the facility and takes me to the training room. If you don’t have that luxury consider proposing an office temp to cover for a day or two while you’re away.

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10 Tips to be a Better Executive Assistant - Part 6

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Create an office bible In case you get sick, go on vacation, or get hit by a bus, it’s always good to have an office bible so your temp or co-worker can have info at their fingertips when needed. And you might be interested in being another sort of ninja too. So at least be familiar with all the key players, even if it’s just their name.

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

Here is an example of a worksheet Office Dynamics put together outlining the topics we are covering at our 22 nd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence as a tool assistants can use to give to their executive. There were several public seminar companies whose 1 day workshops I attended and I did learn some good tips.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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