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Top 5 Tips for Making Email the Cornerstone of Your Business

The Small Business Blog

If you need email accounts for everyone in your company you can find a provider who will offer this at not much cost – allowing you to start promoting YOUR brand every time you send an email, instead of promoting Google! Faxes with sensitive information are often left on fax machines in plain view of the whole office.

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

When the printer/scanner/fax breaks down I am ultimately the person who troubleshoots and fixes the machine in question. However – if we are not willing to speak up and actively list our duties how can we expect colleagues and managers to be aware of this change in office dynamics? The role has changed and so must we.

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Executives and Assistants are Struggling Today

Office Dynamics

Jasmine was promoted to Vice President about two years ago. Management and administrative support professionals, as all employees, feel like they don’t have enough hours in the day to complete their work. As founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International, I have been on the “other side of the desk” for 25 years.

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Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold

Stephanie LH Calahan

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity | Main | Work From Home Mother - How to Organize Your Life and Home to Succeed » Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold (Guest Post: Sheila Zayas) How many times have you had a product idea only to see someone else on a 30-minute infomercial promoting YOUR idea?

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Why People Gossip At The Office

Professional Assistant Blog

To combat these problems, here are some tips you can follow: Boredom: Ask your manager or fellow colleagues to see if they need help with anything. Youre there to get paid and get that promotion or raise, so make yourself and your manager proud. People generally gossip at work due to boredom, insecurity, wanting to belong.

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Want To Impress Your Boss?

Professional Assistant Blog

Here are 5 ways to score brownie points with your boss and get that promotion or raise (or both) a little faster: The one thing that I’ve learned over the course of my career is to try getting to know your boss. Then they will feel good about themselves and you might just get that promotion or raise after all.

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Seminars for Professional Assistants

Professional Assistant Blog

Are you trying to get that raise or promotion that you so well deserve? I did manage to find a site that has seminars listed for all of USA, if thats where you are writing from. One of my readers asked me this: I am an Executive Assistant to the CEO/President. She is the largest share holder of the company, obviously.

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