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Achieving Success with SMART Goals: Tips and Techniques for Executive and Administrative Assistants

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Learn how to set and achieve specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based goals as an executive or administrative assistant with our tips and examples.

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Set Stretch Goals

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Don’t you dare settle for mediocre goals. What is a stretch goal? It is a goal that causes you to go beyond what you know. It is a goal that challenges your thinking and basi­cally makes you uncomfortable. I would not be where I am today professionally and personally had I not set stretch goals throughout my life.

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Real World Advice for Reaching Your Goals [free webinar]

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Are you struggling with reaching your goal? Or are you one of the 16% of assistants who don’t have a goal for themselves at all? We’re here to help you achieve your goals with this real-world advice on goal setting and goal getting with administrative expert, Joan Burge. Life happened. It’s February.

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Pause Now to Consider Your Success Goals for Next Year

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If you think it’s still too soon to start planning your professional and personal goals for 2013, I want to encourage you to think again! If you don’t set goals and map out a plan, you will be at the same place next year as you are today. Perhaps you and your leader have already established the goals you plan to achieve.

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Fail to Plan; Plan to Fail – Meeting Planning Success

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For starters, you need a design or planning team to help flush out goals and objectives and key messages. Remember goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, results-oriented and time-sensitive and begs questions such as: Why exactly are we doing this meeting? How much time is needed to cover each topic? Wait – there’s more.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

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Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Empowering Tips for the Administrative and Executive Assistant – Part 3

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Coordinating mentorship meetings at your company with other administrative professionals not only provides company-specific competency it also encourages productivity. Her blog topics include interviewing tips, career best practices, evaluation outlines, and the importance of self-care and goal-setting.