Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

In fact, you’ll be wondering how you ever managed without a venue finder. A low stress solution. Finding a venue can be a stressful job. As an international client with limited knowledge on venues in the UK, I found her assistance outstanding. Omar Afyuni, Assistant Manager Dubai, Project Management Office). .

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

By Joan Burge, Founder and CEO, Office Dynamics International. It’s important to recognize the difference between surviving and thriving, because the key to success is available to those who successfully manage to cross the bandwidth between the two. Single support executive assistants now juggled multiple managers. Be creative.

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Administrative Professionals Retirement Training Mentoring 100

C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation. Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Furthermore, the amount of work and stress increases if you’re an entrepreneur. Burnout is now included in the International Classification of Diseases released by the World Health Organization, as a medical condition. The level of stress is high, and it’s difficult to remember why you started in the first place.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 27, 2015

I sometimes would like to be a project manager or be able to take decisions. I do have a lot of ideas and projects in mind and I just see myself as the pa of… It still feels like the old just an assistant sometimes when we might know more about the business as a whole than anyone else. Seen as a secretary.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2016

Whether it’s finding the right caterer, meeting global counterparts from international office locations or brushing off your creative skills to whip up a spiffy PowerPoint presentation, you love tackling projects outside of your job scope (and even get excited at the opportunity!). In Good Company.

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PowerPoint Skills Project Management AT&T 100

BioTeams

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain. Innovation happens in many places and has many faces.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

This cuts down on errors and builds trust with the internal and external customers you support. Systems are ordered and proven processes that save you time, effort, and stress. You can create systems for everything you do, but I recommend starting with these five key areas: Time and task management. Project management.

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Allwork

MARCH 15, 2023

According to Tori Shepherd , manager at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) , mental health has become a key element of workplace design. Several elements can contribute to a healthy workplace — such as biophilia, thermal comfort, acoustics, and access to spaces for restoration and relief from immediate stress.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. The goal is to go from a busy role to one that is absolutely crazy insane busy and stressful to prove you can do it.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

Are you stunting an opportunity for them to develop their project management skills, because as the older assistant you couldn’t be seen to have a younger assistant deliver on something that potentially should be coming from you? I have in fact identified another stereotype that many of us are guilty of also.

AT&T 52

AT&T Administrative Professionals Skills Mentoring 52

Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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IAAP Training AT&T Skills 100

Productivityist

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A few years ago I realized that my personal productivity system, based on Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, was making me redo and second-guess planning over and over again on projects. While this is internally gleeful as a planner, I knew it wasn’t the best use of my abilities.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! When we were a smaller agency, I was the EA and Office Manager for a smaller facility. I'm really interested in progressing and developing my skills but feel that managing the office is hindering my ability to focus on the core of being an EA. They write. “Hi

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. 2) How manageable are you? The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

  [link]   When I would get a new manager on my team, I'd encourage them to flip through the book and flag items that appealed to them.  Burnout and stress are morale killers that cost USA businesses $300 Billion per year. It makes my meditation practice much easier because peace is cumulative like stress.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Use it to manage overwhelm when your world is freakin'! " The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet.

AT&T 100

AT&T Calendars Social Media Stress 100

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. I learned tons of stuff about project management , programming, getting things done , negotiation, financial planning and a lot more.

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2010 Health AT&T Skills 40

Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry. Coaches, trainers, speakers, teachers.

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