Executive Leadership Support Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Team ELS is super excited to offer its followers a chance to learn more about Monique and how she has evolved into the person she is today. MH: I was still working with Simon when I moved out here, so I was traveling like crazy and really didn’t have time to get my feet into the ground and really plant myself here. I started to learn.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 30, 2018

I’m not sure if you know that 80% of my work is onsite training for administrative office professionals so I do a lot of traveling, in fact, 100% of my clients are out of state. From this point forward, I will be traveling extensively through September. I see employees in action in their environments.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 13, 2016

But I also spent my own hard-earned money to learn and become the best assistant I could. However, I invested what funds I did have on learning and developing myself in my new career as a corporate trainer, business owner and speaker. And most often, they did. I am calling it co-investing. Be creative.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The group was a mix of returning attendees and first timers, all excited about the days to come, with participants having traveled from all corners of the US, Canada, and even Israel! Joan Burge walked us through Daniel Pink’s ideas on the Conceptual Age and how new skills and competencies are coming to the forefront.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

Now this came from an executive who traveled around the world, would work until 2:00 a.m., Upcoming Travel. Find out about upcoming trips so you can anticipate schedules and prepare necessary travel materials. Tell your executive about upcoming seminars and workshops you would like to attend and why. Special Projects.

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A Great Day's Work

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

If you’re looking for meeting space inspiration, check out the thousands of off-site meeting rooms and spaces available for booking on Spacebase , an online booking platform for unique meeting and workshop spaces. Spacebase is Europe’s largest online booking-platform for unique meeting rooms and workshop spaces on a global scale.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Her true passion, however, was the personal growth and development workshops, seminars and programs that taught her to dream and opened new worlds of possibility for her life. Now, the CARDBoard Project focuses on bridging the digital divide through the “three legs of the stool”: access, affordability and digital skills training. .

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Office Dynamics

MAY 19, 2015

We’ve witnessed firsthand hundreds, maybe thousands of assistants who take the time to get away for an hour, a day and sometimes a whole week to keep learning and growing their professional skillset. However, we have several assistants who traveled from out-of-state to attend this program. We put in long days, from 8:00 a.m. –

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

You read about a great seminar, workshop, or conference for administrative office professionals. Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. You need to continually learn and grow. Executives travel all over the country. Learn what motivates your executive. You walk out.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

You read about a great seminar, workshop, or conference for administrative office professionals. Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. You need to continually learn and grow. Executives travel all over the country. Learn what motivates your executive. You walk out.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I learned that these dismissive demeanors and disrespectful behaviors had to do with the disparate perceptions about what assistants actually do. Until March, 2020 brought travel to a screeching halt, I had worked in 14 countries and 38 states. Let your skills do the talking. Out of sight, out of mind? Not so fast. Be visible.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

As enlightened as I think I am on issues around discrimination, I learned a great deal from speaking with Spencer, Aaisha, Melba, and several other Black colleagues who preferred to remain anonymous. I wrote an article in 2018 called “ Times Up for the Boss ” and I raise these ideas in our Be the Ultimate Assistant workshops.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 21, 2016

For some employees, the ability to act with integrity and demonstrate ethical behavior is strong and feels very natural; others need some practice sharpening their ethical radar and learn ‘how to think first about how to react’ to achieve the best outcome. Here’s an example of putting the tool into practice. Give me an hour.”.

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 18, 2009

Many of these target new VAs rather than experienced professionals looking to expand their skills into new or build their existing competencies to the expert level. Below are the links to the exceptionally useful information she provides to virtual assistants wanting to learn how to be more successful in their practices.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Three of my trained Productivityist Coaching Practitioners will be working with me consistently to level up their skill set and help the program evolve as a whole. This will be something I launch before I travel to Tropical Think Tank in March at the absolute latest. If you’d like to claim a spot for $999, click here to learn more.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 20, 2009

I was in a workshop today on presentation skills and one of the things they had us do was present something to the group while they filmed us. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JUNE 27, 2009

I went to a writing workshop and the woman who was presenting said that comedians are only as funny as their writers. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! How do you plan to be funny in December?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It felt like years of absence and I’d just about given up on her when Ali returned from her adventures of marriage, name changes, a house move and traveling overseas. Your adventure is only over if you stop learning and stagnate. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped learning. I love learning new things.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It felt like years of absence and I’d just about given up on her when Ali returned from her adventures of marriage, name changes, a house move and traveling overseas. Your adventure is only over if you stop learning and stagnate. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped learning. I love learning new things.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 4, 2010

Life coaching and business coaching creates change in communication skills and self confidence. In her business capacity, Natalie offers a range of coaching services including one-to-one coaching and professional workshops. Learn whatis enhancing or impeding your productivity today! Are You as Productive as You Could Be?

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Live Workshops These are the live versions of your blog posts. I did a few live workshops since I started this blog and I can tell you I had the most exciting time ever. On the other side, workshops are slower to build and harder to convert. If you’re a live motivator, create workshops. If you’re good at writing.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 28, 2011

I then learned that a Twitterview was an interview that was conducted on Twitter using a hashtag (we used #BizProd) to aggregate all of the comments together in one spot where people could follow the conversation. .  I work 1:1, w/ groups and conduct transformational workshops and keynotes too.   A what?!? When the co.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Over the years I slowly learned the subtle science of feeling good in my discomfort zone. Social Life Last week I attended to an astrology workshop. I am somehow into astrology and since I already knew the woman who held that workshop (from a mailing list, not from real life), going there seemed like a nice idea.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 26, 2010

It has also evolved from a blog into a proper business, with multiple products (books, audio) and services (workshops). I started my personal development school late last year, giving workshops and 1-1 coaching. Along the way, I tried many different strategies, learning from others and trying different things on my own.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. You’re going to do this in two ways: you’re either growing and enhancing skills, either build new “reality sensors”. Let’s talk a little about those “reality sensors” (will get back to skills a little later). Fundamental difference.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 8, 2011

In between all the workshops, non-fiction reading and mentoring we sometimes forget that the lives we lead are our primary medium for learning and growth. Exercise 3: Master a single deep and narrow skill . Find that friend who’s contemplating throwing everything away to travel the world. Convince her to do it.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

AUGUST 8, 2011

In between all the workshops, non-fiction reading and mentoring we sometimes forget that the lives we lead are our primary medium for learning and growth. Exercise 3: Master a single deep and narrow skill . Find that friend who’s contemplating throwing everything away to travel the world. Convince her to do it.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 7, 2010

There are certain skills required to create and maintain a successful blog, I agree, but that has little to do with self-improvement. I wrote 4 ebooks (all of them with printed versions published on Amazon too) and started 2 live workshops, one on online business and the other one in professional blogging. It’s just a blog.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Learning to fly was perhaps the most important thing I did this year. It’s a very interesting project, aiming at bringing crowdfunding for travelers. But I’m slowly learning to be just an advisor. I still have the skills and intuitions when it comes to assembling people together in teams. Did My First Paragliding Flight.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I’ve had live workshops and they all went extremely well, but this online course will be something completely new. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want. Most likely, there will be a limited number of spots. Well, I dont.

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Brilliantly Better

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Although this Venture Connect event seems like a very technical situation: a bunch of skilled people with their own business facing a bunch of investors, it’s really not. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want. It’s just a transaction.

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Brilliantly Better

MAY 27, 2010

Even my teachers were aware about my apparent passivity and they “blamed” my success on my natural skills: a fantastic memory, they said. Am I going to learn something new? I think I started to spend more time doing my homework than actually learning and living. And not because I was diligently studying. Even in advance.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  I hear it from my clients and workshop participants as well as my connections on social media sights.  Learn to say "no" sometimes! Saying "NO" Is An Important Time Management Technique Learn to say NO!   I do not suggest that you adopt all the tips below. Wash The Overwhelm Away!

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 5, 2011

As I advance in this challenge, I learn a lot, month by month. And one of the things that I learned the most during this pipe cleaning, was about the promises I make to myself. If you don’t want to go the WeGetThere home page , let me tell you that this is a revolutionary travel crowdfunding service. In short, not much.

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Brilliantly Better

AUGUST 23, 2010

I use this for more than one and a half year now and I also teach this approach in my blogging workshops and one to one sessions. The Skill And The Habit Just because you know how to write, how to express your best feelings, that doesn’t necessarily makes you blogger. You need much more than skill to be there. You need a habit.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The bad news is that all you’ve learned or decided to apply so far will be completely useless if you don’t have patience. Do workshops? … This sense of orientation is built in time, by observing and understanding your specific market demands and your own unique skills. That’s the good news. On what tone? Write books?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

Actually, we’re happy to put ourselves forward as the expert for anyone who wants to learn how to start your kick-ass web writer business. Who wants to learn about OIL RIGS? Learning how to learn was my goal. However, beyond a certain level, I think you really need to work with or learn from other people to progress.

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