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Own Your Career, Build a Professional Development Plan

Office Dynamics

When I founded Office Dynamics in 1990, there were very few companies who offered specialized training for administrative support staff and executive assistants. When you take control of your professional development, you become more confident and will be presented with new opportunities. A surefire 10-step process.

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3 Simple Steps to Taking Time Away from Your Business

Office Organization Success

The solution is simple … you plan it in your calendar. The first step, and most important step, is to actually schedule your time off in your calendar. Once it’s on your calendar and you can see it you’re unlikely to accidentally schedule in a client call, meeting, or other event that will encroach upon your down time.

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OFFICE DYNAMICS CONFERENCE RECAP PART III: The Final Day

Office Dynamics

As Joan explained, neither her career, nor this signature annual gathering, is about “training” — it’s about making work lives substantially BETTER for administrative professionals in every stage of their careers, and carving out the administrative path as a career of choice for high-performing and high-potential individuals.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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Tina Fey even stripped down to her Spanx on an episode of the Late Show with David Letterman in 2015. It was a total training ground, because all I heard was no for the first two years of trying to get Spanx off the ground,” she says. Blakely even credits her fearlessness toward failure as a major key to Spanx’s success. “I

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

When I was an assistant 40 years ago we complained about not getting time with our executives; we complained about not getting enough information from our managers; we complained about not getting support for training. Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. and they say, “No.”