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Professional. Administrative Professional.

Office Dynamics

After a full day of managing an agenda, his comment caught me completely off guard. Did he say it because I was an administrator, or because I was female? The remark wasn’t directed at another attorney, just the lone female administrative professional seated at that table. The other lawyers and I sat there, speechless.

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How to Stay Organized with Leadership Team Meetings? – Ask An Admin

Office Dynamics

Making sure agendas are going out timely, meeting with leaders to create the agenda, taking notes, bringing attention to meetings, etc. About Ask an Admin: Ask an Admin will be a weekly post on our blog that presents a question that you or a fellow administrative professional submitted to us. Thank you, everyone!

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Administrative Assistant vs. Executive Assistant: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

As many of my regular readers already know, I am a proud former administrative professional. I have a deep admiration and appreciation for those who dedicate themselves to support roles, which is one of the reasons I now focus a large part of my corporate training business on working with administrative teams.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. Over the past 14 years, Robyn has led in excess of 500 plus minute taking courses for over 1,000 participants. This post will help you work with the chairman to make this task easier.

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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

Of course, that’s not to say that a degree isn’t valuable! For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. In addition to a tracking tool, you may also want to create a file on your internal or external hard drive (or cloud storage system) for professional development.

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5 Powerhouse Strategies for Creating Administrative Peer Power

Office Dynamics

Coming together is better than fighting for your own agenda. When you are trying to create change, whether in a process or for the administrative community in your organization, it is much easier to be persuasive when there is a group. The idea is that you want to receive input, but of course, it is how the message is delivered.

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Leading Certification Provider for Executive and Administrative Assistants Cites Top HR Trends, Celebrates 24th Year

Office Dynamics

Founded by CEO Joan Burge, Office Dynamics International reached its 24th year of providing the most trusted certification and training systems for peak performance of administrative professionals. The second trend identified is the expansion of succession planning best practices to include top administrative professionals.