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

Eat Your Career

For example, PACE is a certification for administrative professionals provided by ASAP. I can earn CEUs (or PDUs as they’re referred to) in many ways. 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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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

This not only aids in creating a comprehensive procedural document for future use, but also provides a reference for the new hire to revisit as needed while they’re learning the ropes. Consider recording your training sessions, whether they’re in person or via platforms like Teams or Zoom.

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Make Procedures Development a Habit, Not a Project

All Things Admin

One of the challenges of creating administrative procedures is that many people feel overwhelmed by the project. How are you supposed to document everything for reference, as well? For example, you may allocate specific time periods throughout the day to check email or send out meeting agendas and reminders.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Career organization is essential for any administrative professional who wants to have a long-lasting, successful career. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. Professional association memberships and leadership roles held. Professional Network. References. Protect Your Admin Career.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

When you sit in a meeting for hours on end, ears pricked up, needing to listen and capture every word, the last thing you want to be doing is jumping around the page, creating headings and subheadings against the agenda items on the fly, or jumping from one agenda item to the next.

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Not Just a Secretary

Office Dynamics

Take that time to ask questions about his meetings, are there any action items you can follow up on from the meetings, are there any impending phone calls or situations you need to be aware of, can you create a template for his staff meeting agenda. Also start referring to yourself as an administrative professional or as an assistant.

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