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Is Project Management Certification Right for You?

Eat Your Career

Project management certification can be a useful tool to advance your career, whether or not you’re a formal project manager or aspire to become one in the future. If you’re not familiar, PMP stands for Project Management Professional, and it’s probably the most well-respected certification in the field of project management.

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Avoid Burnout by Creating Your Own Utopia

Office Dynamics

Unfortunately, burnout is real, it’s draining, emotional, stressful and typically affects both professional and personal lives. As an administrative professional for the past 20 plus years, I have learned how important it is to avoid burnout in one of the largest career fields in the world.

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Top 9 Communication Tips for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Ask yourself if your goal is to communicate or to win. When we have conflicting views or opinions, usually our goal is “someone has to win and someone has to lose. Use assertive communication skills to manage these situations. This article is an excerpt from the World Class Assistant™ certification and designation course.

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Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

All Things Admin

Since the goal is to make them as efficient as possible, it’s important to constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve them. Now, we wonder how we ever managed to get anything done with it. When you do achieve operational gains, be sure to document and share those with your manager. That’s more than a full week of vacation!

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

This is a vital topic I cover in my Star Achievement Series® , World Class Assistant™ Certificate program , and one-on-one coaching. This is the best advice you will ever receive on how to build a strategic partnership with your executive, manage their day, and stay on top of the volumes of tasks and projects you have to handle.

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Secretary vs Assistant – do they think differently?

Office Dynamics

it can be a big thing in how non-administrative professionals view the role. In my World Class Assistant™ Certificate Program held in Las Vegas, the attendees and I delve into this topic. Here are some of the things I hear assistants, secretaries and managers say: “I would dress better if they paid me more money.”.

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Travel Planning for Others – Putting Yourself in Your Traveler’s Shoes

Practically Perfect PA

Every admin wears many hats: office manager, personal assistant, life coach, travel planner. Every time your manager is heading out of town, it’s time for you to don your travel planner hat, slip into your traveler’s shoes, and equip yourself with your suite of travel planning tools. Inefficient Communications.

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