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Building seamless collaboration when working in a hybrid environment

Practically Perfect PA

Building seamless collaboration when working in a hybrid environment As an Assistant or Administrative professional, building rapport with your Executive is crucial for both their success and your own.

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Collaborate to Innovate!

All Things Admin

Collaboration is a big part of innovation. Now imagine you collaborate with others to plan the event. The “fine” event you planned on your own suddenly pales in comparison to the outstanding event you collaborated with others to plan. Collaboration and innovation go hand in hand – and it’s impossible to do either from a silo.

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Preparing for a Smooth Transition: 4 Tips for Retiring Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

As an administrative professional, you’ve spent years (or even decades) supporting your executive and keeping the office running smoothly. Tip 2: Establish a Successor Training Plan Odds are that it will be your job to train your replacement, so collaborate with your executive to come up with a plan as soon as possible.

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Solutions for Online Learning In a Collaborative Space

Office Dynamics

Assistants, Don’t Let Collaborative Work Space Stop Your Education. One administrative assistant told me that with the new collaborative, open-space work environment, she had difficulty participating in webinars because she gets interrupted. Solutions For Online Learning In A Collaborative Space From Other Assistants.

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Pros & Cons of Your Collaborative Work Space

Office Dynamics

Last week, I was researching the pros and cons of today’s collaborative (open-space) work environment. I am preparing for a speech that I will give at our 23rd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence: The Revolutionary Assistant later this year. Fosters collaboration. Handles rapid changes in personnel number.

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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. Connection brings comfort and control.

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Take Your Seat … At The Executive Table

Office Dynamics

Administrative Professionals leading in the 21st-century. With new technologies (apps, devices, office environments) and globalization, restructuring, downsizing and flattening of top heavy organizations, as administrative professionals, if we are not careful, we could literally get run-over!