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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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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. Professional presence. What qualities do assistants think you need to be a great assistant? Organization skills. Team player.

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Leadership Skills for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

You also have to practice being a leader and being confident communicating in front of a group, your executive, or when leading a team. If you attend any training programs, classes or administrative conferences where you have been asked to be the leader or spokesperson, take on the assignment with a smile and confidence.

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Inside the Peterborough PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

The confidence I gained from the recognition has led me to set up my own network, the Peterborough PA Network, from which I have had some amazing opportunities, the most recent of which is becoming a Non-Executive Director at EPAA, the Executive and Personal Assistant’s Association, which launched in January 2016.

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I am proud to be an “EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT…because miracle worker is not a job title”!

Office Dynamics

Wow, an organization that was actually focused on administrative professionals! Thank you for providing key continued learning opportunities that are keeping me current on new technologies and giving me the confidence as well as the necessary tools needed to re-create myself into an even better support resource for my executives.

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7 Strategies to Speak Up to Get Results

Office Dynamics

Confidence only comes from taking action. For more information on her keynote seminars or additional articles, visit www.ColetteCarlson.com. In your mind’s eye, visualize a successful outcome to the situation. Too often we waste mind time imaging everything but a positive resolution. Put your focus on what you want to see happen.

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

We had an incredible webinar event with over 1,300 assistants registered to learn more about why, as an administrative professional, they should consider a career certification. She often lists all associations in the back of her publication and has a wide network across the globe of resources for administrative professionals. (JF).

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