Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Organizing an office gift exchange can be an opportunity to create meaningful memories with your coworkers, or, as a recent article on The International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) blog makes clear, a potential minefield of stress and unintentional offense. Holiday gift baskets.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Then out of the blue, the topic crops up at work or at your kid’s school. Eerily, you happened to have just picked up a book two weeks prior, again, dissecting the same issue. The topic then came up at my Sunday women’s circle as one after another person shared their respective concerns about feeling lost. It’s a message, folks!

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

The Innovative Admin is an administrative professional who introduces, creates, or applies new or renewed ideas or methods of doing things to the office environment. It’s someone who is actively doing, seeking, and implementing, not someone who is simply coming up with ideas or maintaining the status quo.

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Admin Awards

APRIL 24, 2020

Administrative professionals provide real benefits to the people they support and the organization at large. The best administrative professionals aren’t just supporting players. They look for individuals who proactively update their administrative assistant skills through training.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

Organization is a pain point for many administrative professionals. Whether you realize it or not, you probably already have systems in place, both personally and professionally. This cuts down on errors and builds trust with the internal and external customers you support. To do this, you need systems. . Make It Visual.

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Melissa Peoples

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

xo, Melissa I very recently made the decision to leave a role without another one lined up. Being a 'doer' who takes great pride in my work as an administrative professional, with very few gaps in my work history, you can imagine what life has been like for me since making that leap. You are welcome!

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The idea is to come up with revolutionary answers that will create change and therefore create better conversations. Plus it is embarrassing to the leader or the administrative person who set the schedule. Gone are the days when administrators simply reserved a conference room and readied it for the meeting!). If so, how many?

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This lively discussion covered the following topics: – How Administrative Professionals lead by being brave, especially when leadership is the source of bad culture. – The Administrators Impact on Employee Morale and Company Culture Whitepaper. How Admins can inspire culture by being their authentic selves. –

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All Things Admin

MAY 18, 2022

Whenever employees are ready to get back on the road, administrative professionals have an opportunity to offer their teams a more streamlined, flexible business traveler experience. Plus, they don’t need to save and upload receipts thanks to Uber for Business’s seamless integration with many travel and expense management services.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another time I was trying to find a full-serve gas station to fill up, but there was nothing to be found. It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. What about in the office, are we asking our bosses to self-serve or are we providing quality administrative services?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca " Warning!

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Who's the Real Boss?

JANUARY 10, 2019

And in this day and age, whilst we still battle internally in business with the out-dated stereotypes attached to our roles, we also often find these stereotypes creeping into the job descriptions and accompanying advertised salaries for our roles, creating silly perceptions for everyone to see and stereotypes that really do become inescapable.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

Since I got in at 9 and my boss was in an hour before me, I knew he had probably seen it already so decided to suck it up and just go in and ask him. He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." 411 Look Up 411.ca Good thing I checked.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 31 December, 2009 Office Confidential: Just for fun to start your New Year off with a laugh These are excerpts from a presentation I gave to my local International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP) Chapter dinner meeting. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did in the telling.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MAY 4, 2019

Having all the answers and knowledge at hand of anything and everything that’s asked of you, at any given minute, is not something that everyone can keep up with. Similarly, if you work with a manager you just do not get along with, for whatever reason, that too can impact your attitude, your performance and your internal self talk.

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Who's the Real Boss?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Perhaps you’re miserable in your role, but sticking around for the sake of demonstrating a half decent tenure, without having to make up some excuse for why you left after so little time. There is always two sides to every coin, and I think we need to open our minds up and not dismiss candidates on their resumes at first glance.

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