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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

All Things Admin

Your network is also a treasure trove of information regarding upcoming conferences, seminars, and events — and you may even get a significant discount just for being a member of a professional association. You’ll also prove your dedication to your executive and colleagues, and wind up with a personal sense of pride and accomplishment.

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Administrative Professionals Get Help With Your Career

Office Dynamics

You can certainly shorten your learning curve by asking questions or by establishing an ongoing mentoring relationship. Recognize the mentor. It's vital to convey to the mentor that you're familiar with what he or she has done and that you find something about the mentor to be valuable. I can't argue with that principle.

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Administrative Professionals Get Help With Your Career

Office Dynamics

You can certainly shorten your learning curve by asking questions or by establishing an ongoing mentoring relationship. Recognize the mentor. It's vital to convey to the mentor that you're familiar with what he or she has done and that you find something about the mentor to be valuable. I can't argue with that principle.

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6 Ways to Bring Your Lifetime Dreams to Fruition

Office Dynamics

I had a great mentor named Linda Miles who had an established speaking business. Linda used to hold seminars for dentists on cruise ships. And I really wanted to do the same thing for administrative professionals. Well, I got very close to doing the seminar cruise but it never happened. Will we lose money?

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5 Powerhouse Strategies for Creating Administrative Peer Power

Office Dynamics

When you are trying to create change, whether in a process or for the administrative community in your organization, it is much easier to be persuasive when there is a group. When administrative professionals work together, there is less duplication, resulting in savings to the company and increased profitability.

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Inside the Peterborough PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

There is no cost for the seminars and we pride ourselves on having had local support since April 2013. We launched in April 2013, with presentations from Hays, the APA and Gail Thomas, a delegation expert, to around 25 Admin professionals. Do you have advisor’s / board members / mentors that have helped with the network?

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Let the Teacher Teach

Office Dynamics

You may be done with high school or college, but you have plenty of opportunities for learning through seminars, workshops, in-house training, and conferences. I have been in the training and professional speaking business for almost 20 years. Seek mentors and teachers within your department and in your building. Be a sponge.