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Solution for Major Travel Planning Pain Points

Office Dynamics

Travel planning is infamous for being a huge time, patience, and sanity suck for administrative professionals. What seems like a simple there-and-back trip to a traveler is a whirlwind of coordination and research for the admin. We surveyed over 600 admins on their travel planning practices.

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Solutions to Travel Planning Problems

Office Dynamics

For an assistant, travel planning can be a nightmare! It’s almost enough to break the spirit of the most dedicated administrative professional! The problem of travel planning is massive and it’s plagued our field for decades. In case you’re not aware, TRAVO is revolutionizing the world of travel planning.

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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: 10 Assist Travel tickets!

Practically Perfect PA

We are offering ten lucky readers the chance to attend Assist Travel for free. Yes, that is right – a whole day of fantastic training specifically for assistants – completely for free! More information on the programme and the speakers can be found on the Assist Travel website. More from our sponsor.

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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. Organising Traveler Information.

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Core Administrative Skills Always Need Improving

Office Dynamics

I am pretty sure that as you focus on your career this month because of Administrative Professionals Week, you are looking for some awesome earth-shattering, off-the-charts ideas. Now I am going to surprise you by telling you one of the most awesome administrative skills you can work on is being brilliant at the basics.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

In fact, there is consensus among talent professionals that bad hires usually lack soft skills. A Linkedin survey reported that 89% of talent professionals attribute lack of soft skills as the reason for a bad hire and 92% feel that soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills when hiring.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

When I was an assistant 40 years ago we complained about not getting time with our executives; we complained about not getting enough information from our managers; we complained about not getting support for training. Plus it is embarrassing to the leader or the administrative person who set the schedule.