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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Pay attention to non-verbal cues when working with others to schedule meetings, if you are talking face-to-face or on the telephone or even in an email. I’ve attended many administrative training programs, but this is by far the most focused, detailed, and informative one. Joan Burge. What your peers are saying.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant? My Response

Eat Your Career

Gather information from a variety of sources, check it against your own common sense and experience, and determine what you believe to be true. Are administrative roles, generally, on the decline? In fact, it’s one of the reasons why administrative training is more necessary than ever.

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Solutions to Travel Planning Problems

Office Dynamics

It’s almost enough to break the spirit of the most dedicated administrative professional! In this month’s webinar, administrative training expert Joan Burge is revealing the solution—a brand new way to ease the burden on you and ensure your executive is happy. Most common questions from the webinar: 1.

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Mastering Exceptional Leadership, One BOLD Step at A Time! - Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

The boutique store was open, filled with fabulous books, resources, CDs, jewelery, scarves, journals and pashminas Right outside the boutique wireless was available outside the boutique so attendees could send messages or catch up on email. She didn’t think about emails or the fifty things she had to do. And then it was time!

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Administrative Assistant vs. Executive Assistant: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

based perspective, (2) my experience training and coaching the global administrative community for over 10 years, and (3) my own personal experience both as an admin and Executive Assistant in the decade prior to becoming a coach and trainer. The information I offer here is intentionally broad and meant to be widely applicable.