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Embrace the chaos: the office must find a new purpose, conference concludes

Workplace Insight

The British Council for Offices (BCO) annual conference, this year hosted in Dublin, addressed the purpose of the office in the context of the evolving world of work. As one would perhaps expect from a BCO conference, several speakers made a case for the office, including Davina Saint, director of the Irish National Assets Management Agency.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. They save you time and unnecessary stress. Determine the agenda and who is presenting. Reserve the conference room. Create the meeting agenda for the department head’s approval. Meeting Agenda. Meeting Agenda.

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Speaker Lineup Announced for Administrative Assistant Conference 2014

Office Dynamics

Office Dynamics International has announced the keynote presenters for its administrative professionals conference , the 21st Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, to be held September 30 – October 3, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Beth Terry, Resilience Mastery™, resilience and stress expert, blogger, and author.

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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

To avoid that kind of unnecessary stress, it’s important to properly manage and track your continuing education requirements. I can earn them for participating in conferences and traditional training events, whether in person or virtually, but I can also earn them for the training I develop and deliver myself, as a trainer on this topic.

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3 Keys to Making This Your Best Week Ever

Office Dynamics

Most administrative professionals are intimately familiar with “emergency” business situations and sky-high stress—their own, as well as the stress that practically radiates off of others. After all, it’s never too early to kick the stress habit and nurture a spirit of resilience. How to manage stress. How to bounce back.

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MIPIM 2023 confirms that green sells. But is commercial real estate buying?

Workplace Insight

One key element of this is sustainability, a core topic at MIPIM, across the conference programme, through the new Net Zero zone and with many delegates discussing ESG in terms of investment, development, design and the increasing shift towards re-use. The mood at MIPIM suggested we can expect to see more such initiatives.

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Thinking Differently about Difficult People

The Office Professionals Place

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 Thinking Differently about Difficult People Dealing with difficult people can cause us to lose focus, productivity, and increase stress levels. The ability to handle people we have negative feelings about can cause the office atmosphere to become unmanageable, stressful, and in some cases hostile.

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