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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

Success

In your first three months, you discover countless ways to improve the business : better project management tools, ways to streamline everyone’s workflow and straightforward meeting agendas. They can present a problem in a compelling way and get people interested in a solution. We shouldn’t go about this process alone.

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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

Every office needs different systems to run smoothly, but most administrative professionals will require most or all of the systems in this core group: Time and task management. Project management. Check with all participants on availability for the options presented. Determine the agenda and who is presenting.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. If you don’t have everything (or anything at all) documented, there’s no time like the present to get started! email, instant messaging, project management tools). showcasing how each tool facilitates team collaboration.

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

Eat Your Career

For example, the content of the learning needs to be directly related to the body of knowledge used for the certification and cannot be a sales-oriented presentation. As long as these things pertain to topics relevant to project management, they can qualify within specified limits.

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Finding your contracting career path

Page Personnel

An increasing number of professionals choose contracting as their full-time career , however, one issue they run into during their search for the next contract job is how to present individual (usually unrelated) contracting jobs as a complete career story or career path. Also be sure to highlight transferable skills and niche experience.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

If you are interviewing for a sales position, prepare a sales presentation targeting one of their clients or prospects; for marketing come up with a marketing plan for them. If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. Contact Ms.

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

Need a plan, then partner with a "project manager" or get a great planner. As you bring yourself back to the present moment, revisit your schedule / To Do List and see what can be cancelled or delegated. Know your strengths and find a partner who has strengths where your weaknesses are. Breathe in for 3 and out for 5.

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