Success

JANUARY 4, 2023

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. So the trustee sent essentially the same email to Fanning’s work address.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2017

Several years ago at the Office Dynamics Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence , we had 249 assistants collaborate on how an assistant could add more value at work when he or she is already adding value. In today’s casual world, people are becoming quite slack in their writing, set up of emails, and attention to detail.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

My EA function includes booking travel, heavy calendar and email management and organising the site-wide events. I check my emails first thing when I wake-up so that I can prioritise my day properly. I love the collaborative nature of working at Dropbox! Don’t be afraid to be assertive!

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 22, 2016

How to approach your work, career, and LIFE with intention and a sense of mission.Simple strategies to boldly embrace your inner leader—and enhance your productivity, collaboration, and creativity at the same time! If the WebinarJam link above doesn’t work for you, please try this link directly to YouTube.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. Throw in collaboration and communication tools like Slack, workflow managers, chat, text, *gasp* the phone… and the idea of unplugging becomes downright laughable. This isn’t urgent!” Don’t they know I have a life?!”

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Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” I won’t ever forget that Olympia did not take kindly to those who disrespected me and she did not stay quiet about it. Be present in your manager’s email signature. By Bonnie Low-Kramen | February 15, 2021. Alice Walker. A big one.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 25, 2019

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. Throw in collaboration and communication tools like Slack, workflow managers, chat, text, *gasp* the phone… and the idea of unplugging becomes downright laughable. This isn’t urgent!” Don’t they know I have a life?!”

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