Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Quite often I am asked which courses I would recommend for assistants that are just starting in the profession and want to undertake some training to increase their skills and help them move up the career ladder. We have a shed load of skills that have to be kept up to date so that we can do our job effectively. IT training.

Training 100

Training Assertiveness Skills Confidence 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

I hear managers or Human Resource Professionals say it doesn’t take any special skill to be an administrative assistant. I hear it from both sides of the desk. I hear assistants talk about their job or the profession as if it is no big deal. These people are naïve, to say the least. A true Executive Assistants must do over 100 things well.

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals 2016 Stress Travel 100

Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Part of what we do is provide tools and services to administrative professionals to enhance the quality of their work-life that promote administrative excellence. At Office Dynamics International we love what we do.

Training 100

Training Administrative Professionals 2015 AT&T 100

Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The cost to companies can be huge. The average number of emails Assistants manage between their email and their executive’s email is 225 per day to upwards of 400 per day! Assistants are being underutilized. Executives are wasting precious time and money by doing things an Assistant should be handling. Executive and Assistants are struggling!

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Fax Email 2015 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 12, 2016

Tally the cost. For example, are you speaking up to correct a misunderstanding that could lead to litigation or to heal a relationship riff? Once you have clarity about what you want in this circumstance, your focus and follow-through will be stronger. Need motivation? Consider the price you’re paying for not speaking up.

UPS 100

UPS Confidence Learning Administrative Professionals 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 13, 2016

We encourage Executives to really do the math and weigh the opportunity against the cost. The true value of this investment is truly much more when you consider everything else you could be doing with that time. What would it take to teach your Assistant to do just one new task this month? What would it save you by the end of the year?

Training 100

Training UPS Administrative Professionals Assertiveness 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2016

Office Dynamics often surveys managers and high-level executives as to the skills, attitudes, and behaviors that are most important for an assistant to possess. Communication skills, both oral and written, are a must-have. Technological skills are a must-have to keep up with the pace and dynamics of the job. Joan Burge.

Skills 100

Skills Calendars Management Learning 100

Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

It’s hard to believe another year is nearly over. Here at Office Dynamics International, as we wrap up this 25th year of business, we’re feeling both grateful and overwhelmed with all we’ve experienced in 2015. Perhaps you can relate to those feelings?

2015 100

2015 2016 Holidays Administrative Professionals 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 30, 2015

Wow, what a fabulous April! Did you have the most incredible Administrative Professionals’ Week this year?

2015 100

2015 Administrative Professionals OfficeTeam Staples 100

Workplace Insight

JULY 17, 2023

Few would argue against the assertion that the quality of decisions is enhanced by accurate and relevant information, including evidence of which approaches to the task in hand actually work. This is especially so when our decisions involve how to protect people at work so can be literally a matter of life or death.

Health 52

Health Assertiveness Social Media Policies 52

Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

We didn’t have the tools and experience to analyze those behaviors, we took them for granted. I was putting to work some skills, but without putting my soul, my self or my life into it. If focus will be the main tool for creating your reality we may refer to the flow as the master glue for keeping the pieces together.

2010 40

2010 AT&T Skills Travel 40