Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 26, 2016

Next up in our series of blog posts on core soft skills I am going to look at diplomacy and tact for assistants. Assistants have to possess a number of soft or interpersonal skills. It is a skill that allows assistants to find common ground with every person at every level of business. Pick your battles.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 22, 2020

I f you’ve been a long time reader of my blog, you know that I believe personal and professional development are closely related. I wanted to share my tips on what works for me in times of stress, but I made it a clickbait-y title so it would seem more timely. Interestingly, the last year or two is the calmest I've ever been.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 14, 2020

Their organizational skills, attitude, and outlook seem unscathed. With a resilient mindset, you will be able to persevere and develop the decorum, traits, skills, and patience you admire. The right adaptation skills combined with steadfastness are needed to keep emotions in check and optimism within reach.

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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.

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Success

MARCH 14, 2023

For a short, low-stress workout, try 7 Minute Workout , a popular workout app with more than 3 million downloads. Yoga has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety , improve quality of life and increase people’s positive perceptions of their body. Expanding our vocabulary skills is a task we left in our third-grade classroom.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 22, 2020

Feelings of overwhelm, high workload demands, time constraints and communication barriers with family and colleagues can feel especially turbulent during times of stress. In this Warrior Mindset blog, we are going to cover the 5 steps you need to take to overcome chaos: Changing your view of yourself and your perception a.

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Tips From T. Marie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Whether you’re a busy mom, a stressed-out student, or a multitasking professional, these tips are designed to help you make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. What skills or hobbies do you have that can be turned into a business? Offer your skills or services in exchange for something you need.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 23, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Stress Management Techniques Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Stress related symptoms can be broken down into four major categories. These include: A.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 28, 2010

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Effective Communication Skills Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. How many of the items on your list apply specifically to the communication skill of persuasion?

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Job Advice Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

Consider your skills and attributes and traits. This is very important, because people are known to hire candidates with whom they can build a relationship even during the interview process. And fifth and last but not less important, make sure the position you’re interviewing for aligns with your own needs and desires.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 12, 2017

And to quote Liam Neeson in the movie “Taken,” regularly interacting with a wide range of personalities inside and outside the company requires “a very particular set of skills.” Let’s face it, people who have strong interpersonal skills, maintain a friendly tone and show a genuine interest in their coworkers are just more likable.

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Job Advice Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2012

Physicians and psychiatrists have proved that there is a positive correlation between stress and illness. People in transition experience various and variable levels of stress. And such stress is not a stand-alone issue but is compounded by other stressors. All together there are [.].

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 17, 2010

A survey says that 40% of American workers report that their job are very or extremely stressful. Stress is a factor that we need to manage. There is no job that is stress-proof. It is a fact that, as office-workers, we go through some stressful situations in the many aspects of our office life. What is my point here?

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 25, 2017

Project management is a key skill for PAs these days. So here you will find some great blogs, books, tools and general tips on how to Project Manage like a pro. Top five blogs for Project Management. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. Project-Management.com. Better Projects.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

What surprised me after looking at the list was that many of the requests had to do with the typical administrative skills or tasks such as: managing multiple managers, dealing with difficult people, managing stress, calendar management, and troubleshooting. Break it into two main areas: Soft skills. Hard skills (be specific).

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ProAssisting Blog

JULY 23, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Rest assured though that we are going to keep blogging and putting out free content in addition to the paid executive and admin training program that we offer so don’t be strangers. Enjoy this post?

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MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Off Topic, (0) Comments What Matters Now!

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MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Tales from the Trenches, (0) Comments Anna Wintour’s daughter is NOT afraid of assisting!

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ProAssisting Blog

MAY 31, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Wanna impress your boss with your newfound skills? These weekly lessons can be used immediately to increase your productivity and streamline your office procedures. Go ahead and follow the instructions below to sign up today!

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, (0) Comments ProAssisting & Dress for Success form 1-for-1 Partnership!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

If you are an assistant reading this blog, check off the ones that describe you. If you are a manager reading this blog, check off the ones that apply to your administrative partner. Good communication skills. Organization skills. Interpersonal communication skills. Interpersonal communication skills.

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ProAssisting Blog

MAY 31, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Tales from the Trenches, (0) Comments Disney Assistant BUSTED! Both her and her boyfriend are going to be arraigned shortly.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 24, 2015

Join our April Blog-A-Thon. In honor of Administrative Professionals Week (4/20 – 4/24) and Office Dynamics 25th Year in business educating administrative professionals and their executives, we are bringing back our Blog-a-Thon. Feel free to respond to our blogs every day! Administrative Assistants Rock!

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Ethan on Some BIG News To Share Iris on Some BIG News To Share Debbie on Some BIG News To Share Business Managament Basics on So you wanna be a Virtual Assistant (VA)?

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 30, 2015

and we brought back the April Blog-a-Thon for the Administrative Professional where we gathered here each weekday with a new content post and shared a place for administrative professionals to comment, question and discuss their careers. So what do we do now that the blog-a-thon is over? Keep coming back! 4/28/2015).

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 14, 2011

But we can work through these issues with less stress by learning to be flexible. But, you can also avoid a lot of stress by leaving wiggle room in your schedules so when issues arise, it’s not the end of the world. Here are a few suggestions to handle situations you might encounter: Accept reality, and go with the flow.

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Interpersonal Skills, (1) Comments Sweet - SarcMark: A punctuation mark for sarcasm!

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Now that our members have had a chance to listen to this interview, we’re pleased to offer it to you, our blog readers, to get a better understanding of what being a virtual assistant is all about.

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Interpersonal Skills, (1) Comments Are your work communications professional? Are you sure?

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. Office Managers E-Learning Modules Outline E-Learning Modules: Part 1 Contact Us Enrollment Login All Posts, Off Topic, (1) Comments Off Topic: Halloween in NYC!

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Admin Assistant Training Attitude Career Management Communication Skills Cost Effective Creativity Interpersonal Skills Leadership Mgr/Asst Team Networking Organizational Skills Problem Solving Professional Image Projects Self Development Stress Management Teamwork Time Management Video Blog Workplace Tools administrative assistant training career (..)

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 15, 2015

Technical skills can be gleaned, but behavior must be taught. .” This vibrant profession is continuously expanding to encompass higher levels of responsibilities and broader, dynamic opportunities. There is a spectrum of professional administrative behaviors necessary to ensure successful executive support and business success.

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ProAssisting Blog

MARCH 9, 2010

Home Blog About Us Who we are About the Program Program Specifics Execs, HR Depts. I actually think my love of pizza is buried deep down in my genetic code passed down from my father but we’ll save that for a completely different blog post.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Feeling Stressed at work? Feeling Stressed at work? Please enjoy this guest blog post from Alita Bluford , an efficiency expert! This type of stress is unnecessary and not only derails your day but negatively affects your self esteem. The more stressed we are, the less we remember. Is it them? Interruptions).

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

When you start talking to a potential outsourcing hire, make sure the person understands your business, your needs and possesses the necessary skills. I use it with my interns for my blog. Whenever we have an idea for a blog post or see an article we like, we add it to Evernote.

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Executive Leadership Support Blog

JANUARY 27, 2022

I talk a lot about the skills of how to communicate as a human being, what we need to do, and how we need to put our conversations together. From there we can learn skills, but first we have to know who we are and who the other person is. Then we can start talking about the skills of how to communicate as humans.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 23, 2015

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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