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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some assistants regularly manage small budgets when planning functions or have bookkeeping responsibilities and work regularly on spreadsheets. Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Start brushing up and training on weak areas with PowerPoint, Photoshop, business writing, or anything you can think of. Does your boss have allergies, special diet needs, medications (like epinephrine for bee stings?), I block out time on my calendar when I know I will have to work overtime because it's budget season.

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Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names will never hurt me

Laughing all the Way to Work

Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? That is a good time to recognize assistants for all that they do. ► February (5) We did it Canada!