Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. Executive assistants are running meetings, making hiring decisions, giving presentations, negotiating contracts, managing budgets and are considered co-leaders.

Calendars 325

Calendars Administrative Professionals PowerPoint Skills 325

Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. They oversee many aspects of daily operations, including hiring new staff and ensuring all necessary duties are completed on time and within the office budget.

Management 52

Management Payroll Fax Suppliers 52

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 18, 2016

Ask your client or stakeholder, the person who asked you to take on the project, what are the primary parameters for the project, what are the secondary and what is most negotiable. If you are introducing a training course for colleagues on a shoestring budget, then cost will be the driver. Is it quality, time or cost?

Project Management 100

Project Management Management Budget 2017 100

Page Personnel

MAY 26, 2021

They can also run up to a full year or more for project rollouts, or if a company is reviewing staffing needs or hiring budget for permanent positions. Virtually any contracting professional who has the right experience for a company can negotiate a favourable rate. RELATED: How to negotiate your next salary 4.

Negotiating 52

Negotiating Temping Skills Salary 52

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

You need to juggle the demands for location, capacity, budget, amenities and environmental factors to get the right result for your event. The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct. In fact, you’ll be wondering how you ever managed without a venue finder.

Budget 159

Budget Negotiating Agencies Stress 159

Success

MARCH 23, 2022

I lack the necessary detail-oriented skills to turn it into a reality. But there’s a big difference between that and having a budget, a packing list and an hour-by-hour breakdown of where we will be in the course of such a trip, all of which I need to make it executable as a side hustle. I often convince people to go with me.

Social Media 264

Social Media Forms Negotiating Learning 264

Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 8, 2014

It can be pretty soul destroying contacting loads of hotels and venues only to find out on the site visit that they don’t have availability for the day you need, that don’t have the space or they cost over your budget. Not a confident negotiator? Let them do it for you. Probably not.

Agencies 100

Agencies Negotiating Equipment Training 100

Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I believe meeting planners and administrative professionals possess similar skills/traits that enable them to be good at what they do. What I also learned was that I liked what I was doing and that I was good at it – or had the potential to be. They typically are leaders (even though they may not realize this at first).

Suppliers 226

Suppliers Meeting Planning Administrative Professionals Attire 226

Karen Vivarelli

JULY 27, 2020

Your Time And Skills Are Valuable Right? When you first start out as a VA it can be very difficult to choose a rate, because you feel like you don’t have the skills and experience to charge much. We are simply determining your base VA rate and monthly budget. As your skill and confidence grows, so too does your rate.

Expenses 52

Expenses Social Media Budget Goals 52

Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Assess the barriers: are they your employer’s (limited jobs or budget) or your own (lack of credentials or experience)? Ask questions to assess degrees of urgency, and practice negotiating timelines or redirecting requests. Have a look at your time management skills, and how best to invest your efforts on a daily and weekly basis.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Administrative Professionals Negotiating Budget 100

Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 11, 2011

Consulting is simply selling your knowledge and information about your area of expertise, whether that’s a particular program or a specific skill you possess. All the knowledge and problem solving skills you’ve developed in running a successful business translate into great consulting possibilities. Troubleshooting.

Basecamp 100

Basecamp Social Media Negotiating Equipment 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 27, 2016

What is your budget? Usually a venue takes about 40% of your overall budget, if not more. This limits your negotiating power to compare pricing and use your own vendors. Depending on your location and time of year, having an all indoor or partial outdoor space might be an important factor.

Agencies 100

Agencies Budget Suppliers Negotiating 100

Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Develop Your Skills. You should always be looking for ways to expand your existing professional skills and develop new ones. Look for opportunities to practice different skills, implement new processes, take on new responsibilities or try out new technology. Give yourself an annual budget for professional development and use it.

Networking 100

Networking Skills Negotiating Budget 100

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Perhaps after some smart negotiating you can have it worked into the budget for future years. This group is great on skill building. This is a great way to expand your admin network and just because they aren’t local doesn’t mean they won’t be there when you need to call upon some help from your peers. Toastmasters!

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Negotiating 100

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Perhaps after some smart negotiating you can have it worked into the budget for future years. This group is great on skill building. This is a great way to expand your admin network and just because they aren’t local doesn’t mean they won’t be there when you need to call upon some help from your peers. Toastmasters!

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Training 100

Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. In today’s competitive marketplace and at the pace this profession is changing, if you do not continually enhance your skills, build new ones, and have a strategy for your career, you will get left in the dust. Negotiate if necessary. You walk out.

Training 100

Training Budget Negotiating Skills 100

Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. In today’s competitive marketplace and at the pace this profession is changing, if you do not continually enhance your skills, build new ones, and have a strategy for your career, you will get left in the dust. Negotiate if necessary. You walk out.

Training 100

Training Budget Negotiating Skills 100

Energage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In April 2017, American Airlines announced it was proactively increasing the pay for pilots and flight attendants, two years ahead of contract negotiations. Many look to formal training, investing large budgets and hundreds of people-hours into instructor-led classes. Naturally, skilled face-to-face communication is best.

2017 58

2017 Customer Service Training Skills 58

Success

JULY 25, 2022

Whether you are looking to negotiate a salary for a job offer or increase your salary at a current position, the key to securing an easy “yes” is preparedness. When you’re ready to have the negotiation conversation, frame your prepared research in a way that makes it easy to see why you deserve the increased pay.

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Credit Card Retirement Finance Negotiating 245

Who's the Real Boss?

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

This platform, that was designed to connect skilled service providers with those who required skilled services, ended up revealing to me what would be the most savage and ruthless landscape of tens of thousands of ‘Joe Blows’ wanting to make a quick buck, regardless of whether they were skilled in the task requirement, or not.

Resume 52

Resume Cover Letter AT&T Interviewing 52

Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

While some contractors offer skills that are useful for one-time jobs, our favourite VAs—apart from becoming our friends—became a part of our team and were involved in several projects regularly. I made the mistake of not giving enough keywords into the oDesk filter system for required skill sets.

Dropbox 40

Dropbox Filing Google Docs Google 40

Men With Pens

AUGUST 26, 2010

Unfortunately, he didn’t have the budget for any of the strategies. Just like the first potential client, this one didn’t have the budget for the proposed strategies… But he understood that nothing would change until the company changed how it was responding to the situation. Take Action, Learn, Adjust, Repeat.

Budget 40

Budget AT&T Twitter Social Media 40

Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The background to this inevitably lies in the fiscal constraints, strained project budgets challenged by higher borrowing and construction costs reaching unprecedented highs. Skilled labour shortages are slowly improving but the total UK headcount is still 12 percent lower than four years ago.

2025 52

2025 Negotiating Budget Collaborate 52

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 30, 2012

When is budget season, how are summers and winters different, etc. This also means keep track of your accomplishments, any new skills you’ve learned along the way, programs you’ve used that you didn’t before. This will help in updating your resume, negotiating a raise, and how you want your career to unfold. 5) Take good notes.

Negotiating 40

Negotiating Resume Goals Mentoring 40

Practically Perfect PA

MAY 22, 2015

For the uninitiated, this may seem like a straightforward request until you start to ponder the type and style of venues you need to research, whether those venues will fit within the company’s budget, and… well, ‘what is our budget anyway?’ And that’s just for starters. Event Planning.

Suppliers 100

Suppliers Budget Stress 2014 100