Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. While teaching, coaching, and consulting with thousands of assistants nationwide, I have found that they don’t see they have to work at gaining support for training and development. How will your executive benefit from you attending training or a seminar?

Training 100

Training Budget Negotiating Skills 100

Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Selling your executive on supporting your professional development is a skill. While teaching, coaching, and consulting with thousands of assistants nationwide, I have found that they don’t see they have to work at gaining support for training and development. How will your executive benefit from you attending training or a seminar?

Training 100

Training Budget Negotiating Skills 100

Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 8, 2014

During the course of the meeting the Board decided that everyone in the organisation must attend a full day’s training on a new legislation affecting the industry. Your manager delivers the news that he has nominated you to coordinate the training. Not a confident negotiator? Let them do it for you. Probably not.

Agencies 100

Agencies Negotiating Equipment Training 100

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 290

Social Media Forms Negotiating Learning 290

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

When the pressure is on to find an impressive venue to wow your clients, or source the ideal training venue for your delegates, or book the perfect executive meeting room, it’s good to know that help is at hand. The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct.

Budget 159

Budget Negotiating Agencies Stress 159

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. appeared first on Office Dynamics - Executive And Administrative Assistant Training. 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.

Suppliers 226

Suppliers Meeting Planning Administrative Professionals Attire 226

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Try to attend training courses that are offered for executive admin as much as you can (even if it is just one time a year and you travel to another city for it). If training/travel aren’t an option it may be a goal to strive for as a reward for a job well done. This group is great on skill building. Here are my thoughts.

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Training 100

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Try to attend training courses that are offered for executive admin as much as you can (even if it is just one time a year and you travel to another city for it). If training/travel aren’t an option it may be a goal to strive for as a reward for a job well done. This group is great on skill building. Here are my thoughts.

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Negotiating 100

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

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

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

Who's the Real Boss?

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Giving my business a very different focus these last two years, I have been exploring the professional side of Resume Writing and professionalising of other people’s brands, putting my years of experience and qualifications in both writing and recruitment training, to good use.

Resume 52

Resume Cover Letter AT&T Interviewing 52

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 30, 2012

One reason why hiring new college grads is beneficial is because companies can mold them and train them to their liking. 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.

Negotiating 40

Negotiating Resume Goals Mentoring 40