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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

I still teach Adminology in our World Class Assistant™ certification and designation course because it never changes. Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain.

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4 Fresh Meeting Trends and Where to Find Them

Office Dynamics

Four major trends in meeting room styles are featured below and all four (and hundreds more) meeting rooms can be found on Spacebase along with many other. budding meeting industry trends. Green Meetings. spectacular wooden decorations do more than just create a natural atmosphere: they also help the environment.

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway? Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time ► April (2) Keeping focussed in a busy environment When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Obtaining funds from work to complete training in the current environment is difficult. I have taken several courses and classes. Yes, I have taken job-specific software classes, classes to learn organizational and people skills, and took computer certification classes which I was not aware I needed coming right out of high school.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

During a break in the class, I was sitting at my assigned Telex and it started typing. Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway? I wonder what kind of service the client would have thought he was offering!