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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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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

Office Dynamics

I wanted to know the areas the assistants were interested in growing and learning about. When it comes to figuring out your soft skills, enlarge your vision; don’t just look at the tasks such as meeting planning or calendaring. For example, what are the skills you need to be excellent at meeting planning?

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am sure I could have done well as I have learned nearly everything there is to know about getting someone from point A to point B. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style!

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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. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! I wonder what kind of service the client would have thought he was offering!

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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