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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

Several years ago, I came up with Adminology. 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. Bring structure to any chaos meeting day. Does this make sense?

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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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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am a mother as well, but my daughter is grown up and I am now a grandmother. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca You couldnt survive if you werent.

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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. For fun, one of the officers asked me to put my name and birthdate in to see what came up. LOOK UP, LOOK DOWN : While an EA was talking to the CEO, her skirt slipped down and landed at her feet. Now how would you handle that situation? (I

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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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