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Professional Development for Executive Assistants

Worxbee

You’ll find them engaging in project management, process management, strategic research, reporting and a range of dynamic, managerial functions. Project management. There are many options for project management professional development. What makes for a good process? Leadership skills.

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Tips on transitioning your career

Practically Perfect PA

A PA is part office manager, part senior project manager and part psychic, all skills that are extremely transferable if you decide you would like steer yourself on to another career path. Finally, be confident – go into that interview as though you have been working in this sector your whole career.

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DOs and DON’Ts for Building a Great Team

Step It Up VA Coaching

When you’ve got a group of people to manage, it helps to meet weekly or monthly to boost morale, share wins, and stay on the same page. There are a number of free and paid project management websites with valuable time tracking software and other goodies, such as Clientspot and Basecamp.

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DOs and DON’Ts for Building a Great Team

Step It Up VA Coaching

When you’ve got a group of people to manage, it helps to meet weekly or monthly to boost morale, share wins, and stay on the same page. There are a number of free and paid project management websites with valuable time tracking software and other goodies, such as Clientspot and Basecamp. Use an online portal to stay organized.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Amy : I am currently an Executive Assistant at Skyscanner to the CTO, Director Engineering, Director of Project Management and the Director of HR. Sally : I’m a recent convert to the project management/list making tool called Trello – I use it for every job that I have and so many things at home.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

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. Currently studying a Personal Assistant Diploma. communications.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more. Kim Anthony. Elena Cardone.

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