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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

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. After that list, I see advanced competencies such as negotiation or persuasion skills. This is not smart.

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A Day in the Life of an Admin

The Office Professionals Place

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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Shining a Light on Black Assistants: It’s Not Black & White

Bonnie Low Kramen

This stark distinction in childrearing highlights why and how, because of structural, institutional, and individual racism, Black adults are taught how to manage and navigate a world that sees them as second-class citizens. As women, we are intuitively mindful of our personal safety while traveling alone in ways that men are not.

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