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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. Often, soft executive assistant skills are the difference between an average EA and the perfect EA.

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How to Use Microsoft Office and Google Workspace Apps to Document Your Procedures

All Things Admin

Before we dive into the specifics, let’s talk about why Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote) and Google Workspace (Docs and Slides) are ideal choices for procedures documentation: Accessibility : These suites are the office standards in the business world, making them accessible to most professionals.

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Choosing the Best Administrative Assistant or Executive Assistant Conference

Office Dynamics

Education wise: What skills do you need to grow? What new skills do you need to learn/develop? Some of our administrative conference themes have been: collaboration; resiliency; revolutionary; and empowerment. So attendees have to take a bunch of photos of the PowerPoint slides as the speaker presents.

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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. Using OneNote with PowerPoint (e.g. Sharing notebooks.

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Creating Powerful Presentations

Practically Perfect PA

As most assistants are advanced users of PowerPoint the temptation to use all of the features can be high. If your organisation does not have standard themes there are lots that you can use online and via PowerPoint. The website is easy to use, you can share the presentations easily, download or collaborate with other member of staff.

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Creating Powerful Presentations

Practically Perfect PA

As most assistants are advanced users of PowerPoint the temptation to use all of the features can be high. If your organisation does not have standard themes there are lots that you can use online and via PowerPoint. The website is easy to use, you can share the presentations easily, download or collaborate with other member of staff.

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How to create an assistant handbook

Practically Perfect PA

Best practice guides to support your team needs, this can be anything from minute taking to PowerPoint guides, business development support; 4. Utilising the skills of the wider team. In delegating the drafting of the handbook, it is a great idea to utilise the different strengths and skills of your team. Outcomes for your team.

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