Admin Awards

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Promotions, births, deaths, divorces – all of life’s moments were shared with my mother, whose desk was rarely not occupied by co-workers hanging out in reception. Colleen is the legendary Legal Secretary to the late Herb Kelleher, the Founder of Southwest Airlines.

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Interviewing Administrative Professionals Medical 2012 52

Service Untitled

JANUARY 17, 2011

Customer service is also based on civility, and rudeness is expensive. Stressed employees have poor self-esteem and are absent more often which leads to higher medical and legal costs. Factor in the expense of replacing these employees, and it has been estimated businesses can be losing up to $300 billion annually.

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Success

AUGUST 31, 2023

This may, in turn, help companies justify paying for costly training or other expenses to retain their workforce, she adds. In TV news, for example, a station might justify noncompete clauses for on-air talent because it heavily promotes the TV lineup in advertising to appeal to viewers, Davenport says.

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Negotiating Legal Promotion 2024 190

Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

You’re probably tired of hard sells, big launches and links to all sorts of promotions. Many of you have physical offices and brick-and-mortar businesses, from legal practices to restaurants to massage therapies to maple syrup farms. It’s often an expensive waste of money that doesn’t bring you results.

AT&T 40

AT&T 2006 Restaurants Legal 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

I've heard of EAs who are promoted to Operations or Facilities roles later on in their careers but at this point, I am playing both roles. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. Believe or not, a job well done actually leads to more work and often harder or better work.

Agencies 40

Agencies Temping Skills Management 40

Allwork

MARCH 25, 2024

So the design shifted, I think, from kind of a classic American, almost law office kind of layout that was, Frankly, very expensive, space wise and construction cost wise, furniture wise, to this very fluid, very flexible, very cozy kind of model that is popular today in the open areas within coworking. We have open bar. We have talks.

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AT&T Collaborate 2001 International 312

Andrea Kalli

APRIL 20, 2010

We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. There is nothing more frustrating than a website that inspires confusion and difficulty every time it needs any update.

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Social Media Microsoft Outlook 2010 Twitter 100

Andrea Kalli

MARCH 11, 2010

We have all heard horror stories about companies trapped into ultra-expensive “continual updates&# for their own websites, all because their designer did not use a platform that works for them. There is nothing more frustrating than a website that inspires confusion and difficulty every time it needs any update.

Social Media 100

Social Media Microsoft Outlook 2010 Twitter 100