All Things Admin

APRIL 17, 2024

So, choosing the right tools that integrate well with your primary software suites can greatly enhance your information management workflow. Our goal is to streamline our work with technology, not make it more complicated. We can send project updates via email, and they stay threaded on the appropriate task lists for future reference.

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Worxbee

JUNE 14, 2021

Succession planning is all about protecting the future of your company, so that you can keep key skills and talent coming up through your pipeline. It’s about identifying the crucial skills and knowledge your company needs to keep going, as well as key relationships and organizational practices. Why you need a succession plan for EAs.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation. Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2016

Whether it’s finding the right caterer, meeting global counterparts from international office locations or brushing off your creative skills to whip up a spiffy PowerPoint presentation, you love tackling projects outside of your job scope (and even get excited at the opportunity!). Nurture is Your Nature. In Good Company.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Use this assessment for assistants as a tool to measure your skill level. Several years ago I was preparing for my first annual review with my new executive, Joan Burge, Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International. It’s exactly what I needed to measure my own skill level. Manager Support. Office Communication.

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Recruit CRM

JUNE 17, 2021

Here are three core pointers of a good job description: Explains the reality of the role Showcases the organisation's culture, and A bit of marketing for the company In short, a job description is used for a variety of reasons— starting from the most obvious, which is recruiting, determining salary ranges, creating job goals, job titles and more.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 2, 2015

A lot of Job Specs tend to focus on a standard set of skills rather than the actual responsibilities. It is imperative to be proactive about self-promotion in order to showcase your skills, achievements and personal brand. We lighten the load for executives and are vital members of any executive management team.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 4, 2023

A Perfectionist Plus can learn to work more effectively with their time style by understanding what’s required of them for each task, involving their executive or project manager in their planning, realizing that perfect is often an unattainable goal, and prioritizing what matters most over insignificant details. Don’t miss it!

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 27, 2015

I sometimes would like to be a project manager or be able to take decisions. I do have a lot of ideas and projects in mind and I just see myself as the pa of… It still feels like the old just an assistant sometimes when we might know more about the business as a whole than anyone else. The Assist Conference was born!

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Worxbee

MARCH 29, 2021

but the reality is an EA isn’t a stereotypical secretary-type role, it’s the role of a skilled and committed professional. A career executive assistant has skills that are more advanced than your average assistant. An executive assistant, on the other hand, often takes more of a project management role.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain. Innovation happens in many places and has many faces.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

This technique can help you to keep a running list, prioritize tasks/projects to determine what needs to get done now or can wait, and decide what can be delegated to other administrative support staff. Establish positive working relationships with other internal administrative support staff as they are vital when additional help is needed.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

How do you make the transition internally? – EAs tend to be logistical thought partners who focus on details in the short term, while Chiefs of Staff are strategic thought partners who tackle the long-term goals and vision of not just their executive, but the entire company. 3: How do you make the transition internally?

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

If you’re a follower of mine, you’d be well aware by now that WTRB is on the campaign to break down out-dated stereotypes prevalent within the admin industry and specifically demolish the misconceptions that others have around the value we add and the abilities we have to assist our Executives in achieving their goals.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. 2) Make it clear you have bigger goals. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 24, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Keep your eye on the goal and look for ways you can get there. I am part of the project management office at my company and I hear the term roadblocks all the time. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! When we were a smaller agency, I was the EA and Office Manager for a smaller facility. I'm really interested in progressing and developing my skills but feel that managing the office is hindering my ability to focus on the core of being an EA.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Allwork.Space spoke to Coworking Nativo Event Director Vika Zhurbas — who is also DNI.events Project Manager at Workcloud24 and the President of the Ukrainian Coworking Association — and some of her colleagues in the sector to discover more about Portugal’s burgeoning coworking industry. I made it my goal to redress this imbalance.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MAY 4, 2019

If you’re in that horrible position of wanting to avoid your boss at all costs, it can not only impact your performance and your willingness to deliver on the tasks you’re given, but it also can affect your ongoing skill set and unfortunately your brand. Unite and lead the pack.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

  My team was highly educated and highly skilled.    To motivate basically means to inspire to action towards a goal. .    To motivate basically means to inspire to action towards a goal. The foundation to my daily motivation -- goal-setting. Set Clear Goals & Communicate Progress.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 17, 2010

Ultra-competitive international search terms can attract thousands of competitors, each as skilled and ruthless as the next. From offshore hackers to dedicated corporate SEO experts, the number of players vying for a spot in some of the most competitive international search arenas can be truly staggering.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

But in reality – the most useful skill that opened a lot of doors for me were my soft skills. And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. 2) How manageable are you?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Use the notebook for everything you want to keep track of: to do lists, grocery lists, client meetings, phone calls, dreams and goals. Once you cleared the path, identify the next step to take to accomplish your task or goal. When big goals are looming it's easier to set milestones that will eventually lead to a larger goal.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In the hopes of healing her own life, she sought training in coaching, nutrition, fitness and mindfulness, and her goal became to teach others how to balance a thriving career, body and mind. After spending a decade grappling with a fast-paced career in marketing and two autoimmune diseases, AlTai hit burnout. Tom and Lisa Bilyeu.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. I know that first hand.

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