All Things Admin

JANUARY 4, 2023

They love a long research project or a deep dive into a subject, and they’d rather not be interrupted while they’re working. But they often lose track of time, forget to come up for air, and can struggle when they need to change gears. © 2023 Julie Perrine International, LLC. Don’t miss it!

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 25, 2017

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. A former trainer, Lorraine’s role as an EA has grown into one of champion and mentor. That’s a lot of people!

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s someone who is actively doing, seeking, and implementing, not someone who is simply coming up with ideas or maintaining the status quo. weekly calls, status meetings, email updates, project management tools)? As The Innovative Admin™, you aren’t just championing change, you’re helping lead it.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 25, 2017

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. A former trainer, Lorraine’s role as an EA has grown into one of champion and mentor. That’s a lot of people!

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Loosely Speaking

JUNE 2, 2010

She’s an author, writer, speaker and VA Business Coach specializing in providing professional business coaching to established and start-up virtual assistants (VA’s). After co-authoring the successful book, Entrepreneurial Freedom: How to Start & Grow a Profitable Virtual Assistance Practice , Clontz began focusing on mentoring VAs.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 11, 2024

Some think the learning curve is too steep; others believe that the emerging technology will eventually replace them, and they don’t want to speed up what they see as an inevitable “rise of the robots.” Other popular project management tools include Asana, Basecamp, Trello, ClickUp, and Monday.com.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

But how many times have you found yourself disregarding the advice or suggestions made by another EA/PA colleague, and only because they’re a lot younger than you are and they couldn’t possibly be giving valid advice or making sound suggestions without enough experience in the field to back it up?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I have tried to research what the next level(s) up is, I can't seem to find any information. I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. Do you by chance know what it takes to get up there? Do you by chance know what it takes to get up there?

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BioTeams

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Promotion, Selection, Induction and Mentoring. On what basis will bid and project teams be constructed? Sign-up to the VEN Ground Rules. Groups of VEN members who form teams around specific new product development opportunities and research projects. Project Management Teams. Both Informally and Formally.

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You need a password to boot up your work computer, log in to your network, access your office intranet, open your project management software, and access your cloud server. If you have to input things like the street you grew up on, your first dog’s name, or the model of the car you had in high school, stay away.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 24, 2022

I was always on top of my inbox back then, and if I could manage, why couldn’t they? As a virtual assistant, I was managing up to 10 different email accounts for various projects, and I wasn’t keeping up. I needed to change, so I sought out books and training on email management. Set Up Rules.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

When creating this procedure, I included advanced documentation techniques such as screenshots and video walk-throughs to make sure that anyone who followed the procedure would be set up for success, even if it was their very first time performing the task. Asana or Teamwork : For project management with detailed documentation capabilities.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

By Joan Burge, Founder and CEO, Office Dynamics International. It’s important to recognize the difference between surviving and thriving, because the key to success is available to those who successfully manage to cross the bandwidth between the two. Single support executive assistants now juggled multiple managers.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yes I have taken numerous courses to assist with my role both internal office courses and external professional courses. Yes, interpersonal comms, IT related courses to keep up with the changes from when I started 30 years ago on an manual typewriter! If you can get a mentor n(within or outside of your company), that might help also.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. No hello, no trying to chat them up, or loiter to see if any celebrities were there. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. And once you’re in, you’re in.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

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