Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

Being a personal or executive assistant is a career in itself, with the right drive and ambition you can carve out a highly rewarding working life as an invaluable support resource. My first true events project was for an internal communications conference and summer party for 200 people. But what if you don’t find it enough for you?

Project Management 195

Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Success

MARCH 4, 2024

Co-author Scott Schwertly, founder of Ethos3, a presentation design and training boutique in Nashville, Tennessee, offers a proprietary test to determine each individual’s strengths. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In By Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton Everyone needs to have negotiation skills.

UPS 218

UPS Social Media Etiquette Health 218

Office Dynamics

JUNE 20, 2013

June 19, 2013 / PRNewswire / -- Executives say it takes strong soft skills to move up the corporate ladder, but few firms provide training in this area, a new Accountemps survey finds. Providing employees with the tools to become better communicators, consensus builders and negotiators should be a priority for any organization.".

Skills 100

Skills Finance 2013 2008 100

Admin Awards

APRIL 24, 2020

Training — Employers prefer administrative professionals who are not only tech-savvy but also well-versed in the company’s most-used tools. They look for individuals who proactively update their administrative assistant skills through training. You may also be the go-to person internally.

Skills 40

Skills Administrative Professionals Social Media Microsoft Word 40

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 4, 2013

We are asked to arrange all sorts of events including anything from a team training day through to the company Christmas party and other large scale conferences, exhibitions and dinners. Events can be expensive especially if they are for team building or internal training. What resources do we have / what can be utilised?

Agenda 100

Agenda Staples Budget Negotiating 100

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Try to attend training courses that are offered for executive admin as much as you can (even if it is just one time a year and you travel to another city for it). If training/travel aren’t an option it may be a goal to strive for as a reward for a job well done. Tags: Admin Assistant Training Jasmine Freeman Networking.

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Training 100

Office Dynamics

AUGUST 5, 2010

Try to attend training courses that are offered for executive admin as much as you can (even if it is just one time a year and you travel to another city for it). If training/travel aren’t an option it may be a goal to strive for as a reward for a job well done. I want to network with other "executive" admins and C-level supporters.

Networking 100

Networking AEAP IAAP Negotiating 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Ask questions to assess degrees of urgency, and practice negotiating timelines or redirecting requests. Shelagh Donnelly is the founder and publisher of Exceptional EA ( [link] ), an online resource for administrative professionals that’s read in more than 130 countries. Assistants spend much of their time taking care of others’ needs.

Mentoring 100

Mentoring Administrative Professionals Negotiating Budget 100

Practically Perfect PA

JULY 2, 2015

Supervise and train other clerical staff. Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others. Human Resources. Jennifer Corcoran is an Office Manager with 20 years’ admin/PA experience working with Senior Executives at international level. Interpret administrative and operating policies and procedures. Risk Management.

Social Media 100

Social Media Fax Skills Suppliers 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. Fortunately, they were able to waive it and we only lost our $500 deposit. It is always worth asking.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Negotiating International 100

Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Get on that train and figure it out while you’re on it. Get on a bus and negotiate your arrival later. know everything we need to know about point B, but we’re unable to foster the necessary resources to get there. Yet, we almost never get on a bus, ready to negotiate our arrival later on. Just be out there somehow.

Expenses 40

Expenses Negotiating 2011 Twitter 40

Small Business CEO

JULY 6, 2011

One company outsourced its IT, negotiating excellent rates. If a project does not support your business strategy, why are you spending money and resources on it? Is the outsourcer the best resource for the project? The outsourcer may also be spending significant time sorting through duplicates and trainings questions.

Purchasing 40

Purchasing PDF Negotiating Equipment 40

Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“If there is truly no internal way to influence change from the EA seat, leaving can be a very powerful way to preserve oneself.” The manager had been asked to participate in some leadership training opportunities, and he passed on those — he thought they were stupid.

Administrative Professionals 40

Administrative Professionals AT&T Retirement Environment 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! It also costs a lot to hire someone else because finding the time to find the right person and training them is expensive in energy, manpower, resources, and money. They write. “Hi Hi there, I just stumbled upon your blog today and am glad that I've done so!

Agencies 40

Agencies Temping Skills Management 40

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”. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. I know that first hand.

2010 40

2010 Health AT&T Skills 40

Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Day 17 – Cleaning Up And Getting Fancy Spent the day mostly cleaning up the code, ditching some old trials (used a TableHeaderView separated nib at some point and that cluttered a little bit both the code and the resources – nib files – in the Interface Builder). No more arguing or negotiating, I just started to code it.

2010 40

2010 AT&T Learning Promotion 40