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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

Success

Many business card issuers also have opt-in dining programs that reward you for eating at certain restaurants. If you’re managing multiple cards, Detweiler suggests using an app like AwardWallet or MaxRewards to make sure you’re getting the most out of them. #5 5 Don’t carry a balance. Photo by @DimaBerlin/Twenty20.

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Spotlight on assistant resources: PA Life

Practically Perfect PA

From magazines, blogs, exclusive membership clubs to events and exhibitions. PA Life magazine is published six times a year and includes a mixture of lifestyle features, updates on suppliers, industry news and articles on how to improve professional skills. There are a lot of different resources available to assistants.

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How can assistants stay on top of the scene?

Practically Perfect PA

Will you be able to reel off a list of the best restaurants in that part of town? Will you do some research and get back to your manager with an answer? Along with everything else that is asked of assistants we do have to possess some sort of encyclopaedic knowledge of the world’s best restaurants and hotels.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

You need to reinforce that your work is under control and manage expectations. Managers ultimately want to hear about bottom lines and how you how you successfully planned and smoothly executed your teams’ success in achieving annual targets. Magazine Subscriptions. Internal & External Training. Salary Increase.

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Using social media to empower Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

You can follow and connect with other Assistants, clients, colleagues, suppliers, brand ambassadors and influencers. I can personally recommend the EUMA and Executive Secretary Magazine groups for interactive social networking across the globe. Through my work it has enabled me to make great restaurant, hotel and venue contacts.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

This means they can manage their need for privacy, concentrate more easily and collaborate with their teams without disruptions. That will differ quite dramatically from what you need for a training session, interacting with a client or supplier, or for a videoconference with a colleague based on the other side of the globe.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust. Sally Lloyd @salidatious Assstant to Managing Director, CodeBase. It is brilliant! The PAs behind the Network. What is your career background?