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DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Building on your skills Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:46 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources It’s the time of year when we all do some self assessment and then look ahead to changes we want to make in the coming year.Â

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. Good communication skills. Organization skills. Interpersonal communication skills. Excellent calendaring skills.

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

This can still be a great way to keep employees happy and up-to-date on skills. The education maintains or improves employees’ skills needed in their present jobs. The same thing applies if, say, you want to underwrite flying lessons for an attorney who needs to travel long distances. Time for some tax ed.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Interpersonal & Communications skills Communication is essential to being successful with office manager responsibilities. Time management skills A person who doesn't manage their time properly will be overwhelmed by the amount of work that piles up. They may also be required to offer secretarial support to senior stakeholders.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

Now this came from an executive who traveled around the world, would work until 2:00 a.m., Upcoming Travel. Find out about upcoming trips so you can anticipate schedules and prepare necessary travel materials. Tell your executive about upcoming seminars and workshops you would like to attend and why.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I am the only person teaching, we go very deep into the material and there is ample time for skill practice. Live Training Event (such as a workshop, seminar, or certification course). Skill practice for attendees. Do they align with the skills you need to develop or enhance? There are no travel expenses involved.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

We’ve all been there: We go to a networking function or set up a time to get together for coffee or lunch with someone we’ve met in our travels and then stall in that awkward moment where we really don’t know how to begin. S-Skills —What special skills does your acquaintance possess? What skills are they looking to develop?

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 4, 2010

We’ve all been there: We go to a networking function or set up a time to get together for coffee or lunch with someone we’ve met in our travels and then stall in that awkward moment where we really don’t know how to begin. S-Skills —What special skills does your acquaintance possess? What skills are they looking to develop?

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Office Dynamics

MAY 19, 2015

However, we have several assistants who traveled from out-of-state to attend this program. When I’m presenting onsite workshops and seminars for assistants, I am usually escorted by an executive assistant who assists me through security, shows me around the facility and takes me to the training room. How do I know this?

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 8, 2014

Assistants will no longer have to get their manager’s permission to travel to London or other major cities for networking opportunities which can be a major hurdle. In 2013 we saw a massive rise in the number of conferences, events, exhibitions and seminars for assistants and this will increase even more so in 2014.

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Allwork

JULY 14, 2022

There’s going to be a big skills shortage coming up, isn’t there? So there’s going to be a need to to reskill, to upskill, to gain all these new skills, to coexist with with machines. But for those of us who want to continue working, we have jobs. 00:20:15:28 – 00:20:27:14. Jo Meunier. Jo Meunier. Tim Leberecht.

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The Office Professionals Place

JULY 29, 2009

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 28, 2008

Of course, you have to present yourself well, answer the interview questions properly, have the skills and knowledge of the position you are applying for and a few other factors that help you get the job. We both had similar skills, education, etc. This is how I was able to get one of my past jobs. Great post Richard.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Show people your skills and how you are making a difference. Remember to smile, do your job well and increase your foundation of skills. Here are 11 quick tips for helping you overcome those office blues: Think of the positives, not the negatives. Try to focus your attention on things that are going right for you.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills. Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch. One of our main duties is to keep our bosses organized.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2007

This is definitely good for sharing ideas and skills among teammates and other departments. We share ideas, skills and even ask guest speakers to provide up-to-date information and trends on what we need for our careers. Internal blogging refers to employees writing blogs that are stored on an intranet or company server.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

Discuss your skill set, experience and abilities in a confident manner. Here are 4 of the most difficult interview questions that companies will ask and ways to tackle them: Where do you see yourself in X number of years? Talk about what you feel is important to you in a professional manner and describe how you will meet these goals.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 23, 2007

In relation to teaching organizational skills as well as skills in word processing and accounting, Bryant & Stratton College recently announced the launch of its new online Associate of Administrative Assistant ([link] degree program. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Over time, you will get the hang of dealing with difficult people and will become easier and easier each time. Eventually, you will get just a little annoyed and brush it off. Don’t let your work performance suffer.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Skilled writing the key. This will help readers put a face to the writer. Post regularly. Keeping your readers up-to-date and information about current information on your company or topic will make them ask for more. Dont allow for spelling and grammar errors.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

This person sounds like a typical self-indulgent hipocrit who is climbing the ladder because of her people skills (kissing up) and not actual work related skills. After that the accused is going to get defensive no matter how nice you are. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Although I did have the skills and experience, I wasnt sure employers would view the move as a social disconnect. I feel as if I have created a historic moment within the company, by (most likely) becoming its first male administrative assistant. At first, I was a little worried about becoming an administrative assistant.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 13, 2009

As wonderful as online learning can be, going to a live conference or seminar with other assistants is something that you should try to do a few times a year. I would love to take some courses but being out in the west it is hard because most of them are located in Toronto and travel is a hard one to sell for my position.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

JUNE 17, 2013

Don’t get me wrong, some of the biggest shifts and growth in my life happened because of a seminar attended, a book read or a coach consulted. Let these three be your seminar. I love personal development, but it kinda poisons our minds. That stuff really does work – if you work it. Curious about affirmations?

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Success

MAY 22, 2023

It’s like having a professional conference in your pocket every day, complete with keynote speakers, roundtable discussions and seminars from leading experts. Want to know who to follow? Richard Branson Instagram: @richardbranson (4.8M followers) Twitter: @richardbranson (12.6M Grant Cardone Instagram: @grantcardone (4.2M

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Laughing all the Way to Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I also learned at a "Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook" seminar that we should not use e-mails as urgent requests. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! This little tip has been a huge time-saver for me.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills. I travel by car to see many of my clients, in their homes. A Self-Hosted Wordpress Blog. It is FREE to use! I Never Leave My Pad Without My Ipad!

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Learn to proofread with perfection, get a grasp on grammar rules and sharpen your editing skills. will discuss the most common types of errors, what you can do to catch—and fix—them and the skills you need to produce effective, error-free communication. If you need your written communication letter-perfect, we can help.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 2, 2010

Suppose we have a mind virus which prevents us traveling because, well, in order to travel you have to have time. I attended a EFT seminar a year ago but didn’t take the time to go further. To cure the illness all we have to do is to put an end to the associated activity. What do we have to do in order to kill this virus?

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Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 14, 2010

The books you read, the tapes you listen to, and the seminars you attend are almost invariably the result of a suggestion from someone you respect. After dropping out of high school, he traveled and worked his way around the world, eventually visiting eighty countries on six continents.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 10, 2010

The professor also regularly shows up to attend conferences, seminars, and make paper presentations. However, being skilled at teaching a course on entrepreneurship, for example, can be very different from being an entrepreneur yourself. Get the picture? So, I appreciated your comment, James. Now, the hard part. What do you think?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Survival Skills For Living In A NOW World In my productivity consulting, the single most common woe I hear is that clients feel they can not keep up with all the demands placed on them in different areas of their lives. In today's society, we are taught at a very early age that Multi-Tasking is this great skill to have.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Her true passion, however, was the personal growth and development workshops, seminars and programs that taught her to dream and opened new worlds of possibility for her life. Now, the CARDBoard Project focuses on bridging the digital divide through the “three legs of the stool”: access, affordability and digital skills training. .

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Who said it was smart to give a one-hour free seminar, speech or workshop almost every single day? A chance to show off all of my skills and convey the sense that “hey, I can do this for you too.&# Everyone wants to be seen as generous and selfless. Who said we were supposed to do that? Not authors who sell books in stores.

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