Assistants – Fully Utilize Your Talents—Optimization
Optimization is like administrative skills and attitudes on steroids (in a good way!). Optimization means to enhance the effectiveness of something; to make something function
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7 Tips to Managing Holiday and Work Stress
If you are like me, you are getting caught up in the holiday season plus a long list of To-Do items at work and home.
Hired as C Suite EA and role description reads like an Office Assistant – Ask an Admin
Q: Heather Asks: Background: The majority of my career has been as an EA to a VP of Operations for a local Fortune 500 company.
Your Personal and Professional Brand Matters
Successful businesses around the world spend enormous amounts of time and money developing a brand that sets them apart and tells their story. Their marketing
SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!
A meeting planner by MY definition is the go-to person within an organization – be it corporate, association or otherwise – charged with the responsibility
7 Ways Executives Can Improve Communicating with Their Assistants
I have been fortunate to gain a three-dimensional view of communication between executives and assistants: I was an assistant for 20 years thus understanding what
Telephone Screening and Etiquette Skills for Administrative Assistants
Top-notch telephone screening and etiquette skills are paramount regardless of industry, company size, or geographic location. Their importance hasn’t diminished in our modern world of
Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset
At our Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence, I surveyed 350 attendees about the topics they would like me to address at future conferences or training
2019 Joan Burge Innovation Award for Assistants
I know assistants are always coming up with great ideas, creating new systems or templates, or taking the lead. Oftentimes assistants do not have the
