Hello from your Office Dynamics Marketing Specialist! Recently we held our 25th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence and WOW, it did not disappoint! So much so that I asked Brian and Joan if I could write a blog post about my experience and share some photos from the event.
Oh, and just in case you are wondering, I am the guy you get all the emails from 😉 [Read more…]
We all know that Monday can be the most challenging day of the week. We also know that our mentality has a lot to do with this. But why?
According to studies and surveys conducted over the years, there are several reasons why most of us dislike Mondays.
We are leaving a life of being in charge. Over the weekend we have had the opportunity to be in charge of our own life. Make our own decisions and do what we want. When we come to work on Monday, some of us lose that sense of “being in charge.”
We are leaving our family and friends. You may have spent the entire weekend with your family and friends. Laughing and having a good time but now you have to let it go and focus on work.
We do not like our jobs. Spending time at a place you do not like being at, doing what you do not like doing, can be daunting.
We do not like the “Office Dragons.” Office Dragons can bring us down and make the workday feel like a work week if we do not know how to “deal” with them.
Whatever the case may be, we actually do have a choice in how we feel when it comes to a “case of the Mondays.”
Office Dynamics offers a solution that thousands of people, just like yourself, refer to every Monday.
I greatly appreciate the Monday Motivators! How on earth does she know exactly how we are feeling sometimes???? ~ Deb C.
Every Monday, Joan Burge, Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International writes an inspiring, motivational, and down to earth email that allows you to jump-start your week with a sense of empowerment and electricity that will carry you through the week.
Let Office Dynamics help jump-start your week with words of inspiration and motivation with our Monday Motivators.
Over the past 20 years, I have attended several conferences ranging in topics from fiction writing to motivational to professional training and even a full weekend trying to become a more educated outdoor woman. Each conference offered a unique learning opportunity, but none of them provided the ideal balance of professional and personal development that last year’s conference did.
The Conference for Administrative Excellence not only provided many educational moments with a variety of speakers, I was introduced to some amazing people in my field as well. The conference exceeded all of my expectations.
How better to share the conference experience than a conversation with the creator herself – The professional, personable, and mentor to many, Joan Burge! I’m honored to have had the opportunity to ask Joan a few questions. Her answers are enlightening and encompass the experience that helps create one of the most respected conferences ever offered. I highly recommend reading them more than once (with a notepad!).
There is a team behind the amazing conference event. From the first phone call to register for the conference to picking up my name tag, the entire team carried out the professionalism of Joan. I never imagined my experience and learning would stretch so far beyond those few amazing days in October last year. We have so many ways to learn from Joan; webinars, books, blog posts, etc., yet here I am with another amazing opportunity to know and learn even more!
Q: You’ve been a unique blend of experience as an assistant and now executive and business owner (with so much in between!). Can you share a mentorship opportunity you had as an assistant from another assistant and one or two takeaways from that opportunity? [Read more…]
The secret is out! Finally, the secret we have been building up to for several weeks is out. I am very pleased to announce the title of my new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed. In case you have not seen all the social media buzz, this has been an exciting project as this book is like none other I have written for assistants. I wanted to use a very different approach and shake things up, including my wardrobe for the back book cover. This book is pure Joan Burge… Raw. Real. Uncut.
It’s COOL to be an Administrative Professional because you have a pulse on how people feel. It seems that most people in a workplace confide in administrative professionals. How many times have your executive’s direct reports talked to you in confidence? Or how many just talk to you about how they feel about a project — or changes taking place in the company? [Read more…]