Office Dynamics

APRIL 15, 2021

In 2020, assistants faced an array of challenges in the workplace. Your ability to thrive and navigate through the uncertainties thrown your way will require a particular skill set – timeless skills. This year has already shown to be just as challenging.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 13, 2020

In an ever-changing world consumed by apps, devices, and software, some administrative assistants think that their experience can be measured by their technical savvy. When I started…

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Skills 264

Office Dynamics

MARCH 10, 2020

With all the buzz technology and workplace trends generate, it’s easy to forget that the foundation of every administrative professional should be built on timeless skills. Failing to develop these critical cornerstones for administrative assistants often means failure to thrive and succeed. Skills like: Resilience.

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Cubicle Administrative Professionals Skills Collaborate 227

Success

MARCH 20, 2022

We’ve all heard the tip: Hire an assistant. Hire virtual assistants who are specific experts,” says Garland, who is the host of ABC’s The Rise to the Top and author of Smarter, Faster, Cheaper: Non-Boring, Fluff-Free Strategies for Marketing and Promoting Your Business. But David Siteman Garland takes that advice a step further.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 25, 2014

I particularly liked her parent’s suggestion of taking a typing class so that Lynn ‘had something to fall back on’ Speaking to assistants a generation or two older than mine I get the sense that some of them took secretarial courses as something to fall back on. After all some secretary skills are still worth keeping!

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