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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

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In your first three months, you discover countless ways to improve the business : better project management tools, ways to streamline everyone’s workflow and straightforward meeting agendas. Even when their ideas are good, they run into roadblocks in the form of other people—managers, executives and other leaders.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications.

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How to Master The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers

Office Dynamics

The article, Juggling: The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers by Stacy Leitner was originally posted at AGreatDaysWork.com. If you are an assistant who works with multiple managers or executives, you know the work can be overwhelming at times. When you support multiple managers, the work multiplies!

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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

For example, here are a few of the most common roles that may be a great fit for assistants, depending on your skills and interests: Project Manager. But remember you still have to “sell” the idea to your executive, so always identify the value the work offers to the organization. Event Planner. Training Coordinator.

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5 Reasons Why Office Admins are the New Power Job

Office Dynamics

You’re not just turning one wheel of the bus to keep it going forward—you’re the linchpin of the organization. Working as an admin professional often means working closely with leadership positions and essentially acting as project manager for the C-suite. In Good Company.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

Office Dynamics

Watch The Organized Admin Webinar Replay. Poll Results: Where do you struggle the most to stay organized? What was the inspiration for writing your new book, The Organized Admin? The answer was overwhelmingly getting (and staying) organized. To Do Lists – Task Management. Finding the time to get organized.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

Brilliantly Better

The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. The graphical representation of a project in Assess – Decide – Do will look more like a spiral than like a Gantt diagram. Projects, tasks and events will start to fall into their places. For A Liveline Philosophy Forget deadlines.

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