Success

MARCH 15, 2024

Operating sans crystal ball or time machine, we can’t say with certainty, but we have a few ideas we feel pretty confident about. Brendon Burchard Photo by Maggie Hudson A traumatic life event can really make you reconsider everything. Which self-help guru will future generations talk about the way we talk about Dale Carnegie?

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 15, 2014

Years ago I would attend events with the sole purpose being to chat to my friends and drinking as many free glasses of wine as possible. I now realise that these events had huge networking opportunities which I failed to appreciate. You may want some advice on training you are considering or perhaps be looking for a mentor.

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Worxbee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

How many people in your network were at the same course or development opportunity at some point? Professional development, particularly when it involves courses where participants interact, is a great way to build networks. Lastly, going through professional development can help to bolster the confidence of the EA.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Some have even gone above and beyond to personally mentor her throughout her time as an Executive Assistant – and now, Executive Business Partner! LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS Check out our constantly updated schedule of events for admins and assistants at LeaderAssistantLive.com. So here I am. Jeremy Burrows 4:25 Love it.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

Amy : My career highlight to date has to be being given the opportunity to speak at events, since taking my role at Skyscanner. Sherien : The advice I would give my younger self would be to have more confidence and self-belief. Do you have advisor’s / board members / mentors that have helped with the network?

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All Things Admin

APRIL 25, 2022

I enjoy organizing, scheduling events and meetings, as well as being value-added to those that I assist. As part of our professional development, I had taken basic MS Word and Excel courses. I enjoyed them and signed up for more courses through our local technical college.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Register for a course, workshop, or webinar that challenges your thinking. Toastmasters and other similar groups or classes build confidence and teach you how to communicate your thoughts in a way that is clear, concise and impactful. Mentor a new employee or a novice administrative assistant. FREE EVENT!!! Pacific Time.

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UPS Administrative Professionals 2015 Mentoring 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 24, 2015

Sharing expertise, mentoring and offering to cover for your colleague during their vacation or for a medical emergency, are all great contributors to peer synergy. An Administrative Team enjoying a formal event together. The idea is that you want to receive input, but of course, it is how the message is delivered.

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Check out my VA Course here to help you get started. In this course, I am your biz bestie, showing you the ropes and sharing the lessons I learned when I first started as a VA. I show you the “how to” of exactly what it is you need to do to get started and working with clients, confidently! What does a VA do?

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

She mentors, trains, and coaches EA/AAs across the region. LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS Check out our constantly updated schedule of events for admins and assistants at LeaderAssistantLive.com. And it was a very hilly course, I don’t know if you know that about that. But it was very hilly course.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

We had an incredible webinar event with over 1,300 assistants registered to learn more about why, as an administrative professional, they should consider a career certification. You may think this would be a biased conversation about our curriculum-based designation courses but it was far from that! That is very powerful.

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Success

MARCH 14, 2023

Put them on your mirror to boost your confidence on days you find yourself struggling with negative self-image. Much like a quick meditation, laughing may help lower stress by reducing the effect of stressful events. Save yourself time and energy by asking a friend, colleague or mentor to take a quick coffee break.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. My various support roles had always had an element of events management to them, all be it on a smaller scale, but for me it stood out as something I loved. To my surprise, she agreed.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. My various support roles had always had an element of events management to them, all be it on a smaller scale, but for me it stood out as something I loved. To my surprise, she agreed.

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Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 25, 2015

and 51% said they didn’t feel confident asking for career development budget. As much as I would love to put the world to rights on some of these issues I only have 30-minute presentation and I think we will flesh out some of these issues during the course of the day. 44% said they felt slightly underpaid. I know I have….

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Success

MARCH 31, 2023

She worked on her idea at night and on weekends, often skipping dinners, parties and other fun events to research patents and visit clothing manufacturers. And I went, ‘Uh-huh, of course.’ And I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, of course I can,’” she says. Before the show aired, there was just one wrinkle that needed to be ironed out.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 11, 2017

As you guys can imagine with two weeks to go to the Virtual Summit I am literally up to my head in videos, online event technology, marketing and social media. Liz Taylor , Owner of The Taylor Lynn Corporation – Liz has been at the forefront of the events industry for the last 30 years. Stepping up and leaning into meetings .

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

Put that person in front of a full-fledged course full of technical complexities, and it’s crash time. There’s a whole course to complete. That’s a good way to build confident success so that you’re always ready for what’s coming at you – before you get there. Did you ever forget the course?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Before this year I would agree that somewhere in the back of my mind was the dream to write a publishable novel (after much editing, of course), and I think my average annual word count hovered right around 2,000 words, my max being in the 5K range. Without going crazy over it, of course.) Larry´s last blog. Sounds like a plan.

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Goals 2009 AT&T Learning 40

Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more. Andrea Callanan. Matt Callanan.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

The important thing I learned is, he’s an event planner, he hosts parties, he meets lots of people, and to him, the fact that I sent a thank you card said something about me. If the event planner hadn’t introduced himself and if I didn’t send him a thank you card, I would have never delivered papers to the CEO. We really like her.”

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Our parents, our mentors, our employers talked with us. We need to listen to one another and see if those new ideas have merit, or if they open up any other possible courses of action. Of course, that’s if change is what we decide we want after we’ve talked it over. Talk helps create solutions. All by ourselves.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

When you start the day, you have a plan and can be proactive rather than just reacting to events. The better course of action is to step back, realize that you need a new direction, and do the "Brain Dump" Grab pen and paper, get comfortable, and set the timer for 10 minutes. Thanks to Susan Kousek of Balanced Spaces, LLC 37.

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