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Administrative Assistants Broaden Your Skillset

Office Dynamics

I wanted to know the areas the assistants were interested in growing and learning about. When it comes to figuring out your soft skills, enlarge your vision; don’t just look at the tasks such as meeting planning or calendaring. For example, what are the skills you need to be excellent at meeting planning?

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Successful Assistants Combine Left and Right Brain Thinking

Office Dynamics

I still teach Adminology in our World Class Assistant™ certification and designation course because it never changes. Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. To achieve your best results, you would schedule meetings or appointments for your executive using both sides of the brain.

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What is a Meeting Planner Exactly?

Office Dynamics

Meeting planners work well independently or as a team member. They tend to be life-long learners and students of experiential learning. They learn through doing, through the professional organizations they belong to, and through outside studies such as Certified Meeting Professional and Certified Meeting Manager programs. .

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How to Stay Organized with Leadership Team Meetings? – Ask An Admin

Office Dynamics

This is a good thing and a big learning curve for me. In starting 2019 off on hopefully on the right foot, I am looking for advice on how to stay organized with all the meetings. Making sure agendas are going out timely, meeting with leaders to create the agenda, taking notes, bringing attention to meetings, etc.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

Make note of “personal lessons learned.”. If you want to dig deep into meeting planning and execution, I’m hosting a live e-course Tuesday, February 20 at 10:00 am PT. The post Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings appeared first on Office Dynamics. Get feedback from attendees. Joan Burge.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Have you taken other courses or gained other qualifications specifically for your career? Yes – some local courses as well as two certificates in specific things. To be effective in any position you need to be on the forefront of technology and systems use so I have attended many training courses for software and technology.

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How to Organize Your Work [or Figure out what to do first!]

Office Dynamics

Stay tuned to announcements about online courses related to this topic and other administrative fundamentals like meeting planning and organizational skills. If you want to be on a list to be notified of these special learnings, please write us at staff@officedynamics.com. “B” is in the next 48 hours.

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