Office Dynamics

MARCH 30, 2017

Here are four ways to get started: Promote Cross-generational Mentoring. Modern mentoring opens the doors for younger generations to step in as advisers. Create a mentoring program for employees to lean on their managers and learn about everything from technology to networking. Mix up Your Teams.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 4, 2023

This simple assessment asks you a series of questions in order to identify your preferences for managing time and space. If you haven’t already taken it, I encourage you to do so – because once you learn to work with your preferences instead of against them, your job gets a lot easier. Hoppers love a challenge.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 24, 2022

She took her Corporate EA skills and created a business managing very large estates (25,000 sq. She supports clients virtually as a Virtual Executive Assistant, Project Manager, Chief of Staff, Marketing Assistant, and Event Coordinator. It’s free to start gifting and you get a $20 credit when you sign up.

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Worxbee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You’ll find them engaging in project management, process management, strategic research, reporting and a range of dynamic, managerial functions. Professional development helps EAs to stay up-to-date and to find new ideas for things that could make improvements at work. Learning new technologies. Process management.

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All Things Admin

APRIL 28, 2021

Learn about the options that may exist, and get the department’s input on how you can continue to learn and grow in your position. If you’re not happy with your options, it may be helpful to talk to a trusted advisor or mentor, or engage with a career coach to help you prepare for your next step. Train and mentor others.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 19, 2017

Consider going into related fields that will use many of the skills you already have, such as Project Management, or a role within your organisation that you have learned about through your PA work. The PA learning curve can be very steep, and the role can be demanding.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

On a professional level, change can be simple, like finding a more efficient way to complete a task, or complicated, like learning to support a new executive or changing jobs entirely. The Innovation Mindset (sometimes called the Growth Mindset) sees change as an opportunity to learn and grow. Who can help me shorten my learning curve?

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On The Job

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Meetings also prevent workers from doing meaningful work, such as mentoring or coming up with innovative ideas , he adds. There are much better ways to share that information, such as project management software or even video.” A big part of the problem is that meetings are often about egos.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 25, 2017

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. A former trainer, Lorraine’s role as an EA has grown into one of champion and mentor. That’s a lot of people!

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 15, 2023

She has always shown up as herself and for that she can proudly say her success has been built through complete authenticity. Some have even gone above and beyond to personally mentor her throughout her time as an Executive Assistant – and now, Executive Business Partner!

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

A place to come, learn and realise that there was at least one other PA that felt the same way you did and was facing the same every day issues you were (and some of the triumphs too!) First up we have the Edinburgh PA Network. Jump forward nearly five years – where the heck has that time gone!??! It is brilliant!

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And if you’re just hearing about virtual assistants for the first time, then you’ve come to the right place to learn all about them. Let’s get you up to speed with this rapidly growing industry. However, I do recommend that you set up the foundations of your virtual assistant business properly before you start working with clients.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2010

As an office manager, I was already providing support to our VP of sales, doing project management, customer service all the while keeping an office running smoothly and giving guidance and mentorship to those reporting to me in supporting our organization. Learning the "Why" and "What" about the business.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2010

As an office manager, I was already providing support to our VP of sales, doing project management, customer service all the while keeping an office running smoothly and giving guidance and mentorship to those reporting to me in supporting our organization. Learning the "Why" and "What" about the business.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 11, 2024

Some think the learning curve is too steep; others believe that the emerging technology will eventually replace them, and they don’t want to speed up what they see as an inevitable “rise of the robots.” Other popular project management tools include Asana, Basecamp, Trello, ClickUp, and Monday.com.

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Virtual Moxie

OCTOBER 18, 2011

By and large (and I realize that’s a sweeping generalization) VAs with any degree of longevity in our world end up either resonating with the eagle or the goat. And you…fabulous Monica, there’s nothing wrong with your deciding that learning techie things isn’t for you (for whatever reason). I have three ideas for you: 1.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

One of the more labor-intensive procedures my team and I use covers how we add new courses to our learning management system. ChatGPT or Gemini : For speeding up the process of creating, editing, and improving procedures. Asana or Teamwork : For project management with detailed documentation capabilities.

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The Marq

MARCH 23, 2010

Your role at this stage becomes that of the mentor who provides guidance and resources for removing any blocks and insuring the employee’s success. One of the professionals I worked with a number of years back told me he wanted to become a project lead and, possibly, a project manager.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I have tried to research what the next level(s) up is, I can't seem to find any information. Do you by chance know what it takes to get up there? Sincerely, Anonymous” Dear NK, Thank you for the great question and btw, your wording of it was great! :) No need for me to “pretty it up!” I was wondering about career path.

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You need a password to boot up your work computer, log in to your network, access your office intranet, open your project management software, and access your cloud server. If you have to input things like the street you grew up on, your first dog’s name, or the model of the car you had in high school, stay away.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 24, 2022

I was always on top of my inbox back then, and if I could manage, why couldn’t they? As a virtual assistant, I was managing up to 10 different email accounts for various projects, and I wasn’t keeping up. I needed to change, so I sought out books and training on email management. Set Up Rules.

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BioTeams

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Promotion, Selection, Induction and Mentoring. On what basis will bid and project teams be constructed? Sign-up to the VEN Ground Rules. Groups of VEN members who form teams around specific new product development opportunities and research projects. Project Management Teams. Both Informally and Formally.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I have the Assist Conference up and running and I can not begin to tell you the amount of lists I have produced to help me keep on top of all of the details. Rebecca is a PA and Office Manager at Adaptive Labs, an innovative start-up based in Shoreditch. Over the last few weeks we have added some more amazing speakers.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

Training budgets dissipated, opportunities dried up, and assistants had larger workloads without staffing backups. Single support executive assistants now juggled multiple managers. It would be easy to simply throw up one’s hands and say, “It’s okay to just survive!” We’ve come through and now, the economy is healing.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yes, I have taken job-specific software classes, classes to learn organizational and people skills, and took computer certification classes which I was not aware I needed coming right out of high school. Yes, interpersonal comms, IT related courses to keep up with the changes from when I started 30 years ago on an manual typewriter!

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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.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

You 'll learn my most cringe worthy moment, tips, and a little about me as a person. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. No hello, no trying to chat them up, or loiter to see if any celebrities were there.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

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Success

JULY 17, 2021

Clients of professional certified coach Victor McGuire are working on “anything from learning how to be better leaders and communicate more effectively to dealing with common confidence issues such as imposter syndrome.” Mentoring struggling entrepreneurs? And what do you get in return for taking your problems and desires to a coach?

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