LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JULY 31, 2022

Lynn Walder utilizes her 20+ years of executive administration experience across 10 different industries to support the organizational, psychosocial & leadership learning aspects of Founder CEOs (and their Executive Leadership Teams) with their business-building journeys. THE LEADER ASSISTANT PODCAST IS PRESENTED BY GOODY.

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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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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 19, 2017

Recently, the OpenMeet team had the pleasure of participating in the annual Practically Perfect PA Assist Conference 2017 , where we ran a few workshops on career development for assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them. Look out for and take advantage of networking events and skills development wherever possible.

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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! Yeah, so just just fell into it.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 4, 2023

They love a long research project or a deep dive into a subject, and they’d rather not be interrupted while they’re working. But they often lose track of time, forget to come up for air, and can struggle when they need to change gears. Cliff Hangers ordinarily wait until the last minute to make a decision.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

To survive in business today, every member of the team, especially admins, must identify, understand, and respond to change. It’s someone who is actively doing, seeking, and implementing, not someone who is simply coming up with ideas or maintaining the status quo. Here is a simple exercise you can do with yourself or your team.

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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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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 9, 2015

A PA is part office manager, part senior project manager and part psychic, all skills that are extremely transferable if you decide you would like steer yourself on to another career path. Like Peggy Olsen (sorry another Mad Men reference!) You know you can do the job and you are offering this company a great employee.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

Over the last few years there are plenty more online communities and in more recent times we have taken networking to a whole new level with local networks, organised by assistants, springing up all over the place. First up we have the Edinburgh PA Network. Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 11, 2024

It helps reduce time and effort, accommodates more complex procedures and processes, and makes it easy for remote teams to work together. 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.”

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Let’s get you up to speed with this rapidly growing industry. This can all be managed by a virtual assistant or a team of VAs. However, I do recommend that you set up the foundations of your virtual assistant business properly before you start working with clients. Yup, that’s right! What is a Virtual Assistant?

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

But how many times have you found yourself disregarding the advice or suggestions made by another EA/PA colleague, and only because they’re a lot younger than you are and they couldn’t possibly be giving valid advice or making sound suggestions without enough experience in the field to back it up?

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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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Andrea Kalli

MAY 4, 2010

In order to truly succeed online, you need to dedicate a large amount of your time to networking, not just with mentors, but with your own prospective customers and clients. Whether this means a complete break from communication or merely a small drop in your output is up to you. #6: 6: Let your list grow naturally.

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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. Campaign and Bid Development Teams. Groups of VEN members who form teams around specific opportunities to engage prospective customers and make collaborative bids.

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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. Microsoft Teams : For integrating documentation into the workflow of teams. ChatGPT or Gemini : For speeding up the process of creating, editing, and improving procedures.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. Training budgets dissipated, opportunities dried up, and assistants had larger workloads without staffing backups. It would be easy to simply throw up one’s hands and say, “It’s okay to just survive!” It’s not “them against us.”

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Yes, interpersonal comms, IT related courses to keep up with the changes from when I started 30 years ago on an manual typewriter! I did an NVQ to level 3 and have attended several PA courses to keep my skills up to date. I have a secretarial certificate, some general non-credit courses, try to keep up on trends. communications.

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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. Gogo Bethke.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

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. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. And once you’re in, you’re in.

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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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