Joan Burge's Administrative Blog

You may be done with high school or college, but you have plenty of opportunities for learning through seminars, workshops, in-house training, and conferences. I have been in the training and professional speaking business for almost 20 years. Most of my work is conducting on-site workshops and seminars for a specific organization's administrative professionals' staff.

Here it is--March 1st already! We all hear how time flies and it truly does. It seems to go by faster each year. When you were a child, do you remember adults telling you, "The older you get, the faster time goes"? I certainly do. So is it that we are really getting older or just that the pace of our lifestyle is faster in 21st century?

JOAN BURGE LIVE IN CHICAGO Joan has never before offered an approach like this for a public seminar: by popular demand she's "taking it to the streets!" to bring unsurpassed training secrets for administrative excellence...

It does not matter if you are 18, 28, 58, or 88! You can learn every day if you open your mind and accept the fact you don't know everything about a profession just because you've been in it for a long time.

We have thousands of administrative professionals registered at Adminology.org. Are you one of them? If you are, good for you. My questions is: Are You Catching The Vision for Adminology?

During my adult life, I have come across many people who have a cause. I'm talking about individuals who started to have an interest in a cause because something tragic happened to their child, parent, friend, wife, husband, sister, brother, aunt, or neighbor. Why is that we take up for a cause only after we have personally experienced it?

While many presenters speak on stress management, I speak on Self-Management. The reason being is that many of the things that stress us involve outside sources or events and then it is our thinking about those people or events that lead to stress.

I am the proud grandmother of 4 -- 3 boys and 1 girl. Two of the boys just turned 5 and one is 8. We invested in a Playstation3 last fall to keep the boys amused when they came to our house. While I resisted anything remotely close to a Playstation3 for years, I finally caved in realizing the boys needed something more entertaining than the board games and building blocks I provided.

Various observers describe today's global economy as one in transition to a "knowledge economy." While in the past century, workers used tools or manufacturing to create goods to sell, in the 21st century workplace, knowledge itself can now be viewed as a product. More than just “who you know,” now it’s “what you know” which creates a bold line of distinction between workers.

Whether you are an executive assistant, administrative assistant, administrator or one of the other 20 titles in the administrative profession, there are new career rules.