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Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/26/2010 | 5 Comments
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...
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/25/2010 | 1 Comment
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.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/24/2010 | 1 Comment
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?
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/23/2010 | 1 Comment
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?
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/22/2010 | 2 Comments
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.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/19/2010 | 4 Comments
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.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/18/2010 | 2 Comments
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.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/17/2010 | 3 Comments
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.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/16/2010 | 4 Comments
For years we have heard about boosting our skills. The word for the new decade as identified by the American Society for Training and Development is Upskilling. I love that word.
Posted by: Joan Burge on 2/15/2010 | 3 Comments
I spent some time last weekend sorting through more than 120 customized handouts from presentations I have written and given over the past several years. This was part of my effort to streamline my office and be more organized than ever before. I stacked them by topic and then sifted through each stack. It was really interesting to see which topics had the bigger stacks!
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