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Michele Busch
Supporting Your Leader
You know the old adage that two brains are better than one? Well, think of this in terms of partnering with your leader. We can definitely do great things individually but when we join forces with our leader we can be extraordinary! This excerpt from Who Took My Pen…Again proves a great point: Support Partner with Your Leader Do you partner with...

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Jasmine M Freeman
Are You a Future Focused Executive Assistant, Really?
Welcome to the Who Took My Pen ... Again? Annual Blog-a-thon for Administrative Professionals. If you are just tuning in, here's the scoop! We are holding 4th Annual Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession. We hold this blog-a-thon each April and the goal is to make assistants aware of the resources available to them and build a community of ...

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Jasmine M Freeman
Administrative Blog-a-thon Begins April 2!
We are blogging for the administrative profession! Join our Administrative Professional Blog-a-thon April 2-30, 2012 Hello! April is a time we cherish here at Office Dynamics. The first quarter of the has passed and soon we will be celebrating administrative professionals around the world during Administrative Professionals Week! Well, here at Of...

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Joan Burge
World Class Assistants Experience Real Results
Hello!  While training another wonderful group of World Class Assistants last week I learned so much as I opened my ears to what these assistants were saying. Each of them had attended my World Class Assistant Part 1 program and they were now back for Part 2. Before we get started on the material I ask them each to share a succes story on how...

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Joan Burge
Administrative Professionals Day Gifts
Administrative Assistant Gifts! Two years ago I wrote a post about this topic. Administrative Professionals Day Gift Ideas. I decided it was time to write a follow-up.   It might only be mid-March, but Administrative Professionals Day will be here before you know it (April 25, 2012).  Now is the time to start looking for that perfect g...

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Joan Burge
Administrative Assistant Conference Speaker Jennifer Joseph Lier
Welcome to our Adminsitrative Assistant Conference Speaker Series! We have dedicated several blogs to informing you about our administrative assistant conference speaker line-up. With each message we'll introduce a speaker and share with you a little bit about them as well as why we chose them to be a presenter at the 19th Annual Conference for Adm...

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Joan Burge
The  Executive Assistant is Key to Managing Executive's Calendar
Two weeks ago, I was presenting a workshop for executives and their executive assistants. One of the executives shared, what I considered, a brilliant idea. He hands out his executive assistant's business card when he has told someone in person that he wants an appointment with them or they requested an appointment with him. Since his executive a...

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Guest Blogger
Do you provide royal service?
by Julie Perrine I recently stayed at a Fairmont hotel while I was traveling. I was immediately impressed from the moment I was dropped off in the front of the hotel and the bell hop addressed me by name. How in the world did he know who I was when I hadn’t even introduced myself yet? He had quickly gathered my name from my luggage tags while...

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Joan Burge
Long gone are the luxury days of supporting just one or two executives. While it is difficult to support multiple players, if you can see yourself as an orchestra leader, the conductor, it will make your job easier. Just as several instruments make up an orchestra, each with its unique purpose and features, the managers you support are distinctive....

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Jasmine M Freeman
Initiate a Purposeful Conversation with Your Leader
I recently witnessed an interesting activity between a variety of assistants at all levels. The point was to learn how to initiate purposeful conversations with your executive. The first part of the activity was to pinpoint one thing you would like your executive to start, do more of or stop doing. It was entertaining to see how some assistants cou...

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