For the fourth consecutive year, I’m asking readers about your professional associations. Take a couple of minutes to add your voice to the results.
Exceptional EA
a resource for assistants around the globe, from international trainer Shelagh Donnelly
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Paint
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: some much welcomed spring colour – crocuses!
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Abundance
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Spring daffodils
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Secure
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a lovely snowman I came across at Major’s Hill Park after a fresh snowfall in Ottawa the other day
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Play
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau, Quebec, where I joined in the fun for Winterlude 2020 – celebrated on both sides of the Ottawa River, in Ontario and Quebec
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Winter
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: last night in Ottawa, Canada – where the skies were beautiful
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Instincts
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot:
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Love
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: roses from the City of Love – we came across this beautiful bouquet at Paris’ Marche D’Aligre
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Tomorrow
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Monday’s sunrise from atop Queen Elizabeth Park
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Mountains
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: another sunrise look at West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park and the beautiful North Shore mountains.
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Sunshine
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: I took this photo shortly after sunrise yesterday. You can see West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, framed by the magnificent North Shore mountains.
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Kindling
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: I was up extra early today to catch the last opportunity to catch this month’s “snow moon” (some call it a “super moon”) above Vancouver
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Simple
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: vibrant spring colours off London’s Venice Canal last spring
For meeting and event planners
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Real Careers – My Interviews With Assistants Around the Globe
Do you ever look at your administrative role models and wonder how they pull it all together? Or how the lives of your counterparts in other cities and countries vary, and where there may be areas of common ground? Exceptional EA features Real…
Travel Resources and Inspiration
Are you planning a holiday or business travel, either for yourself or your executive? Looking for some inspiration, or insights into cities in other locales? Or perhaps you’re planning a bit of bleisure travel. If so, you or your principal are in good…
Weekend Polls - where assistants around the globe have their say
Weekend Poll Results: Setting Boundaries
With thanks to all who participated in my latest Weekend Poll, we’re looking at whether assistants maintain or blur boundaries between their business and personal lives. This is the fourth year we’ve looked at this topic This marks the fourth…
Weekend Poll: Setting Boundaries
A few weeks ago, one reader shared a BBC article headlined, “Banning out-of-hours email ‘could harm employee wellbeing'” … believe it or not! Let’s take a look at your thoughts and experience.
Paint
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: some much welcomed spring colour – crocuses!
Abundance
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Spring daffodils
Secure
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a lovely snowman I came across at Major’s Hill Park after a fresh snowfall in Ottawa the other day