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  • KEYNOTES
    • Taking Chances on Yourself
    • Navigating Change
    • Bending the Perfectionist Curve
    • Future-Ready, not Future-Proof
    • Career and Life Lessons from the Early Twenties
    • Presence and Influence: Lessons from the Org Chart
  • SPEAKING, TRAINING TOPICS
    • RESILIENCE
      • Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
      • Change
      • Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
    • CAREER SUCCESS
      • Assertiveness
      • Emotional Intelligence
      • Goal Setting
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      • Training for C-level assistants
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      • Governance
        • Shelagh delivers training on governance and working with C-level leaders
      • Risk Management
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    • COMMUNICATIONS
      • Difficult People
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    • GOVERNANCE
      • Shelagh delivers training on governance and working with C-level leaders
    • IMPACTS
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  • RESOURCES
    • CHANGE, RESILIENCE
      • Weekend Poll Results: From A Great Upheaval to The Great Reshuffle
      • Understanding change
      • Change and resilience
      • Weekend Poll results: your professional development priorities in ’22
      • Building resilience in the face of change
      • Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
      • Optimistic
      • Adaptability and resilience during pandemic times: business insights from association leaders
      • Understanding change
      • A new year, and the same you
      • Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
      • Perfectionists in the career: Weekend Poll results
      • Weekend Poll: Are you a perfectionist?
      • Business Continuity & Your Post-Pandemic Career
      • Weekend Poll: Your professional development amid a prolonged pandemic
      • 2020: An annus horribilis, or a year of lessons?
      • Change and resilience
    • CLIENT RESOURCES
      • 2023-02-15 Minutes
      • 2022-12-13 Public Speaking
      • IMA 2023
      • Kinco 2023
      • ESC: Career Success 2022
      • 2022-10-12-Performance-Reviews
      • PowerUP 2022 – Assertiveness
      • PowerUP 2022 – Writing Skills
      • APC 2022 – Onboarding
      • On Demand: Minutes
      • 2022-08-16 Board Culture
      • 2022-08-09 Stakeholder Comms
      • 2022-07-27 Minutes
      • 2022-07-19 Governance
      • APC Canada: Less Is More: Elevating Your Minutes
    • SHELAGH’S PODCASTS
      • Podcasts: You and your principal (boss)
        • Podcast: Qualities of A Good Boss – And A Good Working Relationship
        • Podcast: Are You Comfortable Speaking Truth to Power?
      • Building resilience in the face of change
      • Podcast: What to Do When You Find Yourself On A Career Plateau
      • Shelagh’s First Podcast: May You Live In Interesting Times
      • Podcasts: Job Search
      • Podcast: Interview Day: Prepare to Impress
      • Podcast: Interview Time – Check Your Body Language
      • Podcasts: Meetings & Minutes
      • Podcast: Minutes – How to Own Your Role As A Recorder
      • Podcast: Cultivate and Nurture Your Networks
      • Podcasts: Professional Development
      • Podcast: Self-Directed Professional Development
      • Podcasts: Technology
      • Podcast: What Does Your Desk or Office Say About You?
      • Podcast: Travel
        • Podcast: Travel and Packing Tips
        • Podcast: Day One in Edinburgh, Scotland
    • BUSINESS WRITING
      • Autocorrect and homophones
      • Business Writing
      • Commonly Misused Words and Other Grammatical Mistakes to Avoid
      • Homophones: words we may misuse
      • Weekend Poll Results: Grammar and business writing
      • More than 100 Verbs to Elevate Your Minutes
      • Weekend Poll: A Call for Nominations to Shelagh’s 2022 Business Writing Faux Pas Hall of Fame
    • LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC
      • Seven steps for career success
      • Weekend Poll: Your Insights on Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing Amid Everything Else
      • Weekend Poll results: your professional development priorities in ’22
      • Career and life lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Weekend Poll: Your professional development amid a prolonged pandemic
      • Adaptability and resilience during pandemic times: business insights from association leaders
      • Business Continuity & Your Post-Pandemic Career
      • Communicating remotely? Tips on TEAMS
      • Innovation: How are you adapting to WFH?
      • Does COVID-19 have you preparing to WFH? Here’s a checklist
      • Weekend Poll: Checking in, 18 months after declaration of a pandemic
      • COVID-19: A special series, beginning with Italy
      • Cybersecurity: phishing in the time of COVID-19
      • Career lessons courtesy of the pandemic
      • Life lessons from a pandemic
      • Tips for Using Teams to Collaborate
      • The pandemic’s impacts on assistants around the globe
      • EPAA hosting free virtual conference for you April 2 and 3
      • How and what assistants are doing during the pandemic: June 2020 update
      • Weekend Poll results: Pandemic – snapshots in time
      • May you live in interesting times
      • A year into the pandemic: what and how we’re doing
      • Cybersecurity: phishing in the time of COVID-19
      • Weekend Poll: A September pandemic check-in
      • Weekend Poll: A snapshot in time – your career at this point in the pandemic
      • Weekend Poll: New norms amid the pandemic
      • Weekend Poll results: Pandemic – snapshots in time
      • Adaptability and resilience during pandemic times: business insights from association leaders
      • Pandemic insights from professional association leaders
      • Weekend Poll: Share your wins of the week
      • Weekend Poll results: Your wins of the week
      • May you live in interesting times
      • Weekend Poll results: Your wins of the last week
      • Innovation: How are you adapting to WFH?
      • Coronavirus news and Weekend Poll results
      • Weekend Poll: Coronavirus and workplace practices
      • Weekend Poll: Pandemic – A snapshot in time
    • C-LEVEL ACUMEN
      • Risk management
    • CAREER PERCEPTIONS
    • COMMUNICATIONS
      • Weekend Poll Results: Grammar and business writing
      • COMMANDING RESPECT
      • How to Assert Yourself
      • Becoming Exceptional: Speaking Truth to Power
      • Negotiating for yourself
    • CYBER AWARENESS
      • Shelagh, the Cybersecurity Whisperer
      • Cybersecurity: phishing in the time of COVID-19
      • Weekend Poll: How’s Your Cybersecurity Awareness?
      • Why You Should Care About Cybersecurity
      • Want to know more about cybersecurity?
      • Assistants and cybersecurity in 2021 – Weekend Poll results
      • Weekend Poll: How cybersecurity aware are you in 2021?
      • Voilà – balance app fun with cyber awareness
      • We all need to become increasingly aware of cybersecurity and personal data practices in 2021
      • It’s time to become more cyber aware
      • Weekend Poll Results: More Employers & Assistants Need to Focus on Cybersecurity
      • Weekend Poll: How cybersecurity savvy are you in 2020?
      • Weekend Poll Results: It’s Time for Employers to Provide Cybersecurity Training
      • WP Results: Assistants and Cybersecurity in 2019
      • Weekend Poll: Are you cybersecurity savvy?
      • Shelagh Interviewed for Staples Article on Cybersecurity
    • EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
      • Building resilience in the face of change
      • Advocating for yourself
      • How to Assert Yourself
      • Know Yourself, and Those Around You
      • Weekend Poll: Do You Consider Yourself an Ambivert, Extrovert or Introvert?
      • Negotiating for yourself
      • Negotiating skills
      • 2020: An annus horribilis, or a year of lessons?
      • Perfectionists in the career: Weekend Poll results
      • Weekend Poll: Are you a perfectionist?
    • Change and resilience
    • GOVERNANCE – BOARDS
      • Why it makes sense for career assistants to learn about the world of governance
      • An Introduction to Governance
      • Governance training and coaching
      • Shelagh delivers training on governance and working with C-level leaders
    • INFLUENCE
      • Assistants As People of Influence
    • INTERVIEW PREP
      • INTERVIEW PREP
    • LEADERSHIP
      • Supervising colleagues: overcoming challenges
      • Maintaining Your Sanity When Supervising Others
      • Weekend Poll Results: What You Really Think About Supervising Other Staff
    • MEETINGS, MINUTES
      • Are Your Minutes Objective?
      • More than 100 Verbs to Elevate Your Minutes
      • Commonly Misused Words and Other Grammatical Mistakes to Avoid
      • Weekend Poll Results: Grammar and business writing
    • NEGOTIATING
      • Negotiating skills
      • Negotiating for yourself
    • NETWORKING
      • Becoming Exceptional: Communities of Practice
    • ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS
      • A Clean Sweep: What Your Office Says About You
    • PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
      • Approaching Your Next Performance Review? Read this.
    • PERFECTIONISM
      • Perfectionists in the career: Weekend Poll results
      • Weekend Poll: Are you a perfectionist?
    • PUBLIC SPEAKING
      • Your Personal Brand: What Does Your Voice Say About You?
      • Public Speaking: Learning from Some of the Best
      • Public Speaking
    • SELF AWARENESS
      • Anti-Bullying Resources
      • Choosing Resilience Over Perfection
      • Have You Reached A Career Plateau? How to Regain Control
      • Public Speaking: Learning from Some of the Best
      • Your Personal Brand: What Does Your Voice Say About You?
    • TECHNOLOGY
      • Apps
      • App: Celsius
    • THE CAREER
      • A Career of Choice for Women and Men
      • A New Year, and New Opportunities for Admin. Professionals
      • Admin. Professionals’ Day: Moving Beyond Cards and Flowers
      • Admin. Professionals’ Day Redux: Branding and Lending a Hand
  • INTERVIEWS
    • AUSTRALIA
    • BELGIUM
      • Chantal Sneijkers
    • BRAZIL
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    • CANADA
      • Real Careers: Amanda Bagga
      • Erika Giesl
      • Real Careers: Anastasia Tertigka
      • Barbra Unger
    • ENGLAND
      • Real Careers: Beth Arzy
      • Real Careers: Amanda Barlow
      • Real Careers: Alison Boler
      • Real Careers: Aimee Browne
      • Real Careers: Catherine Butler
      • Real Careers: Bonnie Cookson
      • Real Careers: Angela Downey
      • Real Careers: Brenda Edwards
      • Real Careers: Amy Marsden
      • Real Careers: April Pardoe
      • Real Careers: Aimee Reese
      • Real Careers: Amanda Snowball
      • Real Careers: Carys Stacey
    • FINLAND
      • Real Careers: Nina Aunula
    • GERMANY
      • Real Careers: Angela Parker
    • GREECE
    • ITALY
      • Stefania Andriolo
      • Real Careers: Carla Stefanut
    • NORTHERN IRELAND
    • NORWAY
      • Real Careers: Anita Olsen
    • REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
      • Real Careers: Breda Shanahan
    • SOUTH AFRICA
      • Real Careers: Anel Martin
    • SPAIN
      • Real Careers: Alicia Álvarez
      • Real Careers: Azahara Garcia
    • SWEDEN
      • Real Careers: Sofie Koark
      • Real Careers: Bettina Wemanis
    • TURKEY
    • USA
      • Real Careers: Bianca Constance
      • Real Careers: Beth Ann Howard
      • Real Careers: Catherine Marshall
      • Real Careers: Barbara J. (“BJ”) Parrish
      • Real Careers: Antonio W. Tsosie
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