Category: Generosity of Spirit
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Image, visibility and recognition for career assistants as many mark Administrative Professionals Day 2024
Administrative Professionals Day 2024 – my thoughts on the celebration, as well as image, visibility and recognition for career assistants
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Here’s to you, career assistants!
Here’s to you … today, and throughout the year It’s no secret. Those who’ve been following Exceptional EA since I launched this website in 2013 will know that I’ve long…
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A gift and some thoughts from Shelagh on Admin Professionals Day 2021
How I feel about this annual tradition It’s no secret. Those who’ve been following Exceptional EA since I launched this website in 2013 will know that I’ve long encouraged a…
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Admin. Professionals’ Day 2020
Whether you’re reading this in a country where Administrative Professionals’ Day is observed, or somewhere else, give yourself – and your counterparts – a round of applause. From conversations and correspondence…
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Networking Leaders: Admin. Professionals Who Are Anything But Insular
With so many insular winds swirling around the globe lately, people might do well to have a look at the world of admin. professionals. I know many in our career who intentionally expand and nurture…
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It’s A Small World for Admin. Professionals Who Nurture Their Networks
If you’d told me three years ago that I’d soon be counting South African superstar Anel Martin, American Renegade Kemetia Foley and Milan’s warm and elegant Vania Alessi of Secretary.IT fame…
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What Kind of Office Culture Do You Want?
… and what efforts are you prepared to take to to help support such a culture? You can’t count on luck, and simply hope things will evolve. Nor are positive…
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Role Models and Mentors: Shining Lights on Career Paths
Exceptional EA is proud to showcase Real Careers, in which administrators from around the globe generously share the benefit of their experience. We’ve already made virtual trips to Belgium, Brazil,…
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Admin. Professionals’ Day Redux: Branding and Lending a Hand
Last week, I offered my conflicting thoughts on the merits of the occasions known as Admin. Professionals’ Week and Day. I raised the question of whether those of us in…
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Admin. Professionals’ Day: Moving Beyond Cards and Flowers
What are your thoughts on Administrative Professionals’ Week, and Administrative Professionals’ Day, which was celebrated yesterday? I find myself in the ambivalent camp on such celebrations, which run April 20…
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How to Empower Others
Building a network, or community of practice, is somewhat akin to building bridges – bridges that empower and enable you and your colleagues to work your way through obstacles and…
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Just Talent – And Capacity to Share
Perhaps it’s the time of year, as our thoughts turn to giving even without being bombarded with advertising to that effect. Perhaps it’s also serendipitous timing, reading the words of…
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Qualities
A thought for your day, with my good wishes … One of my great regrets, and I don’t have many, is that I spent too long putting peoples’ status and…
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People
I`ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
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Innovation and Generosity of Spirit: Bette Graham
Innovation: building a better mousetrap, a winged birdhouse or … ? :We’ve heard the saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”, but…
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Taking Control Of Your Career: Moving Past Your Plateau
Does it seem you’re facing an uphill battle? In Taking Control of Your Career, we considered how assistants can reach career plateaus – and indicators that you may have reached…
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Generosity of Spirit
A thought for your day, with my good wishes … Always be a little kinder than necessary. – James M. Barrie