Category: New to Your Role
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Weekend Poll: Onboarding to Your Role
Like me, you may know one or more assistants who have recently begun new jobs. Do you remember the first couple of weeks in your current role? Onboarding ideally begins before…
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Podcast: You Landed the Job – What Next?
As of this week, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has beaten humans in an esport competition. Click here to listen to what we should know about just how rapidly AI is advancing.
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Weekend Poll: Onboarding and Orientation to Your Role
Have any new people landed in your office this month? We’ve welcomed some newbies, which reminds me of what it was like to be that new person. I don’t know…
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Weekend Poll: Have You Created a Procedures Manual for Your Role?
Around this time last year, I asked readers whether you’d created a procedures manual for your role. This weekend, I’m publishing a second annual version of this poll, including a…
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Weekend Poll: Have You Ever Supported A Rookie Executive?
We’ve focused lately on how organisations can support admin. professionals who are new to their role, and it occurs to me that it would be interesting to turn the table. Many of us have worked…
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Weekend Poll: Have You Created a Procedures Manual for Your Role?
In last weekend’s poll, we looked at your orientation and induction experiences. While some of you had the benefit of effective onboarding systems, that wasn’t the case for all. While 23%…
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Weekend Poll: Onboarding – How Much Did You Receive for Your Role?
I’m in the midst of preparations to deliver an onboarding session for some newcomers next week, and the process has made me reflect on orientations I’ve received as the new…
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Becoming Exceptional: Establishing Vision and Direction
It can be difficult to be a proactive, rather than a reactive assistant, without a clear vision and sense of direction A few years ago, I was the new kid…
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New on the Job: Putting Your Best Foot Forward
Congratulations! Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newly minted graduate, you’ve passed the gauntlet of honing your CV and cover letter, making the employer’s shortlist, and approaching references (particularly…
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Experience
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. – Minna Antrim
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Study
Study and emulate the best, without ever losing sight of yourself. – Shelagh Donnelly
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Mistakes
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. – Phyllis Bottome