Category: Self-Assessment
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Weekend Poll: Core Competencies For a Successful EA/PA Career
Last Thursday’s Weekend Poll on Admin. Professionals Day generated substantial feedback on recognition, professional development and more. Some of the related discussion got me thinking about perceptions of the role –…
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Weekend Poll: Is Admin. Professionals Day Relevant as this Career Evolves?
In many offices this month, there’s a bit of extra recognition going around for admin. professionals. Many European counterparts mark Management Assistants’ (MA’s) Day, while Administrative Professionals (am aching to toss in…
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Weekend Poll Results: Stereotypes of the Admin. Profession
With thanks to all who participate, here are the results of my latest weekend poll. Our focus: stereotypes of the admin. profession 96.71% of respondents have encountered stereotypes Those most frequently noted…
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Weekend Poll Results: Demographics of Your Professional Networks
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of my latest weekend poll. Our focus: Generations and Genders: Inside Your Professional Associations and Networks Millennials, Gen X and…
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Weekend Poll Results: Environmental Scan of Readers’ Experiences
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll. Our focus: How readers’ experiences compare with those of my panel members With my early…
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Weekend Poll Results: The Significance of Professional Networks and Associations in 2017
Last weekend, I published the second annual Exceptional EA poll focusing on readers’ membership in professional associations and networks. Do you belong to a professional association or network? Over the course…
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Weekend Poll Results: How Readers Did With Their 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll. Our focus: How did you do with your 2016 goals or resolutions? We know that…
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Weekend Poll: Honestly, How Was 2016 for You?
Happy 2017, everyone! This past year was one of dramatic events on the global stage. Some of you will remember 2016 for the development or celebration of friendships or love, the…
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Compensation Packages, Career Mobility and More: Weekend Poll Results
Assistants, regardless of where you may be on your own particular career ladder, typically expend a great deal of effort ensuring that matters are executed to others’ satisfaction. Last weekend, I…
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Weekend Poll: Let’s Talk Career Satisfaction
Our theme this weekend is job and career satisfaction; have you achieved this happy state? How satisfied are you with your career at this point in time? Please take a couple of…
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Trick or Treat: Weekend Poll Results
Readers know that my Weekend Polls typically focus on career-related matters. Occasionally, as with this past weekend, we turn to other topical matters. This weekend’s focus: Do you celebrate Halloween? No…
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Office Catering Practices: Weekend Poll Results
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll. Our focus: What’s the practice in your workplace with respect to catering internal meetings? To…
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Q3 Progress With 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll. Our focus: How did you progress with your 2016 goals or resolutions in Q3? Setting goals and…
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Weekend Poll: Q3 Progress Check On Your 2016 Goals
We’ve all wrapped up another fiscal quarter at our respective organisations, and it’s a good opportunity to pause and reflect on personal progress with goals and resolutions we’ve established for 2016. Many…
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Weekend Poll: Tell Me About Your Role Models
In my last Weekend Poll, we looked at attributes you bring to the workplace. This weekend, I’m asking you to reflect on the qualities of your professional role models, and…
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The ABCs of Your Professional Attributes: Weekend Poll Results
Here are the results of this past weekend’s poll. The focus? What attributes make you shine in your role as an admin. professional? The results: I asked you to list six of your best…
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Weekend Poll: What Makes You Special?
EAs, MAs, PAs and other admin. professionals are very good at making other people look good. I’m thinking it’s a good idea for readers to also acknowledge your own career strengths,…