Category: Your Personal Brand
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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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Weekend Poll Results: Make the Most of Your LinkedIn Profile
With thanks to all who participated, here are your responses to my question … How LinkedIn are you? In my latest Weekend Poll, I asked readers a series of questions related to your…
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Weekend Poll: To Multi-Task or Not
I’ve been back just a couple of weeks now from travels to London and Edinburgh, where I presented to two wonderful audiences. First, it was Executive Secretary LIVE in London,…
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Weekend Poll: Your Business Card, Please
A good executive assistant is often an extension of the executive she or he supports. Whether you’re attending a meeting or engaged in conversation with colleagues, you’re representing both yourself…
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Weekend Poll: Your Business Card, Please
A good executive assistant is often an extension of the executive she or he supports. Whether you’re walking the hallways of the office, attending a meeting or exchanging small talk with…
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Qualities to Hone: Weekend Poll Results
Over the course of the last two Weekend Polls, we’ve been looking at professional attributes – first your own and then, this weekend, those of your role models and other admin.…
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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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Where Will You Find Me This Week?
Well, after strolling down to the Kitsilano Coast Guard Station yesterday to see some visitors from England, you’ll now find me inside (and online at) Executive Secretary Magazine, before returning to Kelowna later…
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Where Will You Find Me This Week?
On the cover of Executive Secretary Magazine … Or, I should say, my article on identifying as administrative professionals is the cover story. While the print version is enroute to subscribers…
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Weekend Poll: Your Credentials, Please
What are we exploring this weekend? Administrative assistants’ educational credentials, and – as a result of a request from my friends at EUMA (European Management Assistants) UK – whether you consider earning an advanced degree…
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Weekend Poll: Does Your Communication Style Perpetuate Office Hierarchies?
What are we talking about this weekend? Office hierarchies, and subtle means by which a sense of rank is perpetuated. How so? Let’s start with a look at the contact lists you or your colleagues…
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Weekend Poll Results: Checking in on Progress With 2016 Goals, Resolutions
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: Have you established goals or resolutions for 2016? How…
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Weekend Poll Results: Competing for Professional Recognition
Would you like the opportunity to compete for awards that reflect recognition of your professional skills and contributions? It turns out that, while 78% of respondents to my most recent…
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Weekend Poll: Awards, Anyone?
Living in Vancouver, it’s not unusual to walk or drive past a movie or television set. If you don’t know someone who works in the industry, you likely know someone…