Eat Your Career

JANUARY 9, 2023

Project management certification can be a useful tool to advance your career, whether or not you’re a formal project manager or aspire to become one in the future. If you’re not familiar, PMP stands for Project Management Professional, and it’s probably the most well-respected certification in the field of project management.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 19, 2019

Ask an admin is your place to ask your question and have other administrative professionals, from around the world, give you their advice based on their experiences. This administrative professional, Seething in the South, asks us: What do you do? I was honored as it’s a highly-visible project and was up for the task.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a proud former administrative professional , I’ve always enjoyed being a part of the admin community. It was a passion project and I loved the idea that, by sharing my workplace challenges, I could help other admins. I eventually started my own company providing career coaching and training—and the rest is history!

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

First, I have been entrenched in the administrative profession for 50 years. Office Dynamics specifically focuses on training and development for administrative professionals of all levels. This is a very exciting time for the administrative professional. What is dying is being the office mom.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2012

Annual Blog-a-thon for Administrative Professionals. We are holding 4th Annual Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession. To learn more about the blog-a-thon and how you can win great prizes check out the Administrative Professional's Blog-a-thon Page for the full message. Welcome to the Who Took My Pen.

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 13, 2020

As many of my regular readers already know, I am a proud former administrative professional. I have a deep admiration and appreciation for those who dedicate themselves to support roles, which is one of the reasons I now focus a large part of my corporate training business on working with administrative teams.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Although demand is high for qualified, knowledgeable administrative professionals, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. Did you know that in the United States alone, there are over 4 million jobs in the administrative field, including those for executive assistants and administrative assistants like yourself?

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 8, 2015

Then get the information or training. Companies are constantly putting together temporary teams for a single project. Spearhead a cost-saving project, provide a new service, start an administrative team. Attend extra training conferences, but don’t neglect the duties you hold now. Get varied experience.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Ask an Admin was created by Office Dynamics to help administrative professionals with their problems through the help of their peers. I work for a C-level executive who gives me tasks to do even though I’ve asked my executive if there’s anything I can do to assist with project-related work.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Updated February 20, 2023 If an administrative professional from the 1950s happened to be magically transported to today’s office, they’d be in for quite a shock! The “Traditional” Role of the Administrative Professional Has Shifted In the past, admins have been responsible for things like customer service, accounting, and data entry.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 20, 2019

What skills do assistants need to develop to project empowerment and to feel empowered? These are just a few of the skills to develop and project empowerment, the good news is that each skill is teachable and learnable. What competencies do you find the most important as an administrative professional and why? Persuasion.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 25, 2017

She’ll be at the annual Conference for Administrative Excellence this year and she is an absolute wealth of knowledge and insight. But back to the point: Being an administrative professional, the world is your oyster. Here at Office Dynamics, we focus a lot on those who have chosen administration as their career path.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 4, 2019

As a proud former administrative professional—and a current admin trainer and coach—I believe that support professionals can play an invaluable role in the workplace. There is a wide array of roles that qualify as “administrative” in nature, and a wide variety of people who occupy them. Manage Projects.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 5, 2016

Today’s administrative professionals have anything but an easy and boring job. In recent Office of the Future research from OfficeTeam and the International Association of Administrative Professionals, 50 percent of survey respondents feel they have skills that are not being tapped at work. Event planning. Technology.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 17, 2013

What NOT to get your assistant this year for administrative professionals day. Your business can make huge leaps by freeing up your time and putting some of the day-to-day and bigger projects into the hands of a capable assistant. Acknowledge this by offering to advance their training in their chosen profession.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

As an administrative professional, you need to be productive and organized wherever you go. Project Management Apps: Teamwork is, by far, my favorite project management app. You can update statuses, track time and tasks, and get real-time updates on all your projects. Designed by Freepik. You can read part 1 here.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 3, 2018

Unfortunately, burnout is real, it’s draining, emotional, stressful and typically affects both professional and personal lives. As an administrative professional for the past 20 plus years, I have learned how important it is to avoid burnout in one of the largest career fields in the world. Connection brings comfort and control.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Streamline your project management process. Microsoft Excel for Project Management. When it comes to project management, you can buy some pretty sophisticated software specifically designed to keep you and everything on track. Learn how Microsoft® Excel® can be your secret to project management. View this online.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 13, 2017

I am pretty sure that as you focus on your career this month because of Administrative Professionals Week, you are looking for some awesome earth-shattering, off-the-charts ideas. Now I am going to surprise you by telling you one of the most awesome administrative skills you can work on is being brilliant at the basics.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 12, 2009

Believe it or not, managers needs to be trained and coached on how to work effectively with administrative professionals. I already heard one assistant tell me, "My manager said he doesn't need this kind of training." Turn your assistant into your business partner—give them substantial company projects to complete.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 12, 2009

Believe it or not, managers needs to be trained and coached on how to work effectively with administrative professionals. I already heard one assistant tell me, "My manager said he doesn't need this kind of training." Turn your assistant into your business partner—give them substantial company projects to complete.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 6, 2017

I got started, one small piece of the project at a time, one step at a time. The project was successfully accomplished. I’ve been an executive assistant for several years and I’ve received a lot of training but I’m not a facilitator or a trainer. I know my story is all too familiar for other administrative assistants.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 20, 2024

CONNECT WITH LEAH, MALLORY, and JESS Leah on LinkedIn Mallory on LinkedIn Jess on LinkedIn ABOUT LEAH Leah Miltchin Carson is a career administrative professional and recent graduate of the Nova Chief of Staff certification course.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 25, 2020

What was once a priority project may now be a back-burner project. When those projects pick back up, you’ll be organized and ready to go. Office Dynamics has a variety of online learning courses for Administrative Professionals. Create a running list or add items to your calendar to revisit at a later time.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Mentors & Masterminds, a dating service for administrative professionals looking for their perfect mentor match! Tune in and hear Tara’s story on how this project was formed and where it’s going.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 7, 2010

They handled equipment installation as a joint project, too. They pooled their equipment research together, and following approval of their combined approval request, worked seamlessly to inventory delivered orders.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 7, 2010

They handled equipment installation as a joint project, too. They pooled their equipment research together, and following approval of their combined approval request, worked seamlessly to inventory delivered orders.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 4, 2019

If you are an Administrative Professional looking for your questions to be answered by your peers, then this is the place for you! This is the best blog for advice for administrative assistants and executive assistants provided by Office Dynamics International. This week Renee C. This week Renee C. Thank you, everyone!?.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I believe meeting planners and administrative professionals possess similar skills/traits that enable them to be good at what they do. It’s a full-time job and then some and for the administrative professional who is asked to plan a meeting over and above (or even as part of) their normal day-to-day responsibilities.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 22, 2020

I am reminded of the many training workshops I’ve led where we’ve discussed change and how to manage it in the workplace. I’ve had all of my training events for the month of March postponed and it looks like April is soon to follow. I’ll still work a full day, even if that means I have to get creative with my projects.

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Requesting Training and Professional Development Support from Your Employer. Professional development is essential for every admin, regardless of experience. But when that training comes with a large price tag, it’s often out of reach. Find out as much as you can about the training you’re requesting. The solution?

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 12, 2017

It makes sense that employers are willing to pay a bit more for administrative professionals who have already proven their advanced proficiency in these areas. Just because that’s what it’s called doesn’t mean the training is especially relevant or unique. Do you trust them? Are they well known? Shift Your Mindset.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 17, 2018

Professional and personal development are keys to keeping one of the largest workforce teams educated and invested in not only their own growth, but the growth and success of the company and field they have chosen to share their knowledge with. Time to read and share professional blogs, articles, books, and webinars (most are free!).

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 7, 2018

I am very fortunate in that I get to read fabulous letters from executives touting the behavior changes they see in their executive or administrative assistants after attending our Star Achievement Series® course. The Star Achievement Series® is the most comprehensive live training course for administrative and executive assistants.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It’s been almost a full year since I attended the Conference for Administrative excellence. I saw it during the welcome reception, all day during the trainings, and as we finished, the admins were sharing emails, phone numbers, and business/personal cards to keep in touch. The conference was a game changer for me. And they do!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 22, 2015

Administrative Professionals leading in the 21st-century. With new technologies (apps, devices, office environments) and globalization, restructuring, downsizing and flattening of top heavy organizations, as administrative professionals, if we are not careful, we could literally get run-over!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

However, after a recent turn of events such as staffing vacancies and promotions, I have found myself providing administrative support to several other key managers while we recruit for vacant positions. Let’s face it—the work of an administrative professional is never ending. To think otherwise is wishful thinking!

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