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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many of the lists you find are created by travel agencies, so we have taken a fresh look at the top meditation retreats around the country. Meditation retreats offer something that self-guided mediation, your local yoga class and even the best online and mobile meditation apps cannot—a complete experience free of daily distractions.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 20, 2012

The Savvy Admin’s Guide to Travel! I also host a high-end training program for executive assistants and administrative assistants called World Class Assistant , in Las Vegas. What is most interesting is that administrative professionals are the ones who are very involved in their executive’s travels yet are not road warriors.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 17, 2019

It has not been an easy journey, especially since I started a niche business of specialized training for administrative professionals of every title, age, and experience level. 29 years ago, there was no robust training for assistants. That is why I have always emphasized onsite training.

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DECEMBER 22, 2023

Most Innovative Travel Company 5. Photo cred: courtesy of Travel Environmental Most Innovative Company in Beauty 6. Travelers Haven by Blueground Who they are: This Denver-based on-demand housing-solution provider helps other companies’ nomadic workforces find housing. Most Innovative Company in Hospitality 8.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. This is not smart.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Volunteering abroad allows you to make a difference—all while traveling and exploring a new locale. Before volunteering abroad, you may be trained on how to do a task. After all, it’s one thing to speak Spanish in class for an hour a day or learn on an app and something entirely different to speak it all day long.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 23, 2015

Organising business travel can take up a big chunk of our time with most assistants booking complex travel on numerous occasions throughout the year. Here are my top ten tips for travelling assistants. For example if you are both travelling on a long haul overnight business class flight don’t book seats facing each other.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 15, 2016

With Assist Travel just a few month’s away, I thought I would share everything that I have been working on behind the scenes. We really do have world-class speakers talking all thing business travel. Why should you attend Assist Travel? Well, I actually have three reasons why you should attend Assist Travel!

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 6, 2017

Or what about a travel business tote or beautiful Levenger notepad and pen? In fact, thousands of administrative assistants will never attend an in-depth training program, conference, or take an online course because his or her company won’t pay for it. You might be thinking… what about a cool coffee mug?

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It is a time when many performance reviews are given, raises are put into budgets, conferences and seminars are talked about as well as training and travel. Talk with them about the training you have received in 2009 if any, and what it has meant for you and your performance, education, and attitude. Be persistent!

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

It is a time when many performance reviews are given, raises are put into budgets, conferences and seminars are talked about as well as training and travel. Talk with them about the training you have received in 2009 if any, and what it has meant for you and your performance, education, and attitude. Be persistent!

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In today’s free webinar Joan shares Strategies for Being a World Class Assistant and she covers the topic of Creating a Career Portfolio. Watch the replay: Strategies for Being a World Class Assistant. Download the Handout: Strategies For Being A World Class Assistant. So much great information in this webinar.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 18, 2019

If you travel frequently, you should travel in as comfortable surroundings as you can so you can do work. Learn more administrative professional skills that will launch you further into career success by attending our World Class Assistant™ course and obtaining the Certified World Class Assistant designation.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 19, 2015

Are you one of the many assistants who claims you can’t attend a training course or even get away for a free webinar because you’re just too busy? Here’s how assistants manage their workload and find time for other things, like training! . This entails four consecutive days (full days) of training.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 3, 2013

Travel Planning for Executive & Administrative Assistants. But I really didn’t understand the intricacies of travel until I became an executive and traveled often. For 22 years, I have been traveling; mostly within the United States. For 22 years, I have been traveling; mostly within the United States.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. Our conference and World Class Assistant™ our very different learning events. We limit our on-site training classes to 25.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 22, 2010

Kathy is an executive assistant who wants to know more about travel preparation for her executive and what can be included with the itinerary or on the itinerary to make the executive more comfortable during travel. First, get to know your executive’s travel preferences and keep a running list. Happy travel planning everyone!

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Every admin wears many hats: office manager, personal assistant, life coach, travel planner. Every time your manager is heading out of town, it’s time for you to don your travel planner hat, slip into your traveler’s shoes, and equip yourself with your suite of travel planning tools. Organising Traveler Information.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For You Haiti tries to keep surgeries within Haiti to keep costs at minimum, but for the children who need to travel, Kaye and the team work with organizations such as Chain of Hope to bring the patients to countries that can provide those services. Kaye travels with patients who need care that can’t be provided in Haiti.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 29, 2019

Who would set up your travel and meetings and troubleshoot? Whether it is a conference , online class , or educational materials , investing in your assistant’s professional development will not only make your assistant happy, but you will also reap the rewards. Where would you be without your administrative assistant?

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Success

JULY 21, 2021

I was on the junior varsity soccer team and was training for varsity. He told me I’d be able to get paid to compete and travel the world. When I arrived at the Olympic training center, I once again heard what God told me in the hospital: “I have plans for you.” I found a coach and trained as hard as I could.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2016

Planning travel for others is no simple matter and administrative professionals know this better than anyone else! Each traveler has personal preferences and unique quirks that make travel planning a true art form. However, travel is full of unpredictable changes. Try to book the traveler in their preferred hotel chain.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 16, 2014

Most assistants do not get to travel on business trips with their boss unless they work for high net worth individuals or are private household assistants. Business trips can be a great way to increase your business acumen, meet colleagues and clients in different countries and see how your boss operates while they are travelling on business.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

THE BROCHURE PROMOTING AN administrative training pro­gram said, We will never make you do anything you don’t want to do. This was in a brochure from a company who hosts supposedly high-level classes for assistants. I am confident traveling and going to unfa­miliar places. Oh heavens, I thought! How do you think a person grows?

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 22, 2010

Kathy is an executive assistant who wants to know more about travel preparation for her executive and what can be included with the itinerary or on the itinerary to make the executive more comfortable during travel. First, get to know your executive’s travel preferences and keep a running list. Happy travel planning everyone!

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JANUARY 23, 2023

People who are high in openness might enjoy traveling to new places, eating foods they’ve never eaten before and discussing ideas they’re unfamiliar with,” says Marie Forgeard, Ph.D., You may hear a new song, for example, that reminds you of that book you read that the guy you met on the train recommended.

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APRIL 1, 2023

The importance of quick decision making for baseball umpires Almost every tactic deployed and decision made by the umpires is based on training, decades spent honing the smallest details in an effort to get decisions right as often as humanly possible. “It’s called rodeo clowning, when another umpire is supposed to step in and play good cop.”

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 7, 2009

We have been hosting our World Class Assistant™ high-end workshops in Las Vegas since 2005 at the beautiful Red Rock Country Club. I have watched hundreds of administrative professionals come through the program and am always amazed when a participant shows up for class looking like they are going to the Strip or shopping.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

The rise of low-cost airlines in the late ’60s not only made quick, purpose-driven travel more accessible, it also cultivated the belief that every American should have the chance to experience air travel. By investing in state-of-the-art technology, Southwest is embracing innovation not just onboard, but behind the scenes as well.

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MAY 19, 2016

Stevie P is your friendly, neighborhood Earth traveler, intuitive coach, Reiki master, Siddha healer, kinesiologist, philosopher, writer, poet, positivity connoisseur and Pokemon master. Do you capitalize on your idle travel time? Traveling can be a tremendous opportunity for this. Do you take the train or bus?

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Other expenses are minimal, including some seminars and workshops I want to attend, additional fees I incur from travel journalism on media trips, subscriptions to publications and other freelancer tools. It’s a 30-minute, boot-camp style class that has been essential for my postpartum recovery. Early afternoon 4 p.m: Coffee break.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 14, 2014

All you have to do is book a car to Heathrow Airport, organise transfers on arrival at the foreign destination and then make sure that all your travellers get to every meeting in their jam-packed itinerary without a hitch. Are your passengers travelling within London, going on to Manchester or are they jetting off around the world?

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MARCH 31, 2023

She even signed up for a fear-of-flying seminar to help calm her nerves, but she missed so many classes because of her schedule and constant traveling that her instructor told her, “I don’t know if I should be mad at you or proud of you, but you’re never here because you’re always on a plane.”

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

LYT (pronounced “light”), a California-based traffic tech company, has been revolutionizing the way first responders travel to emergency scenes. Each locality can set its own rules for the system—say, for example, that ambulances get priority over police cars, and that there’s a hierarchy for different classes of emergency.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 13, 2016

I can’t tell you the number of times people have told me they won’t attend a conference or training program if their employer will not pay for it. Yes, I wanted my employers to pay for my education or training or to send me to a conference. Additionally, many people will not even purchase a book or online program for themselves.

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Loosely Speaking

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Building on your skills Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 8:46 am // By: ktcosmos // Category: Virtual Assistant Resources It’s the time of year when we all do some self assessment and then look ahead to changes we want to make in the coming year.Â

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

I recently came across this list from one of my classes and wanted to share it. Many times in my live workshops and seminars for executive and administrative assistants, I ask the participant to create a list of qualities, attributes, and attitudes of star-performing assistants. Over the years, I have collected more than 300 ideas.

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