When Jillian and I were planning out this course, believe me it was Jillian that did all the heavy lifting, a common issue came up. We hear over and over again how assistants are constantly trying to prove their value. There is a fundamental issue with this approach.
Don’t forget to sign up to the webinar with Jillian below.
Lauren Bradley, Founder of The Officials, will appear on a panel for Strictly Recruitment’s community, The Business Support Network.
Continue reading Event: What does the Future Hold for Business Support?
Lauren talks and showcases her fav time-saving apps for assistants in this weekly series with our partner, Miss Jones PA.
This is an event for Miss Jones PA members. Please check them out.
About Miss Jones PA
Miss Jones PA offers its members an instant access `one-stop shop’ inspiration & trust platform that will not only save you time and money but also provide you with new ideas, ease your workload and even reward you in the process! They keep track of the latest and hottest venues and suppliers in London and host fabulous events.
A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be on a panel for Abigail Barnes‘ webinar series, The Productive Wellbeing Show.
On the panel was:
We were each asked 2 questions.
Come watch this fabulous panel discuss the difficulties that admins face when seeking out training and get some practical tips on where to find it.
Continue reading Tackling Training for Admins and Assistants
The recent deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have lead to refreshed protests and unrest in all 50 states of the US due to prevalent systemic racism and police brutality.
Continue reading Black Lives Matter: Helpful Resources for Admins and Assistants
We are launching our new Learning, Skills and Development (LSD) Microdose Sessions from June 24th!
Continue reading Launch Alert! LSD Microdose Sessions – Learning, Skills and Development for Admins and Assistants (What were you thinking?!)
One of my commitments is to take the conversation on the value of assistants past our own industry bubble. I will be talking to CEOs, entrepreneurs, L&D, HR and executive leaderships teams at every turn about the power and growth acceleration potential in every assistant.
A few weeks ago Taylor Offer made a post that got under my skin a bit. You can read the post here.
Continue reading This Entrepreneur listed on Forbes under 30 said he would roll his eyes when passed to an Executive Assistant 🙄
🎙 Podcast Debut! I loved talking to Hen Barker a caring recruiter and advocate for admins and assistants, for her Assistants Together podcast. We covered A LOT!
We discussed:
• Power of community
• The need for affordable training
• Knowing your worth
• Confidence
• Resources and research
• What assistants are asking about during lockdown
• Becoming a VA ain’t easy
• Furlough fears
• Onboarding yourself
• Treat your role like a business
• Being digitally desirable
• Why assistants shouldn’t be bored during the lockdown or ever!
• The non-no
A wiki is a website or database where multiple users collaboratively add and edit content to share knowledge. It requires high trust but allows for quick sharing and fosters collaboration.
Fortune 500 companies lose at least $31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge
The first known website wiki was called WikiWikiWeb. Wiki means quick in Hawaiian. Wiki wiki equates to really quick. So essentially it was the really quick web. This site was a place where multiple users could contribute to this shared knowledge repository on software design patterns.
Continue reading What the what’s a wiki?