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.
🎙 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
Why the heck is it called a wiki?
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.
Technology is a funny thing. It is now so intertwined with our daily lives that we don’t even notice it and yet we’re still looking for the holy grail – technology that will actually boost our productivity, make us more efficient and free our time to focus on high-value work.
Each month we highlight one of our members, not only because they are fabulous people but also because we fully believe that shared experience and knowledge is important and makes everyone better people.
I see a lot of uncertainty popping up in the admin community lately. Each day I learn of more assistants being furloughed, let go, forced to take PTO or to take pay cuts as part of some of the incredibly tough business decisions companies are being forced to make right now. It’s more important than ever to be indispensable. One essential way to help you add value now is to help ease the transition your company is making to remote working.
I’ve teamed up with Ebony Belhumeur of The Assistant’s List to bring you the Adjusting Your Skills to a Remote Environment Webinar.
Remote working has never been more necessary than it is right now. And while remote working has its benefits it also has some unique challenges. The Remote Assistant Success course was built with the eager, self starting assistant in mind. This course is our first official collab at The Officials and we couldn’t have teamed up with a better person. Ebony Belhumeur of The Assistants List is the ultimate remote assistant.
As we all do our best at social distancing and self isolation to slow the spread of COVID-19, a new normal is settling in across the globe. For parents, this new normal includes trying to juggle working and childcare at the same time. As a mother of two who works from home most of the time, I am used to my children periodically being home while I work. However, this is a new era. The schools have closed indefinitely and we all have to do what we can to keep the economy afloat while keeping our family and friends safe.
Here are some tips to help you stay focused while being attentive parents.
Each month we highlight one of our members, not only because they are fabulous people but also because we fully believe that shared experience and knowledge is important and makes everyone better people.
Do you know your worth? Calculate your rate and stop devaluing yourself. Did you know you could be giving away $10k of your time away for free? Do you know your hourly rate? Do you know why it’s important? It is if you find yourself working overtime.
Did you know you are devaluing your worth every minute of overtime you work? Watch this video and let me show you how to calculate your time and why it’s so important for every admin and assistant to know. I have shown this to many admins and assistants and it blows their minds every time. 🤯 It’s simple but often overlooked.
