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How to Help Your Boss Stay on Schedule: Executive Assistants’ Guide
Proven Tactics for Minimizing Meeting Time Overruns and Maximizing Productivity Wrangling Your Executive’s Meeting Times Have you struggled with keeping your executive on track during meetings? It’s a common challenge faced by many executive assistants. Recently, a question in our…
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Coworking Sessions for Administrative Professionals: What You Need to Know
As an administrative professional, you have a lot on your plate. From managing calendars to answering emails, your days can be filled with a never-ending list of tasks. That’s why we’ve created a coworking session just for you. Join us…
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Elevate Your Document Game: How Canva Docs Empower Executive Assistants
What are Canva Docs? Canva Docs is a revolutionary tool that allows you to create interactive and professional-looking documents quickly and easily. With Canva Docs, you can embed videos and presentations, add images, charts, and diagrams, format text with headings,…
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Check out the PA Show in November and learn how to be a better assistant!
The PA Show is coming to the heart of London’s Business District on November 2, 2022! [VIRTUAL PACKAGE AVAILABLE!] register now From the PA Show website:”Following popular demand from the PA Community, we are excited to launch a new boutique…
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Assistants, avoid these red flags when looking for your next employer
This one is a big red flag, on fire, on a hillside, will scream hoards running away. Finding out if this role has had high turnover, can be a symptom from a larger malignant issue. We’ve met quite a few…
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The Officials Wins Best Online E-learning Training Platform – London in SME UK Enterprise Awards
The SME UK Enterprise Awards highlight SMEs for their industry excellence, overall performance, customer experience and innovation in their field. The Officials is proud to be recognized for our team’s commitment to quality training for administrative professionals. The Officials has…
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The Officials welcomes new Community Manager
The administrative professional training and community platform further commits to shared knowledge and community-centric training for administrative professionals We are pleased to announce the onboarding of our new Community Manager, Joy Hiscock. The Community Manager role is a part of…
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5 Ways to Make Monday Your B!tch for Executive Assistants
Some Mondays should come with a warning. It can be REALLY hard to find the motivation you need to get everything done on your to do list. But Monday can be a great day to hit the reset button. That’s…
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Freebie: Organize your desktop with these digital desktop wallpaper templates – Winter Edition
Grab our template for this fabulous digital desktop wallpaper that will keep you organized and remind you of your goals. The template is completely customizable with any Canva account. If you are interested in learning more about how you can clean-up your workspace…
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Should assistants get overtime pay? Learn how one Official took matters into her own hands and convinced her employer to pay their assistants’ overtime
Unpaid overtime for Administrative Professionals seems almost expected these days, but Official HQ Member Damaris Willstead told us how she broke that ceiling and got the pay she deserves. Dee, as she prefers to be called, made an unexpected splash…
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Check out Official, Anna Beam’s workstyle featured by Cleverly
We are so lucky to have the talented Anna Beam as a member of The Officials. She an incredible example for our industry as she is rocking a hybrid role as EA and Office Manager to a tech start-up in…
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Stop doing this when applying for roles
Check out our LinkedIn article on what you need to stop doing when applying for roles. Read the Article Resume Action WordsStuck with finding the right words to put on your resume? Download our Resume Action Words to help you highlight the…
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The Evolution of the To Do List
What do you do when your to do list is bringing you more chaos than calm? Check out our latest collaboration with PA Life Magazine on how to get properly manage your tasks when pen and paper just aren’t cutting…
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Free Task Tracker Download
Stressed out that your to do list is overflowing the pages of your notebook? Struggling to keep track of your priorities? Then give our Task Tracker spreadsheet a try. This spreadsheet is meant to be a filler for those who:…
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The Officials x PA Life: New monthly column by Lauren Bradley for PAs
We have teamed up with PA Life to bring you a new monthly column called Ctrl+Alt+Del where our founder, Lauren Bradley, will help EAs, AAs, PAs and more take control of your day with her top tips on tech and…
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How to Get Your Boss to Stop Skipping Your 1-2-1s
Sick of your boss skirting your one-to-ones? Take matters into your own hands. One of the biggest complaints I hear from administrative professionals is that they can’t get their bosses to meet with them. Remote working has only added another…