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.
Working from home during these uncertain times is a bit of a headf*ck, even for those of us who are used to working from home. But dont worry, I got you boo!
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.
I love pens. I love notebooks. It is a hard task to get me back out of a stationery store once I’ve walked into one. I am a total sucker for big packs of multicolored pens and I would buy them with total abandon. Now that I’m *cough* older and wiser I realize that those pens just collect dust. I had drawers full of beautiful pens I never used. I’m not about that life.
