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Course: Organizational Culture, Community + Inclusion

We’ve all seen it. The effects of toxic culture. You feel demotivated and disconnected from the purpose of your work. You want to be anywhere else and working on anything else.


About half of job seekers cite company culture as very important when choosing to apply to a company. This is because we like to feel useful, to feel there is purpose to our work and that our colleagues and leaders share our values.

We’ve teamed up with Christie Arias of Elite Assisting to talk all things culture and why admins and assistants are primely placed to effect the culture of a company.

This course is for you if you…

  • Enjoy the people side of any admin and assistant role
  • Want to make your organization a safe and comfortable place for all employees
  • Want to be a leader in culture
  • Are looking for initiatives and programs to promote culture as well as support equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Looking to diversify your skills and gain the respect of your leadership team
  • Desire to increase employee retention and elevate your organization as a desirable employer
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Unlocking Your Value as an Admin

Unlocking Your Value as an Admin

A note from Lauren

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.

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Self-care for your wellbeing for assistants

Self-Care, COVID-19 and Pivots for your wellbeing

Let's talk self-care and Assistants
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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.

  1. What does a self-care routine look like for you & how has Covid-19 changed it?
  2. What happens if you skip a day?
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This Entrepreneur Listed On Forbes 30 Under 30 Said He Would Roll His Eyes When Passed To An Executive Assistant

This Entrepreneur listed on Forbes under 30 said he would roll his eyes when passed to an Executive Assistant 🙄

The post that rankled

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.

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Lauren Bradley on Assistants Together Podcast

Lauren appears on Assistants Together Podcast

🎙 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

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What the what’s a wiki?

What is a wiki?

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.

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