Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge Course

Where are you filing your notes? Multiple notebooks? OneNote? Evernote? Does your company have a shared, collaborative repository for collective knowledge in the company? A Single Source of Truth otherwise known as a SSOT? No? Not sure. Let’s talk.

Notion allows you to create, collect and collaborate all in one single workspace. International EA and Notion whiz, Laura Johnston (Officials Member and force behind The Assistant’s Handbook) will walk you through this powerful tool and show you why it’s an assistant’s best friend.

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Course: G Suite All-Star

G Suite is a powerful productivity tool. This is the tool that startups are built on and that assistants that are pursuing a role in startups/fintech/tech need to master. This intuitive suite of products rivals Microsoft in a way that can convert even the heaviest Office power user. Why? Because so much of it’s functionality is free! Also, because Google is constantly evolving and experimenting. They are great at boiling down the essence of a product and then adding easy accessibility, collaboration and a sprinkling of kickass features.

Google has announced it will be releasing its video conferencing tool Meet, a Zoom competitor, free to all consumer Google accounts this month of May 2020. We will be updating the course with all you need to know about Meet as soon as it has been released – a promising tool specially convenient nowadays when we are all still working from home. In the mean time, you can read more about it here.

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Course: Getting the Job

Whether you are starting your career as an admin or assistant and wondering what it takes to break into the industry; or you find yourself back in the job hunt due to the difficult and unfortunate current climate; or you are looking to take your career to the next level in a new role, now is the time to prepare, reasses, and give your resume a good dusting off to give yourself the best possible chance of landing the role of your dreams.

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Course: Remote Assistant Success

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.

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Course: Trello for Productivity for Admins and Assistants

This comprehensive course for admins and assistants will introduce you to Trello, a fabulous online application that helps organize and stay on top of your complex To Do lists and any projects you manage. If you are an administrative professional who is struggling to manage your day or would like to learn more about project management and how this great app (FREE!) app can help then read on!

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