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The Officials wins UK Enterprise Awards

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 been awarded Best Online E-learning Training Platform – London in the 6th annual UK Enterprise Awards by SME News.

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Should assistants get overtime pay?

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 when she convinced her company to pay her fellow administrative staff their much-deserved overtime. Lauren Bradley, our founder, caught up with Dee to ask her how she made it happen and her advice for others who want to impact their companies in the same way.

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Office Manager Workstyle Anna Beam Featured

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 Greenville, SC. You may have caught her podcast too, The Influential Assistant.

Check out her feature in the Cleverly newsletter. Cleverly is a weekly workstyle newsletter that seeks to inspire anyone who is looking to improve their skills, communication, space and experience at work.

Check it out here

Ctrl+Alt+Del - New Blog for PAs by Lauren Bradley and PA Life

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 productivity.

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Laurne Bradley on Administrator Nation Podcast

Lauren talks tech on Administrator Nation podcast

Our founder Lauren Bradley is known for her love of tech. Even in the office here at HQ she is often jabbering away about a new app that she found and can’t wait to tell the world of admins about.

So when she was approached by the team behind podcast Administrator Nation to talk about her love of tech, it was a very quick yes!

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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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Essential advice from Private PA Lauren Bradley

Feature: Admin Heroes – Lauren Bradley, Freelance Private PA and founder of The Officials

It is always a good day whenever I get to work with the lovely team at Anderson Hoare. The London-based admin staffing boutique helped start my admin career many moons ago. In this article they ask me about how I juggle Freelance PA work, why The Officials is so hot right now, and my failsafe tips for succeeding and progressing whether as a Private PA, Freelance PA or Corporate Admin.

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Treat your job like a startup lauren bradley the officials officeninjas

7 Tips to Treat Your Job Like It’s Your Own Startup

OfficeNinjas – There’s no denying that your mind becomes loaded with different career advice throughout the years you spend working—and Lauren Bradley, OfficeNinjas All-Star Winner, admits she’s no exception in receiving an endless barrage of guidance.

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