Digital Declutter: Creating systems to keep you on top of your game
Create an organized and pleasant digital workspace that saves you time, improve productivity and keeps you up-to-date
MELISSA PEOPLES ADMIN GURUS
Employees waste nearly 2 hours every week “finding, sharing and storing documents.”1 Ain’t nobody got time for that!
Our goal with this course is to help you find sanity in your digital workspace. We will help you get your digital workspace organized so you can save time, mental energy, and work in a pleasant digital environment.
We hope to empower you also create processes and protocols to handle future documents and files.
We are joined by Melissa Peoples who has teamed up with Lauren to show you how easy it can be audit and analyze your digital workspace in order to create systems that create an easier flow of information that saves you time.
No more overflowing inboxes. No more FOLDERS OF DOOM sitting on your digital desktop. It’s time to take back control!
This course is for you if you…
Struggle to keep up with your inbox(es)
Are looking for best practices to organize your digital files and folders
Have inherited numerous documents, files, and emails that need dealing with but you aren’t sure where to start
Are you afraid to delete anything and now it’s causing anxiety
This course is designed for administrative professionals including office managers, administrative assistants, personal assistants, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and more
What you will learn
How to successfully audit and analyze your current problem areas
The Ten Commandments to help you know how to avoid the digital clutter deadly sins
Tools and tips to assist you with purging the correct documents and files
To create processes and protocols to create a clear path and way to deal with future documents and files before the clutter builds again
Learn some fun ways to make your digital workspace beautiful, clean and a pleasant place to work to improve your productivity and energy levels
Melissa Peoples is a career EA and founder of Admin Gurus, a YouTube channel dedicated to helping Administrative Professionals crush it in their careers. She is also an Executive Assistant coach and productivity consultant who assists executive teams to become more effective.
Melissa is a Certified Microsoft Trainer and serves as the Executive Operations Advisor to the CEO of the New York Times. Basically, she likes to geek out on streamlining operations, increasing personal and team productivity strategies, and anything Microsoft.
Successfully manage projects while being innovative, responsive and in control
LAUREN BRADLEY FOUNDER OF THE OFFICIALS
“Your brain is a crappy office. It’s meant to have ideas, not hold them.” David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Administrative professionals are constantly working from their ever-changing to do lists. Over time the lists get longer and longer and yet working hours don’t change. Oh and if you are an executive assistant you are probably tracking your executive’s tasks, too. Oh… and the tasks of everyone from that meeting you took minutes for and were asked explicitly to make sure “everyone does what they promised in that meeting.”
Noooooow… add complexity such as managing a project like an offsite event, policy review, or office move and it’s no surprise that you can’t easily prioritize your to do list.
What if I told you there was a better way? A roadmap to better move your tasks along? That’s an example of what Agile does. Combine it with project management skills and you will be able to get your task under control, reprioritize in minutes instead of hours, and manage projects successfully.
This course is for you if you…
Want a better way to track your overflowing to do list
Would like to enhance your skills by learning the principles of project management
Are interested in learning more about Scrum and Kanban
Want to embrace tech to help you digitally track and implement your special projects
This course is designed for administrative professionals including office managers, administrative assistants, personal assistants, executive assistants, chiefs of staff and more
What you will learn
The origin story of Agile
The difference between Scrum and Kanban
How to properly scope a project
How to properly run a daily stand-up and the important questions to ask to keep the work aligned with the goals
Tools to measure the success of your project
The importance of a productive retrospective
How combining Agile methodologies with basic project management skills can make you an expert PM
How to gain control of your daily to do list
Ways to track more complex projects through technology to help eliminate redundant meetings, improve clarity and keep to timelines
Your Instructor
Lauren Bradley
Founder The Officials
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
Want to impress your team with gorgeous presentations? Grab their attention with impactful signage? Wow them with beautifully designed reports? Show off your impressive social media posts with ease? Look no further than Canva.
In this course, our founder Lauren Bradley will walk you through one of her favorite applications of all time. Learn not just how to use it but how to use it as an administrative professional.
Please note in this course we will be utilizing Canva Pro edition.
This course is for you if you…
Would like tips and tricks from a former designer who happily hung up the Adobe Suite for faster, easier design (psst we still love designers and Adobe)
Desire to improve your overall skills as an administrative professional by making reports, documents, invites and more that look professional and expensive to design
Want to learn something new that you will absolutely love and will make your life easier as an assistants
Are looking to embrace intuitive tech in your life
What you will learn
The core foundations of Canva
Principles of design
How to build a brand kit
The versatility of elements
Final design formats to wow your audience
Creating jaw-dropping presentations that impress
Easy video design
Embedding powerful integrations to your designs
How to create trending social media designs
Sign-up to Canva
Before you get started you need a Canva account. You can sign-up for a free account but in this course. we will be utilizing the Pro Edition.
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
Then add to it the list of all the actions you are supposed to keep track of for every meeting you’ve ever minuted and you can kiss 😘 your sanity goodbye.
Not anymore. If your current task management method is failing you then this course is for you. Follow fellow Official, Anna Read, as she gives you an over the shoulder view of how she uses Asana in her role as an EA.
This course is for you if you…
Seek focus and clarity in a day of chaotic requests
Know your current task management system isn’t cutting the mustard – pen and notebook, Trello, Tasks, etc.
Need a way to track projects, meeting actions and more
Ready to work like a leader and delegate that sh*t
Want to stay on top of the latest productivity tech solutions
What you will learn
How to align your attention to your intention
Asana for task management
Task management through collaboration
To maximize your productivity and focus through superior task management
Anna is an Asana Certified Pro and co-founder of Empowered Assistants Empowering Assistants (EAEA). She currently serves as the Executive Assistant to the CEO of YWCA Central Alabama.
Anna has been working with C-Suite executives for over 9 years. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama. On any given Sunday, you can find her in the garden or hanging out with her husband and their dog, Tuppy Tebow.
Do you have what it takes to create your own VA startup? Ready to go from EA to CEO?
Well now is the time, so consider building a Virtual Assistant business. In this course, we will give you a roadmap to take your experience of working with business leaders and use it to become one yourself.
Learn the ups and downs of starting your own business and how you can set yourself up for success.
This course is for you if you…
Want to determine if now is the time to start your own VA business
Think it’s time to stop working so hard for someone else and start working hard for yourself
Feel uncertain about your future and want to take matters into your own hands
Are a new VA who started their business by stumbling upon clients but now want to grow your business
What you will learn
What it truly means to be a business owner
Thinking like a business leader
Setting goals and milestones to success
Calculating your worth with competitive pricing
Determining your services and articulating your value
The pages you MUST have on your website
Defining the customer journey and sales funnel
Building your support team
Bonus: Utilizing Instagram for business promotion
Testimonials
Gave me the essentials and framework to start a VA business.
Umm Lauren you are AMAZINNNNGGGGGGGG!!! This course rocks! ❤️ You’re setting realistic expectations to your members and I appreciate it!
Your Instructor
Lauren Bradley
Founder The Officials
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, Virtual Assistant, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
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 will walk you through this powerful tool and show you why it’s an assistant’s best friend.
This course is for you if you…
Want to tame your to do list
Love the art of note-taking and want to take it to the next step with a digital solution
Need one solution to write, plan, collaborate and organize your projects
Are tired of being asked for the same forms and documents over and over and need a wiki to streamline your workflows
Love staying on top of the latest tech
What you will learn
The basics of Notion including blocks, databases, toggles, callouts, nested columns, page creation and templates
Slash commands and basic formatting
Documenting workflows and transitioning to digital platforms
How to create a dynamic and easy to use wiki for more efficient workflows
Utilizing Notion for Task Management
Collaboration and permissions hierarchies
The basics of Scrum and Kanban
Pro tips such as global blocks, nested columns, customized icons, embedding, integration and more
Laura is the force behind The Assistant’s Handbook and our first Official to instruct a course! We are all so proud. She is a Dubai-based EA focused on helping leadership teams succeed.
Before you begin
Before you begin you will need to get yourself a Notion account.
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Level-up your project management skills with this intuitive application
with Lauren Bradley Founder of The Officials
About the course
Is your To Do List out of control? This course will introduce you to Trello, a fabulous online application that helps you organize and stay on top of your complex To Do lists and projects.
This is a crash course that will walk you through getting started with Trello, teaching you about boards, power-ups, automation and integration.
This course is for you if you…
Overwhelmed and looking for new ways to organize your to do list
Interested in project management
Striving to be more productive in your day to day
Have several projects you need to track more efficiently
Need a way to track your VA clients and projects
Looking for new fun tech solutions
What you will learn
The power of Kanban boards
The essentials of Trello
Managing a project through Trello boards
The power of Kanban boards
Project management 101
Powerful add-ons including Power-ups, Butler automation and Extensions
How to integrate complimentary applications
Meet Your Instructor
Lauren Bradley
Founder of The Officials
Lauren has held every admin and assistant title under the sun including Office Manager, EA to the CEO and private PA to HNWIs. She is a former OfficeNinjas All-Star winner and founder of The Officials. She is passionate about empowering admins and assistants.
