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.
Come watch this fabulous panel discuss the difficulties that admins face when seeking out training and get some practical tips on where to find it.
Continue reading Tackling Training for Admins and Assistants
The recent deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd have lead to refreshed protests and unrest in all 50 states of the US due to prevalent systemic racism and police brutality.
Continue reading Black Lives Matter: Helpful Resources for Admins and Assistants
We are launching our new Learning, Skills and Development (LSD) Microdose Sessions from June 24th!
Continue reading Launch Alert! LSD Microdose Sessions – Learning, Skills and Development for Admins and Assistants (What were you thinking?!)
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.
Continue reading This Entrepreneur listed on Forbes under 30 said he would roll his eyes when passed to an Executive Assistant 🙄
🎙 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
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.
Continue reading Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge Course
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.
Continue reading Member Spotlight – Laura Johnston
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
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.
Continue reading What the what’s a wiki?
I’ve been speaking nonstop with assistants since we went into lockdown here at The Officials HQ and everyone has tech on their minds. There have never been so many assistants working from home and it is pushing all this tech right to the front of your minds.
One question that caused a big reaction was ”How do you track your day to day?” The tech savvy Laura Johnston of The Assistant’s Handbook (and an Official!) told us all about Notion, and we were hooked! So we teamed up with her to bring you our next course Notion: Harnessing the Power of Knowledge which will be released next week. Read more about this powerful and collaborative tool with the potential of becoming your new best friend.
Continue reading Free Webinar: Notion for Task Management