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Course: Goal Setting and Performance Reviews: Owning your Career Development as an Admin

Performance reviews can be sources of fear, frustration, and last minute scrambling for many Administrative professionals. Not after this course! We will help you plan and execute a highly impactful review cycle. Most importantly you will walk away knowing how to properly tell the story of your personal accomplishments and the value you bring to your organization. After this course, you will be ready to better advocate for your future growth as an Administrative professional.

Introducing our new course, Goal Setting and Performance Reviews: Owning your Career Development as an Admin with guest instructor the one and only Jillian Hufnagel. She is going to help you find your confidence during an appraisal through preparation.

This course is right for you if:

  • Want to plan and execute a highly impactful review cycle
  • Looking to learn how to survey your leader to create alignment and shared understanding
  • Want to learn how to set and track SMART goals that align to your leader(s), team(s) and company
  • Find yourself lost in your career journey and need help to lead yourself thru the next phase of your journey as an Admin 
  • Want to feel more confident during the 1:1s with your leader
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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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Fav apps for Assistants | A Miss Jones PA event

Event: Lauren’s Fav Automation Apps for Assistants – Miss Jones PA Event

Lauren talks and showcases her fav time-saving apps for assistants in this weekly series with our partner, Miss Jones PA.

This is an event for Miss Jones PA members. Please check them out.

About Miss Jones PA
Miss Jones PA offers its members an instant access `one-stop shop’ inspiration & trust platform that will not only save you time and money but also provide you with new ideas, ease your workload and even reward you in the process! They keep track of the latest and hottest venues and suppliers in London and host fabulous events.

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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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Launch Alert! LSD Microdose Sessions – Learning, Skills and Development for Admins and Assistants (What were you thinking?!)

Tune in, Turn On and Level Up!

We are launching our new Learning, Skills and Development (LSD) Microdose Sessions from June 24th!

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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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