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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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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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What the what’s a wiki?

What is a wiki?

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

Why the heck is it called a wiki?

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.

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Free Webinar: Notion for Task Management

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.

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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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On-demand webinar: Genius G Suite Hacks for Assistants Webinar

Become a G Suite genius! New to Google products? Want to improve your tech confidence? Want to work at a startup but are worried about the transition from Microsoft to Google products? Perhaps you are starting your own VA biz and want to know how Google free apps can help you run your business.

Don’t worry! Swing by my desk (virtually of course 👩‍💻) and look over my shoulder as I show you some of the cool features I use to make G Suite work for me as an assistant and 5 time saving tips to help make your life easier – because we already have plenty to do!

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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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