#admin skills

9 Ways to Improve Your Organization Skills

Organization skills is the one thing most successful business owners have in common.

Without the ability to organize your work and your resources, you could be twisting in the wind in no time. You may have been able to muddle along back in the day, but in today’s competitive environment, you need to work any advantage to your favor.

Fortunately, there are at least 9 ways to improve your…

Whether your business has “taken the plunge” to going paperless recently, or you’re currently weighing up if you should do so, it pays to fully understand what this means and how you can manage the both the process of change as well as the way you work in future. If you’re in the already paperless camp, there might even be some things you didn’t consider when making the decision to change.

For…

Here’s hoping you’re ready for a great work week ahead…. And it will be great if you have every important “Plan B” in order.

What’s a Plan B? It’s the backup to Plan A, of course…. It’s your contingency, your lifeline, your sanity when the going gets rough and Plan A falls through. The thing is, we’re all so busy these days getting our first priorities squared away, we barely have time to…

The Top Skills Executives Want From Assistants Today

Office Dynamics often surveys managers and high-level executives as to the skills, attitudes and behaviors that are most important for an assistant to possess. Here are some non-edited, direct quotes from them. See how you measure up. If you are doing these already, then ask yourself . . .

“How often do I do this?

Am I doing this every single time?

Over a year’s time, what percentage of the time…

The glass “ceiling” that we don’t talk about

How can a homeless person go from being homeless and unemployed to employed?

Not including the big issue selling option, how can one even think about applying for an admin-like position in the working world in the UK today?

We hear about people buying homeless people coffees in the morning and delivering food etc. However, as the old saying goes, catch a man a fish and you feed him for the day,…

Take Time To Reflect On Your Year

Before you hurry along into 2016, take the time to reflect on your year.

If you are reading this, I’m proud of you because you are probably one of the few who are working on this Monday. Of course, not everyone is off today. Many employees like to be in the office because it’s pretty quiet and they can get a lot done—mostly organizing their office, cleaning up projects, and getting ready for the…

Well, I have finally recuperated from our big annual conference for administrative excellence. We hosted 250 energetic administrative professionals from around the world for 4 days. We had an awesome event and amazing speakers this year who taught us how to be resilient. Each speaker took a different facet or element of resiliency and I talked about being proactively resilient. I want to share…

Do you have a records management strategy in place?

Question:“We’re getting concerned where I work that the overwhelming amount of documents and data that we generate every day aren’t being safely stored and tracked. We have no one person whose job it is to make sure that important files, customer records, financial statements, logbooks, correspondence, social media content, even security tapes…