What it takes to be great
One of Lisa Olsen’s favorite topics to discuss with assistants is the art and science of personal mastery. At the core of personal mastery is self-awareness.
Category: Admin to Admin
A hard look at soft skills
Sometimes it’s worth taking a hard, honest and brutal look at our soft skills. As administrative professionals, we often worry more about keeping up our technical skills, while our interpersonal and self-management attributes end up on the lower rack of our administrative toolkit.
The truth about work-life balance
When we are living fully, we feel it. We get the sense that our life is moving along steadily and we take things in stride; we relax enough to feel joy. So why does achieving and maintaining balance seem so difficult?
Is your credibility bucket leaking?
One of the most important qualities an assistant can develop is credibility. It can take a bucket full of thoughtful actions to establish and yet can be seriously undermined by a single thoughtless move that creates a slow leak.
Make decisions with confidence
Making sound decisions is an administrative skill set that needs to be developed like any other. Here are six ideas to consider.
Admins, take this mental spring inventory
Spring is a great time for assistants to organize, rethink processes and do a little workplace inventory. Here are some suggestions on how admins can SPRING into action.
What does the boss expect anyway? Admins must find out
It is surprising to hear assistants tell me they don’t want a boss standing over their shoulder telling them what to do and how to do it all the time. But in the next breath, many of these same assistants complain that their bosses fail to convey expectations clearly enough. It’s an administrative dilemma.
6 tips to become remarkable
Consider these six qualities of the remarkable assistant that may surprise you.
2017 is here. What will you do?
Gretchen Rubin, who wrote The Happiness Project and has a weekly podcast, suggests that each year we choose a theme: a one-word theme or short phrase that represents the new year ahead. What might be your word for 2017?
5 holiday harmony tips for overstressed workers
This can be one of the hardest times of the year to strike a good work-life harmony.