1-Minute Strategies: January ’24
Leverage mind-mapping software … enhance email management with Boomerang … develop a weekly Agile routine.
Category: Personal Development
Generative AI should be your sidekick, not your enemy
It seems that lately the talk of the business world is artificial intelligence and what it will do to our organizations, individual careers and the economy. What many don’t tend to realize, though, is AI already exists in countless facets of our lives.
It’s time to define an AI policy for your organization
AI tools like ChatGPT are capturing the imaginations of information workers everywhere. While I don’t think AI is bad and that only original works of writing created with a chisel and hammer in stone should be considered authentic, each organization must determine how it can be used legally and ethically, and the consequences of non-compliance.
Quiet hiring: Admin professional trend of 2023
Quiet hiring is about filling open positions with staff who are already on the payroll rather than hiring from outside the company. Executive assistants are prime targets for quiet hiring. In addition to already possessing excellent organizational, communication and scheduling skills, many administrative professionals also can flex these skills.
BYOD/BYOT/BYOA—Can you survive in a tech-fluid office?
“Bring your own device/tech/apps” organizations can be challenging, especially if you’re supporting multiple managers who all use different devices and applications. Here are a few tips to maintain your sanity and keep up the good work as who and what you are expected to support becomes fluid.
Top knowledge and skills from veteran EAs
Are you a new executive assistant looking for advice, or perhaps an experienced one looking for suggestions for your executive for more robust onboarding? We contacted several experienced administrative assistants to see what experts feel are the most important pieces of knowledge to know and skills to develop when beginning an administrative professional career.
4 ways for administrative assistants to utilize LinkedIn
There are many tools at your disposal to make everyone’s life a little bit easier in the workplace—that is, if you know how to effectively utilize these tools.
1-Minute Strategies: October ’23
Don’t let AI overtake you … make the new hire feel welcome.
Help employees find purpose to increase personal and workplace success
CEO of Brain Aware Training, Britt Andreatta, Ph.D., recently presented “Wired to Become: The Neuroscience of Purpose” at SHRM 2023, providing a breadth of insight into finding purpose. She offered insight for managers into the reasons employees feel they lack purpose and the benefits of finding it, as well as tips on how to promote doing so.
Bright, shiny objects: The case for tech lag
After having spent most of my career on what was lovingly called “the bleeding edge” of technology, I have lately taken a bit of a different tack.