5 skills for the progressive assistant
You are a top-performing, high-achieving assistant who has accomplished much. So where do you go from here? What might be missing from your bag of skills?
Category: Skills Check
Do you speak computerese?
Here is a glossary of terms you can use to increase your cyber vocabulary, from www.ourcommunity.com.au.
4 soft skills that will make any administrative professional indispensable
Megan Trzcinski of LaSalle Network urges admins to remember these skills that can’t be taught from a textbook.
Are nonverbal signals holding you back?
Next time you’re preparing for a moment in the spotlight, rehearse in front of a video camera. Then view the video, staying as objective as possible. “People will judge you by your appearance and your body language. And they’ll do it quickly,” says Carol Kinsey Goman, executive coach and author of The Nonverbal Advantage.
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.
Test yourself on documenting administrative procedures
Julie Perrine, founder and CEO of All Things Admin, reminds us that dropping someone into your job for even a few days is twice as complicated as you think it is, and she won’t let you take carefully organized procedures for granted.
7 cruel proofreading traps that are lying in wait for you
They’re out there, hiding, ready to sneak up on your document and make it look amateurish. Can you stop them before the damage is done?
Manager’s Checkup: How well are you listening?
To get the information you really need to do your job well, you have to listen—not just “hear,” but really listen. How’s your approach to active listening? Take this quiz and find out:
Lessons from Admin Pro Forum 2016
Administrative Professional Today held its first skills-building conference, Admin Pro Forum, for administrative professionals June 15–17, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
SharePoint admin woes
Quick launch quirks; Site space; SharePoint governance