Why Relationship Currency Matters
By Carla Harris
Strong relationship currency can help you to recover when you make a mistake says Carla…
Yearly Archives: 2017
The Easiest Way to Energise Your Life
Lauren Parsons shares time-saving ways to energise your life, whilst making you more productive and…
Getting Comfortable with Failure
Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails toward success…
Practical ways to help creativity blossom
By Palma Michel
Use mindfulness to manage your response to pressure and help create a culture for creativity…
A Leader? Me?
Assistants need to develop those leadership traits shown by their Executives explains Helen Monument An assistant…
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans ~ John Lennon
By Lucy Brazier
I was once speaking at a conference with Anel Martin; author, trainer and fearless speaker…
Assessing Administrative Value
By Sandy Geroux
Articulate the benefits of your efforts so that your leaders can easily recognize added value…
Groundbreaking Workplace Bullying Survey Campaigns to Transform the Workplace
Bullying must be seen as totally unacceptable. Like sexism, racism, homophobia or domestic violence once…
A Small Window in Which to Make History
By Lucy Brazier
Two years ago, at about this time of year, leaders of the Administrative Profession from…
Awakening the Leader Within
To be seen as a true leader you need to find your authentic voice, have…
An Introduction to Event Management
By Eth Lloyd
In this extract from The Executive Secretary Guide to Conference and Event Management, “Good management,…
PROFILE – Sarah Richson
Sarah Richson started her career as an Executive Personal Assistant and then changed paths to…
I Don’t Care if You’d Like to Join My Network on LinkedIn
The generic LinkedIn invitation does not enhance your personal brand, nor encourage people to connect…
Building a Reputation of Value: Creating your Personal Brand
By Anel Martin
In this extract from The Executive Secretary Guide to creating a personal brand, Anel Martin…
Are you overly possessive?
… or do you place your apostrophes appropriately? asks Shelagh Donnelly Have a look at…
Getting Real…Why it’s time to go organic
Does your marketing provide the natural interaction that customers crave? asks Claire Lister I’m into…
Tales from the River
Jessica McGregor Johnson explains why going with the flow makes life so much easier –…
Storytelling: a powerful business tool
By Chris Hirsch
Would you rather listen to dry statistics or to a story? asks Chris Hirsch As…
Making Organizational Wellbeing Your Number One Job
Let’s create work-life that ultimately matters and that is meaningful to people says Julia Schmidt…
Four Things that Erode Your Effectiveness and What to Do About Them
Understanding where you’re spending your time can improve your overall productivity on the job says…