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AdminPro Training Series® Annual Membership Special!

Get a FREE course when you join the AdminPro Training Series® as an annual member in December! Choose between: Administrative Procedures Binder 4-part Course ($197 value) It’s time to finally get your administrative procedures binder created and eliminate the stress...

Track Your Accomplishments for Career Success

As an admin, you perform many tasks on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. From simple, routine things like prioritizing your executive’s email each morning to big, complicated undertakings like planning the annual board meeting, you move from one accomplishment to...

An Introduction to BakerWrite Speedwriting

Do you struggle to take accurate meeting notes? Are you constantly worried that you’re going to miss something important? How do you know what’s worth writing down and what’s not? As an admin, you probably have to take meeting minutes, phone messages, and even...

No Opportunities for Career Advancement? Do These 5 Things

You worked for years to attain the top title in your job classification, and it felt great to finally achieve it. So when review time rolled around, you didn’t think much about it. After all, you’d only held the title for a year. But as you prepared for your annual...

An Admin’s Guide to Acing Performance Reviews

Performance reviews are a reality of just about any profession, but it’s one that many administrative professionals don’t exactly look forward to. Reviews can be uncomfortable, stressful, and time-consuming to prepare for, but a critique of your job performance during...

Pre-Performance Review Prep

As the year draws to a close, many administrative professionals are thinking about their annual performance review. For some, this is a time to let themselves shine and prove their worth to their executive. For others, it’s a source of stress. Your annual performance...

The Winners of the Two-Pound Chocolate Bars Are… [Sponsored]

Congratulations to the five winners in the All Things Admin-Totally Chocolate contest, Mary Alaniz, Debbi Tank, Diane Clohesy, Whitney Scheurer and Cherri Taylor! Each of these winners will receive a two-pound bar of luxury chocolate featuring the All Things Admin...

How to Protect You and Your Executive with Mobile Device Security

Mobile devices are part of our everyday lives and most admins use one or more at some point during their day. Yet these always-on, always-connected devices are constantly tracking your location, data, and more – which makes them virtual gold mines for hackers. This...

Build Lasting Relationships to Grow Your Career

“You are awesome!” She smiled. It felt good to compliment my coworker. A few days went by and we had a nice chat about our new project. I didn't know what to say so I went back to my old standby. "You are awesome!" I could see the smile was not quite as big. My...

Teach Your Team to Be Smarter About Cybersecurity

This article originally appeared on Lunarline.com and is reprinted here with permission. Cybersecurity is no longer an exclusively technical endeavor. From the beginning of the internet, until very recent times, the discipline has been considered only for those with...