All Things Admin® Blog
An Admin’s Guide to Understanding Daylight Saving Time & Time Zones
This article was updated on March 8, 2018. There is one mistake that almost everyone, including admins, make on a regular basis, but most have no idea they’re even doing something wrong until it’s (literally) too late. Referencing the wrong time zone is something...
Note From Julie: Time Zone Abbreviations Are More Important than You Think
Daylight Saving Time begins in the U.S. this weekend. That means for the next eight months, our time zone abbreviations also need to change if we want our meeting invites to be accurate. What am I talking about? Let me explain. We are currently operating in Standard...
Note From Julie: The Event Speaker Didn’t Show – Now What?
You never forget that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach when something goes wrong with a big event you’re planning. It was the Sunday morning keynote of a two-day association conference with people attending from two states. I was on the planning committee for...
Expect the Best, Prepare for the Worst: Creating a Back-Up Plan for Your Next Event
Event planning is serious business. Your executive, colleagues, and organization have put their trust in you to ensure the meeting, workshop, or conference goes off without a hitch; and you’ve been working day and night to meet their expectations. Then, shortly before...
Set Limits & Manage Expectations With the March Training Series
We’ve all heard it before: If you’re feeling overwhelmed by unreasonable demands, you have to start saying "no." That’s easier said than done. In reality, if something is within the scope of your responsibilities and capabilities, you shouldn’t be saying "no" in the...
Note From Julie: How Do You Add Creativity to Your Events?
There's a good reason why event planning can be a career path all its own: It requires a lot of creativity, effort, and attention to the details. Events can take on a life of their own very quickly depending on the scope and size of the meeting, conference, or offsite...
Become an Event COP
Love it or hate it, event planning is a task nearly every admin will have to tackle at some point in their career. It may be something simple, like putting together a luncheon for a retiring colleague, or something larger, such as organizing a multi-day conference....
Note From Julie: Working Successfully with Guest Speakers
Planning events – from conferences to board meetings – is a big part of an admin’s job. Yet even the most experienced admins can struggle with coordinating all the moving parts of an event. One important aspect that can easily get overlooked is working successfully...
Working Effectively with Guest Speakers
I’ve planned a lot of events throughout my career. And now I speak at a lot of them, too – both in person and virtually. I’ve realized one thing that can make you stand out when it comes to event planning is working effectively with guest speakers. Guest speakers may...
Note From Julie: Event Planner: My Favorite Admin Role
Event planning has always been one of my favorite parts of being an administrative professional. There is so much opportunity for creativity, planning, and organizing. There are some types of meetings and events, such as board or staff meetings, that are very similar...
