All Things Admin® Blog
Personal Note from Julie: Dealing with a Departing Executive
We talk a lot about how to work successfully with your executive and build a partnership with him or her. But there's another inevitable side of working with someone, and that's when they transition out of a role or leave a company entirely. Saying goodbye, and...
When you lose the “best boss” or “best job” ever
Finally, after years of searching, you found the “perfect” company. You’re excited to get up for work in the morning. You love your executive, your co-workers, and the view from your office window. Even the challenges you face seem easier – more like fun puzzles than...
Join Julie Perrine in New Zealand for Executive Secretary LIVE 2017
You're invited to join All Things Admin Founder & CEO Julie Perrine at Executive Secretary LIVE in New Zealand! This event will feature Julie, as well as several other top trainers for assistants, including Laura Schwartz, former White House director of events,...
Personal Note from Julie: Build a Professional Partnership with Your New Executive!
Choosing the executives you support throughout your career is rare. And even if you are fortunate enough to have some choice in the matter, it’s rarely permanent. I’ve accepted jobs to work for executives I really liked, only to have them leave the company months...
Be a Game-Changer: Master Your Executive’s Calendar and Their Time
Think about how you manage your executive’s time each day. Are you helping him or her make the most out of their working hours? Could both of you benefit from some more effective calendaring strategies? As an admin, you’re likely responsible for booking meetings and...
9 Ways to Train Your Executive to Utilize Your Skills
Admins have one of the broadest most diverse skills sets of any profession out there. We have to be amazing organizers, travel planners, event coordinators, office cheerleaders, and communicators – sometimes simultaneously. Yet chances are good that your skills set...
Personal Note from Julie: Keep Unexpected Distractions from Ruining Your Day!
On a recent webinar I hosted, we asked assistants where they struggled the most with organization. Resoundingly, the answer was with managing interruptions and distractions – 63% of our participants rated this as one of their top two biggest challenges of staying...
5 Common Distractions and 3 Ways to Eliminate Them
“There’s never enough time!” It’s a common refrain for many administrative professionals, heard in break rooms and around water coolers in offices across the world. It’s also false. Everyone is allotted the same 60 minutes per hour and 24 hours per day. It’s how you...
Personal Note from Julie: Innovating My Time Management Strategies
In the past three months, I’ve learned a lot about time management from a “parenting” perspective. Since my youngest sister welcomed her second daughter at the end of November, I’ve been helping them out as much as I can. Both my sister and her husband are...
Personal Note from Julie: Take Control of Your Time, To-Do List, and Sanity!
If you're like me, your to-do list multiplies while you sleep. The more things you check off, the more things get added on. It's a vicious cycle! I'm a prolific list maker. I love organizing and prioritizing my tasks and projects. I love checking things off when they...
