All Things Admin® Blog
Overcoming my fear of fear
I did something this week that I have wanted to do for a very long time but was afraid to do. I asked someone for whom I have a great deal of admiration and respect to mentor me. This individual is someone I have supported professionally for several years, so asking...
Adapt, Improvise, Overcome: The Successful Admin’s Credo – even on vacation!
“Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome.” This became the recurring theme of a much needed two week vacation my husband and I took the last two weeks of September. We were headed to Boston for three days of sightseeing before driving up the coast to Old Orchard Beach, Maine...
Complacency Can Lead to Administrative Career Extinction
Whether you’re actively looking for a job or not, complacency is a career killer. No matter how indispensable you make yourself in your administrative career, there are no guarantees. Companies get bought and sold. Executives transfer. Departments get outsourced. Work...
Request Approved! Gaining Employer Support for Professional Development
If I walked up to your desk and asked you to give me $20, what would you say? You’d probably respond with, “Why?” or “What do you need it for?” or “I don’t have $20, so you need to ask someone else.” I can also hear a few smart, sarcastic replies coming my...
Defining What Your Administrative Support Really Means
I’ve supported numerous supervisors, managers, vice presidents, and CEOs throughout my career (herein referred to as “executives”). I feel very fortunate that the majority of those executives treated me as a respected member of their teams but not all did. At the...
5 Reasons Why You Will Benefit From Utilizing a Professional Organizer
Me? Hire a Professional Organizer? But I’m an administrative professional. I’m organized. I can find everything I need when I need it…most of the time. Or can you? Perhaps your desk and workspace is spotless, but you may be struggling with how to get things done...
Developing Your Personal Advisory Board
When you need solid advice, whom do you call? When you are looking for productive feedback, to whom do you turn? Who causes you to think differently about things that may challenge you? Do you have a personal advisory board to help you through making difficult...
Providing Value-Added Administrative Support
Your boss is headed out the door on a business trip, how do you prepare him? Your manager is headed to a weekly staff meeting, how do you prepare her? Your co-worker needs someone to cover the phones while they take a scheduled break, how do you support her? Do you do...
Overcoming the “can’t” mindset
Will you bury “Old Man Can’t,” or will he bury you? Old Man Can’t is alive and well, and he may be sabotaging you without your even realizing it. Listen to your own words. How often do you use the word can’t throughout a normal day? I can’t come…I can’t attend…I can’t...
Becoming A More Innovative Thinker
I love innovation because it's a new way of doing or thinking about things. It's how we take common, ordinary things and make them better. It's how we make ourselves better. The goal of innovation is positive change. But often we don't allow time for innovative...
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