All Things Admin® Blog
Solving Executive Travel Trauma “In the Moment”
If you’ve followed me for very long, you know I love travel planning! I love learning about new places and new resources. I enjoy coordinating all of the moving parts. And most of all, I love the feeling of relief and comfort that I sense from my traveling executives...
10 Travel Planning Resources for Your Admin Toolbox
This article was updated on May 5, 2015. I love travel planning. I love doing the research. I love assembling all of the details. I love being a vicarious participant of the business trips (or travel adventures in some cases) for those I provide travel arrangements...
The Innovative Admin – Foreword
By Dr. Lisa Van Allen Administrative professionals play key roles in every industry. They work in both generalized and specialized positions, at entry level and with graduate degrees. Support professionals are often the glue, the hub, the gatekeeper, the calm eye in...
Celebrating Administrative Professionals Week 2012
Feeling overworked and underappreciated? Looking for some professional “pick-me-up”s to reset your career focus and put you back on track? Or maybe you’re just looking for a simple way to reward yourself for a job well done? Then make sure you take advantage of some...
The Power of Quiet Acknowledgement
Featured guest post by Kemetia MK Foley, CAP-OM Before we know it, Administrative Professionals Week® will be here. Perhaps your supervisor or your company does something to recognize the administrative staff in the company—gift, cards, flowers, or maybe treat you to...
The Administrative Professional: Start here. Go Anywhere!
Our local community college has a saying they use on their promotional materials: Start here. Go anywhere. As an administrative professional, I have always seen the administrative profession in the same way. The career potential both within the administrative...
You Want Access to What?
By Julie Perrine, CAP-OM, MBTI Certified What would you do if your employer asked you to give them access to your social media sites by providing your login and password information to them? What if you were interviewing for a new job and the interviewer requested...
My Top 10 Free Tech Tools for Admins
Admins are always looking for the latest, coolest, most efficient tools they can find to make their jobs easier. I have numerous programs and websites that I use to keep me organized, connected, and smoothly sailing along each day at the office. So today, I want to...
The First 30 Days: Your Guide To Making Any Change Easier (Book Review)
Review written by Julie Perrine, CAP-OM, MBTI Certified As I’ve been working on some research projects and facing some big personal changes over the past year, I discovered a book that has been very inspiring and helpful to me throughout that journey. The book is...
5 Ways to Beat the 4 States That Lead to Mistakes
By Julie Perrine, CAP-OM, MBTI Certified Have you ever made a mistake? Maybe it was a little one that no one even noticed (except you). Or maybe it was a big one that caused you not only additional work and frustration but a fair bit of embarrassment with your boss,...