Updated 12/29/2022 It’s hard to believe another year is almost complete. What have you accomplished this year? What do you have planned for next year? Is your career where you want it to be? As the days fly by toward a new year, now is the perfect time to start...
Travel planning is a part of the job for most administrative professionals today. So it’s important to stay up to date on the latest best practices and resources available for coordinating travel. But with a wealth of technology, tools, and online travel planning...
It’s that time of year again. Now is when a lot of admins start thinking about and actively planning their company’s holiday party. As someone who doesn’t celebrate a lot of the traditional calendar holidays, it’s always been a tricky subject for me at offices I’ve...
Holiday celebrations at the office becomes a topic of conversation in the fall more than other times of the year – mainly because there are several major holidays in October, November, and December. Yet a lot of these holidays have religious connections, so it can...
Planning an important client meeting? Get all of the details right with this free template from All Things Admin! Download the Word document and customize the planning form details for the most common meetings you plan. Then use this form to track the planning details...
Daylight Saving Time started this weekend for most of the U.S. and Canada. Several other countries will also switch before the end of March. Use this infographic to brush up on your time zone knowledge and ensure your meeting times are communicated correctly with the...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
