Seminars for Professional Assistants

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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SeminarAre you looking to improve your skills and catch up with the latest office trends? Are you trying to get that raise or promotion that you so well deserve?
 
One of my readers asked me this:
 
I am an Executive Assistant to the CEO/President.  She is the largest share holder of the company, obviously. But she is very high strung and doesn't know how to relax even when among friends or on vacation.  She can be very trying at times, just a very difficult person. 

I always feel that I am not good enough, maybe because she has impossible expectations to be met. I consider myself and have been in the past, to be an over achiever.  I do things in full, completely and beyond the best of my capabilities.  Even when I am not provided with the resources, I can make things happen.

I am really into self improvement in any way possible. So my question to you is, are there any seminars for the professional assistants that you know of, that can help increase multi-tasking skills, efficiency and more?  Just a seminar with great information on how to be the BEST Executive Assistant to the President/ CEO.
 
My reply to this reader was:
 
Thanks for writing me.  There are quite a lot of seminars that are being offered all around the world.
 
I did manage to find a site that has seminars listed for all of USA, if that's where you are writing from.  If you are in a different country, I can try to find you some others as well.
 
Here's the link:
 
www.findaseminar.com/administrative-seminars.html
 
Also, one other thing I wanted to mention is that the company that I work at has online courses that I can take.  This definitely helped my position. Check with your company to see if they have a similar program in place.
 
One more thing, multi-tasking has been shown to decrease productivity.  Try creating a list of tasks and tackle one thing at a time.

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4 comments for this post

Anonymous

This is a wonderful post. I'm in a similar situation but looking for seminars in Canada. Do you have any leads ?

Thanks in advance.
Ambitious

Posted on 25 August, 2008 9:12 PM  

Hi Ambitious,

Thanks for the comment.

This site also has a Canadian database of seminars. Try this link:

http://www.findaseminar.com/index_canada.asp

Thanks,

Richard

Posted on 26 August, 2008 10:54 AM  

Hi. I found your blog. I provide education for those that need to plan meetings and events for their companies. Administrative Assistants could really benefit from this education. We have a series of 1-hr. Tele-seminars that started last week. You can view our education at www.meetingplanningacademy.com

Thanks!

Cathy

Posted on 6 September, 2008 5:04 PM  

Hi Cathy,

Thanks for the comment. I am sure that this will definitely help quite a few readers.

Thanks,

Richard

Posted on 13 September, 2008 11:03 AM  

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