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How much better could you be in your
administrative professional role if you had instant and ongoing access every
day to practical advice, news, ideas and tips specifically relevant to your
administrative job and career that you could put to use starting today?
Could you...
√... maintain or improve your job performance?
√ ...further impress your employer with your
expertise?
√ ...better manage your career as an administrative
professional?
√ ...implement new strategies and processes to
increase the efficiency and effectiveness of both you and those you support?
√ ...come up with new ideas and inspiration you can
tweak and call your own relevant to your work, making you a more innovative
and valuable admin in your company?
YES, you can do all that with the tips and
knowledge available in Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals
(VAAP) educational resources.
The VAAP provides self-study advice and resources for administrative assistants,
executive assistants, secretaries, and all administrative professionals of
any job title at any level in their career. A list of some of these
resources to help you maintain and improve your job performance in your
administrative role and manage your career in your chosen administrative
profession is below.
The role of the administrative professional is
constantly changing, sometimes fast, and you need to build and maintain a
wide variety of practical skills and knowledge that you can apply in your
workplace and career now. VAAP learning materials can be an addition to your
current personal administrative professional reference library or supplement
any administrative training you're currently participating in. --Karen
Porter, job performance and career success coach and advisor to administrative
professionals globally and founder and president of Virtual Association for
Administrative Professionals
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Learn without leaving your desk:
Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals Members Get...
►Access to the VAAP Private Member eLearning
Community -- a members only online area with educational information
and resources.
This eLearning site is searchable by key word and key
phrase so you can quickly find items of specific interest; or you can
just browse all of the learning resources here. This includes tips, ideas and strategies you can use at work and
in your administrative role and career today to further yourself and
impress your employer. You get all this:
♦ An annual subscription to The Effective Admin
newsletter (described here)
written for administrative assistants and executive assistants (8
pages/electronic PDF format/6 issues per year). Your first current
issue is ready to download immediately.
♦ Archived issues of The Effective Admin
newsletter, which includes 700+ articles from 2004 until today's
most recent issue, all categorized into subtopics but also searchable
by keyword or phrase.
♦ 22 downloadable, exclusive
educational
publications (described here) full of tips and instruction from The Effective Admin (which operates VAAP)
for administrative professionals. These publications are part of
The Effective Admin Tips Series and contain topics tailored to
daily workplace needs and critical on-the-job skills of administrative
assistants and executive assistants:
problem solving
time management
gaining more respect
office organization
goal setting
internet research
e-mail etiquette and management
meeting planning and coordination
event planning and coordination
minute taking
office ergonomics
telephone skills
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♦ Downloadable, exclusive in-depth
special reports (described here)
from The Effective Admin that contain research data,
information, tips and input from working administrative professionals:
√ SPECIAL
REPORT #1:
Administrative Professionals' Biggest
Interruptions and Distractions at Work -- And Solutions to Manage or
Eliminate Them
√ SPECIAL
REPORT #2:
Empty Your Inbox Today --
Administrative Professionals' E-Mail Load Reality and E-Mail
Management Strategies
√ SPECIAL
REPORT #3:
Stress at the Desk for Administrative
Professionals and Their Stress-Busting Strategies
√ SPECIAL
REPORT #4:
Administrative
Professionals Investing in Professional Development and Training
√ SPECIAL
REPORT #5:
Meetings of Administrative Professionals Within Companies
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SPECIAL
REPORT #6:
How Administrative
Professionals Save Money for Their Companies
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SPECIAL
REPORT #7:
Perception
You Want Others to Have of You as an Administrative
Professional and How to Get it
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SPECIAL
REPORT #8:
Going
From Good to Great as an
Administrative Professional
♦ A
goal
setting guide information packet (described here) for administrative
professionals. This is meant for setting workplace goals but can be
used for guidance in setting personal goals too. Never be at a loss
again when your employer asks you to write workplace goals.
♦ A
minute-taking guide information packet (described here) for
administrative professionals. Minute-taking will never be an obsolete
skill as long as there are meetings in the workplace (in person or
virtual). Learn it!
♦ Professional advice from
Karen Porter, admin pro coach and advisor, to your administrative colleagues in the form of a
50+ page eBook (described here); it's in a downloadable (PDF file) format and
contains 32 questions from administrative professionals globally and
Porter's responses to them. If your question isn't answered there,
you too can send in your own question, issue or dilemma seeking advice
from the Admin Pro Coach and Advisor.
♦ A list of 200+ Links to Web-Based
Resources and Tools to help you do your administrative job better.
The list is online at the VAAP member site and divided into
subsections with links to Technology Tools & Resources; Resources for
Clipart, Icons, Photos and Images; Travel Planning Tools and
Resources; and Meeting and Event Planning and Coordination Tools and
Resources.
♦ A
membership certificate from VAAP with your name
on it that recognizes your commitment to learning and implementing
best practices as an administrative professional. Display it proudly
in a frame on the wall or keep it in your career portfolio. Use it as
a talking point with employers to let them know you're a lifelong
learner in your profession.
♦ A subscription to VAAP News & Notes
newsletter written
just for VAAP members (2 pages/electronic PDF format/randomly sent --
no set schedule)
♦ Ongoing educational information and resources
added over your 12-month membership period. The learning opportunities
and inspiration never stops! These are usually listed in VAAP News &
Notes if they're major additions like downloadable publications, or
you are notified by e-mail.
♦ A huge discount on membership renewal rates
(if
you renew year two onward). New member/year one rate is $197 per
individual, and consecutive year two onward is $32 per individual. New
member/year one company rate is $995 per company and $640 per
consecutive year renewal. Individual rate is for just you to join VAAP;
company rate is if your company wants to pay a single flat rate to
have all its administrative professionals access VAAP resources, which
is more cost effective than paying for individual memberships if your
company employs many admins.
♦ Final Benefit: The right to tell others you're a
member of VAAP (for individual members only/not company members). Employers love lifelong learners
in the administrative field who show initiative
to maintain and upgrade their skills and competencies that benefit the
employer. Your colleagues respect lifelong learners in the field. You
benefit most of all by being a lifelong learner in your chosen career.
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Take action today and join now. The cost to join VAAP for
individuals is $197 per year. Even better,
if you decide to remain a VAAP member in consecutive years, you pay just $32
per year -- so your membership costs go down, not up, all while your
benefits stay the same. That's the individual's rate; there are also special
rates for companies to join so they can give all of their employees access
to VAAP resources.
Click here to join
VAAP and make payment online today.
--Karen Porter
Founder and President
of
The Effective Admin and the Virtual Association for
Administrative Professionals (VAAP), a virtual, online association
for administrative assistants and executive assistants who work on site
in corporations, companies, organizations, and educational institutions
globally.
-- Assisting administrative assistants, executive assistants,
secretaries and all administrative professionals of any job title or
administrative level with professional
development and training since 2004
I've heard enough!
I'm ready to join. Enroll me now! I'm clicking
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directly to the subscription ordering/check out page for VAAP.
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After reading some of the
tips in resources included in your VAAP educational materials, administrative
professionals have stated that it helped them to...
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...update their skills and keep
up with current processes and systems.
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...learn about what other
administrative professionals are experiencing.
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...hear how other administrative
professionals have dealt with situations, which gave them a different
perspective and helped them to see 'outside the normal box.'
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...discover new and more
efficient ways to do their work – even for seasoned administrative
professionals with many years (even decades) on the job and in the admin
field.
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...enhance their skills and
performance.
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...enhance and improve their
roles within their organizations.
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...answer questions they've been
asking themselves or others – neither of whom always had the answer.
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...refresh skills not used in a
while – but needed now as their roles, or employers and jobs, change.
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...improve in their
administrative profession.
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...find new ways to do things.
They also said they...
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...found ideas and scenarios
that applied to and helped in their everyday situations, such as tips for
using Outlook® software, planning
travel, creating itineraries, event planning, Internet research, e-mail
management, conducting effective meetings, and more.
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...discovered plenty of topics
to help them increase their productivity, knowledge, organization, and more.
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...gained tools to remain
successful in their profession and be a valuable asset to their directors
and companies.
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...enjoyed the publications because
they gave them helpful tips but also made them think.
 "Karen,
you have been supplying each of us in the administrative support roles since
2004 with exactly what we needed to make our success possible.
Some of the things written were simple ideas and things that we already knew
but refreshed what's often forgotten.
I appreciate the organizational tips that I hadn’t
thought of that are especially useful while supporting multiple executives.
Your publications have become a reference book for my top drawer! I especially
enjoy the spelling and grammar refreshers that we may have forgotten since
school.
I appreciate your willingness to share your
knowledge and personal time given in each of your publications. Your passion
to share and mentor those in our field is evident and very much appreciated.
Even as I am in career transition, I will remain a TEA/VAAP member to maintain
that competitive edge and continue to learn best practices.”
With the utmost admiration and gratitude,
Dawn Hill
Executive Assistant
Atlanta, Georgia |
 "I am grateful for your site. It has changed my life.
Dear Karen,
I just can’t put into words how much your site means to me. I
use the tools every day. I had reached a point in my job where I
was being given multiple projects without clear direction. After several weeks
of struggling daily with not only managing my projects but trying to overcome
the feeling of carrying a 1000 lb. pack on my back, I had come to my wits end;
something had to change and it had to be immediately. I decided to do a search
for any help out there for administrative assistants.
Your site was the first one I came across. As I began reading a few pages I
was captivated and the rest was history. I immediately felt a huge sense of
relief and calm, finally the answers and direction I had been asking for. You
see, when I started out in the work world, being an administrative assistant was
never the top of my list. I didn’t feel I had the personality for it, and the
ones I knew were always so busy and hurried that I didn’t want that for me.
Well, 30 years later here I am. If I could give you the feeling finding this
site has meant to me. It has helped me to own my job and want a career, not just a
job, and to continue to learn how to do all the things that an administrative
professional does.
The fact that there is an association that provides assistance to ones like
myself who have struggled over the years trying to do things people assume you
automatically know how to do is in itself, PRICELESS."
With deep appreciation,
Leslie R Tiongison
Administrative Assistant
Washington, DC |
"Hello Karen, I am so excited to be a member of the VAAP.
It is an honor to be a part of any program you initiate. My membership is one
of which I am personally doing (not the company), and I feel great about that
because it benefits my personal growth as well as the company.
I have benefited not only from The Effective Admin
newsletters but your being there when I needed another voice ... whereby in
many cases your insight helped me set the record straight for myself. I am so
grateful you took time out from your busy schedule to respond back to me.
I remember back in March, I was placed under new management
after 20 or so years of working with the same group of people and you helped
me manage to stay on track by your words of wisdom. Also, if you remember, I
am the admin who is over 60 years old and was laid off from a large energy
company last year and was offered a position the same day as the termination
date. Most of my colleagues were saying how difficult it would be for someone
my age to find a job...not if you believe in yourself and continue the path.
I am where I should be on this leg of my career...amazing how
things work out....since joining this company almost one year ago, you again
were instrumental in helping me get on track with working in a new field.
Karen, please stand and take a bow for I believe you have been a 'SHINING
STAR' in so many of our lives. Definitely in mine!"
Thank you,
Dora Cranford
Executive Assistant
Houston, Texas
Lifetime Member of VAAP |
As a member of the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals, you
can quickly and easily learn simple strategies and tips that can make you a
better administrative professional. Knowledge acquisition through continuous
learning is a big part of what VAAP is all about. It's also about explaining
to you how to take that knowledge and transfer it to your administrative
professional job and career. That's how you and your employer get value from
your membership.
Small changes in your daily job performance and career
management equal big results for you and those you support.
Through the resources provided from VAAP,
you'll learn new skills, refresh current skills, be the best admin, and
remain the best. You'll learn tips to improve your job performance and
manage your career. VAAP provides advice and tips that are practical and
relevant to administrative professionals.
VAAP is an online resource produced by Karen
Porter, owner of
The Effective Admin (TEA) brand of learning resources for administrative
professionals that first provided assistance and tools to administrative
assistants and executive assistants in 2004.
As a job performance and career success coach
and advisor to administrative assistants and executive assistants, Porter's
specialty is serving administrative professionals like you with job
performance and career management advice.
The resources provided to you in your VAAP
membership benefits contain exclusive informational and educational resources that are full
of tips and knowledge that admin pros can transfer to their roles and
implement in their jobs for their employers. The membership self-study
educational products are not sold anywhere else other than through VAAP and
TEA. They are original resources developed from primary research of
administrative professionals' needs and desires and methods; this is not a
reproduction of any turnkey training solutions found elsewhere.
No pressure. No classes. No
meetings. No commitments. No tests. VAAP is simply about learning practical
tips and strategies you can apply to your administrative professional job
and career at your own pace, on your own time.
These tips and strategies
benefit both you and your employer. This knowledge is found online at the
VAAP private Web site and in downloadable publications provided by VAAP that
you can keep and refer to forever, once you're a member of VAAP.
I've heard enough!
I'm ready to join. Enroll me now! I'm clicking
below to get ordering details.
I'm ready to join. Enroll me now!
Click here to go
directly to the subscription ordering/check out page for VAAP.
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