Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals

If you are an administrative assistant or executive assistant who enjoys continuous learning and professional development related to your administrative professional job, role and career, you're in the right place.

"You have not embraced your administrative professional career until you've made a commitment to continuous learning and growth within your field."

--Karen Porter, VAAP Founder and President

VAAP Membership FEATURES and BENEFITS:

Feature One

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Access to the VAAP Private Member eLearning Community. It's a growing members-only online area where you can:

• Get fast facts about administrative professionals and the administrative profession in general.

• Search The Effective Admin (TEA) newsletter archives electronically. More than 600 TEA newsletter articles that appeared in past issues are posted and neatly categorized for you to easily access the topics you need.

• Get links to administrative salary data and resources.

• Read VAAP members-only content.

• Search the eLearning Community site electronically by keyword or phrase to find what you need when you need it.

• Read VAAP News & Notes, a quick two-page read publication for VAAP members only that's published periodically to give you even more insights, ideas, information and inspiration for today's top administrative professionals; plus this newsletter highlights some of the latest downloadable publications or articles added to the VAAP Web sites so you don't miss anything major (because there is a lot of information posted for VAAP members).

• More features and resources are being added to this private community ongoing.

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Access to The Effective Admin Tips Series -- contains 22 electronic publications on specialized topics tailored to administrative professionals' daily workplace needs and on-the-job skills and competencies. As the name implies, these publications are full of tips and guidance on their individual specialized topics: Minute-taking, travel planning, goal setting, meeting planning, time management, organization, and more. Get more details on this series by clicking here. This entire collection of tips publications is exclusively provided to VAAP members by The Effective Admin, founder of VAAP.

Feature Three

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Access to The Effective Admin In-Depth Special Report Series -- contains eight reports (from 25 to 63 pages) that include quotes and input from working administrative professionals and the Admin Pro Coach. These special reports are for and about administrative professionals. They're developed through original research that includes surveying working administrative professionals. Special report topics are relevant to broad or specific current issues related to or of interest to administrative professionals, such as dealing with interruptions and distractions, managing e-mail overload, stress at the desk management, and more. Get more details on this series by clicking here. This entire collection of reports is exclusively provided to VAAP members by The Effective Admin, founder of VAAP.

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A subscription to The Effective Admin newsletter, a publication of the VAAP. You get every issue of the newsletter that's published during your 12 month membership. That's six issues per year of this eight-page electronic newsletter (which won an award for publication excellence). Read more about the newsletter here.

Feature Five

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The electronic archives of The Effective Admin newsletter. So no matter when you become a VAAP member, you won't miss an issue. Look at some of the expert advice and tips here that are already published in this newsletter -- that you won't miss as a VAAP member because these back issues are all included in your membership fee.

 

Feature Six

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A goal setting guide information packet for administrative professionals. This is meant for setting workplace goals but can be used for guidance in setting personal goals too. See what publications this includes here.

Feature Seven

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A minute-taking guide information packet 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! Read a list of the documents and checklists included here.

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Access to past consultation advice from Karen Porter to your administrative colleagues in the form of a 50+ page eBook; 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. Click here to read the table of contents of this eBook.

Feature Nine

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A downloadable and printable VAAP membership certificate with your name on it (e-mailed to you within your first seven days of membership; for individual rate memberships only, not company rate memberships in which the company and not the individual is the member). Print this certificate and put it in your portfolio or in your personnel file. Or simply frame it and display it nearby as a visual cue to your commitment to professional development and continuous learning in your profession.

This benefit is priceless! If you frame your certificate on the wall or add a copy to your professional portfolio, that little piece of paper becomes a conversation starter allowing you to tell current and prospective employers who see it and ask about it that you are a lifelong learner in your administrative field and role.

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A subscription to VAAP News & Notes newsletter written just for VAAP members (2 pages/electronic PDF format). Click here to learn more about this resource.

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Any new digital products or benefits added to the VAAP membership download page over the next 12 months. You will be notified by e-mail so you can access them and/or download them for your usage. (These are usually listed in VAAP News & Notes, another member newsletter distributed periodically throughout the year.)

Feature Twelve

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An option to renew your VAAP membership at the end of 12 months at a significant discount off the first-year membership rate. Get the details here. You can continue to be affiliated with VAAP at a fraction of original first-year membership rates. While other associations and communities often raise their rates in successive years, VAAP actually lowers it rates to reward you for consecutive year membership. It's only 16% of the cost of first-year membership to maintain your membership in consecutive years for "individual" memberships, not "companies" (that's also lower too though).

 

Feature Thirteen

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You'll be able to proudly tell your employer and prospective employers that you are a member of the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals – a professional association in your field and source for ongoing training, professional development, and educational resources exclusively tailored toward administrative professionals. You can add your affiliation with VAAP to your resumes as a talking point and to your performance review documents in the continuing education or membership sections. This can give you an edge and positive differentiation among administrative professionals in your workplace  environments by demonstrating a proactive commitment to continuous learning in your field and admin role. Note that if your company purchases a company-wide rate membership, you still have the right to tell others that you are affiliated with VAAP and learn through VAAP participation and resources.

 

Ready to Join?

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Will you become a member today?  It's time to go with your gut and own your decision. If it's, "No," then best wishes in your future professional career endeavors. But if you've decided, "Yes," then it's time to take action on your decision: Make payment and checkout here on the "Join Now" page  so you can start benefiting in the next five minutes from the VAAP resources and professional affiliation recognition you'll have with VAAP. Either way, own your decision confidently and act on it.

"Today, you are not investing in the VAAP or in an association membership. You are investing in yourself: your continuous growth in your administrative professional career, your knowledge expansion, your success. When you realize and accept that mindset, you've grown further in your administrative professional career."

I've heard enough!

I'm ready to join. Enroll me now!