Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals

An association for administrative assistants, executive assistants

and all administrative professionals of any job title or level

who enjoy ongoing learning and professional development

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YOU GET The Effective Admin In-Depth Special Report Series.

SPECIAL REPORT #1: Administrative Professionals' Biggest Interruptions and Distractions at Work -- And Solutions to Manage or Eliminate Them

53 of your administrative professional colleagues disclose their biggest interruptions and distractions at work in their own words along with any solutions they have to manage or eliminate them. See if you can relate.

Plus The Effective Admin weighs in with additional advice -- personally addressing 18 of your 53 colleagues' scenarios and solutions. That's even more practical time management strategies for preventing or minimizing these interruptions.

Altogether you get more than 100 short, practical solutions and tips you can utilize to minimize interruptions and distractions as an administrative professional at work.

How much time and productivity could you regain and how much work-related stress could you alleviate from implementing just one of these tips at work?

This printable file is 56 pages (8 1/2" x 11" paper size) and is in PDF file format (read with free Adobe Reader software).

SPECIAL REPORT #2: Empty Your Inbox Today -- Administrative Professionals' E-Mail Load Reality and E-Mail Management Strategies

37 of your administrative professional colleagues report how many e-mail messages they deal with daily – and how they manage them all (or not).

Plus The Effective Admin offers lots of advice for getting your existing e-mail inbox under control and for being in control of your e-mail inbox from this point forward. This includes tips for managing other e-mail inboxes you're in charge of such as those of managers and executives you support.

You will learn how to eliminate e-mail overload, chaotic inbox management, and ineffective e-mail usage. Imagine seeing an organized inbox that doesn't overwhelm you. It's possible!

This printable file is 61 pages (8 1/2" x 11" paper size) and is in PDF file format (read with free Adobe Reader software).

SPECIAL REPORT #3: Stress at the Desk for Administrative Professionals and Their Stress-Busting Strategies

53 of your administrative professional colleagues report what they find stressful about their current work and administrative positions; how they manage stress levels, stressors and stressful situations at work; and if their methods for managing stress are successful or not. They also offer their best advice for other administrative professionals experiencing work-related stress.

Plus The Effective Admin offers conclusions about your administrative professional colleagues' comments and more information about stress in the administrative professional role and in the workplace and advice for handling it.

You will learn multiple ideas for managing stress at the office and in your administrative support position.

Reading these administrative professionals' comments about their stress factors will give you a chance to see if you can relate. Then apply the stress-busting advice in your work days and administrative professional career.

This printable file is 63 pages (8 1/2" x 11" paper size) and is in PDF file format (read with free Adobe Reader software).

SPECIAL REPORT #4:  Administrative Professionals Investing in Professional Development and Training

►42 of your administrative professional colleagues report their participation in and views about professional development and training for administrative professionals.

►Plus The Effective Admin offers conclusions about your administrative professional colleagues' responses. Also read the in-depth coverage in the "recommendations" section of this report. It's filled with practical advice about how to choose and pursue your own professional development and training opportunities (and how to do so with the support of your employer).

►There are at least five ways you can use the information in this report
Use it to...


1. ...understand what is professional development and training.


2. ...gain insight into what other administrative professionals think and do in regard to professional development and training.


3. ...understand what drives employers to support professional development and training.


4. ...help you plan and choose your professional development and training endeavors.


5. ...assist you with proposals to your employer for requests to fund your professional development and training resources
.

This printable file is 54 pages (8 1/2" x 11" paper size) and is in PDF file format (read with free Adobe Reader software).

SPECIAL REPORT #5:  Meetings of Administrative Professionals Within Companies

►This report includes 26 of your administrative professional colleagues reporting on their participation in and views about meetings of administrative professionals within their companies. 

►Plus The Effective Admin neatly summarizes and offers conclusions about your administrative professional colleagues' responses. You get dozens of bullet point tips here.  

►That "conclusions" section is followed by the "recommendations" section of this report. There you'll get additional advice from the Admin Pro Coach for initiating and executing meetings of administrative professionals within your company. Those tips build on the same subtopics covered in the sections with research results and conclusions.  

►In the recommendations section, you'll also read some troubleshooting advice for commonly asked questions: What to do if admin meeting participants get off topic, seem too quiet, don't want to be there, and more.

►Take the information from this report and use it to either initiate or improve your own meetings of administrative professionals within your company. You'll read ideas for doing either one of those things. 

►Read onward to find out details such as potential frequency of meetings and what content you could include in these meetings of admin professionals.  

►Possibly most important, learn how to recognize true outcomes (results) from these meetings that matter to your administrative professionals and their managers and executives. What you need to know is in this report. Also, you'll get ideas for visibly promoting these achievements produced from these meetings to your senior level staff members.

This printable file is 49 pages (8 1/2" x 11" paper size) and is in PDF file format (read with free Adobe Reader software).

 

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