Insperity

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Salary structure, pay grades and bonus plans – Ensure objective criteria are used and aligned with job categories. For example, an administrative assistant and office coordinator may perform the same essential duties, so all other factors being equal, their pay would likely be similar. Document and communicate.

Administrative Assistance

C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 14, 2021

A work from home administrative assistant handles highly varied tasks that every company needs to be successful. However, the administrative assistant (telecommute position) has unique challenges compared to the in-person admin assistant. What Does a Work from Home Administrative Assistant Do?

Administrative Assistance

Insperity

JUNE 2, 2015

If you’re trying to hire engineers, sales managers and reps, administrative assistants, or accounting and finance staff, you’ve probably noticed that qualified candidates are hard to come by. For a managerial role, you could require new hires to complete courses on leadership, time management and strategic planning.

Administrative Assistance

Insperity

APRIL 16, 2019

For example, if someone is moving from an administrative assistant role to one that handles company cash, a background check should be performed if one wasn’t conducted when the assistant was originally hired. A PEO can help analyze your workforce, let you know when there could be a problem and walk you through a plan of action.

Administrative Assistance

Insperity

MAY 15, 2018

Does Kendall have a desk and office chair, or is she planning to work on her laptop from her couch? For example, Becky, the new administrative assistant, may feel more comfortable asking for a foot rest or a different chair from a fellow employee, versus telling her boss why she sits with her feet propped on a box.

Equipment

Insperity

JULY 12, 2018

But, could a reformed thief be hired on as a janitor or administrative assistant? PEP helps inmates while they’re still in prison to create a business plan, which actually doubles as a transition point. Become a business plan advisor or mentor. Most likely, yes. And who knows? Hire a program graduate or mentee.

Administrative Assistance

Insperity

JUNE 2, 2015

If you’re trying to hire engineers, sales managers and reps, administrative assistants, or accounting and finance staff, you’ve probably noticed that qualified candidates are hard to come by. For a managerial role, you could require new hires to complete courses on leadership, time management and strategic planning.

Administrative Assistance

Go Burrows

JANUARY 29, 2023

Whitney Kelso is an Administrative Assistant II at one of the largest healthcare providers in the United States. In this episode, Whitney talks about networking with colleagues, professional development, setting boundaries, taking risks, and the influence and power that administrative professionals hold in the workplace.

Networking

Insperity

AUGUST 10, 2011

If uncertainty about how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) would apply to your newly-hired administrative assistant who has decided to adopt a child from Russia is keeping you awake at night, or if you simply prefer not to spend a portion of your week interpreting health care insurance plans, outsourcing to a professional employer organization (..)

Payroll

Office Dynamics Blog

AUGUST 29, 2019

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. Science Side: map out a plan; identify the steps you will take to achieve your goal; forecast any barriers and list steps you will take to work around the barriers; write a timeline; assess your progress as you travel the road.

Administrative Assistance

Success

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

But sometimes, plans in action go completely astray when implemented. When you are finished, compare the stages to your more standard, forward plan. An employee is consistently 10 minutes late, a company computer has gone missing, and your administrative assistant neglected to schedule your important lunch meeting.

Problem-Solving

Insperity

MARCH 20, 2018

You may feel your administrative assistant is critical to your business. Examples include people who have authority to negotiate and bind the company on important issues, provide consultation or expert advice to management, or are involved in planning long- or short-term business objectives.

Supervising

Insperity

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If uncertainty about how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) would apply to your newly-hired administrative assistant who has decided to adopt a child from Russia is keeping you awake at night, or if you simply prefer not to spend a portion of your week interpreting health insurance plans, outsourcing to a PEO or a HRO may be the answer.

Payroll

Go Burrows

JUNE 2, 2024

She began as a 17-year-old volunteer Administrative Assistant to her youth pastor and later was hired full-time. She was promoted to the Executive Administrative Assistant to the CFO and is now the Business Ministry Chief of Staff at Bayside Community Church in Bradenton, Florida.

Administrative Assistance

Go Burrows

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I’ve been an executive assistant coach since 2016, and as someone who provides administrative professional training to aspiring administrative assistants, I jumped at the chance to chat with Libby. Being a personal assistant was seen as something new. A friend of a friend of a friend set her up. Libby paused.

Administrative Assistance

Success

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Her new book, Dream Achievement: The 6 Step Plan To An Inspired Life and Meaningful Success —which features a foreword from renowned author and motivational speaker Les Brown—outlines a six-step plan for living an inspired life. Banks has gone from an administrative assistant to the director of three departments.

Coaching

The Receptionist

JUNE 28, 2023

Whether you’re bumping your receptionist up to an executive assistant, or your administrative assistant up to your office manager, they need to be on board with the progression and change you’re suggesting. You both need to be aligned on their unique strengths and the knowledge they’ve gained from their administrative position.

Technology

Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The original plan was never to be gone permanently; it was simply to sail around the world. Ali left her job as an administrative assistant. But how does one go about planning for such a move and making it successful? It was 2003 when Ali and Patrick first started their adventure. Try and start living that simpler life.

Administrative Assistance

Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The original plan was never to be gone permanently; it was simply to sail around the world. Ali left her job as an administrative assistant. But how does one go about planning for such a move and making it successful? It was 2003 when Ali and Patrick first started their adventure. Try and start living that simpler life.

Administrative Assistance

SnackNation

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Front-Desk Assistant. Administrative Coordinator. Administrative Assistant. Administrative Services Assistant. Administrative Aide. Administrative Associate. Administrator. Junior Administrative Assistant. Events Administrator. Personal Assistant. File Clerk.

Administrative Assistance

Insperity

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Your company’s administrative assistant can’t pay her daycare bill and has to stay home with her child during your big open house event. For example, let’s say your mail carrier is behind schedule and one of your batches of paychecks is received two days later than normal. Imagine the complications that can ensue from late paychecks.

Payroll

SnackNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Measurable goals for administrative assistants can mean the difference between professional success and professional stagnation. Here’s everything Administrative Assistants need to know about setting measurable goals. Setting Measurable Goals for Administrative Assistants. Why Set Measurable Goals?

Administrative Assistance

Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

This is an excerpt from a special report available in the Career Resource Library , a convenient and affordable training program featuring 100+ on-demand professional development resources for career advancers and administrative professionals. Administrative assistants and executive assistants have a unique set of time management challenges.

Time Management

Office Dynamics Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

Discover essential tips for administrative assistants on handling unexpected travel disruptions, ensuring smooth business trips for executives.

Administrative Assistance

C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a business owner, you have many responsibilities, from overseeing daily business operations and marketing and sales campaigns to creating a business plan, financial management and bookkeeping, customer service, and ensuring legal compliance. By handling routine administrative tasks, they help the entire company.

Correspondence

SnackNation

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today’s Administrative Assistant. This blog may be targeted at Administrative Assistants, but it provides laughter and advice to Executive Assistants and really anyone else who works in an office, with humans. . Post roundup: Pushing work down.

Administrative Assistance

SnackNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

What Executive Assistants will learn: Designed with a focus on hands-on coursework and interactive practice exercises, this course helps students pick up tried-and-true techniques in presenting, communicating, planning, and organizing. Course objectives include: Plan and lead effective meetings. Manage complex projects.

Training

Eat Your Career

APRIL 12, 2020

Your leaders are too busy and too consumed by today’s issues to think about planning and preparing for the future. So, one way to be proactive is to create contingency plans for “what if” scenarios. What back-up plans can you put into place to give everyone peace of mind during this turbulent time?

Supervising

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 4, 2021

A reader writes: My team’s administrative assistant, Olga, is incredibly impatient, and expects me to quickly complete things that I don’t have any control over. I am planning on following up with him later this week if he doesn’t return it.”

Administrative Assistance

C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 12, 2021

Far too much rests on your shoulders to let calendar planning, telephone calls, travel booking, and other administrative responsibilities interfere with your performance. One of the best ways to delegate those responsibilities is by hiring a personal assistant. Since 2000, More than 1.6

Delegation

Work Life

AUGUST 21, 2024

The first BuzzFeed office I worked in was an open-plan space, with maybe two or three glass meeting rooms tucked away in one corner. My work as an administrative assistant was divided among three different managers within the Buzz side of the business. I was incredibly grateful that they believed enough in what I had to offer.

Catering

Great Place to Work

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

While coding tests are standard for programming roles at tech companies, Intuit takes the concept further, asking potential administrative assistants to plan out events or tasking training specialists with presenting an interactive workshop.

Administrative Assistance

Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

They plan, coordinate, and control the smooth running of a wide range of office activities. They should be able to schedule tasks properly and plan ahead for upcoming deadlines. They oversee many aspects of daily operations, including hiring new staff and ensuring all necessary duties are completed on time and within the office budget.

Office Management

SnackNation

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

According to Patricia Robb , author of Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today’s Administrative Assistant , “You should arrange your duties in a logical format in a table of contents to map out how you want to place each item. Create an update plan and calendar. S tart your manual with an outline.

Office Procedure

Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 20, 2016

A reader writes: My department’s administrative assistant (we’ll call her Olga) is incredibly impatient, and expects me to quickly complete things that I don’t have any control over. I am planning on following up with him later this week if he doesn’t return it.” Or are you peers?”

Administrative Assistance

Ask a Manager

JANUARY 22, 2020

A reader writes: I am a new manager at a nonprofit and have just been assigned an entry-level administrative assistant who has been failing to make deadlines, has been repeating preventable mistakes, and has major issues with focusing at work. One last thing: You mentioned your whole team is exempt.

Administrative Assistance

SnackNation

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Testimonials: One professional explains why she plans to sit for the CAP exam on an IAAP forum : “Because I want to be the best at what I do. ” – Vanessa, Administrative Assistant. ” – Tina, Administrative Assistant. Time commitment: Several months.

Office Management