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Professional Development

How to Bullet Proof Your Career in 2025

Absolutely ‘chuffed’ that this book is now available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DM9G8186 PROLOGUE – Bullet Proof Synonyms – Impregnable / Indomitable / Insurmountable / Unbeatable / ...
Professional Development

A Road Well Travelled

In the time I spent in the workforce, which was over four decades, I travelled many roads both here in Australia and overseas.  It has ...
Professional Development

DABS

The Importance of Effective Communication Central to your success is clear communication. Don’t ever assume people understand your intentions. It is always worth keeping in ...
Professional Development

We are What we Plan to Be!

Putting ourselves and our needs first can be a difficult thing to do when other pressures rear their heads.  Planning to achieve a personal goal ...
Professional Development

An Extra Hour !!??!!

Imagine, as a busy Executive you have an extra hour bestowed upon you every day, just as we all are experiencing today with the end ...
Executive Strategies

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ALL EXECUTIVES

As a Senior Executive Assistant within the South Australian Public Service for the last 15 years of my career, I would like to share with ...
Career Management

UNLOCK YOUR PERSONAL CONFIDENCE

An opportunity to unlock your Personal Confidence has arrived.  On Thursday 30th May, AIOP in partnership with Hays Recruitment, are holding an Interactive Workshop right ...
Professional Development

What’s in a Name

If you have worked in the field of administration as long as I have, (dare I say over four decades), you will have experienced the ...
Professional Development

Effectively Managing ‘UP’

As you would be well aware, an Executive’s TIME is highly valued and must be meticulously managed.  The only way to ensure this occurs is ...
Career Management

Mondayitis!

I hate Mondays!  How many times have you heard someone say those words? Every week the same few turn up for work complaining about how ...
Professional Development

Managing Up!

A roaring lion can sometimes personify how assistants perceive their executive, making the role of supporting them seemingly an ongoing challenge. Perception being a person’s ...
Professional Development

The Power of Possibility

From time to time, I run training workshops for people looking to get into the workforce. Attendees come from a diverse number of backgrounds and levels ...
Career Management

The Executive’s Success Story

A successful Executive will possess senior managerial experience, be highly regarded as an expert in their field, with a career journey that has taken many ...
Professional Development

Resilience, what is It?

Resilience, we hear this word constantly as being the way to keep our head above water through thick and thin. Of arming ourselves with the ...
Professional Development

Career Challenges!

From time to time a career can take a downward turn, through circumstances beyond our control, such as being retrenched or ‘let go’ due to ...
Professional Development

Dynamics of the Team at the Top

The importance of creating a Dynamic Team at the Top of any organisation cannot be underestimated.  It goes without saying that the effectiveness of the ...
Professional Development

Self Esteem

If we look in the mirror, what do we see?  More often than not, we are self-critical rather than see the true person we are.  ...
Professional Development

AIOP

The Australian Institute of Office Professionals, affectionately known as AIOP, is specifically aimed at staff who work within the field of Administration.  Whether you manage ...
Professional Development

NEVER GIVE UP

I had the opportunity to witness a remarkable event in Sydney where Tony Robbins was appearing.  An incredible experience to say the least.  He certainly ...
Professional Development

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

Necessity is the Mother of Invention HOT OFF THE PRESS! I’m delighted to share my latest thoughts first and foremost through Executive Support Magazine – ...
Professional Development

The Executive’s Diary

The Executive’s time is the most highly valued commodity and as such needs to be meticulously managed.  The only way to ensure this occurs is ...
Executive Strategies

The Executive Experience

For Executives who are constantly walking the ‘tightrope’ whilst managing the demands of their position and would value discovering strategies that will assist in creating ...
Personal Development

New Beginnings

I met the most wonderful woman recently who changed my perspective on the importance of being in congruence with my true self. Sounds grandiose, but ...
Professional Development

Schools Out, where to from Here?

Information aimed at Students who finish their final year at School and are unsure of the next step to take in transitioning into the Workforce. ...
Professional Development

The Executive Experience

In nearly every article aimed at Executive Assistants (EA), the discussion talks about the importance of the role, the attributes considered essential to be successful, ...
Professional Development

The Art of Volunteering

 Put a smile on someone’s face, become a Volunteer! The value of volunteering should not be underestimated. Volunteers come from many different backgrounds and bring ...
Professional Development

Professionalism

“It’s your job to uphold the dignity of this profession and you have to start by honoring and respecting yourself and the contribution you make, ...
Professional Development

The Power of Being Organised

I recently wrote an article and placed on Linkedin.  If you would like to discover a few ‘secrets’ of staying organised in an exceptionally busy ...
Professional Development

Where is that …. File?!?

I was speaking with a Colleague today about ‘File Management’, and the difficulties of actually FINDING that file you know you ‘filed away’ SOMEWHERE.  The ...
Professional Development

The Role of Receptionist

The role of the Front Desk Receptionist has changed considerably over the past few decades due to the incredible changes in Telecommunications.  Operators were once ...
Professional Development

Aspirational Career Management

Here we are, it’s already mid-April, and you may still be unwilling to acknowledge that life is not all that you had anticipated it to ...
Professional Development

The Fine Art of Taking Minutes

If you have ever been asked to take Minutes at a meeting, you know how it feels, you go weak at the knees, your breathing ...
Professional Development

Self Esteem

WHAT IS IT AND WHERE DO YOU GET IT? I don’t think we are born with Self Esteem, I feel it is something that develops ...
Professional Development

Special Announcement

In celebration of the launch of OFFICE Dynamics Adelaide’s new website, complimentary copies of Job Hunting? Plan for Success will be offered to the first ...
Professional Development

Are Executives Listening?

This article was written in May 2013, when I was National President of the Australian Institute of Office Professionals. In revisiting some of my ‘articles’, ...
Professional Development

Imagine, having your own Mentor!

Are you looking for work?  Do you feel insecure in your current role?  What type of Career are you looking for?  Perhaps you are not ...
Professional Development

Empowerment

I read a Post recently that asked “What is your ‘key’ word for 2021”?  I had to think about my business as a Career Management ...
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