Articles
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 / ...
09/11/2024
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 ...
02/10/2024
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 ...
01/10/2024
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 ...
21/09/2024
Social History
My Uncle Joe
80 years ago today, on 6th June 1944, my Uncle Joe was at Sword Beach, it was D. Day. He enlisted at the age of ...
06/06/2024
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 ...
07/04/2024
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 ...
27/03/2024
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 ...
16/03/2024
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 ...
17/12/2023
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 ...
08/08/2023
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 ...
09/07/2023
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 ...
30/06/2023
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 ...
19/05/2023
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 ...
24/04/2023
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 ...
05/12/2022
Social History
June’s Story
The Publican’s Daughter took approximately two years to complete. I have no idea how many hours that would equate to as I sat sifting through, ...
26/11/2022
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 ...
01/11/2022
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 ...
23/09/2022
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. ...
22/09/2022
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 ...
01/08/2022
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 ...
03/07/2022
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 – ...
30/05/2022
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 ...
15/02/2022
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 ...
14/02/2022
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 ...
14/01/2022
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. ...
26/11/2021
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, ...
02/11/2021
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 ...
07/08/2021
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, ...
02/07/2021
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 ...
08/06/2021
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 ...
05/05/2021
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 ...
01/05/2021
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 ...
23/04/2021
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 ...
09/04/2021
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 ...
07/04/2021
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 ...
27/03/2021
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’, ...
06/03/2021
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 ...
06/03/2021
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 ...
06/03/2021