Do you know how to ask for AND GET what you want or need in your administrative assistant or executive assistant job, role, and career? Would you like to know how to better communicate what you can do, can’t do, will do, won’t do, need and want in the workplace in your administrative role?
This could be anything from asking for a salary increase or funding to attend a conference to asking for an interesting work assignment or even asking to decrease your workload if you’re overloaded now.
It could be communicating your accomplishments (admins have plenty of them), negotiating impossible deadlines, conveying your boundaries, explaining needs to multiple managers to meet their expectations, and more.
There are so many things administrative professionals need or want to communicate in their jobs, roles, and careers. What’s tricky is how to do so effectively—so you get the needed or desired results of your communication.
In order to get results in your executive assistant or administrative assistant job, role, and career and be an effective administrative professional, you must use strategy in your communication. Think before you speak or write, and plan what you will say and how you will say it to move toward getting the results you require or desire in your administrative professional job, role, and career.
This also makes for more efficient communication, as well as effective communication, between you and your manager or executive, coworker, colleague, vendor, customer or client.
This is why Karen Porter, founder of TheEffectiveAdmin.com, wrote this book Communication Strategies for Administrative Professionals:
--to encourage administrative assistants and executive assistants to step up and ask for what they need and want to do their jobs well and to have satisfying administrative careers.
--to help administrative assistants and executive assistants state what they can do, can’t do, will do, and won’t do for those they support.
This does not happen nearly as often as it should in the workplace. The ONLY WAY to ensure your needs and wants are met in your workplace in order to do your administrative assistant or executive assistant job (and do it well) and in your career desires is to STEP UP AND COMMUNICATE strategically—as needed or on a regular basis. If you’re ready to take baby steps to make your voice heard in your workplace, this is the book for you. It has quick reads such as short chapters and quick, specific ideas to help you communicate strategically in the office.
But don’t buy this book just to add it your “career library” at home. Buy it because you’re going to pick an idea out of it and try it out. Implement something from the book (any one thing is a start and could impact your job or career positively). Read, think, act!

Communication Strategies for Administrative Professionals: How to Communicate What You Can Do, Can’t Do, Will Do, Won’t Do, Need and Want

Business & Money

Porter, Karen

Skills

Albee Publishing Company, LLC

Increase the knowledge and effectiveness of your administrative staff by having meetings of your administrative and executive assistants. Read 52 tips for planning, conducting, leading and facilitating successful meetings of your administrative support staff.
This is a guide/workbook that’s especially suitable for administrative assistants and executive assistants initiating and executing meetings of administrative staff within their companies, organizations and industries. However, anyone considering initiating these meetings in their company or industry (not just administrative professionals), or assigning someone else to do so, can find helpful tips in this book. Don’t wing it; read it!
There are three stages to planning, coordinating and executing a meeting of administrative professionals: Before, during and after the meeting. It’s that simple. Or is it?
The work by the meeting leader that goes into those three stages (and it will be work) is what will make your meetings of administrative professionals in your company successful and valuable. This guide explains to the meeting leader what work is needed by her before, during and after the meeting. Doing this work will help you to establish and maintain successful meetings of administrative assistants and executive assistants within your company or industry.
You will learn 
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<li>the difference between a meeting and a get-together</li>
<li>how to structure your meetings</li>
<li>where to find useful content for your meetings</li>
<li>and more</li>
</ul>

Starting Meetings of Administrative Professionals: 52 Tips for Planning, Conducting, Leading and Facilitating Successful Meetings of Your Administrative Support Staff

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Communication Strategies for Administrative Professionals: How to Communicate What You Can Do, Can’t Do, Will Do, Won’t Do, Need and Want

Starting Meetings of Administrative Professionals: 52 Tips for Planning, Conducting, Leading and Facilitating Successful Meetings of Your Administrative Support Staff