Dear all,
This week's activities
have been led predominantly with conversations around next year's International
Year of the Secretary. We are going to work really hard next year to change the
world of the Assistant across the world but we need your help. We had a flood of
offers to get involved from individuals, businesses, associations and trainers
following our request for volunteers last week.
So this week has seen
exciting meetings with the hub in South Africa, with associations all over the
world and with some of the world's top trainers and training companies. Watch
this space for announcements that will shortly be coming thick and fast! We want
as many of you involved as possible so if you haven't contacted me yet, please
shout loudly! My email address is
lbrazier@executivesecretary.com.
WHEN IN
ROME
Well not Rome actually - Milan, but you get the idea. It
was a privilege to spend time with the MACSE Assistants in Milan last weekend.
As part of their annual congress, I was there to present those that have
invested in their own personal development and completed their qualifications,
with their well deserved diplomas. Photos are on the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/executivesecretary.
Italy
is one of many countries that I work with where the Assistants need to work
really hard for investment in their training and for recognition. With a
statistic of only 48% of women working in Italy, the battle to change the
perception of the role is more difficult for our Italian colleagues than many of
the rest of us.
I applaud the Association members' commitment to their own
development. When I see Assistants in countries with the tide against them,
fighting so hard to get the education and recognition they deserve it serves as
a reminder to those of us that get it offered to us on a plate that it is not
something to be taken for granted. Grab the opportunity with both hands!
When
was the last time you asked for training or personal
development?
THIS WEEK'S FREE RESOURCES
A
slightly different slant this week for you. Here are four websites, all with
amazing free resources for Assistants.
The first is from the
wonderful Chrissy Scivicque (pronounced “Civic”) is an award-winning writer,
certified career coach and experienced corporate trainer. I met Chrissy in the
States recently and was hugely impressed with not only her breadth
of knowledge but with her passion for what she does. Her website - Eat Your
Career is full of exceptional content. Grab free worksheets, audio sessions,
video trainings and more for the sweet price of zip, zero, zilch. No catch.
Free. Really.
Just visit http://www.eatyourcareer.com/free-stuff/free-downloads.
Our second resource this week is www.allthingsadmin.com. If you follow our weekly Twitter chat,
#adminchat on a weekly basis, or are a subscriber to the magazine, you will
already know and love our Queen of Procedures, Julie Perrine. Her website is a
mine of information and her templates for everything from an administrative
procedures binder to travel procedures to a job responsibilities template are
absolutely second to none.
Thirdly, we'd like to introduce you to www.bookboon.com where you can download FREE eBooks and
textbooks.
In 2004, while studying for their B.Sc. and M.Sc. at
Copenhagen Business School, Kristian Buus Madsen and his brother Thomas came up
with the idea of free textbooks. They are second generation publishers and were
convinced it should be possible to offer free education material to both
students and business professionals. This is where bookboon.com came into being:
the concept was launched in Denmark in 2005 and the global website was launched
in 2008.
Bookboon's eBooks help the reader become more efficient in his or her
workplace. The books cover business relevant themes like persuasive
communication, time management, project management, and many other areas within
personal development, as well as practical books on Microsoft Office, social
media. Adobe and similar.
The books are about 50 pages long and they are
tailored to be read in two or three hours, which is the available time a reader
has on a flight, a train journey, an evening in a hotel or at home after the
kids are put to bed. The books have a hands-on approach: you can read them today
and use them tomorrow.
And finally, new kid on the block http://pa-prive.com.
We have been really impressed by the quality of the articles and information
coming out of this new resource. They seem to be doing a great balancing act
with aggregating interesting information and producing their own original
posts.
EYES ON THE PRIZE - NON-UK READERS LOOK AWAY
NOW!
We are delighted to announce that Executive Secretary
Magazine has just signed a partnership agreement with Keith Prowse Hospitality,
the UK’s leading corporate hospitality and tours provider.
As you know,
we are very choosy about the providers that we work with - we have to be sure
that they are offering something of quantifiable benefit to our audience before
we will put them in front of you.
So you will be pleased to hear, that
among other things, as part of the agreement, they have promised some great
give-aways to the Executive Secretary community. Please get entering, because if
this one goes well, then next up could be some hospitality packages for
Wimbledon!
So the first fantastic prize we have to give away, courtesy
of Keith Prowse Hospitality is...
An England rugby shirt signed by the
man that led England's World Cup Team to victory, Captain Martin Johnson
What a great Christmas present for any rugby fan! So, if you’re into rugby,
or know someone who is, then this is an ideal present. If you don’t, perhaps it
would make a good addition to a charity auction you are running?
Here's
the link - just click here to enter
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This week's Training
Courses & Events
Here is a selection of what's coming up in
the next week. Just click on the event you want to look at for fuller details. A
full list of training, networking and conference events is available on the
website at www.executivesecretary.com. Your event not listed? However big or
small the event, just email me at lbrazier@executivesecretary.com and we will
gladly list it on the website free of charge, as well as sharing it via social
media with the Executive Secretary community.
Please
visit www.executivesecretary.com for full
details of these events and many other
local, national & international training
& networking events.
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loudly if you need any further information on any of the above or if you have
information that you would like us to share with our community of over 15,300
Assistants from all over the world.Warm
regards from sunny but chilly Shepperton,LucyLucy
BrazierCEO,
Executive Secretary MagazinePS: If you
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