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| Dear all And so to day two of of our Administrative Professionals week giveaway. If you missed our newsletter and all that we offered yesterday, you can still find it on the LinkedIn and Facebook groups. For those of you that aren't familiar with Administrative Professionals Week, it was originally organised in 1952 as "National Secretaries Week" by the National Secretaries Association (now known as the International Association of Administrative Professionals) in conjunction with public relations executive Harry Klemfuss and a consortium of office product manufacturers. It was established as an effort to recognise secretaries for their contributions in the workplace, and to attract people to secretarial/administrative careers. Today, it is one of the largest workplace observances outside of employee birthdays and major holidays in the States. Administrative Professionals Week is always held annually during the last full week in April. Administrative Professionals Day is always held the Wednesday of that week. According to IAAP members, administrative support personnel prefer observances that recognise and provide opportunities for learning and growth. Our website lists many of the events taking place in the US and Canada over the next few weeks in honour of APW. So for this week only, watch out for this - our special daily newsletter, packed with special offers and free educational resources. Feel free to share this newsletter with anyone else you think might benefit from this weekly newsletter or from the information we will be putting out over Administrative Professionals Week - we are always delighted to welcome new recipients. As usual, in this week's newsletters you will find below all sorts of resources as well as a list of our events and three of our favourite articles. SO HERE ARE TODAY'S RESOURCES
WIN A 60 MINUTE COACHING SESSION WITH LINDA MCFARLAND (AUTHOR OF
SITTING ON A FILE CABINET, NAKED WITH A GUN)
Are
you interested in taking your skills to the next level? Or maybe you need some
advice or coaching in preparation for a crucial conversation with your leader or
co-worker. Do you need more courage to speak up in group settings? With
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has mastered her “never-panic” demeanor. She is performance-driven, a strategic
thinker, and intuitive problem solver and has held executive assistant positions
with a variety of start-up and Fortune-listed companies.
Linda is offering a 60
minute coaching session to two lucky winners. To enter the drawing, send an
email to linda@ascend2success.com.
In the subject line include: “Admins Make It Happen”. If your name is drawn,
Linda will contact you regarding next steps.
If you would also like
to enter a drawing to receive a free hard cover book, send an email to Linda at
linda@ascend2success.com
and include these words in your subject line: “Sitting on a File
Cabinet”.
Good
luck!
FREE BOOKS
FROM BUSINESS ENGLISH EXPERT, DALICE TROST
Dalice has set up free book promotions on three books from 22 - 24 April 2014 on Amazon (Kindle store). The books are:
Business
Writing: A tip a Day for 30 Days Vol 1 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BH0CZMI)
Business
Writing: A Tip a Day for 30 Days Vol 2 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DK9WPRO)
and
The Busy
Person's Guide to Networking (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008YGQEE8)
The
links are all to the US Kindle store, but the books are available in all the
Kindle stores.
FROM THE AAPNZ (NEW
ZEALAND)
Technology focused AAPNZ is really pleased to be associated with ShowGizmo, the smartphone app for events. They are currently trialing this app with one of their local Groups and then rolling it out to the other 10 Groups around the country. Local groups will be able to log-on to find out where their next monthly event is, who is speaking and who else is attending. There is also the option to survey members about anything to do with the event, what was the venue like, the food, the speakers; it’s all contained within the phone app and makes life so much simpler. They will be using it for their bigger events; 2014 AAPNZ AGM & Professional Development Forum on Saturday 9 August in Hamilton NZ will feature exhibitors, surveys for keynote speakers and of course delegate information and opportunity to chat with people via the app as well as face-to-face. Why don’t you log on to their website and check the app out. A discount of 10% is available this week only in support of AdministrativeProfessionals Day. Plus Time Management Robyn Pearce from GettingAGrip is offering a free e-book entitled“GettingaGrip on Time Management”, a must for every administrative professional; but you do need to sign up to be a member of AAPNZ in order to get one. See www.aapnz.org.nz THINKING ABOUT BECOMING A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT? Tawnya Sutherland is offering 25% OFF the exclusive VAinsiders.com Club, for those Virtual Assistants who want to kickstart their business (Coupon Code: lucy)
AND OF COURSE, OUR TWO FANTASTIC APW
OFFERS
The IAAP, who have organised Administrative Professionals Week every year
since 1952, say that administrative support personnel prefer observances that
recognise and provide opportunities for learning and growth. 1) A FREE PDF OF THE JANUARY ISSUE OF EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MAGAZINE So we'd like to give you a gift that will give you a unique opportunity to learn from the best of the best trainers from around the world. Our magazine normally costs £25/E31.50/$44 an issue but we would like to offer you a free PDF copy of our January issue as a gift for Administrative Professionals Week. Read articles that will make you more productive and create effective strategies so that your role works alongside your business's needs. Your boss will see the positive impact of your time-saving techniques that will reduce costs and improve performance across your company. Just email lbrazier@executivesecretary.com to receive your free PDF. 2) GET A FREE BROTHER P-TOUCH PT-H75 LABELMAKER WORTH £47/E58/$80 WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO EXECUTIVE SECRETARY MAGAZINE For this week only, for Administratibe Professionals Week we are not only offering you a year's learning at a 30% discount on a subscription to Executive Secretary Magazine, but we are also giving you the opportunity to receive something practical - a Brother P-Touch PT-H75 labelmaker free of charge when you subscribe. We have a letter that we can email you, which explains what the business can hope to get from you subscribing to the magazine, which has helped many of our subscribers to get their businesses to agree to subscribe on their behalf. If you would like me to email you a copy then just drop me an email at lbrazier@executivesecretary.com. Authors in the new issue include: Bonnie Low Kramen Julie Perrine Joan Burge Rhonda Scharf Marsha Egan Heather Baker Susie Kay Robert Hosking Richard Arnott Nicky Christmas and this is only a fraction of the contributors. You can subscribe either by clicking one of the links below, or by emailing me at lbrazier@executivesecretary.com. I can send you either a traditional invoice or a link to an electronic invoice where you can pay securely by card online. Costs (including postage) are: £150 - UK E189 - EUROPE $262 - REST OF WORLD For this, you get 48 pages of training, from the world's top trainers of Assistants, as recommended by your peers, in every issue. There are 6 issues a year, so that is a total of 288 pages of top quality training a year.    UK Based Rest of the World Europe Based PLUS, DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN UPGRADE TO A PDF LICENCE AND SHARE
You may be
interested to know that we now have a new facility which allows you to download
PDF versions of all the magazines (as well as of all the archive editions)
directly from our website when you subscribe. You are also now able to search
the website by author as well as by topic. To subscribe, visit
www.executivesecretary.com
You can also subscribe as a company to a PDF licence version, which allows you to share the magazine and all the training in it between all your administrative staff. Contact me if you would like details at lbrazier@executivesecretary.com |
