Your Competitive Advantage

Melba Duncan is the President of the Duncan Group, Inc. the only retained search firm in the country that deals exclusively with administrative-executive support professionals. Melba articulates the exhilarating vision that she calls “Indispensability.” This vision is a powerful message to executives to delegate strategic tasks to the willing and talented individuals who assist them in achieving their business priorities.

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The Case for Executive Assistants

by Melba Duncan
ASAP Contributor Melba Duncan makes the case for arming more managers with assistants in her article The Case for Executive Assistants, published in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review.
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How Executive Assistants or C-Suite Executives bring immeasurable value to the executive they support

by Melba Duncan
The Executive Assistant to a CEO, or C-Suite Executive, brings immeasurable value to the executive(s) whom they support and to the company for which they work. I define it in this manner: the EA is a business partner in a joint venture.
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CEO’s Perspective on Executive Assistants

by Melba Duncan
I think executives, CEOs especially, will need EAs who can partner with them and who will be intrinsic members of their teams. The true executive level EA will need to become increasingly comfortable in an online and social media-based world; increasingly comfortable managing a variety of internal and external resources on behalf of his or her boss; increasingly comfortable with a high degree of change on a variety of levels
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Your Competitive Advantage: A Credible Resume

by Melba Duncan
Resume preparation, job searching, and interviewing techniques are aspects of your career strategy. They portray the reality of your experience (what you have done), your competencies (areas in which you excel), your acquired and applied knowledge (what you know), and your personal attributes (who you are). Resumes can be a nexus where imagination and fact collide, especially when we consider that the role of assisting is general, variable, and indefinable.
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Key Traits and Skills of the Indispensable C-Suite Executive Assistant

by Melba Duncan
Key traits and skills that define innovation and lead to indispensability at the Executive Assistant levels.
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Management Skills

Time Management

Interpersonal Comm.

Professional/Career Dev.

Office/Digital Tech.

Project/Task Mgmt.

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