Strategic Success Tools for Today's Top Assistants

Powerful Assistant and Executive partnerships are easily recognized. They depend on each other to achieve a common purpose and contribute to each other’s accomplishments. What steps were taken to create the trust and respect displayed in their behavior? How did they become confident in one another’s abilities? Join Peggy as she shares personal stories and experience from her successful career, in which she’s formed many strong partnerships with her Executive(s).

Partnering with Your Executive

Do you want to go beyond just supporting your team? Being accepted as a leader, influencing your peers without formal authority, building trust and credibility with your boss are all critical to getting results as a team. How can you identify what motivates you to perform to your best and highest? Support your team and lead your team by confronting the fears that hold you back.

In this dynamic, live webinar, get valuable tips and insights and build the skills you need to perform as a leader, advisor, and mentor. Popular APC and EA Summit trainer Peggy Vasquez will walk you through the differences between each role and how to do each successfully. She will show you how to give and receive feedback, develop your team members, and identify and grow your successor so that you can move on to your next career-building challenge.

We’ve talked to thousands of administrative professionals whose number one concern is how to get their ideas heard and implemented. It isn’t about having positional power; it’s about presenting your ideas in such a way that others willingly follow your lead. Learn how to cut through barriers so that others give you the cooperation, time, resources or support you need. Communicate so that others listen; use four listening steps that encourage others to listen to you. Check yourself against the 11 toxic communication traps that diminish your ability to persuade. We’ll explore what role honesty and trust play in becoming more influential, how to communication using “executive style” techniques, and the greatest strategic tool in your arsenal: non-defensive communication.

Tired of searching everywhere for related documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, and presentations? Trying to find one tool that everyone can use to collaborate on a project? Learn about the new tool that’s now free from Microsoft and compatible with just about every device on the planet. Even if you’re already familiar with OneNote, this webinar will help you to up your game with tips and tools to really make your notebooks do the heavy lifting.

When you support executives, you are likely to receive lots of PowerPoint presentations that are “stitched” together by various departments.  As long as they jam all the content in, they think they are done.  We know better! To make the content presentable to the board or others in your organization, you have to a lot of “fixing” first.

Microsoft Office suite is the primary technology tool for most administrative professionals and executive assistants. It is one of your core competencies. Whether you've already moved to Office 2013, are scheduled to, or just want to be ready to migrate, this webinar (conducted by one of our favorite tech trainers) will save you time, illuminate new features, and jumpstart your Office proficiency! 

As a professional, you know how to create emails and calendar entries. So why is your inbox still brimming with a blizzard of emails? Let's connect the dots with your current Outlook skills in order to create a system that many Fortune 500 companies are now using. They have become 38% more efficient and over 42% more productive by utilizing this very simple 3-step system.

Make your job easier and boost your productivity when editing, formatting and managing proposals, business plans, legal documents, handbooks, and more! Save hours of time and enhance the look of your documents using Styles, Themes and Style Sets in Microsoft Word!

Learn how to apply and modify them, the benefits of using Styles, and how you can create or customize your materials. Not only will your materials stand out, but you'll be formatting even the most complex materials in minutes!

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by email? Do you struggle to get through all of your messages so you can focus on other priorities? Have you ever missed time-critical email that got lost in the middle of spam and group broadcasts? Learn tips and strategies in Microsoft Outlook to organize and prioritize your messages, quickly search and navigate through Outlook, create tasks and appointments from email messages, and save time and effort.

Of course you know Microsoft Office, but how many times have you wondered, “Is there an easier way to do that?” As busy as you are, it’s hard to take the time in the moment to check out your theory that there must be a better way! In this lively 60 minute webinar, you will get the answer to many of those queries covering Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, even OneNote! Melissa will present 10 hacks that will have you wondering why you’ve been doing things the long way.

Learn how to communicate clearly in person and writing, how to handle difficult people, and how to apply emotional intelligence in your daily interactions.  Get techniques for taking control of your daily schedule; planning and leading meetings, and managing projects effectively from start to finish.

Strategic Success Tools for Today's Top Assistants

Do you want to go beyond just supporting your team? Being accepted as a leader, influencing your peers without formal authority, building trust and credibility with your boss are all critical to getting results as a team. How can you identify what motivates you to perform to your best and highest? Support your team and lead your team by confronting the fears that hold you back.

In this dynamic, live webinar, get valuable tips and insights and build the skills you need to perform as a leader, advisor, and mentor. Popular APC and EA Summit trainer Peggy Vasquez will walk you through the differences between each role and how to do each successfully. She will show you how to give and receive feedback, develop your team members, and identify and grow your successor so that you can move on to your next career-building challenge.

Partnering with Your Executive

We’ve talked to thousands of administrative professionals whose number one concern is how to get their ideas heard and implemented. It isn’t about having positional power; it’s about presenting your ideas in such a way that others willingly follow your lead. Learn how to cut through barriers so that others give you the cooperation, time, resources or support you need. Communicate so that others listen; use four listening steps that encourage others to listen to you. Check yourself against the 11 toxic communication traps that diminish your ability to persuade. We’ll explore what role honesty and trust play in becoming more influential, how to communication using “executive style” techniques, and the greatest strategic tool in your arsenal: non-defensive communication.

Powerful Assistant and Executive partnerships are easily recognized. They depend on each other to achieve a common purpose and contribute to each other’s accomplishments. What steps were taken to create the trust and respect displayed in their behavior? How did they become confident in one another’s abilities? Join Peggy as she shares personal stories and experience from her successful career, in which she’s formed many strong partnerships with her Executive(s).

The way you handle yourself under duress says a lot about your emotional intelligence, communication skills, and confidence. Some conversations are ordinary and benign, while others have the potential to become confrontational, explosive and even dangerous to your career success or emotional health. Workplace miscommunication costs millions of dollars in lost productivity, errors and corrective actions. But with proactive thinking, proper positioning, and good judgment, your conversations and communications have the capacity to build and strengthen your credibility, effectiveness, and career.

Research continues to reveal that top-notch communication skills are an absolute must if you want to get ahead in your career and in life. In this seminar, you’ll learn practical steps for how to be seen as a highly credible and confident communicator who commands attention and gets the message across. Learn practical and proven techniques and skills for making the best impression the first time. You’ll be armed with the tools and techniques you need to be a more motivating, more persuasive and more effective professional.

Back by popular demand and updated for 2017! Dive into new strategies and must-know tips that are guaranteed to make your minute-taking job easier! Have you ever been called into your Manager’s office last minute to take notes, but there was no agenda and you weren’t sure what you needed to record? How can you keep your boss on track without interrupting a meeting?

In today’s busy workplace, many Administrative Professionals feel a constant lack of control. With so much happening at any given time, they simply react to their circumstances in the moment, trying to keep everyone happy without falling too far behind. They don’t have the time and necessary tools to anticipate needs, plan and prepare for the future, and prevent foreseeable issues from popping up. Instead, they’re trapped in a state of reactivity—constantly playing catch up but never getting ahead.

Do you feel constantly "snowed under" as a result of too much to do and not enough time to do it? Are shifting priorities making you crazy? You can go from overwhelmed to in control! Get the tools that you need to successfully manage the workload avalanche you experience every day.

Are you managing multiple important assignments, tight time lines, and resources that seem to grow scarcer every day? Your title may say something else, but your role is Project Manager. Rather than face an endless “To-Do” list, learn how to leverage Microsoft Office and other applications as project management tools. Get a handle on the principles of project management, and techniques for planning, managing time, coordinating the efforts of others, and juggling resources to get the job done.

The most popular posts on social media are pictures and videos, and with a few easy (and free!) tech tools, you can transform your messages into share-worthy graphics that will put your organization out in front. This action-packed session will give you dozens of sites and apps that will help you elevate the quality of your social media posts and other material.

Based on Beth Z’s newest book, “The 27+ Best Apps For Work & How to Use ‘Em!” we’ll take a deep dive into apps like Evernote, IFTTT, Trello, Tripit and Waze; their importance, their functionality, and how to use them effectively with your other software and processes. Get introduced to additional resource lists and a few more apps to love.

Creating an engaging presentation full of dense information can be challenging. Successful presentations should deliver critical information in a natural yet engaging way. Adding navigation links, interesting transitions and animation schemes, and segmenting the presentation into logical chunks make the presentation compelling for the audience, while keeping it easy for the presenter to deliver. Join Neil Malek as he shares his favorite methods and tools for building compelling presentations. Putting your new skills to work will not only save your audience time, but keep endless follow-up emails at bay!

As the New Year begins, exciting new changes to your office’s Microsoft products are in motion. How can we ever keep up? Well get ready for an engaging demo of Windows 10 and Office 365 (and preview of Office 2019) – with many new features and apps that were JUST ADDED! Learn about Microsoft’s two new productivity tools that will be total game changers for admins: Microsoft Forms & Microsoft Flow. They’ve also unveiled multiple creative-minded products including brand new Office features and a Windows 10 upgrade called the “Fall Creators Update.”

Microsoft Excel is more than just a great spreadsheet program—it’s a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing information. Excel is also a major source of frustration when new data arrives in formats, fields, and columns that aren't so helpful. Sound familiar? What if you were able to quickly organize, manage and retrieve information in Excel, without long formulas or complicated keyboard shortcuts?

Learn how to communicate clearly in person and writing, how to handle difficult people, and how to apply emotional intelligence in your daily interactions.  Get techniques for taking control of your daily schedule; planning and leading meetings, and managing projects effectively from start to finish.

Research continues to reveal that top-notch communication skills are an absolute must if you want to get ahead in your career and in life. In this seminar, you’ll learn practical steps for how to be seen as a highly credible and confident communicator who commands attention and gets the message across. Learn practical and proven techniques and skills for making the best impression the first time. You’ll be armed with the tools and techniques you need to be a more motivating, more persuasive and more effective professional.

The way you handle yourself under duress says a lot about your emotional intelligence, communication skills, and confidence. Some conversations are ordinary and benign, while others have the potential to become confrontational, explosive and even dangerous to your career success or emotional health. Workplace miscommunication costs millions of dollars in lost productivity, errors and corrective actions. But with proactive thinking, proper positioning, and good judgment, your conversations and communications have the capacity to build and strengthen your credibility, effectiveness, and career.