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Interpersonal Skills

Communication only becomes more critical as your career advances. Fine-tune those communications skills for phenomenal performance.
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Keeping a cool head in a crisis is one of the most oft-neglected essential skills of an assistant. Learn how to keep stress at bay so you can rise above.
Technology

There are innumerable programs, websites, and online tools to help make your job easier. We’ll review and recommend the best ones for assistants.
Tricks of the Trade

Take the shortcut to gaining years of experience by getting our Cliffs notes version of what we’ve learned from our 20 years in assistant positions.
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Happy (belated) New Year!
January 06, 2010 at 05:06 PM | (0) Comments

fireworksHappy (belated) New Year!

Here’s to wishing you and yours a successful 2010 to kick off the new decade. ProAssisting came into being last year and this year our goal is to expand upon the great successes we’ve had so far…

Just to re-cap, in addition to becoming a featured writer for Monster’s AdminSecret, we had a very robust beta testing period thanks to their community of assistants who put our training through its paces. Then, we opened our doors and right out of the gate formed a 1-for-1 partnership with the prestigious and world wide philanthropy Dress for Success. All-in-all, a great start to our fledgling company!

Welcome to VegasTo get some rest and relazation before the start of 2010, Steph and I headed to Las Vegas. Stephanie has never been to Vegas so we decided to leave NYC behind for a New Year’s Eve out on the strip. What a great trip we had… and yes, if you can believe it, we left winners!

Sadie wasn’t too happy with us for being left behind but she had a great time staying at our dog walker’s home and playing with his 1 year old puppy so all was not lost… I think she’s just getting over being mad at us:) I’m sure Steph will post some more pics of her soon.

As for 2010 and ProAssisting, we’ve got some great free content coming your way via our blog, we’re working on our free “Assistant Tool Kit” which will give you some of the information and tactics we teach on the inside of our training straight to your inbox via email and we’re going to continue to work with Dress for Success by helping their clients achieve greater success through our training. Should be an exciting time so stick around and check back often to see what we’re cookin’ up to help assistants of every variety!

Flickr Creative Commons image by Mr Magoo ICU & Nevada Tourism

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Quick Tip: First thing to do to fix office equipment
December 21, 2009 at 05:51 PM | (0) Comments

on off switchHave you ever had a problem with your computer, fax machine, copier machine or any other computer machine that is essential for you to do your job?

For me, I’m usually under the gun with my hair on fire because I need to get this work done ASAP before my boss heads out the door for their business trip… and my computer freezes or the printer stops working or my fax machine won’t send. Hyperventilating with sweat dripping from my brow, I rush into the IT department and get one of the guys (or girls) to help with my “issue”...

...And do you know what they do?

They turn the device off and then on again!

I kid you not… most all the trouble we’re having in this situation is that our computer driven piece of office equipment has run out of memory (RAM) or has gotten caught up on any number of “glitches” that fix themselves when you turn the device off and then on again!

Try it, you’ll be amazed.

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What Matters Now!
December 15, 2009 at 06:00 PM | (0) Comments

This post doesn’t have anything to do with assisting per se but it has everything to do with living life, making a difference and finding your path… and the more I think about it, the more I believe that we created ProAssisting to help people find their path by teaching our enrollees (and our blog readers) the “tricks of trade” and the “ins and outs” of the working world so they (and you) can progress on their (and your) career path that much faster.

Huge props to Seth Godin for putting this together and for giving it away freely… if you want to get a little bit of Seth in your inbox every day, go and sign up here.

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Your career and pizza - Part 2
December 02, 2009 at 04:10 PM | (0) Comments

pizza shopYesterday, in part 1 of this 2 part blog series, I described the philosophy behind and why we created ProAssisting.

You should read part 1 first before you read how pizza fits in with your career below. Go ahead, I’ll wait…

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OK, now what in the world does pizza have to do with your career?

When I was about 12 years old, my father had already been in and out of a few different businesses (bar owner, real estate developer, real estate agent, bowling alley owner), a serial entrepreneur if you will, and over a couple slices of pizza one day he told me how, if I ever wanted to, I should go about opening a pizza shop.

Here’s what he said: “Ethan, if you ever want to open a pizza shop, this is how you should go about doing it.”

“How’s that Dad?” Believe it or not, at 12 years old I WAS very interested in business and as far as pizza was concerned, well, I believe to this day that it contains my four major food groups.

“First, you need to figure out where exactly you want to open this pizza shop. Which city or small town do you want to put some roots down and start a business”, he instructed. “Then, after you’ve figured out where you want to open your shop, put a dot on the map of that city or small town and draw a circle 50 miles wide with that dot at the center. Next, you need to identify every single place where you can get a piece of pizza in that circle. Now, are you ready to eat some pizza?” he asked.

“Every day of the week and twice on Sunday.” I replied.

“That’s my boy. OK, now you need to go and try every single piece of pizza in that circle on the map and figure out which piece is the best of the best. You with me?”

I nodded enthusiastically. With that much pizza involved, I’d be up for anything.

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