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Karen Porter The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach™
and Founder and President and The Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals
 Karen Porter is The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach and founder and president of The Effective Admin (TEA) and the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals (VAAP). She is the creator of multiple professional development and training products specifically for administrative professionals. Topics covered by The Effective Admin include meeting coordination, goal setting for admins, prioritizing workloads, developing administrative professional - manager/executive business relationships, e-mail management and netiquette, time management, office organization, career management, and many more.
Karen has provided self-study professional development and training resources for administrative assistants, executive assistants, secretaries and all administrative professionals through The Effective Admin since 2004. This includes producing The Effective Admin newsletter for four plus years. Prior to 2004, Karen worked in the corporate, nonprofit, and higher education sectors for 18 years in roles and levels ranging from office assistant to senior administrative assistant and executive assistant (on various part-time, full-time, and temporary basis) and as an assistant director of development in institutional advancement. She is also a trained journalist and published professional writer. She is a member of Generation X.
A native of New York raised in Florida, Karen has resided across its border in Georgia for more than 15 years. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism and communications from the University of Florida and has the distinction of being a member of Kappa Tau Alpha -- the "college honor society that recognizes academic excellence and promotes scholarship in journalism and mass communication." This added expertise of professional writer enables her to relay job performance and career success concepts clearly to administrative professionals and their supervisors.
Karen is a member of the American Society for Training & Development,
International Association of Administrative Professionals, National
Association for Female Executives, and American Management Association.
She invests significant time and funds in her own professional development
and skills and competencies training ongoing -- knowing one can never be
static and still be a high performer and current on issues in the dynamic
workplace and business environment. Karen uses the written word and audio through downloadable self-study products to deliver practical messages and advice to administrative professionals. This method reaches a large and geographically diverse audience of administrative professionals simultaneously who want her assistance and often share similar dilemmas to each other or have similar questions about their job performance or career management issues.
Her self-study materials inform readers and listeners and provide substance: practical tips, advice, and scenarios applicable to the real working environment and world of administrative support professionals that she knows firsthand. This is through her experience working at the admin pro level as well as above and below it in the "real world" for many years. And it's also through firsthand correspondence with current working administrative professionals and ongoing research into their needs and the field today. She is well aware of the substantial job administrative professionals perform daily, while making it appear seamless to onlookers. She knows the challenges admins face in their job and career.
Additionally, prior to founding The Effective Admin, Karen spent several years researching and writing about topics relevant to administrative professionals for national trade publications. She is one of the foremost and few authorities on administrative professional job performance and career development who strictly specializes in serving administrative professionals as well as their supervisors, managers or executives -- the latter in relation to effectively working with their admins. She serves administrative professionals of all levels seeking to be or remain top notch assistants in their field.
and
"...priceless tools to remain
successful in my profession and allow me to be a valuable asset to my
directors and my company."
You can contact Karen Porter at anytime for more information about how her expertise in administrative professional job performance and career success shared through The Effective Admin products and services can be of assistance to you, your team of administrative professionals or your company. Get contact address and e-mail here.
To learn even more about Porter, The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach, and The Effective Admin, read the letter on the home page here.
Additionally, the following is what some administrative professional clients say about the "An
Effective Admin VIP™" materials -- a prime professional development and training
informational product specifically for admins developed and produced by
Karen Porter and exclusively offered by The Effective Admin (Note:
This VIP package of self-study materials is discontinued but you can still
get all of the same materials in your VAAP membership packet at
http://www.thevaap.com/benefits-vaap.htm ) |
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Do you have a question, problem, or dilemma related to your administrative professional job or career? Share it with The Administrative Professional Job Performance and Career Success Coach. Click here for details. Thousands of individual administrative professionals globally invest in their professional development and skills training by utilizing The Effective Admin self-study resources found here: www.admin-ezine.com/store.htm They work at all size companies – from small lesser known private companies and organizations to well recognized employers, including: Abbott Bioresearch Center, Abilene Christian University, American Express, AT&T, Austin Community College, BAE Systems, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Bristol Myers Squibb, Capital One, Chevron, Coors Brewing Company, Del Monte Foods, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Fidelity Investments, Georgia-Pacific, H&R Block, Hess Corporation, Hewlett Packard Co, IBM, Johns Hopkins University, Kaiser Permanente, Lance, Inc., Lockheed Martin, Lowe's Companies, Inc., Marriott International, Merck & Co., Inc., Nike Inc., Northrop Grumman, Oracle, Pepco Holdings Inc, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon Missile Systems, Reuters, Roche, Sara Lee, State Farm Insurance, Texas A&M, The Humane Society of the United States, Tyson Foods Inc, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, United Way, University of Cincinnati, University of Tennessee, USDA Forest Service, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Western Union, YMCA, and many more. |
