ABOUT KAREN PORTER

 

"Through The Effective Admin professional development and training resources and tools, I'm here to show you how to be the best administrative professional you can be WHILE getting the benefits and satisfaction you deserve as an admin career professional."

                                                       Karen Porter

                                                       The Administrative Professional

                                                       Job Performance and Career

                                                       Success Coach™

                                                       and Founder and President
                                                       of The Effective Admin

                                                       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.


Current administrative customers have described her digital informational products with phrasing such as:
"...one of the best products I have found for EA training...;"

 

and "...priceless tools to remain successful in my profession and allow me to be a valuable asset to my directors and my company."

Karen
corresponds regularly with administrative professional readers in need of advice or with viewpoints to share. She also seeks perspectives from experts in various specialty areas who can offer solutions to workplace challenges specific to administrative professionals. She regularly researches and surveys the activities and needs of today's administrative professionals and their supervisors, managers, and executives. This research and 360-degree approach enables her to keep closely in touch with the needs of both administrative professionals and their leaders at work, while providing real life feedback, advice and solutions to administrative professional readers and clients. She develops new professional development and training products ongoing for The Effective Admin.

Karen founded and produces The Effective Admin to serve and benefit the thousands of administrative support professionals at work globally. If you know administrative assistants, executive assistants or other administrative professionals who would like tips about how to be and remain highly effective in their job performance and careers, please direct them to The Effective Admin.

 

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 )

"I bought the Effective Admin VIP because I am always looking to further my knowledge and the publications looked very promising.... I haven't had as much time as I'd like to read everything I've received, but I have enjoyed everything I have read so far. I've actually learned something from everything I have read. I haven't read the tips in order and I'm currently reading tip 2 and I LOVE IT!!!"
Carolyn Isherwood
Department Specialist IV
San Diego, CA
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"I purchased 'Effective Admin VIP Products' because I was looking for an edge - they have given me priceless tools to remain successful in my profession and allow me to be a valuable asset to my Directors and my company. The product(s) are useful in many, if not all aspects of my job as an Administrative professional.

[Specifically, in the tip sheet] What do Managers want from You? 'PAR' has allowed me to shift from 'just do it mode', to thinking strategically of possible solutions to save time and money. (e.g. is there a better way to do this?)"
Debbie Ryan
Admin Assistant
Santa Clara, CA
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"I am responsible for training new EA's and this is one of the best products I have found for EA training"
Kathy L Jordan
Executive Assistant
Decatur, TX
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"I purchased the 'Effective Admin VIP' package because I'm worth it! I love my job and want to continue to strive to be the absolute best at it.

I love this product and all of the information it contains. It's relevant and helpful in a variety of ways...."
Shannon Farrell
Administrative Assistant to
the Dean of Academic Affairs
Herkimer, NY
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"I purchased this product because I want to be a better admin and I will do whatever it takes to get there. I love this product. It makes you think and gives helpful tips."
Michele Duke
Executive Assistant to CIO
Houston, Texas
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"I purchased this product to help me improve in my profession. I think the product is great! I am getting new ways of doing things. I am now using the agenda for the travel Itinerary. The information you provide is just right."
Name Withheld for Privacy
Executive Assistant
New York, NY
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"The material is great, just what I had been looking for, very detailed. My favorite is the tip sheets."
Norma Ramirez-Hall
Administrative Assistant
Sugar Land, TX
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"[I purchased this VIP product because] I want to be the best executive admin assistant that I can be. I especially found the internet research links recommended useful, as well as how to log internet research, etc.

Moreover, I like the goal setting information as well. I definitely have learned extra tips throughout the entire course of information that was provided, and think that this is a great help for any executive assistant looking for ideas on ways to enhance and improve their role within an organization.

Additionally, I like the suggestions provided with the email management section; the part about ... is a great tip that I immediately started to incorporate and think that it really helps when there is such a high volume of emails transmitted throughout the day."
Michelle L Hogan
Executive Administrative Assistant
Provo, UT
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"I purchased Effective Admin VIP because it seemed like a good source of material all in one location. The information is very helpful with lots of good tips. I printed it and put it in a binder for future reference. As I get the newsletters, I add those as well. I have purchased many of the books recommended and now have a wealth of information.

Executive Assistants often feel that nobody understands their isolation. We work closely with Executives and are privy to so much confidential information, yet we are not members of the Executive. Knowing as much as we do also means we cannot join in the conversations with other administrative staff as we are often asked to reveal things we cannot. I also must remain loyal to the Company while others discuss their frustrations.

Your publications and suggested readings have helped me to understand that this is all part of the job and that feeling this way is normal. If I did not feel this way, I would not be doing my job properly! I have learned to put things into perspective and I now feel like I am a part of a large organization of professionals all with the same concerns."
Barbara Tait Persaud
Executive Assistant to the Department Head
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
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"I purchased the 'Make Me An Effective Admin VIP' for 12 months package because as I read the outline, it sounded very interesting and it was/is things that I do everyday.

I wanted to see what others think and how they handle everyday situations and problems and projects with tight deadlines.

I think the product is very good and very well put together and the information is just right in length and in information."
Judy Amrhein
Administrative Assistant II
St. Louis, MO

 


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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.


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