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."
I advise executive assistants, administrative
assistants and all titles of administrative professionals
about their job performance and career management, providing tips and
guidance.
 Karen Porter
Founder and President
of
The Effective Admin and the Virtual Association for
Administrative Professionals (VAAP)
-- Assisting administrative assistants, executive assistants,
secretaries and all administrative professionals of any job title or
administrative level with professional
development and training since 2004
Karen Porter, job performance and career success coach and advisor to administrative
professionals, is the 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 more than seven years. Prior to 2004, Karen
worked in the corporate, nonprofit, and higher education sectors for 18
years in various roles and levels ranging from administrative positions to
non-administrative positions. 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."
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 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 administrative assistants and executive assistants face in their jobs and careers.
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.
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.
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