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Here's a list of just some of the articles that have appeared in issues of The Effective Admin newsletter?

  1. How to Manage Going From Underestimated Admin to Overestimated Admin

  2. Etiquette at the Office: Should “He” or “She” Hold That Door

  3. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Stuck at a Dead End Without Passion; Where to From Here?

  4. Software Help: Conditional Formatting in Outlook 2010

  5. Two Ways to Soar to a New Level of Value and Professionalism in Your Admin Pro Role

  6. Hiring Trends in the Administrative Profession

  7. Punctuation Help: Using the Semicolon Between Clauses

  8. How You Can be a More Proactive Administrative Professional

  9. Do Employers Like Proactive Administrative Professionals?

  10. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Need New Job Title for my Same Job Duties

  11. Software Help: Change Case in an Excel Worksheet

  12. Roundup of Some Administrative Job Titles Seen Around

  13. How Should You Respond to an Interruption?

  14. How and Why to Build Your Leadership Skills

  15. How Using Active Voice Benefits Your Business Writing

  16. How to Present Your Ideas So That You’re Heard

  17. Don’t Make These Three Mistakes When Participating in Online Discussion Forums

  18. Three Digital Photography Tips (for improving image quality)

  19. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Letting New Bosses Know About Your Qualifications, Abilities and Role in the Organization

  20. Software Help: Change Text in a PDF File

  21. Increase Your Influence With the Right Words

  22. How am I Doing? Five Tips for Initiating Feedback About Your Performance

  23. Four Tips to Help You Adjust to a New Boss

  24. Vocabulary Quiz: Do you Confuse These Common Words?

  25. Building Your Network — A Necessity for Today’s Top Administrative Professionals

  26. Survey Responses: Adding Value to Your Company or Organization

  27. Six Phrases That Won’t Help You Add Value at Work

  28. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses SMART Goal Setting for Executive Assistant

  29. Software Help: Create a Table of Contents (TOC) in Microsoft® Word 2007

  30. Planning to Increase Your Productivity

  31. Three Ways to Remember What You Learn

  32. Quick Tips & Strategies: Change Your Postures to Improve Your Phone Voice; Receive a Business Card Properly; Resizing Photos or Graphics Properly

  33. Six Tips to Manage Your Time More Effectively

  34. Punctuation: Forming Possessives of Singular Nouns

  35. Five Myths of Goal Setting for Admin Pros

  36. A Story About an Assertive Administrative Professional

  37. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Tips to Manage Travel and Calendar for Globe-Trotting CEO

  38. Software Help: Microsoft Outlook® 2007 Calendar Tips

  39. How to Get Buy-in to Change a Process and Implement Your Idea

  40. Two Tips to Create a Work Space That Can Save You Hours of Time

  41. Quick Tips & Strategies: How to Communicate With a Positive Tone; Give Your Work Space the Right Look

  42. Five Tips to Boost Your Business Writing Skills

  43. Grammar: Subject and Verb Agreement

  44. Prioritization Strategies for Administrative Professionals Who Want to Take Charge of Their Workloads

  45. Survey Responses: Achieving Your Desired Perception as an Administrative Professional

  46. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Arguing My Case for Remuneration That Suits the Workload

  47. Software Help: Basics of Microsoft Excel® Formulas and Functions

  48. Presenting Smaller Cost Savings Impressively

  49. Quick Tips & Strategies: How to Lock Your Computer; Maintaining a Clutter-free E-mail Inbox

  50. How to Make the Best Impression in the First 10 Minutes of Your Job Interview

  51. Quiz: Can You Spell These Commonly Misspelled Words?

  52. The Problem With Being a “Too Nice” Administrative Professional at Work (and What to do About it)

  53. Survey Responses: Administrative Professionals Who "Volunteer" for More Work

  54. PowerPoint® Readability Tips

  55. Prioritizing Work by the Payoff

  56. Dear Admin Pro Coach — Re. Communication Skills Hampering my Image and Career

  57. Software Help: Embed Fonts in PowerPoint 2007

  58. Three Ways to Show, Not Just Tell, in Writing

  59. Seven Tips for More Efficiently Scheduling Your Executive for Appointments and Meetings

  60. Preparing for Your Performance Review

  61. Spelling and Vocabulary Quiz: One Letter Makes a Difference

  62. For the Love of The Job: Why Some Administrative Professionals Love Their Work

  63. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Skills Needed to be Relevant and Competitive in Admin Field

  64. Software Help: Automatically Number Cells in a Microsoft Word Table

  65. An Eight-Step Plan to Retain Your Focus When Working on Projects

  66. Quick Tips & Strategies: Choosing a Box for Shipping an Item; Five Useful Phrases to Include in E-mail Subject Lines; What you can do With Unordered Merchandise

  67. How to Craft an Eye-Catching Cover Letter

  68. Punctuation: Capitalization, or not, After a Colon

  69. Anticipation—A Necessary and Noteworthy Skill for Administrative Professionals

  70. Three Ways to Increase Your On-The-Job Value as an Administrative Professional

  71. Stories From Administrative Professionals Who’ve Saved Their Companies Money

  72. Tricky Grammar: Double Negatives

  73. Four Components of Anticipation

  74. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Do I Need to “Dumb Down” my Resume to get a Job?

  75. Software Help: Create a Template in Microsoft Outlook (version 2007)

  76. How to “Manage” a Co-Worker, or Subordinate, With a Work-Related Problem

  77. How to Create A More Effective Meeting Agenda

  78. Coping With Job Burnout

  79. Two Methods for Preventing Potential Project Overload

  80. Three Ways Others Get Administrative Professionals to Reveal Confidences

  81. Success Exercise: Differentiate Yourself to Stand Out and Create Your Brand

  82. Survey Responses: What’s in Your Desk Reference Manual?

  83. Tricky Spelling: i before e, or not?

  84. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Goal Setting for Secretaries and Assistants

  85. Identifying Performance Gaps for Goal Planning

  86. Communication: To Get Useful Responses, Ask the Right Type of Questions

  87. How to Listen to Ask Effective Questions

  88. Six Tips for Effectively Managing Your E-mail

  89. Five Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make in Minute Taking

  90. How to be a Creative and Innovative Administrative Professional

  91. Are College Degrees Needed by or Beneficial to Administrative Professionals (AAs or EAs)?

  92. Asking a Busy Boss Questions About the Company or Job Procedures

  93. The Right Way to Say “I’m Sorry”

  94. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Improving Attention to Detail to Avoid Mistakes

  95. How Much Time Will a Prospective Employer Spend Reading Your Resume?

  96. Quick Tips & Strategies: Remember a Name; Sum a Table Column in Microsoft Word

  97. Communication Help: Hasty Thinking Creates Anger; Learn How to Disagree Politely

  98. Gift Giving in the Workplace

  99. Plan Your Vacation Despite a Heavy Workload

  100. QUIZ: Test Your Spelling and Vocabulary

  101. The Unspoken Uniform for Administrative Professionals

  102. Achievements Beat Adjectives for Communicating

  103. Your Health at Work: When Sleep Affects Your Work Quality and Output

  104. Five Speaker Phone Etiquette Tips

  105. Dear Admin Pro Coach Addresses Recommended Classes for Aspiring Administrative Assistants

  106. Quick Tips & Strategies: Addressing Mail; Computers — Find Where You Left Off in a Document; Proofreading Tip

  107. Four Behaviors That Impede Listening

  108. Document Management System Vendors

  109. How to Rebound From an On-the-Job Mistake

  110. How to Communicate With “Get to the Point” Work Styles

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MEET YOUR NEWSLETTER PUBLISHER AND EDITOR

The Effective Admin newsletter is brought to you by 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 (VAAP) -- serving thousands of administrative professionals just like you since 2004.

Have we met? For 18 years I worked on site in corporate, nonprofit, and higher education environments. I know what you do and deal with at work because I've held various administrative professional level positions too -- at five different employers. Plus I've worked side by side with admins when I've been employed in unrelated and higher level positions.

Even now, I spend all my working hours researching and writing in depth about the administrative profession. I reach thousands of administrative professionals through The Effective Admin resources and regularly correspond one on one with admins. With almost 24 years experience interacting with the "real" workplace and working admins, I am well aware of the substantial job you and your administrative professional colleagues perform daily.

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