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PRESS RELEASE - Just in time for Administrative Professionals Week®, The Effective Admin store releases its electronic booklet 87 Ways You Can Work More Effectively With Your Administrative Support Professional. The eBooklet is targeted toward managers, directors and other senior-level staff members who utilize the more than 4.1 million secretaries and administrative assistants employed in the United States (source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor).

Make Your Administrative Professional a Partner

March 23, 2005, Bloomingdale, GA --Just in time for Administrative Professionals Week®, The Effective Admin store releases its electronic booklet 87 Ways You Can Work More Effectively With Your Administrative Support Professional. The eBooklet is targeted toward managers, directors and other senior-level staff members who utilize the more than 4.1 million secretaries and administrative assistants employed in the United States (source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor).

"Today's administrative professionals undertake larger and more expansive work roles than their counterparts did in past decades," says Karen Fritscher-Porter, publisher of The Effective Admin newsletter. "And many employers expect this to be so. Administrative support professionals are employed in work environments that economically necessitate budget belt-tightening and doing more work and producing more bottom-line results with fewer employees. And wise employers will develop administrative professionals as well-rounded "partners" who help grow their businesses," says Fritscher-Porter who also worked in administrative professional positions for more than 10 years.

The eBooklet "87 Ways You Can Work More Effectively With Your Administrative Support Professional" offers multiple ideas for savvy employers who want to attain top results from their administrative support professional staff and retain these employees long-term. The eBooklet is sold at The Effective Admin store.

Here are summarized excerpts from a few sample tips in the eBooklet:

• Assume that your administrative support professional doesn't know what's on your mind until you tell him. It's that one time that you "assume" when things will go awry in your work relationship.

• Discuss your personal and professional goals. In order to be your partner, your administrative support professional needs to know who you want to be when. Knowing these answers helps her to clarify the prioritization of tasks and situations that arise daily.

• Discuss project expectations. Clearly voicing the precise (or nearly precise) expected project outcome before it happens means no surprises upon project completion and efficient use of your time and that of your administrative professional. Precise communication prevents misinterpretation by both parties which can cause bad relationships and inappropriate work results.

• Have a daily briefing with your administrative support person. Meet daily whether either of you want to do so or not. This forces communication to flow daily between you both, which is a good thing. And comfort levels with each other will rise.

• Support opportunities for your administrative professional to achieve certifications. For example, your administrative professional can become a Certified Administrative Professional (CAP) and a Certified Professional Secretary (CPS), both elite designations by administrative professional criteria.

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