JULY 2013
Administrative Assistant's UPDATE
Seminars and webinars
Seminar providers change their dates quite often. If you
plan to attend an event, be sure to verify dates, times
and places. Also, ask them about group discounts.
C A L E N D A R
Eli Mina
www.elimina.com
Contact Jessica Post, JessicaP@cle.bc.ca
• Minute taking standards and related issues ($TBD) –
Vancouver Jan. 20, 2014
• Robert's Rules of Order - demystified ($TBD) –
Vancouver Jan. 21, 2014
Job Design Concepts Inc.
http://jobdesignconcepts.com/workshop
(416) 447-8832
• Time management ($399) – Toronto Sept. 19
• Mindfulness ($399) – Toronto Sept. 25
• Business writing skills ($399) – Toronto Oct. 3
• Developing emotional intelligence ($399) –
Toronto Nov. 6
• Project management ($399) – Toronto Nov. 14
Want your event listed here? E-mail the following
information to joycegrant@sympatico.ca: Your
organization's name, website and phone number, the
name of the event, the price, the date and city. Listings
require three months' notice and are listed according to
space availability.
• Supervise, motivate and lead others ($399)
– Toronto Dec. 5
On The Right Track (Rhonda Scharf)
www.on-the-right-track.com/events
(877) 213-8608
• Webinar: PowerPoint productivity
techniques ($99) – 2:00 EST, July 18
• Webinar: Useful functions in Excel ($99) –
2:00 EST, July 25
• Webinar: Outlook: making it work for you (not
against you) ($99) – 2:00 EST, Sept. 12
Ontario Hospital Association
www.oha.com/courses
kbyrne@oha.com, (416) 205-1586
• Essentials of project management ($1,095) –
Toronto Oct. 24-25
Lessons from Star Trek
Continued from page 4
Photo: Dooley Productions/Shutterstock.com
Scotty, who regularly tells the boss he can't have what
he wants (typically, "more power"). And then he goes
ahead and does it anyway. Bosses appreciate people
who pull the rabbit out of the hat even when the hat
seems empty.
Ignore tech when you need to
The Enterprise has every technological gadget you can
imagine. But Kirk often turns away from it all and goes
by his gut when the going gets tough. Make decisions
based on your intelligence, skill and intuition.
Don't ask your colleagues to do what you wouldn't
do
When things get rough, Kirk is the first to head down
to the enemy planet for a risky away-mission. When
you're supervising others, make sure you don't ask
them to do anything you wouldn't do.
Read Harden's original article at http://bit.ly/10JDz39. It was
originally written from a management point of view; we have
extracted from it and interpreted it from an admin's point of view.
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