Administrative Assistant's UPDATE
DECEMBER 2013
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
Canadian Management Centre
www.cmctraining.org
(877) 262-2519
• Project management for administrative professionals
($2,195) – Toronto Nov. 25-27, Dec. 11-13, Feb. 10-12
Job Design Concepts Inc.
http://jobdesignconcepts.com/workshops.html
(416) 447-8832
• Supervise, motivate and lead others ($399) –
Toronto Dec. 5
• Meeting minutes made easy ($399) – Toronto
Jan. 30, 2014
• Communication skills ($399) – Toronto Feb. 13, 2014
• Assertiveness skills ($399) – Toronto Mar. 27, 2014
• Time management ($399) – Toronto April 10, 2014
• Business writing ($399) – Toronto May 8, 2014
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.
Eli Mina Consulting
www.elimina.com (604) 730-0377
• Minute taking standards and
related issues – Vancouver Jan. 20;
Edmonton May 20; Calgary May
22, 2014
• Robert's Rules of Order
demystified – Vancouver Jan. 21; Edmonton
May 21; Calgary May
23, 2014
On-The-Right-Track Training and
Consulting
www.on-the-right-track.com (877) 213-8608
• Make the leap to remarkable! ($99) – Webinar,
Dec. 5, 2 p.m.
Tips from Arianna Huffington
Internet media mogul Arianna Huffington (The Huffington Post) shares her secrets of success.
Get to bed
She says she had a "rude awakening" the day she fainted from exhaustion in 2007. She learned the hard way
that getting seven to eight hours of sleep a night is essential to her success.
A third women's revolution
The first revolution was getting the vote; the second was equality and equal pay. We need a third women's
revolution, she says—changing the world women are competing in instead of embracing it. She said the current workplace runs on sleep deprivation and burnout. People make bad decisions, she says, citing the financial meltdown in the U.S. The new workplace needs to be one in which people are able to get more sleep.
Don't finish every project
You don't have to read to the end of a novel if you're not enjoying it. If you don't put down a boring novel,
you can't pick up the next one—which might be a really great book. Huffington says business people need to
learn the same lesson. If the project you're working on is no good, drop it and move on, she says.
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