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UPDATE
Administrative Assistant's
UPDATE
Seminar and webinar providers change
their dates quite often. If you plan to
attend an event, be sure to verify dates,
times and locations. Also, ask them about
group discounts.
AUGUST 2014
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Seminars and webinars
WANT YOUR EVENT LISTED HERE?
E-mail the following information to joycegrant@sympatico.ca:
Listings require three months' notice and are listed according to space availability.
Canadian Management Centre | www.cmctraining.org | (877) 262-2519
• Partnering with your boss ($1,645) – Live online Sept. 4-25, Jan. 8-29 2015, Apr 30-May 21 2015
• Project management for administrative professionals ($2,195) – Live online Sept. 17-19, Nov. 24-26
• Management skills for administrative professionals ($1,895) – Live online Oct. 21-Nov. 11, Apr. 21-May12 2015
Job Design Concepts Inc. | http://jobdesignconcepts.com/workshops.html | (416) 447-8832
• Assertiveness skills ($399) – Toronto Sept. 11
• Professionalism in the workplace ($399) – Toronto Sept. 18
• Time management ($399) – Toronto Oct. 23
• Confl ict resolution for union environment ($399) – Toronto Oct. 29
• Supervise, motivate and lead others ($399) – Toronto Nov. 6
• Communication skills ($399) – Toronto Nov. 20
• Speed reading ($399) – Toronto Nov. 28
• Business writing skills ($399) – Toronto Dec. 4
• Meeting minutes made easy ($399) – Toronto Feb. 5, 2015
On-The-Right-Track Training and Consulting | www.on-the-right-track.com | (877) 213-8608
• Lively listening ($124) – Webinar, Sept. 18
Do you use the term "offi ce spouse"?
At this year's Admin Professionals
conference in Toronto, a panel of
executives was asked about the
term "offi ce spouse," and what it
means for their EAs.
Ian Clarke, CFO, Maple Leaf
Sports & Entertainment Ltd:
You're spending more time with
your EA than your wife. You get to
know each other. It is a relation-
ship. You're close; it's just a sign
of being that close, that tight-knit.
Marnie Dicker, Executive VP,
Infrastructure Ontario: I call them
sisters. My assistants are my
sisters and they're as important
to me as my sister. I've never had
a male assistant—maybe they
would be my brother. I person-
ally fi nd the term (offi ce spouse)
derogatory and offensive. I don't
use it. I was once accused of being
my president's offi ce spouse and
I fi nd that offensive. Truly I have
two blood sisters and I have two
other sisters. One of them is my
nanny... and my other sister is my
assistant because I would not be
able to function without her.
Arlene Campbell, General
Manager, Sales and Event Man-
agement, Exhibition Place: I fi nd
the term very 1950s. I don't like it
as a term. Because of proximity
that type of relationship does
exist. There are boundaries. It's
not a term I like.
