Technology
Issue: January / February 2014

Get Connected: 7 Reasons Why All Admins Need Social Media

By - January 25, 2014

Social media is an omnipresent part of our society and culture. It’s a valuable and important means of communication for personal and professional correspondence. It’s a lifeline for many people’s and companies’ marketing and branding efforts. And it’s vital to your administrative career. Yet astoundingly many admins still don’t recognize the value in social media.... Read more »
Leadership
Issue: January / February 2014

Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela’s Life

By - January 25, 2014

Two big leadership lessons can be drawn from observation of Nelson Mandela’s life and time in history The first lesson is that it takes more than a single heroic leader at the top to change the trajectory of an institution, or a nation. The second lesson is that in leadership, character is always more important... Read more »
Health & Wellbeing
Issue: January / February 2014

Wellbeing – How High is it on Your Agenda?

By - January 25, 2014

The more I develop the work I am doing around “wellbeing in the workplace” the more I realise that we truly do need to accept that like many things there really is no “one size fits all” approach to this. What one person thrives on will be the undoing of another and I am sceptical... Read more »
Career Development
Issue: January / February 2014

The Changing Face of Education

By - January 25, 2014

Natalie Lloyd navigates the maze of online education There’s no doubt about it, education is changing. Online education is becoming an increasingly popular option for learners worldwide, and it’s quite hard to decipher the excitement surrounding this migration to online. We thought we’d make it that bit simpler by delving into the world of online... Read more »
Project Management
Issue: January / February 2014

Meetings: A Little Trend Spotting

By - January 25, 2014

After a turbulent few years for the meetings and events industry, there is now a sense the economy has largely turned a corner and the outlook is stable, according to the recently released 2014 American Express Meetings & Events Global Meetings Forecast. Our global research examines Meetings & Events trends, and provides predictions on a... Read more »
Technology
Issue: January / February 2014

New Year New Office: Improve your Outlook for 2014

By - January 25, 2014

Each year, most of us start the New Year in the same fashion: looking back over the last few years, trying to focus our direction in life and writing those all-important resolutions. Yet how many of us actually put personal development on that list? How many of us look at the ways in which we... Read more »
Leadership
Issue: January / February 2014

The Role of Management Assistant in the Future

By - January 25, 2014

Summary of the Management Assistant 2020 research   Thanks to longevity and increasing globalization, employees in future organisations may consist of representatives of five different generations and (most probably) many different nationalities. Furthermore, ever developing technology has a huge impact on how we work and communicate with each other. The Management Assistant report sheds light... Read more »
Leadership
Issue: January / February 2014

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

By - January 25, 2014

‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants’ Isaac Newton The end of every year brings the promise of the new one. Before that happens though, my mind is always pulled to think about the year that was. As I travelled to more places than I ever have in... Read more »
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2014

Impressions from a Volunteer – Apia, Samoa

By - January 25, 2014

Charles and I have been living in Apia, Samoa since 18 November 2013. We are loaded with first impressions and at this stage we are really enjoying it. We know some harder times are coming as our decision has separated us from our family at Christmas time and we have missed the birth of our... Read more »
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2014

Accepting Feelings

By - January 25, 2014

In a recent article in this magazine, I pointed out that whenever we have a negative thought, we’re either wanting something that’s happened not to have happened or we’re wanting a situation that exists right now not to exist right now. In other words we’re wanting something to be “already” different. The only exception is... Read more »
resolution
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2014

A Different Kind of Resolution

By - January 1, 2014

Happy New Year! So Christmas and New Year are over, leaving in their wake a trail of pesky resolutions. Let's change the focus suggests Jessica McGregor Johnson