Career Development
Issue: February / March 2025

10 Questions Every Successful Assistant Needs to Ask of Themselves and Their Executives

By - January 25, 2025

By asking the right questions, you can build a productive, rewarding career and contribute meaningfully to your executive's success, explains Sue France
Personal Development
Issue: June / July 2023

Understand Your Brain and How It Works Best

By - May 25, 2023

Sue France explains how to take control of your brain and do whatever you put your mind to
Career Development
Issue: October / November 2022

How to Create Powerful New Habits

By - September 25, 2022

Sue France explains how to create powerful new habits to add value and excellence to your role
Communication
Issue: June / July 2022

Improving the Executive–Assistant Relationship

By - May 25, 2022

Use these ideas as a starting point for a conversation with your executive, suggests Sue France
Personal Development
Issue: February / March 2022

The ‘SixEss’ Threat/Reward Model

By - January 25, 2022

Sue France explains how understanding threat and reward neuroscience can help you communicate effectively, collaborate better and influence others
proactive mindset: spanner turning cog in brain
Career Development
Issue: October / November 2021

The Proactive Mindset

By - September 25, 2021

Sue France explains how to develop your proactive mindset using critical thinking, confidence and motivation
Communication
Issue: April / May 2021

Your Brain in the Virtual World

By - March 23, 2021

Manage your schedule, increase communication and mitigate biases to help your brain in the virtual world, says Sue France
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2021

Choosing the Right Mindset

By - January 25, 2021

Are you choosing the right mindset for success? asks Sue France
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2018

The six H.A.B.I.T.S. of highly successful Assistants

By - January 25, 2018

No matter what your title, it is most definitely your habits - how you think, what you say, and your behaviour - that really matters says Sue France
Cover Story
Issue: September / October 2016

The Fixed Mindset vs. The Growth Mindset

By - September 26, 2016

What mindset do you have and what mindset does your company have? asks Sue France
Health & Wellbeing
Issue: November / December 2015

20 Ways to Use Brain Power to Turn That Frown Upside Down!

By - November 25, 2015

Take control of the grey matter, and nothing will seem quite so black, says Sue France
Cover Story Health & Wellbeing
Issue: July / August 2015

Neuroscience and Mindfulness

By - July 25, 2015

In this extract from her new book, Sue France explains how mindfulness is about living your life as if it really matters
Personal Development
Issue: January / February 2015

Neuroscience – Maximizing the Power of Your Brain for Excellence – Part II – Sleep and Memory

By - January 25, 2015

Sue France discusses how our sleep can affect our memory in part 2 of her articles on neuroscience
Personal Development
Issue: November / December 2014

Neuroscience – Maximizing the Power of Your Brain for Excellence (Part 1)

By - November 25, 2014

Sue France discusses our social brains, how stress affects us and how neuroscience can help us maximise our brain power
Cover Story
Issue: January / February 2013

Delegation, Delegation, Delegation!

By - January 23, 2013

Sue France explains how to persuade and influence your manager to pass work on No matter how much you enjoy your job, there will come a time when you need a new challenge and more responsibility. However, sometimes bosses are reluctant to delegate enough work to keep their assistants busy and free from boredom. Sometimes... Read more »
Profiles
Issue: July / August 2012

PROFILE – Sue France

By - July 25, 2012

Sue France is an internationally renowned motivational speaker, coach and trainer, and the author of the successful best-selling worldwide book, The Definitive Personal Assistant & Secretarial Handbook.