This handbook for administrative assistants and secretaries covers such topics as telephone usage, keeping accurate records, making travel arrangements, e-mail, using the Internet, business documents, and language usage.

From best-selling author and expert Sue France, The Definitive Executive Assistant & Managerial Handbook is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to take their career development to the next level. Placing special emphasis on personal leadership development as well as practical skills, you will learn how to manage a small team, climb the career ladder to gain more responsibility, negotiate effectively and confidently manage a project. It will teach you how to recruit and induct staff, make decisions fairly and consistently, build a productive team and environment and get noticed at work. For ambitious Assistants who want to continually improve their skills, The Definitive Executive & Managerial Handbook is an indispensable guide, helping you to maintain your professional image and achieve resounding success.

An authoritative reference source for today's office professional. Covers all aspects of office management. Includes an introduction to computers and a guide to business English. Provides abundant practical examples.

The church administrative assistant is a key part of effective ministry. Greeting weekday visitors, taking phone messages, managing paperwork, and keeping the pastor and staff organized are just a few of the daily tasks of an assistant's role. This myriad of duties and responsibilities, which are often unique to each individual church, makes training new assistants an often difficult and daunting task for pastors and staff.The Church Administrative Assistant's Handbook is a valuable training tool to help church administrators and assistants work together to achieve efficiency and maximize their church's ministry. It includes a variety of useful forms and information for the pastor and assistant to use together as they set up their requirements and expectations for a successful team.Resources include: Design expectations and qualifications to use when selecting an executive assistantQuestionnaires to help determine work style, personality, and spiritual gifts Practical tips, guidelines, and tools for accomplishing daily tasks A CD with reproducible files of policies, templates, forms, checklists, and procedures, which can be adapted to fit a person's various need

Written for both the experienced and the novice in the office world, this primer covers office design, how to ask for a raise, proper grammar, and how to better manage, communicate with, and handle people.

Assistant, you are a leader. As an assistant, you constantly face obstacles that hold you back from accomplishing your career goals. Whether it's a job change, shifting deadlines, a micromanaging executive, a toxic co-worker, a high-pressure project, or an intense negotiation with a vendor, the administrative profession is not for the faint of heart. If you're looking to maintain the status quo and be "just an assistant," this book is not for you. But, if you want the confidence and ability to conquer the challenges that most try to avoid, then you're in the right place. The Leader Assistant outlines four pillars-embody the characteristics, employ the tactics, engage in relationships, and exercise self-care-that will help you rediscover your passion for the profession and become a confident, future-proof, game-changing Leader Assistant. If you neglect even one pillar, you'll head for burnout, stagnation, and anonymity. You are meant for so much more. Are you ready to be the Leader Assistant the world needs?

The most thorough career guide for administrative professionals now addresses the latest issues in a new second edition.