Final Week! The PowerPoint slides are below. I will post the PDF to dropbox and also will put the final version of action steps there. There are five of you who haven’t joined the Dropbox folder yet. I can email you copies at your request.
We’re up to 12 members on LinkedIn. I plan to invite previous grads to join us to give us a bigger base to draw from to keep that going. If anyone has a better option, I’m open to it, and am also looking into how I might create a private group on this site.
The login and call in info is the same as last week.
This link for the screenshare will become live at 12:50 ET. It will ask you to enter your name and click Join Meeting. It works best to wait to click “join” until the conference is live. http://screenshare.maestroconference.com/id=10775916&;;;password=df4d0846bdcc3680
If you can’t see my screen, first try pressing CTRL+F5 (PC) or Command+Shift+R (MAC) on your browser.
If that doesn’t work, you can follow the slides below. The main concern is that you get on the call, but the visuals are helpful and add another dimension.
Again – there are a lot of slides. We won’t get through them all, so consider the last sections to be bonus material. Enjoy!
Week Three! The login and call in info is the same as last week.
This link for the screenshare will become live at 12:50 ET. It will ask you to enter your name and click Join Meeting. It works best to wait to click “join” until the conference is live. http://screenshare.maestroconference.com/id=10775916&;;password=df4d0846bdcc3680
If you can’t see my screen, first try pressing CTRL+F5 (PC) or Command+Shift+R (MAC) on your browser.
If that doesn’t work, you can follow the slides below. The main concern is that you get on the call, but the visuals are helpful and add another dimension.
By the way – there are a lot of slides. We won’t get through them all, so I consider the last sections to be bonus material. Enjoy!
Week Two! The login and call in info is the same as last week.
This link for the screenshare will become live at 12:50 ET. It will ask you to enter your name and click Join Meeting. It works best to wait to click “join” until the conference is live. http://screenshare.maestroconference.com/id=10775916&;password=df4d0846bdcc3680
If you can’t see my screen, first try pressing CTRL+F5 (PC) or Command+Shift+R (MAC) on your browser.
If that doesn’t work, you can follow the slides below. The main concern is that you get on the call, but the visuals are helpful and add another dimension.
Join the LinkedIn Group here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Executive-Admins-4471091/about
Week One: Potential Action Steps: Pick 1-3
It’s useful to familiarize yourself will all the possible action steps. However, if you attempt to implement or explore too many of them at once, you might be like Cookie and the Cocoa Puffs – and not get any.
- Connect with one or more of the other attendees between sessions
- List and apply three things you can do to contribute to the success of this training
- Note and share three things you would like coaching for, or would to explore with someone
- Note and share the thing or things you would like to be a resource for (PowerPoint, Prezi, Excel, One Note, Executive Summaries, etc.)
- Create an undercover job description
- List 3 reasons why your boss is lucky to have you
- Craft a response to the suggestion that you’re “just and admin”
- Examine your relationship to your title
- Define what excellence means for you
- Describe your perfect day in your vision of administrative professional excellence
- Describe your future state life
- Identify the principles that underlie that vision and create actionable principles
- Put one thing on your calendar or in your Kanban to move toward your vision of excellence
- Set your “fire-fighter” priorities – especially if you support more than one executive
- Define what “holding the line” means to you in normal workdays
- Define what “holding the line” means to you in crisis
- Review your day in terms of Covey;s four quadrants
- Assess the impact of Execuphobia in your office
- Determine what being a part of the solution, not a part of the problem would mean for you
- Define your role as moderator between your exec ad the Execuphobic
- Find ways to put yourself into everything you do
- If you’re doing something that is really rote, begin by imagining that YOU’RE turning the crank
- Create and “refine” SOPs for things you do regularly
- Look for ways to make micro-improvements in your work processes
- Remember how each task connects with the higher purpose
- Pause between activities, even for a moment
- Look for opportunities (needs) for the things you love to do
- Create/discover language that describes your tasks on a higher (inspiring) level
- Create/discover language that describes your job on a higher(inspiring) level
- Review your language for the target of respect, recognition and results
- Do a personal, positional and knowledge power (influence) assessment
- If you need something from your exec to support your authority, ask for it
- Form positive alliances and nourish them daily
- Stop starting and start finishing things
- Limit your WIP (work in progress)
- Visit the Personal Kanban site www.personalkanban.com
- Mistake-proof one process
- Plan your next conversation with your exec
- Create an Executive Summary to help your exec make a decision
- This week:
- ● Dream: Create your vision of excellence
- ● Observe: See what’s broken
- ● Observe: Collect your favorite wins/improvements ● Act: Apply a manageable number of action steps (Less is more)
- ● Learn: Apply the Improvement Kata five-questions to your experiments this week
- ● Share!
- Send me:
- One hot tip that has helped you – large or small
- One thing you do that helps you manage your boss’ calendar
- One thing you’ve asked of or told your boss that has improved your communication
- Questions
SlideShare to Prepare for Our Next Session
Week One and Week Two screen and slides
This information below will apply to next week’s session. I will post the next SlideShare within an hour of the conference.
This link for the screenshare will become live at 12:50 ET. It will ask you to enter your name and click Join Meeting. It works best to wait to click join until the conference is live. http://screenshare.maestroconference.com/id=10775916&password=df4d0846bdcc3680
If you can’t see my screen, first try pressing CTRL+F5 (PC) or Command+Shift+R (MAC) on your browser.
If that doesn’t work, you can follow the slides below. The main concern is that you get on the call, but the visuals are helpful and add another dimension.
To download: Click here: http://www.speakstrong.com/pdfs/Executive_Administrative_Professional_Excellence_Week_One.pdf
Check back!
I’ll post the link to the action step summary and other useful items here after the conference.
Thanks!
Meryl
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