The Renaissance is Within Reach
2020 has been traumatic for many of you and it is easy to look at all the negative press and get tied up in fear. My timeline is full of people saying that they just want to see the back of 2020 and...
View ArticleNew Beginnings
Spring always seems like a good time for some fresh thinking and I don’t know about you but the temptation to clear away the cobwebs is irresistible. It seems fitting, therefore, that after six months...
View ArticleMayday, Mayday
Sometimes it is not easy to see the bigger picture. My inbox is full of emails from those of you that have been made redundant and trying to find a job for quite some time. Most of you are highly...
View ArticleThe Rain in Spain
Let’s face it, our lives have been taken over by the electronic gadgets that surround us at work. Internet, email, social media, CRM – it’s all great for productivity, efficiency and speed of turnover...
View ArticleThe End of Summer
And so here we are, wending our way towards the bittersweet final days of summer. When I was a child, the summer holidays stretched out forever – all now melded into a memory of hot sleepy days spent...
View ArticleChristmas Gifts
The shop at the end of our road where we always buy our tree looked strangely deserted. After all, I had been up to my eyeballs with work and it was only 11am on Christmas Eve. For years we have had at...
View ArticleAn event to remember or a series of unfortunate events?
If there is one part of my job that I have a passionate love:hate relationship with, it is organising events. I love it because it’s a great chance to project manage something exciting and creative....
View ArticleBirthday Greetings
Back in March 2011 we re-launched Executive Secretary. Prior to this it had been in existence for about 16 years in various guises, but in March, we were reborn. And it really was like a birth,...
View ArticleLoyalty or stupidity?
As a former employee of News International, I have watched with interest since the phone hacking storm broke last year, and in particular, since Rebecca Brooks became implicated. As a woman in the...
View ArticleThe Olympic Spirit
In two days’ time on 27th July, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games will take place here in London – the first city to have hosted the modern Games of three Olympiads. In ancient Greece, wars...
View ArticleLet the Networking Begin
Because it’s the start of the school year and most of us are back at work after a holiday, September often feels like a new beginning – a time to start afresh. September is also traditionally the month...
View ArticleResolutions
New Year is quite possibly the most positive, forward-looking holiday we celebrate. We say goodbye to the past and turn our attention to the good that the coming year promises. Many of us make New...
View ArticleLet The Party Commence
Two years ago this week, I was feeling just as stressed as I am now. The reason? We were just about to launch an unproven concept that had taken months of hard work to put into place. I remember...
View ArticleNever Alone
By the time I am done this year, I will have been to 21 different countries delivering presentations on all things administrative. Sometimes I go to Chair conferences or to speak at them, I have...
View ArticleChanging Lives
Back in the March issue of Executive Secretary, we featured a truly inspiring young Assistant who I met at the BEL Conference in Anaheim in February. Marina Ivey‘s leg had been amputated at the age of...
View ArticleBack to School
As most of you know, I have spent the majority of my summer working from my balcony in Spain. I didn’t take the Summer off, but I did ensure that for two months, I closed the computer at 5pm every...
View ArticleChanging Perceptions
Here at Executive Secretary, we are gearing up for a year that could change the world for Assistants. Did you know that 2014 is the International Year of the Secretary and that we have just been...
View ArticleAn Open Invitation
So here we are. It’s finally the year that we have all been waiting for. It’s our year! The year when we spread the word that Assistants are no longer just ‘assisting’, they are ‘doing’ as business...
View ArticleThe Spring is Sprung
It’s that time of the year again when here at Executive Secretary Towers we celebrate our birthday. It’s three years since we relaunched the magazine as a global publication and what a ride it has...
View ArticleFeel the Fear and Do it Anyway
So here is the thing. Those of you that have seen me speak or met me in person will know that I have a pathological phobia of flying. It has been known to scare me so much that it has made me...
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