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$15.75 USD Per Person 
The Effective Admin Newsletter Subscription

You’ll get 6 issues–your fThe Effective Admin Newsletterirst one immediately and then five more issues later as they’re each produced and posted throughout the year; this is an electronic newsletter/PDF file format. Click the Add to Cart button to get it now, or if you prefer, you can order by mail with USD check: print order form. If you’re ordering for all the administrative professionals in your company to share and read the issue, scroll down to Item 2 for the company rate and Add To Cart button there.

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RELATED ITEMS

Get all of these newsletter back issues for your personal administrative professional career reference library:

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2012 - All 6 issues at once – $16.00 USD Per Person

The 2012 issues include these feature articles and much more:

Tips for Administrative Professionals Who Can’t Seem to get it all, or any of it, Done on Time

The Difference Between Qualitative Goal and Quantitative Goals: One can Say You’re a “Good” Admin; the Other can Prove it!

The Value of Thinking More Like Those You Support and How to do it

What Should You Do? The Skill of Independent Decision Making for Admin Professionals

Dealing With Difficult People in Your Administrative Professional Role

Learn Three Ways to Like Your Administrative Professional Job Again

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2011 - All 6 issues at once - $16.00 USD Per Person

The 2011 issues include these feature articles and much more:

How You Can be a More Proactive Administrative Professional

How to Manage Going From Underestimated Admin to Overestimated Admin

Five Criteria for Choosing Meeting Room Locations

Three Steps of Outcome-Based Development Planning for Administrative Professionals

Just Keep Getting Better: How to Use Flow Charts to Improve Administrative Processes

Four Things That Make a “Good” Administrative Professional into a “Great” One

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives - Newsletter Issues 2010 - All 8 issues at once - $21.00 USD Per Person

The 2010 issues include these feature articles and much more:

Three Ways Others Get Administrative Professionals to Reveal Confidences

Anticipation—A Necessary and Noteworthy Skill for Administrative Professionals

Opportunity can be Good for Administrative Professionals—So be Ready, Willing and Able

The Problem With Being a “Too Nice” Administrative Professional at Work (and What to do About it)

Prioritization Strategies for Administrative Professionals Who Want to Take Charge of Their Workloads

Five Myths of Goal Setting for Admin Pros

Building Your Network — A Necessity for Today’s Top Administrative Professionals

How to Present Your Ideas So That You’re Heard

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2009 - All 8 issues at once - $21.00 USD Per Person

The 2009 issues include these feature articles and much more:

Gaining a Voice in Your Company

What’s Good About Temporary Employment Positions for Administrative Professionals

One Tactic for Problem Solving

The Danger of Over-Committing Yourself

Five Steps to Hone Your Critical Thinking Skills

When You’re The Lone Assistant

The Unspoken Uniform for Administrative Professionals; Tips on What to Wear to Work to Benefit You and Your Employer

How to be a Creative and Innovative Administrative Professional

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives - Newsletter Issues 2008 - All 8 issues at once - $21.00 USD Per Person

The 2008 issues include these feature articles and much more:

Take Back Your Power at Work; Thrive at Work by NOT Letting Others Direct Your Emotions

Managing, Not Crossing, Confidential Boundaries; When Everyone Wants to Know What You Know

Security and Safety in the Workplace: What’s Your Role as an Administrative Professional

The Value of Administrative Meetings; How to Make Your Next Meeting Productive

You Can Survive Stress at the Desk; Crises come with the admin job and stress comes with crises. Learn to manage it.

Yawn! Coping With Boring Tasks

Too Much Information: Tips to Balance; Self-Disclosure and Privacy at Work

How and Why to Stay Cool in a Crisis

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$134.00 USD Per Company
The Effective Admin Newsletter Subscription for company-wide distribution.

This is 6 issues of an electronic newsletter/PDF file format. Click the Add to Cart button to get it now, or if you prefer, you can order by mail with USD check: print order form. This selection is to legally distribute the newsletter, or its archives, to all of your administrative employees (if you’re just buying the issues for yourself or per person, use the single person rate above in Item 1).

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RELATED ITEMS

Get all of these newsletter back issues for your company’s administrative professional career reference library:

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2012 - All 6 issues at once – $134.00 USD Per Company

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2011 - All 6 issues at once – $134.00 USD Per Company

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2010 - All 8 issues at once – $179.00 USD Per Company

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2009 - All 8 issues at once – $179.00 USD Per Company

♦ TEA Newsletter Archives – Newsletter Issues 2008 - All 8 issues at once – $179.00 USD Per Company 

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$99.00 USD Per Person
The Effective Admin Tips Series

Tips Series 1 Tips Series 2Tip Series 3

This is a collection of printable, downloadable documents (8 1/2″ x 11″ paper size, PDF file format) that includes these titles:

√ #1: What Do Managers Want From You — Initiating Problem Solving (4 pages)
√ #2: How to Handle Unrealistic Deadlines, Fit it All in, and Find Hidden Hours — Really! Time Management Tips for Administrative Professionals (6 pages)
√ #3: How to Get More Respect at the Office as an Administrative Professional Starting Today! Your Professional Image (9 pages)
√ #4: Office Organization…Real Solutions for Administrative Professionals Like You (9 pages)
√ #5: The Basic Guide to Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals (12 pages)
√ #6: The Administrative Professional’s Guide to Doing Research on the Internet (16 pages)
√ #7: The Administrative Professional’s Guide to E-mail Management and E-mail Etiquette (14 pages)
√ #8: How to Plan, Schedule and Set up Meetings Involving Your Manager, Yourself Or Others (Plus Meeting Attendance Tips) (18 pages)
√ #9: What Administrative Professionals Need to Know to Plan and Set up Large Meetings or Special Events (18 pages)
√ #10: An Overview of Web Conferences, Audio Conferences and Video Conferences (Including When to use Them) (10 pages)
√ #11: How to Plan and Implement Web Conferences (Plus Participation Tips Too) (13 pages)
√ #12: How to Plan and Implement Audio Conferences (Plus Participation Tips Too) (16 pages)
√ #13: How to Plan and Implement Video Conferences (Plus Participation Tips Too) (16 pages)
√ #14: How to Plan and Coordinate Domestic Travel Arrangements — A Guide With Tips for Administrative Professionals to Use on the Job (19 pages)
√ #15: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings (for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings) (23 pages)
√ #16: Office Ergonomics — Learn How to Prevent Pain and Protect Your Health at Work (18 pages)
√ #17: A Business Partnership Plan for Administrative Professionals and Their Managers or Executives (20 pages)
√ #18: Tips, Techniques, and Strategies for Prioritizing Your Workload – Especially for Administrative Professionals (12 pages)
√ #19: How to Plan and Coordinate International Business Travel Arrangements — Tips for Administrative Professionals Supporting Globe-trotting Executives, Managers, and Other Staff (52 pages)
√ #20: Practical Advice Administrative Professionals Can Use When Supporting Multiple Managers, Executives, and Other Staff (24 pages)
√ #21: Top Telephone Tips, Techniques and Skills for Administrative Assistants and Executive Assistants (30 pages)
√ #22: How and Why to be More Assertive in Your Administrative Professional Role (16 pages)

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$29.99 USD Per Person
Goal Setting Guide Packet for Admins (click here if you need more details/info. on this)
This is a collection of printable, downloadable documents (8 1/2″ x 11″ paper size, PDF file format) that includes these titles:

12-page GUIDE: The Basic Guide to Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals (from The Effective Admin Tips Series)
34-page WORKBOOK: contains work sheets related to the material in The Basic Guide to Goal Setting for Administrative Professionals
√ DIAGRAM: The Relationship of Vision, Goals and Objectives — helps you to visualize the three ways you might approach goal setting using these three different elements (three illustrations/pages).
LIST: Words You Can Use in Your Goal Statements — a one-page list that contains 50 words (action verbs and achievement nouns) you can use in your goal statements or just to spark goal statement ideas.
Goal Action FORM– a three and a half page fill-in-the-blank document to help you organize your goal-setting thoughts and goal development; write on it your final goal statement and your action plan to meet that goal.
SMART Goals INFORMATION PACKET:

  1. SMART Goals Lesson that includes complete and partial goal examples relevant to administrative professionals (10 pages)
  2. SMART Goals Summary Sheet (abbreviated version of definition of the SMART acronym as excerpted from the Lesson)
  3. SMART Goals Checklist that is a one and a half page list of 18 yes/no response format questions you answer to determine if your SMART goal statement is ready and in its final format
  4. SMART Goals Vague to Smart Conversion Table that contains a table in which 20 vague goal statements are converted to SMART goal statements
  5. SMART Goals Elements Worksheet is a three-page fill-in-the-blank worksheet to help you form a SMART goal from a vague goal, vision or idea, or you can use it to check to see if a SMART goal statement that you have already written has SMART elements
  6. SMART Goals Action Plan Samples is a five-page publication that contains three simple illustrations of action plans of visions, SMART goals and objectives that can serve as a model to create your own action plan from vision to SMART goal to SMART objective.

BONUS: 6 Must-Read ARTICLES from The Effective Admin about goal setting for administrative assistants and executive assistants including

  1. Goal Setting for Secretaries and Assistants/Identifying Performance Gaps for Goal Planning
  2. SMART Goal Setting for Executive Assistant
  3. Five Myths of Goal Setting for Admin Pros
  4. Goal Setting Advice for Administrative Assistants and Executive Assistants
  5. The Difference Between Qualitative Goals and Quantitative Goals: One can Say You’re a “Good” Admin; the Other can Prove it
  6. Three Steps of Outcome-Based Development Planning for Administrative Professionals

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$29.97 USD Per Person
Minute Taking Guide Packet for Admins
This is a collection of printable, downloadable documents (8 1/2″ x 11″ paper size, PDF file format) that includes these titles:

Item 1. PUBLICATION: The Ultimate Guide for How to Take Minutes and Notes at Meetings –for Administrative Professionals or Anyone Taking Minutes at Meetings (from The Effective Admin Tips Series)
Item 2. HANDOUT: Seven Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make During Minute Taking
Item 3. HANDOUT: Quicker Note Taking — Creative Note Taking Tips for Use During Minute Taking
Item 4. HANDOUT: Recording Discussion in Minutes — How much of the discussion should you include in the minutes? What’s important to record?
Item 5. CHECKLIST: Pre-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker
Item 6. CHECKLIST: Post-Meeting Checklist for the Minute Taker
Item 7. CHECKLIST: Minutes Quality Checklist — Final Check of Your Minutes Before Submission to the Chair for Approval
Item 8. HANDOUT: 21 Tips Regarding Creating Audio Recordings of Meetings for Use in Minute Taking — Are audio recorders really useful in taking minutes at meetings, and if so, when is it useful? Is it wise, ethical and legal to use them? What do you need to know about setting up and using them in meetings?
Item 9: HANDOUT: 114 Verbs Minute Takers Can Use in Minutes — said is just one of them and often not the best verb to use in your minutes; try some of the other 113 verbs appropriate for minutes in this list.

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$197.00 USD Per Person –First-year VAAP membership for an individual
VAAP membership for individual administrative professionals

This purchase includes giving you online access to the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals (VAAP) association membership site for one year to download these items listed above:

√ The Effective Admin Tips Series
√ Goal Setting Guide Packet for Admins
√ Minute Taking Guide Packet for Admins

Plus you get…

√ single subscription to The Effective Admin newsletter (delivered 6 times per year/digital PDF format)

Plus you get more information and resources such as…

√ The Effective Admin In-Depth Special Report Series
√ Archives of The Effective Admin newsletter (700+ articles, including all of the archive issues listed above in Item 1A)

And you’ll get…

√ a printable VAAP membership certificate with your name on it (to frame or put in your portfolio).
√ any new digital products or benefits added to VAAP over the 12 months of your membership

And, of course,

√ you’ll have the right to tell employers and prospective ones that you’re a member of this educational and professional association specific to administrative professionals

So, basically this membership includes all of the items listed above and through this row on this page for individuals plus more learning resources. This is an individual membership price (per person).

Calculating the Value You Get:

The value delivered in this VAAP package of materials is priceless, figuratively speaking; however, if you want to break it down literally, the cost is just 54 cents per day for a single annual VAAP membership for one person: YOU
Investing just 54 cents per day (for 365 days) in your professional development can have big returns for you and for your employer. For the latter for instance, imagine a single tip you learn through VAAP resources helps you to save one hour per day (that you then use to work on something else — or get home on time).
The monetary value of that tip is whatever your wage (or salary broken down) that you make for one hour per day times the number of days you would normally have used that hour to do that task or assignment. So if you make a modest $12 per hour, you’ve just saved the company $12/hour times approx. 200 working days per year = $2,400 savings per year. That’s a pretty good accomplishment to flaunt –one you learned on a 54 cent per day investment in your professional development (or $197 per year investment). In fact, when you explain that ROI (return on investment) to your employer, he or she may be willing to reimburse you for VAAP first-year membership or outright pay for it for you. Just ask!
The choice for you to make now is whether or not YOU believe investing 54 cents per day in yourself and your professional development is a good value.
If you believe VAAP resources will make a good addition to your personal administrative professional development reference library and supplement your other learning resources for administrative professionals, click the Add To Cart button below to checkout and get instant access to all of the materials.
Upon completion of the online ordering process, you’ll receive a document in your e-mail inbox immediately giving you access to all of the VAAP private member Web site and resources for administrative professionals.

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First-year VAAP membership for individual administrative professionals is $197 (consecutive years are only $32 per person). VAAP is owned and operated by Karen Porter and includes learning resources from The Effective Admin brand of materials. VAAP is further described under the “I want it all” option on this Web site and on its own Web site: http://www.TheVAAP.com. The company price for VAAP membership (if your company wants all of its administrative professionals to have access to VAAP resources) is in the next listing below.

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$995.00 USD Per Company
VAAP membership for companies

This purchase includes giving you online access to the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals (VAAP) association membership site for one year for ALL of your company’s administrative employees to download these items that were listed above:

√ The Effective Admin Tips Series
√ Goal Setting Guide Packet for Admins
√ Minute Taking Guide Packet for Admins

Plus you get…
√ company subscription to The Effective Admin newsletter (delivered 6 times per year/digital PDF format)

Plus you get more information and resources such as…
√ The Effective Admin In-Depth Special Report Series
√ Archives of The Effective Admin newsletter (700+ articles, including all of the archive issues listed above in Item 1A)

√ You also get rights for your company to distribute these products to all of your employees at no further charge. This is a company membership price (per company).

And you’ll get…

√ any new digital products or benefits added to VAAP over the 12 months of your membership

So, basically this membership includes all of the items listed above and through this row on this page plus more learning resources. For complete details of what’s included, click through the link above.

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Tips for Executive/Managers of Administrative Professionals (8 1/2″ x 11″ PDF File format)

  • REPORT #1 – Tips Report: 87 Ways You Can Work More Effectively With Your Administrative Support Professional $37.50 USD per person or per company –
  • REPORT #2 – Special Report: Revealing Research That Helps You Motivate and Retain Your Administrative Professional Staff $37.50 USD per person or per company –

Need more description of an item? Then click any of the product links above by an item for further description about that product. Or e-mail your questions to TEA/VAAP Founder and President Karen Porter at karen@albeepublishing.com.

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If you need product ordering or downloading help or have any questions regarding your prospective purchase email me here. Expect a response by email within 24-48 hours, usually sooner. –Karen Porter, founder and president of The Effective Admin and Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals

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