Your exclusive monthly e-zine
September 2004 - Christmas Planning
Features
Will yours be an inclusive Christmas?
Top ten party tips
Christmas party? Bring in the experts
All work and no play?
Make it a private affair this Christmas
A party organiser reveals his secrets
Time to order next year's diaries
It's all in your cards
Tasting, tasting 1..2..3
Be sure you stay safe on the way home
In the News
What's in a name?
Be a part of a major secretarial survey!
Medical secretaries under threat?
Bite-sized learning for busy PAs
more stories...
Event Calendar
Fun Quiz
Are you a kill-joy or a party animal?
Do you embarrass yourself annually at the office bash, or will you spend the
evening tucked safely in a corner? As our thoughts turn to Christmas, journalist
Roisin Woolnough invites you to test your party persona...The Archives!
Essential Contacts
Use our Essential Contacts page to get in touch with any product and service providers in this issue.
SEND TO FRIEND
Get your back issues here!
Missed an edition of the newsletter? Don't despair! Check out our content archive to see what we've featured in previous editions of DeskDemon Express. Registered subscribers will find a whole archive of newsletters just a mouse click away, absolutely free.
November 2003 Issue topic: Christmas planning
Features included:
- Christmas parties. Project management skills explained using the Christmas party as a model. By Elizabeth Baker
- Christmas chores checklist. Count-down to Christmas outlining the tasks that need to be done before the festive season. By Suzanne Brown
- Creativity. Techniques to help you free your creativity. By Ann Light
- Alcohol limits. Up to the minute guidance on legal alcohol limits and information on the effects of drink on your system. By Suzanne Brown
- Office security. Tips on what to check before you lock up for Christmas. Information provided by Hawksmere
December 2003 Issue topic: Work life balance
Features included:
- Taking time to reflect. Five steps from Life Coach Dr Andree Bates to help you assess where you are now, before planning where you want to go
- Volunteering while working. It's possible to give time to others without giving up the day job. And the benefits are surprising.
- Assertiveness skills. If you want to make changes to your life and career, you need to know how to ask for them in a way that guarantees you'll get them.
- Work life balance. Elizabeth Baker looks at the options open to the secretarial and PA profession.
- What are flexible options really like? Claire Portman talks to a group of PAs who have chosen flexible alternatives to the 9-5
February 2004 Issue topic: Meetings and conferences
Features included:
- Training plans. Helen Vandevelde explains how to use your training plan to boost your career.
- Training available for PAs. Roisin Woolnough investigates the training courses on offer for secretaries and PAs.
- Alternative ways to source skills. Ian Boughton advises looking at alternative ways of getting training, rather than simply waiting for the next training course to come along.
- Persuading the boss. PA Ann Nuckley gives advice on how to sell your manager the idea of training.
- Maximising your training. Tips to get the most out of your training time.
- Freeing your learning mind. Learning strategist Bill Lucas explains how to remove barriers to learning, to help you access more from your training time.
- Learning techniques. Sara Goodwins talks to five office professionals who have chosen different ways to learn, including on-the-job NVQ, online learning, and studying while working.
April 2004 Issue topic: Business finance
Features included:
- Understanding business. Sally Longson explains why it's vital to have a grip on the business environment you work in.
- Budgets. John Hancock takes a look at how to run a budget skilfully.
- Purchasing skills. Ways to make sure you buy only what you want, at the right price, by Sara Goodwins.
- Using Microsoft Excel to help you budget. Tips from Microsoft about online assistance available. This example focuses on using 'What if?' scenarios to see what would happen to your budget if you changed the variables.
- PA's perspective on skilful budgeting skills. Lee Morrissey takes a look at how to save money when organising a conference.
- Negotiating tips. Editor Penny Cottee gives some tips on getting the best deal.
- Guidelines for buyers. The Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply outlines some key rules for buyers
May 2004 Issue topic: Business travel
Features included:
- PA's role. Graeme Payne looks at the PA's role in travel booking, and the importance of travel policies
- Hotels vs apartments. Sara Goodwins compares the two options, and advises on when each is better utilised
- Jet lag. Roger Collis gives guidance on avoiding jet lag while on business travel
- Health advice. Michelle Collis from MASTA outlines a good PA's preparation prior to an executive's trip
- Carry on luggage. John Hancock unravels the mystery of cabin luggage - dimensions, regulations, and more.
- Internet resources. PA Julie Lever gives a comprehensive round-up of useful travel-related websites
- DeskDemon's travel resources. Travel editor Bev Wright explains what DeskDemon has to offer travel bookers
- Videoconferencing options. Sara Goodwins looks at the choices for those who can't, or won't, travel
- Women's travel tips. Staying safe when travelling on business alone
June 2004 Issue topic: Business networking
Features included:
- How to network. Sara Goodwins reveals her tips on working a room successfully
- Networks to join. Fred Redwood offers some new networking options
- Virtual networking. Andrea McKinney explains how to network online successfully and safely
- A PA's view. Top PA Lee Morrissey has a wry look at the gender differences between males (who network seriously) and women ( who chat frivolously)
- Boost your confidence. To be able to enter a room and network successfully, you need to look and feel confident. Sue Firth tells you how
- Setting up a network. PA Bernice Pennycuick explains how she created MKPANet for secretaries in Milton Keynes
- Why network? What's the point? Glenda Stone, CEO of Aurora, gives you ten reasons
- Secretarial associations. If you're not networking, these nine support and professional development organisations for PAs, secretaries and administrators can get you started
July/August 2004 Issue topic: Venues
Features included:
- The conference sector. Tony Rogers looks at the how the sector has matured in the last 30 years.
- Unusual venues. John Hancock provides a round-up of some of the most unusual places to hold an event in the UK
- Finding venues. Norman Flack gives some advice on venue sourcing
- Private hotels. Our Q&A session put the owner of private hotel 22 Jermyn Street, Henry Togna, in the hot seat
- Large capacity venues. We round up the UK's largest venues for those large events
- Online booking. Sara Goodwins looks at the pros and cons
- A PA's perspective. Theresa Mabbutt gives some tips on running successful events
- Training courses. If you want to improve your event management skills, try these courses
- Hotel inspection. We interviewed an under-cover hotel inspector to see what the job is like
DD News
Disclaimer:
You've received this email because you subscribed to DeskDemon's ON! E-zine for Office Professionals. To Unsubscribe click here. You will then be sent an email to the address provided by you. Please open this email and confirm removal by clicking the link in the Email. Your Email will then be immediately unsubscribed from our Email list, and we apologize for any inconvenience. For other enquires about the DeskDemon newsletter, email us at newsletter@deskdemon.com.