Some subtle changes have been afoot (or not so subtle). With those changes, an entire exchange of adjustments are required in all the many applications and associated social network profiles attached to the website, as well additions and/or corrections. Some of the changes you will find:
Welcome Monique
- Please welcome new author, writer, collaborator, and my daughter, Monique Tinsley, to Administrative Sparkle. She will be bringing a fresh perspective to our young professionals who are starting their careers and/or going to college and finding themselves working in administrative fields while they kick-start their careers.
- She has been included in the Contact tab and she is at work creating her About Monique page so you can know all about her background and experience. In general, you are invited to get to know who she is, what she’s about, and what she hopes to contribute in her writing and articles.
- I hope you will find her to be as fabulous a writer as I do. She has the gift for the “joy of writing” and now she can channel it into entertaining pieces for you.
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What makes a “Sparkle” admin stand apart? They have style and grace. They are well-mannered and respectful, biting their tongue when others lack this social grace. Their style is a reflection of their taste and self-image. They will greet you with a smile and a kind word. They are continually learning and evolving. They help others when they can and distance from those who live for drama. They are resourceful, funny, talented, crazy smart, compassionate, kind, and beautiful.
Their sparkle comes from the inside out.
I am incredibly grateful to have you as a part of Administrative Sparkle. As part of the Sparkle family, I encourage you to “Like” the various Administrative Sparkle Pages on Facebook and collaborate, encourage, strike up conversations, and “Friend” one another.
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Designing your life with clarity means you are clear about your choices, how they affect you and others. A simple way of putting purpose and clarity into your life that allows you to drive the choices you make is by creating a Mission Statement and/or Vision Statement.
A New Year – 2012
Exciting isn’t it? Well, it should be. With a new year comes surprises, adventure, challenges, dreams, change, and lessons to be learned. Some will rollover from the old year and many new to come.
Surprisingly, in the last month of 2011 over the course of a week, I got married, quit my job, moved, and found out I have cancer. Wow! A lot to process for the upcoming year. I will make mistakes along the way, learn my strengths and weaknesses, patience and love, and find out what I’m made of along the way. I wonder if I can do it all. With the love and support of friends and family, I will navigate my way through whatever comes my way.
I believe with every challenge comes opportunity, tests your resilience, and helps you to grow into a better person.
I wish for all the people who come to Administrative Sparkle a wonderful year of opportunity, love, and success. I hope to bring you many engaging articles, fun and interesting tips, and just some good reading to inspire you as the great administrative professional I know you to be.
With great love, Happy New Year!
You may keep a mental list or have a written list. A written list makes it permanent. You can go back and review it, update it, reference it to remind yourself of your expectations or what you’re looking for. Lists are GREAT!
Interestingly, we make lists of things we need to do or our expectations of other people or our circumstances. Mostly our standards tend to be a mental note.
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I love beautiful shoes.
There are still some hard and fast rules, especially if you are interviewing. If you want to get your foot in the door, keep it classic, stylish, and conservative. The office may run the gamut from flip-flops and tennis shoes to open-toed sandals, but the interview is not the time to put your most fashionable foot forward. Save that for later.
Once you are in the office, you still want to adhere to the general guidelines of what is acceptable. However, like the evolution of hosiery, covered in an earlier issue, shoes have evolved. If your office has a dress code, ask for something in writing. If you are ever called into question, you can refer to the explicit guidelines.
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With issues relating to the Excel 2007 documents, I have added a secondary download link for a 2003 version (which does not seem to be an issue across platforms). Please notify me if there is a download file that executes as a ZIP file (this was the prevalent issue for Excel 2007 spreadsheets). It is possible I may not have found them all within the Administrative Sparkle library.
Also, BIG NEWS, I have added Free Downloads in “Categories.” Yes, I’m thinking of you. I am currently working on a page where you will have access to all the downloadable documents as well.
Let me know if you have any ideas or thoughts that might make it easier for you to find information you are looking for and/or what some of your favorite things are or would like to see.
Thank you to everyone for insight on how to make this place a better resource for you!
It has come to my attention that some of you might have problems downloading the documents I create for you to modify for your own use. It downloads as an unmanageable ZIP file. Aaaaargh!
So to resolve this, I am asking you if I should save the document down (MS 2003) as this will resolve the issue of it going to you in a ZIP file. You can always contact me by email to send you the document, but I really don’t know how big the issue is or if it is just a select few.
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Check Out InPictures
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I came across InPictures when looking for some ideas on an Access database project I’m trying to pull together. You really need to start at the beginning with Access, unlike the other Microsoft programs. A database is all about the “foundation” and how it can pull and display the information you are working with.
Image via Wikipedia
With the intention of creating a more interactive Facebook Fan Page to Administrative Sparkle, I will be posting a new activity to implement each week. Join and participate. It will be fun to learn from each other, as well as learning useful and creative tools that make us better.
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