In honor of Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April, 21, Founder And Owner, Jennifer Buchholz will be hosting a special Administrative Professionals week starting on Monday, April 19. All week long we will share special tips and tricks aimed at administrative professionals. These tips and tricks will help improve productivity and hopefully make their lives a little bit easier. At the end of the week on Friday, April 23, Jennifer will hold a special “Ask Me Anything” webinar for Administrative Professionals. This is your time to bring any software and productivity-related questions or issue and have them answered during the live webinar by a certified Microsoft Training Expert.

All week long, Jennifer will share tips and tricks:

• Stop sending file attachments - use online collaboration and file-sharing tools.

• Automate. Automate! AUTOMATE! Email. Data. Meetings. Automate repetitive tasks.

• Leverage OneNote. Share notebooks, keep meeting agendas, minutes and follow-up tasks.

• Get curious! Push all the buttons. Learn all the tools. Ask for help when you need it.

Why is Professional Administrative Day is so important to Jennifer?

My mom was an executive assistant in a county organization, and they were very much used to the Lotus, Lotus one, two, three, word Perfect programs, so she was an expert at that. I actually remember them converting to Microsoft because she would come home and just complain all the time. But my mom was really good at her work so in order for her to excel and flourish her expertise on Microsoft products, everything in our household became organized in a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or an Access database.

Which in turn, meant that my sister and I would need to understand how to use the same products and programs as well. So, I just always saw stuff organized that way- it was what I knew growing up! Not only was my mom using it all the time, but my grandpa actually built computers too.

When I hit my corporate career right out of college, they were asking me (as a Project Manager) to put together a budget projection for the upcoming year. So what did I do? Naturally, I put the budget projection in Excel. But this was for my boss, so I utilized some good formulas, added some easy-to-read charts and was really excited to turn it in to my boss.

And they were blown away.

Keep in mind, this was the mid-nineties. Even though I made sure it was presentable enough for my boss to be pleased, I was surprised because Excel had been around a while. To me, it wasn’t anything new. They had just never used it in that particular application.

The next thing I knew, they had asked me to train our whole department of Project Managers on how to do the budget projection spreadsheets as I had originally presented. Then they started using my products to do it, so I trained them how to do it, and now I became a subject matter expert at a very young age while in a massive global organization on the Microsoft suite. I became that person people could go to for a question instead of asking the boss, which is one of the benefits of small group training.

Register for the Special Ask Me Anything Webinar - Admin Edition

When: Friday, April 23, 1:30 PM CST

Register now.