The workplace is ever changing! We know because we work with business owners, executives, and their admins every week. They hire Valet Coffee to show appreciation to their employees and partners by providing them with great coffee and smoothies. They know that a little gift here and there is good for the bottom-line. We see and hear the challenges our customers are going through, so we’ve put together a list of the books that they have told us help them meet their goals. We hope this list helps you!
How to Win Friends and Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
Most of us have heard of Dale Carnegie. This clssic 1937 book holds time tested advice on positively influencing your coworkers. Add this to your reading list to gain skill set every administrator needs in the office.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gadwell
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller, in which Malcolm Gladwell explores and brilliantly illuminates the tipping point phenomenon, is already changing the way people throughout the world think about selling products and disseminating ideas.
Communication Strategies for Administrative Professionals: How to Communicate What You Can Do, Can’t Do, Will Do, Won’t Do, Need and Want
by Karen Porter
Learn how to communicate strategically to get results in your executive assistant or administrative assistant role and career. In your administrative professional role, you communicate all day long. You do so using many communication modes: face-to-face, online, e-mail, instant messaging and more. You communicate with your managers, executives, coworkers, colleagues, customers, and vendors.
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential
by John C. Maxwell
Are there tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over fifty years. Continuing to push your personal development forward can get tiring. Reinvigorate your drive to grow your career with John C. Maxwell’s principles for growth and work towards reaching your full potential.
Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, With a Gun: True Stories of Silicon Valley CEO Assistants
by Linda McFarland and Joanne Linden
This fun read gives an insider’s view into what it’s like reporting to a CEO as admins share their experiences reporting to powerful Silicon Valley execs. Check this one out if you’re vying for an Executive Assistant role.Today, the executive assistant to a CEO wields a huge amount of power and is engaged in all aspects of the business. They continually seek out ways to make their jobs more efficient, more enriching, and more empowering.It’s especially useful for anyone who has his or her eyes on a spot reporting to a CEO one day.
Be the Ultimate Assistant: A celebrity assistant’s secrets to working with any high-powered employer
by Bonnie Low-Kramen
A must-have insiders guide! Real life tools and advice for every professional assistant and their high-powered employers. A first-hand look at the world of a celebrity assistant, and its application to the larger realm of all professional assistants. Written by the former celebrity assistant to Olympia Dukakis, this career development book shares the skills you need to be successful as the assistant to a high-powered individual. Filled with stories from the life of a celebrity assistant, this read will also keep you entertained.
The Innovative Admin
by Julie Perrine
If you want to be the admin every executive wants by his or her side and other administrative professionals look up to, this must-have book for admins helps you learn how to embrace innovative thinking that makes you invaluable to your boss, your co-workers and your company. Learn to bring creativity into your career by this career development book from chapters on the innovation mindset, journaling, creating a personal advisory board and more, you’ll soon find yourself bringing a new perspective to your position.
Career management isn’t just a nice-to-do, it’s a must do, if you expect to gain maximum success and happiness from the hours you invest in work. Face it, you are likely going to work 40 hours a week for your entire adult life. Why not make them the best 40 hours that you can create? So start reading , the trick is finding ways to fit reading into your daily, weekly or monthly routine. Routinely carve out small blocks of time, maybe during lunch or on a break, to read. Your career development and moving ahead are important. It is a lot of work but nobody said moving up the ladder was easy. A successful career doesn’t happen unthinkingly. It needs planning, tending, and frequent review. Are you ready to pursue these career development strategies?
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