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Be a Kickass Assistant: How to Get from a Grunt Job to a Great Career (Paperback)
by Heather Beckel
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Office administration, Executive assistant, Productivity, Career development |
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A must-read for every assistant, in business, government, nonprofit and academic institutions.
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Author: Heather Beckel
Publisher: Business Plus; 1st edition
Pub. in: May, 2002
ISBN: 0446678147
Pages: 320
Measurements: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01341
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0446678148
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Congratulations, you've got the job! You're ready to pay your dues-type, file, answer those phones and letters, and if you're lucky, bring the boss coffee. You're full of confidence and the job's a breeze, a mere steppingstone toward a position where your true ability will be challenged. But wait-this job means more than you think!
Be a Kickass Assistant offers real-world advice for a very real-world job-the assistant. Assistants can show managerial talent and let their talents shine. Drawing on her experience as personal and executive assistant to George Stephanopoulos during Clinton's campaign and first term, author Heather Beckel cuts to the chase on how to dazzle them now to get ahead later. With clarity and wit, Beckel takes you from your first day to becoming a manager, intermingling her real-life experiences from the office of all offices-The White House. Whether it's developing your own organizational strategies or a painful lesson in discretion, Heather Beckel has been there, done that, and shares her knowledge in a no-holds barred guide.
Chapters include:
- When Your Boss Is a Jerk
- Give Good Phone
- Getting Personal with Your Boss
- Be a Manager and Know Your Universe
And more!
Target readers:
All assistants and secretaries and people who are interested in becoming an assistants or secretary.
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Heather Beckel was the executive and personal assistant to George Stephanopoulos during the Clinton 1992 campaign and during the president's first term in office. She owns a restaurant in Connecticut and currently works in public relations for a luxury bath company
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From Publisher
An essential office tool for every assistant, this fun and practical guide is guaranteed to help read-ers get from the cubicle to the corner office.Drawing on her experience as personal and executive assistant to George Stephanopoulos during Bill Clintons presidential campaign and first term, Heather Beckel offers straightforward advice on how to dazzle them now to get ahead later. With clarity and wit, Beckel guides readers from their first day to becoming a manager, intermingling her real-life experiences from the office of all officesThe White House. Whether its developing organizational strategies or a painful lesson in discretion, Heather Beckel has been there. Chapters includeWhen Your Boss is a JerkGive Good PhoneGetting Personal with Your BossBe a Manager and Know Your Universeand much more.
Drawing on her experience as personal and executive assistant to George Stephanopoulos during Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and first term, Heather Beckel offers straightforward advice on how to dazzle them now to get ahead later. From her real-life experiences from the office of all offices-The White House. Softcover.
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Robert Daniel (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-21 00:00>
I have read lots of books designed to give tips to administrative assistants. They are all so mundane and elementary. Not so with this book!
Heather gives you fun stories to relate to the things she is trying to teach you. Her insights into the details of managing a high-level boss are awesome! She discussed details I had never thought of and opened my mind to new ideas at work.
I highly recommend this book for assistants looking to fine-tune their organizational skills. You will not only learn how to be a great assistant but how to springboard into a new career. Get this book! |
Charles J (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-21 00:00>
Heather Beckel, former assistant to Clinton White House advisor George Stephanopoulos, wrote this manual for other assistants to help live by. Combining tried and true advice with blow by blow accounts of the White House experience and more, Beckel grounds the reader with why they should take her advice instead of just listening to it. Intended to be an orientation for assistants, this book could also be used by a manager to help them with relating better to their assistants. The author is eclectic yet understated in her own talents. It is no small coincidence that she went from high office in politics to Ralph Lauren in New York City. The skills she emphasizes within these pages allowed her to become her own boss. Good advice is where you find it. |
Parker (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-21 00:00>
I have been working as an assistant for the last twelve years and I felt that I needed to review the "core essentials" of my profession and pick up any techniques that I might have missed or forgotten along the way.
This is an excellent book for anyone who wishes to take stock of their career and review the essentials of what they actually do for a living. The approach of covering everything from first day, first job and career progression is excellent - no matter how much career history an assistant brings to a new job, until she manages to establish in her boss' mind that the new assistant is compentent, the new assistant might as well be a raw rookie.
For the record, the book contains a fair amount of information that will not be particularly useful for readers outside the USA (time zones, telephone numbers, etc). So, unless your boss does a lot of business travelling to the US, the parent company is US based, or the company has a lot of US based clients - these sections are not particularly useful.
I, too, bought the e-book and I would recommend that if time is on your side, buy this book in hardcopy format as it just cries out for a collection of post-it notes, annotations and needs its spine broken in a photocopier. |
S. Glozeris (MSL quote), USA
<2008-04-21 00:00>
This is a fabulous book! Not everything applied to me (If I stayed later than my boss he'd wonder why I was charging overtime) but overall it was a great book. This is not a book about how to be a great assistant to your boss so that s/he will never let you go and that you'll be supporting them forever. This book is about how to be a great assistant and using that to springboard you into something else. That something else could be being your own boss or being a higher level executive assistant. This book is empowering and interesting. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants truly wants to better themselves and their careers. |
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