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Leni on Boomtown Business Radio with Mike Consol

Leni Miller appeared on Boomtown Business on KDOW (AM 1220) Radio with host Mike Consol.  Listen as Leni talks about the emergence of the professional Executive Assistant and the importance of the role in today's business world.  From the emerging entrepreneur to the established major corporation, the right Executive Assistant can be pivotal to any executive's success!

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"Standing behind every successful executive is an outstanding Executive Assistant!...  The contrast between those with a stellar Executive Assistants and those who have mediocre ones could not be more stark...  It is a totally different experience."  Mike Consol, Boomtown Business Radio

Mike Consol is the creator and host of the local radio talk-show Boomtown Business on KDOW (AM 1220), but his isn’t your average radio guy.  Mike makes his real money as president of MikeConsol.com, which provides corporate training in three categories:

• Verbal communication skills
• PowerPoint presentation skills
• Business writing seminars

He came to training business well prepared, having spent 17 years with American City Business Journals, where he held a variety of key posts, including:

• Editor, San Francisco Business Times
• Associate publisher, San Francisco Business Times
• Writing and reporting coach, American City Business Journals
• Vice president, bizjournals.com (the internet division of ACBJ)

Before that he was managing editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, and news editor of the Pasadena Star-News.

Learn more about his current incarnation here: http://mikeconsol.com.

 

Who's Minding the CEO, 
An Assistant Knows Her Boss Like Few Others. Why Their Partnership Is Imperiled

Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2010  by Katherine Rosman

"It's like an office marriage," says Rosanne Badowski, 53, of working since 1988 as the executive assistant to Jack Welch, the retired General Electric Co. chairman and CEO.
Mr. Welch disagrees. "This is smoother," he says.

Such long-term partnerships between an executive and an executive assistant (or "EA," "admin," or "secretary," depending on your location and generation) are becoming increasingly rare. Executives change companies more frequently, and while some assistants will relocate, many can't uproot to follow the boss. Cost cutting and technology mean that fewer mid-level executives are assigned assistants, cutting back chances to move up the ladder together. At some law firms in Manhattan, for example, as many as five attorneys might share an assistant. At certain technology companies, having an assistant is considered outdated.

"An assistant can buffer you from a lot," says Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora, the Internet radio company. For this reason, he is assistant-free. 

Yet, at the same time, the demand for highly skilled assistants has increased in the last several years as shareholders and customers demand greater connectedness with executives.

To continue ... go to Who's Minding the CEO

 

 

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