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We Are Podcast

64. Being Indispensable and Overcoming Fear with Liz Van Vliet

Jan 11, 2017
44:34

Liz Van Vliet wants to be an indispensable Executive Assistant. She is on a mission to discover the skills and attributes that will make her irreplaceable. By interviewing awesome Executive Assistants (EA), Personal Assistants (PA) and Administrative Assistants (AA), she hopes to uncover the qualities that make them indispensable.

There are a multitude of titles for the role of Executive Assistant and a myriad of hard and soft skills that are listed in job descriptions, but what is it that differentiates awesome, amazing and indispensable assistants from the rest. Liz also shares her own experiences on the road to being indispensable. The tips and techniques, the successes and the failures. Sharing her learnings in order to help others avoid the same pitfalls, allowing listeners to benefit from her research into the skills and capabilities needed to exceed the expectations of her business leader.

In this episode we talk about:

Liz Van Vliet struggling on psychological reaction called fight-or-flight reflex and how she managed this flight-or-fight response About Liz Van Vliet's podcast Her traumatic life experience of having breast cancer What it is like to be an Executive Assistance What motivates her to do a podcast

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