View the How to Create & Sustain a Successful Internal Admin Council Event Recording Now.
The Admin Awards and our esteemed panel of Administrative Professionals held a lively roundtable discussion on how to successfully build an internal Admin Council from people who have already done it.
Here’s what we covered during the Backbone Live! Virtual Roundtable Discussion:
- How to get started – real life examples of Admins that have blazed the trail themselves and created their Admin Councils from scratch
- How to approach your mission, vision and values statement
- How to get buy-in from Leadership and determine budget requirements
- How to create your Admin Council’s leadership structure
- The communication tools and strategies to consider for increasing engagement
- Meeting cadence, structure and attendance expectations
- Challenges, pain points and barriers to consider
- And more!
Moderator: Michelle Kovacs, Senior Executive Assistant to the Chairman & CEO, Grainger
Panelists:
- Telma Mariotto, Executive Associate, Kimberley Baxter Ptarcinski, Executive Associate, Kathy Cannon, Senior Executive Assistant & Janet Roberson, Senior Executive Assistant, Retired, Juniper Networks
- Alice Howard, Coordinator of Sports Sponsorship Marketing, Toyota
- Desiree Hoo, Senior Engineering Aide, City of San Leandro
- Melinda Vail Goodnight, Senior Executive Assistant, Southwest Airlines
- Colleen Scott, Executive Secretary & Aimee Ortega, Executive Secretary, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
