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Empowering Administrative Professionals

Linda's Books

With humor, grit, compassion, and a calm demeanor, Linda imparts her wisdom to help assistants succeed in a rapidly changing role. Read THE WIZARD BEHIND THE CEO and SITTING ON A FILE CABINET, NAKED WITH A GUN. Read More

Training/Workshops

Tools, skills and on-going education are vital in the ever-changing and powerful role of an assistant. Linda McFarland Consulting offers training sessions and hands-on workshops that will enhance and increase your skills to make your participation an essential part of a company’s success. Read More

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Get tips and techniques for developing processes, learning about your inner self, tips and strategies to anticipate the needs of your executive, productivity ideas, and how to better collaborate in the workplace. Click on the + symbol below. Read More

BENEFITS AND RESULTS

Important benefits and results you will receive are Increased performance and career success, improved strategic thinking skills, and Increased leadership skills. Read More

GREAT READS BY LINDA MCFARLAND

The Wizard Behind the CEO

With humor, grit, compassion, and a calm demeanor, Linda imparts her wisdom to help assistants succeed in a rapidly changing role.

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Sitting on a File Cabinet, naked with a gun

Sitting on a File Cabinet, Naked, With a Gun offers an engaging, entertaining insider’s look into the offices of some of the most powerful men and women in Silicon Valley.

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Linda's Blog

  • What Ben Franklin Taught Me about Influencing Adversaries in the Workplace
    December 20, 2019 / Comments Off on What Ben Franklin Taught Me about Influencing Adversaries in the Workplace / Featured About 14 years ago I found myself in the uncomfortable and frustrating situation of butting heads with a fellow Executive Assistant who made things as simple as setting up meetings between our Executives a constant uphill battle. It was essentially her way or the highway, which created a working environment that I found increasingly more

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  • Admin Wizards Bend Things to Their Will
    July 15, 2018 / Comments Off on Admin Wizards Bend Things to Their Will / Best Practices,Featured Picture yourself as the organizer of a Board offsite event. Your executive asks you to schedule a few ad hoc meetings prior to the start of the meeting. “No problem,” you say. “I got this.” You’ve already signed a contract with the hotel and made all the arrangements so adding a meeting at the hotel

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  • What’s at stake?
    December 3, 2017 / Comments Off on What’s at stake? / Featured As technology continues to improve, it seems we spend less and less face time with each other. Or perhaps it’s those frustrating computer issues we have from day-to-day that cause our emotions to run thin and our stress levels to increase. With technology issues, it slows down our productivity. Our boss asks, “When will you

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