Businesses Worldwide Celebrate Administrative Professionals Week®
and Administrative Professionals Day®
IAAP is the sole sponsor of Administrative Professionals Week® April 18-24, 2010, and Administrative Professionals Day® on Wednesday, April 21 (formerly called Professional Secretaries Week® and Professional Secretaries Day®).
IAAP created this recognition in 1952 with two objectives in mind: to recognize “the secretary, upon whose skills, loyalty, and efficiency the functions of business and government offices depend,” and to call attention “through favorable publicity, to the tremendous potential of the secretarial career”, and today it still serves to honor admins and their role in the workplace.
The Administrative Professionals Week theme for 2010 is Power of Commitment. Power of Commitment encompasses everything about administrative professionals and their values. As admins show commitment in all their work, they fully contribute to the workplace.
Admins are increasingly important in today’s unstable business climate. With the downturn in the economy companies are cutting positions and the admins left are taking on more and more work. Today’s administrative professionals are embracing varied roles as companies downsize. Businesses are looking for admins with soft skills who possess emotional intelligence in addition to technical skills, who are adaptable, and who have initiative, interpersonal skills and technical aptitude.
Many of the chapters in the MN-ND-SD Division host special events during that week, or at their regularly scheduled April meetings, with high-quality educational seminars that provide those skills to admins. Visit the Meetings and Events page of our website to find more information.
2010 Administrative Professionals Week (APW) Events
Employers Associations and MN-ND-SD Division IAAP
Celebrate Administrative Professionals Week
Program: Calm in the Midst of Chaos
Date: Monday, April 19 from 11:30 am to 2:15 pm
Location: Doubletree Hotel - Minneapolis Park Place at I-394 and Hwy 100
Brainerd Chapter
Program: Cliff Jumper: Lessons on the Way Down
Date: Thursday, April 22 from 8:00 to 2:00 pm
Location: Cragun's Legacy Club House & Golf Course
Program: How to Recession-Proof Your Career
Date: Tuesday, April 13 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Location: Davanni's, 14165 James Road, Rogers
North Suburban Chapter
Professional & Personal Development Expo
Date: Wednesday, April 14 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel, 6300 Earl Brown Drive, Brooklyn Center
Red River Chapter and North Dakota State University Memorial Union
Program: Personal Safety, Dealing with Aggressive People and Work Place Violence
Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Location: Howard Johnson Inn, 301 3rd Ave. N in Fargo, ND
Skyway Chapter
Program: Luncheon Seminar featuring Valerie King, IAAP Northwest District Director
Date: Tuesday, April 20 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Location: RSM McGladrey located at 801 Nicollet Ave., 11th Floor, West Tower, Downtown Minneapolis
Southwest Metro Chapter
Program: What's New in Today's Job Search and How it Affects Your Career
Date: Thursday, April 15 from 5:30 to 8:30 pm
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel, 2800 American Blvd. W, Bloomington
TwinCities West Chapter
Program: East Meets West: Asian Business & Social Etiquette
Date: Thursday, April 8 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Location: Radisson Hotel, 3131 Campus Drive, Plymouth