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The experienced professionals of OSSA are your virtual assistants for specialties including legal, accounting, transcription, comprehensive secretarial services, and personal assistants – everything you need for cost-effective support of your business or personal office. The members of OSSA are there when you need them, providing the highest professional standards of quality, confidentiality, and reliability. See our Find a Virtual Assistant link to locate one of our members for your specific need!
Are you interested in starting or being more successful in your own office support business? The members of OSSA invite you to participate in outstanding educational and business advancement sessions, mentoring, and group support – all available at our monthly meetings. Meetings are scheduled in the Seattle/Bellevue area on the second Wednesday of each month. See our Calendar of Events for meeting topics and locations. Your first two meetings are free!
Are you a virtual assistant?
Please join us for a complimentary meeting. For more info, contact KDBusinessServices@yahoo.com or call 206-988-1877.
February 10, 2010 OSSA Meeting
The next OSSA meeting will be at the Mercer Island Library, in the small conference room. Because the size of the room limits the number of attendees, we will be having a Roundtable discussion rather than a speaker. For more information, please contact us.
March 10, 2010 OSSA Meeting
30 SECONDS TO IMPACT! with Sandy Bjorgen
Get quick tips on how – in 30 seconds or less - to grab your audience, stand up and out with poise, and deliver a dynamic message. In this interactive, educational, and entertaining session with Sandy Bjorgen , you learn how to talk so people will want to listen, rather than tune you out! (This is an introduction to Sandy’s intensive Elevator Pitch Boot Camps: Part 1 gives business people the tools to develop powerful openers for their 30-second commercials and some sound bites for networking conversations; in Part 2, they go through a more intensive process to craft full commercials adaptable to different time frames - 15, 30, and 60 seconds.)
Whether you’ve been in business for years or are just getting started, it pays to practice your pitch and revise your message as the business climate changes. I've seen Sandy in action and the results of her work. In these crazy times, it's ESSENTIAL to be on top of your game, and Sandy 's the one to get you there. – Diane Haugen , Executive Director, Lake City Chamber of Commerce
Sandy Bjorgen is the founder of IMPR?V-able Results®, providing improvisation training for business people. She teaches people to think and speak under pressure with more cool than they ever imagined possible and helps them stand out from the crowd as unique, creative, and captivating. The secret is preparation and regular practice in order to present themselves as confident, credible, and poised in public. She teaches everyone from CEOs to up-and-coming staffers how to put people at ease and build lasting relationships. Through IMPR?V-able Results® proven techniques, clients learn to make better and faster decisions about what to say, how to say it, when to say it – and when to stop!
From our January Meeting
Cherie Tucker facilitated a lively discussion at our Wednesday meeting. Her presentation on improving writing skills was a good reminder that writing properly is a skill that needs to be practiced! She reminded us that writing was like picking the proper clothes to wear: you have to know the message you are trying to get across before you know how to write it.
In addition to her regular teaching of language and writing skills to businesses, Cherie has also taught a class for the UW Extension called Practical Grammar for Editors. And she is listed in THE GREGG REFERENCE MANUAL, Tenth Edition, as a professional colleague by its author, William A. Sabin.
For a few more tips from Cherie, log in to the message forum!
From our December Holiday Gathering
OSSA Members enjoying the Bellevue Botanical Garden of Lights
