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The Leadership Gene

Success

I always plan to show up early for every appointment, just in case. I emerged from my stall to see a woman, a businesswoman, cleaning up—picking up the paper towels, wiping up the sink area. When I get up and leave a conference room, a public restroom, any space, I want to show my leadership by example.

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Team Building Activity - 18th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence

Office Dynamics

O ffice Dynamics conferences always have a team building segment, selected especially by Joan Burge, each year. Joan announced that the book will be published in time for Administrative Professionals’ Day, 2012. The winning table participants were invited up on stage to receive free Kindles (what a great prize!) The title?

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Don't Get Lost in The Crowd at Your Next Executive Assistant Conference

Office Dynamics

I finally took time to attend my big industry annual conference related to training. It is called the ASTD conference and was held in Denver in early May. When a conference is more intimate, you get to meet the hosts and movers and shakers. Check out our conference for administrative excellence. too many vendors….

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Love Your Career

Office Dynamics

I started out as a Receptionist and worked my way up the administrative ranks for 20 years following. It was my dream to quickly move up in the administrative arena and work for top executives as soon as possible. Reality: It’s up to you to seek out challenges and to take charge of your career direction.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

Success

She leads workshops at conferences, is sought after by Fortune 500 companies and has facilitated high-level negotiations. Growing up, she began to develop the skill of how to read facial expressions more out of desperation than curiosity. “So She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.

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2012: My Year in Review

Productivityist

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact 2012: My Year in Review Posted on 12/30/2012 // Leave a Comment Last year I offered up a year in review post , and i’m doing it again this year. You can pick up the books by going here. ) I will attend more conferences in a year than ever before.

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Top 10 Signs Coworking is Growing Up

Small Business Labs

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that " coworking's all grow'd up "   GigaOm's Jessica Stillman echoes this view, writing in her article The conversion to coworking 2.0

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