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Giving Credit Where It's Due

Office Dynamics

Survey: Nearly All Executives Say Their Assistant Plays Important Role in Their Success. April 17, 2013 - - For many executives, one key to their success is no secret: It''s their administrative assistant, a new OfficeTeam survey confirms. MENLO PARK, Calif., Somewhat important 50%. Not very important 5%. Very unimportant 1%.

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Invest in Interpersonal Skills Development is Important but Few Plan to Invest in Them

Office Dynamics

Survey: Few CFOs Plan to Invest in Interpersonal Skills Development for Their Teams. June 19, 2013 / PRNewswire / -- Executives say it takes strong soft skills to move up the corporate ladder, but few firms provide training in this area, a new Accountemps survey finds. Their responses: 2013. Management.

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Go Straight for the Joy and Follow Your Purpose

Success

If we’re to succeed in taking a risk and pursuing our purpose, we have to realize that fear is not a red light, but rather a consistent companion we must learn to manage. “If In a Harvard Business Review interview , Harvard psychology professor Ellen Langer defines mindfulness as “the process of actively noticing new things.

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. but then I put the Practically Perfect PA survey out there. I was trying to ignore them.

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Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry

Practically Perfect PA

We conducted a survey last year and one of the questions asked what session would the readers like to see at a conference. So out of that survey this session was born. We manage our executives; we understand the needs of the company and we manage complicated tasks. 44% said they felt slightly underpaid.

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Thank You For Being A Friend

Office Dynamics

Survey Reveals Employees Most Thankful for Friends at Work. 20, 2013 -- At work, as in life, people get by with a little help from their friends, a new OfficeTeam survey shows. It was conducted by an independent research firm and is based on telephone interviews with more than 400 U.S. Supportive manager.

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Simply Podtastic: My 2014 Essential Podcast Diet

Productivityist

In the past it''s been Instacast , but I really like the feature set that Downcast has offered for a long time, so I made the switch in early 2013. One managed to stick around for two, as it was just added to the mix in the last update. I''m using Downcast as my podcast app of choice. Until then, I''m sticking with Downcast.

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