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Is shorthand still a relevant skill for a minute taker?

Practically Perfect PA

It was a very handy skill to have! … They would’ve thought that this would be a must have skill to be able to take minutes. Typing the minutes onto the laptop saves an incredible amount of time – if you’re writing your minutes in any form you’re double handling the information! But now a dying art. I would disagree.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015

Small Business Labs

Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2015.   2015 Technology Trends. The ongoing technology platform shifts to Cloud and Mobile Computing will continue as long term drivers of change in 2015. 2015 Economic Trends. Despite signs of a global slowdown, our 2015 U.S.   2015 Social Trends.

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Education & Experience Don’t Guarantee Success—Attitude & Habits Do

Success

Talent matters, too, but aside from skills (which develop from experience) much of your talent is an innate tendency to perform better in certain areas. Though many habits form unconsciously, it is possible to purposefully create habits that will make you successful. The key to successfully forming good habits is consistency.

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12 Things Even the Best Leaders Can Forget

Success

They could be external in the form of a market win or internal in the form of a superstar performer. In being busy and taking on the responsibility of leading, it is easy to forget that there should still be time for an ongoing learning process and skill enhancement. Photo by mentatdg/Shutterstock.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

These students can choose between courses that teach both core soft skills, such as “ communications ” or “community and culture,” and hard technical skills. They yearned for more and they knew they had the skill set to accomplish more. Despite their expertise in technology, employment options were limited.

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Emotional Intelligence Is Crucial to Good Leadership—Here’s Why

Success

But unlike innate, fixed characteristics, such as your IQ, EQ is a flexible skill that you can improve. enumerates the specific components of emotional intelligence as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. This is the “social skill” component of emotional intelligence. They’re humble.

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Is Flex The Future?

Allwork

Community is an elusive and special skill that sets coworking apart. This could be in the many forms the most common are loneliness, depression, addiction or anxiety. Also from our research in 2015 with Steve King of Emergent Research: 89% of coworkers reported being happier. It’s feeling a connection with other humans.

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