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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. NEW 3-Part LIVE Training Series Starts May 12!

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

Success

In her book, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success , Megan McArdle explains that we gain skills by practicing things because we’re strengthening the connection between the action and the reward. But if we learn from the failure and revise our actions, we might get a better result (and a dose of dopamine) on the next try.

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7 Ways to Free Up an Extra 25 Hours a Week

Success

We are talking about highly skilled, well-trained leaders spending the majority of their time emailing (a low-level skill) on the days when their unique abilities are needed the most. When your email chain reaches more than five back-and-forth responses, it’s time to pick up the phone. Pick up that phone. Talk about inefficient.

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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

Success

A University of Pennsylvania-trained engineer, Wang has had a meteoric career trajectory that has taken her to positions with the U.S. She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” So you treat them the same.

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2016 Administrative Conference Scholarship Winners Announced

Office Dynamics

It was a hard selection process but after each of our team members rated the applications and came together to add up the scores three winners quickly rose to the top. Our 2016 Administrative Conference Scholarship winners are: Full Scholarship – Tara Browne, Baystate Health.

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

Success

Three months later, while on his last long training run before the ASICS Stockholm Marathon, Ellison had a run-in with a Canadian goose trying to protect her ducklings. After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On

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