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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Supervisors and managers in your organization are having the same thoughts—they want to make 2018 the best year ever, for themselves and their people. Look Back! ?

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Why Leaders Need to Make Time for Self-Care

Success

Leadership Challenge Create a workweek calendar that includes time for you to relax and unwind. Karima Mariama-Arthur, Poised for Excellence , published in 2018 by Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of SCSC. This article was published in February 2018 and has been updated. When do you schedule “me time”?

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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

Success

In a 2018 study on the psychology of ultra-marathon runners, researchers found that mental toughness helps overcome the perception of physical, psychological, emotional and environmental obstacles. I always try to have something that I’m looking forward to for that push.”

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. This is not smart. This is not smart. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. They are the foundation on which everything else is built.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

Productivityist

So this year after I went through the Yearly Words exercise – something I feature in my “anytime” annual planning program The NOW Year Action Plan Course – I decided to use the same three words from 2017 in 2018. I decided to make one resolution for this calendar year: To be more resolute.

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Things Assistants Do That Executives Appreciate

Office Dynamics

Watch Joan present the top 12 during her Facebook Friday video, 12/7/2018). My assistant looks at my calendar weeks away and helps me think about the time needed to complete projects or get ready for presentations. Effectively manages my calendar with efficiency in mind. Enables my success by staying two steps ahead.

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On to the next task.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I put items in my calendar as a reminder, but the problem with calendar reminders is unless you know which day you put it on or what you named it, you can't easily find it. If I put a reminder in the calendar, I note the date on the meeting sheet. I document everything and that is how I keep track. So I document that as well.

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