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Key skills roundup for 2018

Practically Perfect PA

I hope you enjoy our key skills roundup for 2018. We focussed really heavily this year on increasing our content around the key skills Assistants need to develop in their role this year. We covered a lot of skills including minute taking, event management, organising business travel, project management and everything in between!

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

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This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. Sometimes one of us travels for work and the other tags along. With us, travel is always interesting. Of course, the investment in travel goes well beyond money. I am not a flexible person.

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WNBA Star Monique Billings on Staying Disciplined and Finding Balance

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Billings , who grew up playing travel basketball, honed her skills on the court during her time at UCLA before being drafted by the WNBA in 2018. Monique Billings is a forward for the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream.

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Giving Joy’s Micro Grants for Female Founders Are Making Macro Impacts

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Propolis, which was founded in October 2022, traveled throughout India for three months training 1,000 social workers, teachers, health and corporate professionals and youth on emotional processing and communication skills to combat stigmas around other taboo topics like sexuality, incest, illness, mental health and death. “I

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The Bautista Project Aims to Prevent Homelessness Before It Happens

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Taking their charity on the road Due to her husband’s service in the reserves, Bautista and her family regularly relocated and traveled from Denver to Hawaii to Germany to Colorado and New York. In 2018, she did, and The Bautista Project was incorporated in 2020.

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6 Real-Life Budgeting Tips to Save More Money

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And I travel abroad every three months. While I’ve been financially frugal my whole life, knowing how to save money is a skill that can be easily taught. The best part of traveling is being able to do it cheaply and often. It allows you to search the cheapest places to travel to by month. I make an average salary.

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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). I know many seasoned executive assistants who think they do not need to focus on or pay attention to their basic skills, what is also known as the fundamentals. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. This is not smart.

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