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Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

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What I’ve come to learn since opening up about my mental health is that I’m not alone, and it does get better,” Deer said. Coming out later in life is a unique experience in that I’d adapted my whole life around ideas based on the cis-heteronormative agenda,” she said. Social impact factored into Deer’s business operations as well.

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Meetings, Meetings, and More Meetings

Office Dynamics

have increased are due in part to the rise in teams and requisite team meetings and technology such as video-conferencing accommodating slashed travel budgets. Distribute an agenda to participants before the meeting. Make note of “personal lessons learned.”. The reasons meetings. Identify the objective for your meeting.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

BUT, I learned and I learned quickly by making some mistakes early on. What I also learned was that I liked what I was doing and that I was good at it – or had the potential to be. Program Content/Agenda . Did I think of this as meeting planning? This is where the word “team” comes into play.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

Sometimes it is easy to forget what we learn over the years so lets have a little reminder of the skills we have picked up at various stages of our careers: Administrator: Improving computer skills from intermediary to advanced . Learning how to use and fix a variety of office equipment. Learning as you go.

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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

4) Communicating, John keeps meticulous notes, and he goes far beyond these high-level categories, down to time spent with individuals, groups, companies, family, traveling and more. Team meetings should be about learning, listening and increasing enthusiasm. If that’s not happening, it’s time to make a “better meeting” resolution.

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Business Travel Planning for Executive and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

With more and more companies expanding the reach of their market across the country and even the globe, the role of the business travel planner has become increasingly important. Novice and senior assistants alike struggle with the task of travel planning for busy leaders. You must understand that travel planning is a cognitive task.

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Whose meeting is it anyway?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Do you ever get a meeting request and an agenda has not been provided, or if it is a teleconference the call-in details have not been given or the boardroom hasnt been booked for an internal meeting? My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets 23, 1 p.m. (New

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