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How To Be A Good Mentee: Everything You Need To Know

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And if you do get on their calendar, don’t expect them to commit to future meetings where you’re looking to “pick their brain.” I arrived at his Los Angeles apartment armed with five pages of questions, single-spaced, on a legal pad. Mona Patel contributed to this article. So reach out with an explicit purpose.

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The Holiday Blues Are Normal—These 8 Tips from Experts Can Help You Better Manage Difficult Emotions

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Feelings don’t obey the calendar,” says psychotherapist Tina Gilbertson, author of Constructive Wallowing: How to Beat Bad Feelings by Letting Yourself Have Them. Even if it’s just “go to mall to buy present for nephew,” write it down in your calendar and then do it. Schedule yourself. Watch out for the post-holiday blues.

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

If you’re going to implement this across calendars and digital tools that overlap with others, it’s important to discuss it and create something that makes sense to everyone on your team. In Microsoft Office, categories carry across email, tasks, and calendar. When I see a red block on my calendar, I know it’s a speaking event.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. One of the things they recommended to executives was to use their electronic calendar to leave themselves reminders. . -- Wait a minute! I guess he thought I needed the help.

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Best tips on working with multiple managers

Practically Perfect PA

I rely heavily on Outlook to help with not only scheduling, but simple reminders, shared calendars, etc. Also, having full access to each person’s calendar is a must. If an exec is unexpectedly out of the office and a meeting that they scheduled needs to be cancelled, you can easily cancel it and manipulate their calendar.

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Administrative Assistant vs. Executive Assistant: What’s the Difference?

Eat Your Career

Of course, the admin field has changed a lot in the past few decades (more on that in a future article). In this article, I want to explore both the Administrative Assistant role and the Executive Assistant role as thoroughly as possible, without overwhelming you.

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Tarte’s Dubai Trip and the Tricky Ethics of Influencer Marketing

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Multiple articles and comments called the extravagant excursion “tone-deaf,” particularly as the U.S. Regulations of influencer marketing A bigger area of concern for McClennan is that in addition to concerns about ethical issues, trips like this can enter a legally dubious gray area. borders on another recession.