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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Communicating With Your Manager

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Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. Your goal is to have a daily huddle with each other whether in person or on the telephone.

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Why Being An Executive Assistant Is A Rewarding Career

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A stellar Executive Assistant must think of every detail for every function such as calendar management, travel planning, meeting preparation and execution, and e-mail management. Also, be sure to set goals for where you want to be in 3 years and 5 years. These people are naïve, to say the least. Those are just the fundamentals.

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How to Master The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers

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There are days when I have 15 calendars open on my computer in an effort to schedule meetings with elected officials, developers, executive team members, staff, and members of the general public. Since supporting multiple managers, I have enjoyed strengthening my working relationships with other managers.

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Are You Too Busy for The Most Important Partner In Your Office? The Importance of Daily Huddles

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She posed a typical problem that I have heard for years and I want to respond to her question in a blog as I bet many executive and administrative assistants run into the same problem. They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. I recently received a request for advice from an assistant named Kathryn. ’”.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! 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 Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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The Top Skills Executives Want From Assistants Today

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“The ability to be a team player in the larger sense of the corporate mission, goals, and objectives. A must-have skill when managing your executive’s calendar is to understand your executive must have down time.”. It’s not about your desk, but the big desk in the sky. This is just a small snip-it of what I have heard.

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