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The Enneagram Gift Guide: Personalized Christmas Gifts for Every Enneagram Type

Success

The Bucket List Book The Bucket List Book organizes once-in-a-lifetime activities by longitude and latitude, fueling the Seven’s love for excitement and exploration. Eights are assertive, strong-willed and often display protective tendencies. Sevens are often spontaneous and optimistic, and may display impulsive behavior.

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Life Missions with LifeHack

Productivityist

In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. Aren’t people tired of setting goals? We don’t just call them goals: we instead call them life missions.

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Tips for the Tourist in All of Us: The Savvy Admin’s Guide to Travel!

Office Dynamics

I also host a high-end training program for executive assistants and administrative assistants called World Class Assistant , in Las Vegas. Be assertive in a professional fashion. Prepare: pack a good book or your MP3 player so you can entertain yourself during downtime. Do not sit in your room waiting! Remain calm!

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Q&A for Productivityist

Productivityist

In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. Aren’t people tired of setting goals? We don’t just call them goals: we instead call them life missions.

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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). Also, when we conduct activities in our training classes with assistants and ask them what skills, attitudes, and behaviors are important for an assistant, 90 percent of the time they list the fundamentals. This is not smart.

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NEWS RELEASE: Star Achievement Series Has Gone Public

Office Dynamics

Joan Burge designed the course materials with follow-up activities and assessments to be completed outside of class time. Action Items and Follow-up Activities extend learning beyond the class room and empower students to self-develop. An Intent to Apply form will be sent to the student prior to attending their class.

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Today’s Administrative Assistant Has Power

Office Dynamics

(Excerpt from Become an Inner Circle Assistant book, Joan Burge). I often see this in my training classes. For the first time in history, the administrative professional’s job description hints at the full engagement of cognitive powers. Don’t settle for “top of the mind” thinking.

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