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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

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They use Casciaro’s new book, Power For All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (co-authored with Julie Battilana), to explain confusing yet common power struggles. Knowingly or unknowingly, you’re asserting your power through the act of helping others. Learn everything you can about human nature.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The woman stepped back, said, “Well, I guess now we have a director,” meaning that Fanning had finally shown she had the assertiveness necessary for the job, and walked out. She had discovered the power of asserting herself and, in doing so, freed herself from being bullied, backstabbed or stepped on. It’s not an easy rut to escape.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

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From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). They feel they have been managing calendars or planning meetings forever so why pay attention. I never take for granted the basic ‘platform’ skills I learned in the early days as a speaker. Supporting Multiple Managers. Time Management.

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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

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For example, here are a few of the most common roles that may be a great fit for assistants, depending on your skills and interests: Project Manager. Learn how to run reports and queries, or maybe offer to help creating procedures for others to do the same. If you’d like to learn more about our Blog-A-Thon you can do so here.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

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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. Learning is always a win-win for an employee & manager and progress is easily tracked.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

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What was the inspiration for writing your new book, The Organized Admin? And we structured the book in such a way that you don’t have to read it from cover to cover, you can jump around or go straight to the area you’re having the most trouble with first and work through it in order of importance for your situation. Project Management.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

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The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. Introducing Assess - Decide - Do my life management framework. Learn how to assess imbalances, how to get rid of the deadlines (replacing them with livelines, that is) and how to create the life you want. For A Liveline Philosophy Forget deadlines.

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