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These Are the 45 Most Important Minutes of Your Day

Success

Show me where I could have been a better (fill in your profession—manager, teacher, etc.) Show me where I could have been more assertive today. Once completed, transfer the action items into your calendar or planner. Put them onto your calendar or to-do list. It will keep them focused and will build up their confidence.

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Things Assistants Do That Executives Appreciate

Office Dynamics

More confidence when addressing conflict in a way that leverages relationships. Increased confidence: more vocal, more influential and exudes a stronger presence with those she works with. My assistant looks at my calendar weeks away and helps me think about the time needed to complete projects or get ready for presentations.

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How to succeed as an assistant

Practically Perfect PA

Do you find more and more is demanded of executives and senior managers’ time? However, with more being expected of your manager’s time, this in turn increases the expectation of what is anticipated of your job role and assigned tasks. Tip 2: Personal Effectiveness and Assertiveness. Tip 1: Working Relationships.

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

If you are a manager reading this blog, check off the ones that apply to your administrative partner. Excellent calendaring skills. Excellent time management skills. Taking baby steps is a good way to manage a big list of “must get better at” areas. This might give you an idea of areas that need to be developed.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

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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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

If our manager’s take little time to help us set good objectives (again this is fairly common) how do they know what to judge us on? I’ve added a few dual objectives that I shared with my manager so that we both had something to work on together throughout that year…. Business related objectives. To be completed by Q3.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

If our manager’s take little time to help us set good objectives (again this is fairly common) how do they know what to judge us on? I’ve added a few dual objectives that I shared with my manager so that we both had something to work on together throughout that year…. Business related objectives. To be completed by Q3.

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