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Hustle Culture Is Over. Slow Productivity Is the Way to Meaningful Work

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Yet, the people who are doing this find themselves burned out , and worse, not producing meaningful work, Newport asserts in his book. And while we think it’s our bosses or deadlines, or even our bottom line driving the stress to produce, he tells readers it’s someone else pressuring us—ourselves.

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Celebrating Administrative Professionals

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Be sure to mark your calendar for April 1 – 30 and check out our daily informative and fun blogs. You’ll also want to get your administrative peers together for our Peer Synergy day (Friday, April 24) to win a really cool prize for your team. Feel free to respond to our blogs every day!

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

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Team player. Excellent calendaring skills. Good communication skills. Organization skills. Interpersonal communication skills. Detail oriented. Positive, can-do attitude. Ability to prioritize. Accountable. Trustworthy. Ability to remain calm under pressure. Customer-service focused. Excellent time management skills.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

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Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. I have personally experienced stress in the past too! There are ways to decrease the stress levels and frustration though! Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation.

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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. Reduces stress. WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT? Technology is not perfect and neither are humans.

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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. Stress reducer. These people are naïve, to say the least. A true Executive Assistants must do over 100 things well. Those are just the fundamentals.

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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.”. The right tools and the common sense to apply them appropriately are a given in any role today.”. Toughness is key.

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