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

Success

Yet, the people who are doing this find themselves burned out , and worse, not producing meaningful work, Newport asserts in his book. Being busy has very little to do with producing good results. In many cases, speeding up your tempo of work makes you worse at your job,” Newport says.

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How to succeed as an assistant

Practically Perfect PA

Here are some of Hemsley Fraser’s top success skills tips! Tip 1: Working Relationships. You can then use your initiative to appreciate what your manager’s typical week involves to enable you to deal with emails and phone calls and plan engagements into their calendar, without having to always consult your boss.

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

Excellent calendaring skills. If you want to hear the real secrets of star-performing assistants, join our free webinar on June 4 called The Star Performer’s Secret Sauce: 25 Proven Tips to Administrative Excellence! Positive, can-do attitude. Ability to prioritize. Accountable. Trustworthy. Ability to remain calm under pressure.

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Celebrating Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics

Tips to help you be more productive in your day. Proven tips on maintaining your competitive edge as an administrative or executive assistant. Be sure to mark your calendar for April 1 – 30 and check out our daily informative and fun blogs. Ideas on how to build better partnerships with your managers.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

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. Then defer to the Star Essentials tip below. (I What are your top tips for sharing this practice?

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Maximising your productivity and dealing with interruptions

Practically Perfect PA

Here are my top ten tips! Or even better, if you have to screens keep one just for your outlook calendars. Ensure you have everything at your finger tips. Can they get the information themselves or is that you struggle to be assertive with lazy colleagues – can you say ‘no’ more often?

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

There are several tips for getting the most out of your next performance evaluation & reducing stress. Discuss the importance of a calendar time block for your manager to focus on emails, presentations, budget, etc. Please share your performance evaluation and goal setting tips in the comments section.

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