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Getting Tangled Up Managing Unrealistic Expectations

My EA Career

I was excited about my Slinky Mindset metaphor and dispatched my youngest daughter to take a video of a Slinky going down our front stairs. It was when we resorted to searching YouTube for videos of others achieving that we realised what the problem was. I haven’t given up on my ambitions to video a Slinky navigating our front steps.

UPS 52
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Getting Tangled Up Managing Unrealistic Expectations

My EA Career

I was excited about my Slinky Mindset metaphor and dispatched my youngest daughter to take a video of a Slinky going down our front stairs. It was when we resorted to searching YouTube for videos of others achieving that we realised what the problem was. I haven’t given up on my ambitions to video a Slinky navigating our front steps.

UPS 52
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State of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.” Encourage cross-mentoring. By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Managers are technically savvy and very independent, but they are often performing functions that administrative professionals can do with ease; Perceptions. Nurture the minds of the Gen X & Y’s.

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State of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.” Encourage cross-mentoring. By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field. Managers are technically savvy and very independent, but they are often performing functions that administrative professionals can do with ease; Perceptions. Nurture the minds of the Gen X & Y’s.