Practically Perfect PA

JULY 15, 2015

With Assist Travel coming up in September in London I wanted to share one of our most popular blogs with you – The Ultimate Travel Itinerary. A well organised travel itinerary is an essential service that assistants can provide for their managers. One of my directors travelled from Sydney to Tokyo on the same trip.

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Success

JANUARY 30, 2024

You’re in a meeting—perhaps learning about a new company initiative or listening to a boss who wasn’t happy with your team’s performance—and you have something to say, but then you just… don’t. She asks people to examine the costs of staying silent: “We unlearn being silent by recognizing and wrestling with the silence we’ve learned.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Guest Episode Video Transcript Pauline Roussel CEO at Coworkies and Co-author of “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” Pauline Roussel is a co-author of the book “Around the World in 250 Coworking Spaces ” and an expert in the field of coworking spaces. It can really be where it needs. Everyone cooks differently.

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Success

MARCH 26, 2022

In the absence of travel, daily commutes and the culture of busyness, many employees were finally able to fully engage in self-reflection to determine if their job, company and path truly aligned with their overall interests. Do you want to travel more, or finally make good on your literary aspirations?

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Success

APRIL 6, 2023

However, Stephanie Levinson and Jeff Lerner are shining examples that taking a chance on yourself can pay off. I didn’t want to travel as much, I wanted to continue to coach both of my kid’s Little League teams, I wanted to help out in their classrooms, etc.” I hired an accounting firm to handle my books and finances.

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Success

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Frankel herself is the bestselling author of books such as Skinnydipping and A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out Of Life , as well as cookbooks including Skinnygirl Cocktails: 100 Fun & Flirty Guilt-Free Recipes. This was a light day for me because it was also a travel day!” What are you worst at?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider the travel industry as an example. Do you have experienced center staff who can manage increased traffic from virtual offices and meeting room bookings? Your center should also have the capacity to receive more meeting space bookings. Learn more about mail handling best practices here.

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Success

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several years ago, I had an opportunity to co-author a book with my friend and client Robert Rohm, Ph.D., The book describes the four basic personality styles and how to interact with each type. I am so grateful that I learned this distinction early on and could apply it in my family life. Everyone was happy.

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Success

MAY 11, 2022

An email sign-up form with a promise of something in return: This can be a discount code, free e-book or video related to your business, access to a free consultation or another giveaway. Here are seven ideas for opt-in success: • E-guide: A wedding photographer might offer an article titled “What I Learned from Attending 105 Weddings.”

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Transformation into a data-enhanced business, with the ability to analyse the use and configuration of space for example, does not happen overnight. When those workers get back to the office, they are forced to interact with a variety of discrete systems to access the building, find a desk, book a meeting room and more.

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JUNE 8, 2022

It just clicked, and I understood that Gen Z and millennials were learning differently… At the company I left to pursue this, [the younger employees] didn’t do traditional learning. They did learning snacks, short snippets.”. I’m usually two to three weeks booked out. Learn the Mechanics. Create Content.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Another example is the reduction in facility needs during semester breaks and during lighter summer and winter terms. . Colleges and universities don’t always get space right, but their successes and challenges provide useful insight for organizations looking to learn. What will your policies and procedures be for booking space? .

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Ideas.Ted

MARCH 3, 2022

For his new book The Power of Regret , writer Daniel H. A few years after Deepa died, Amy learned that another childhood friend had been diagnosed with cancer. George Vaillant, a Harvard psychiatrist, headed the study for more than 30 years, and in an unpublished manuscript, he reflected on what he’d learned. She visited her.

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Success

OCTOBER 28, 2022

It’s the stuff legends are made of—the young and passionate dreamer turning his back on the cushy and safe but also stuffy and boring desk job to carve his own path , to follow the road less traveled, to chase the muse that had grown in his heart since he was a young boy. How do you get paid in the world?”

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JANUARY 23, 2023

“Creatives” are not only artistic and imaginative; they are, for example, analytical and task-oriented, too. The fight-or-flight response, for example, originates in the amygdala. Relationships involve inventive problem-solving at every turn, for example, as does the management of our own emotional well-being.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 29, 2019

Let’s take for example the task of meeting planning or calendaring for your executive. You would: Take into consideration your executive’s travel. Meaning your gut tells you that because your executive has busy weekends and your executive takes a while to get going on Monday mornings, you stay away from booking morning meetings.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

But with fewer people traveling to physical workspaces at any given time, how can business leaders and landlords ensure their real estate footprint is worth the investment? For example, a department store could utilize this technology to determine that men’s accessories has the most traffic in the store, and men’s shoes has the least.

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Productivityist

APRIL 10, 2024

We explore the importance of embracing failure as a crucial element of learning and growth, the impact of parenting on our perception of obstacles, and how personal experiences with technology and art can offer unexpected opportunities for expansion. Read some Rhoneisms here. Want to support the show?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Do you dream of spontaneously traveling to a new place for a few months? Although the movement feels relatively new, the ideas of the FIRE approach were originally outlined in a book first published in 1992 called Your Money or Your Life , written by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. Want to learn more about FIRE retirement?

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Success

MARCH 8, 2022

For example, a fuel-efficient car seems like a truly environmental choice; however, it’s not as environmental as simply not buying something. Maybe over your lifetime you were an intrepid traveler. Maybe you created a groundbreaking language-learning program. What do people remember and admire best about you?

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Today, I thought I’d take a little different spin and share with you an excerpt from a chapter in my newest book for assistants, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed. However, at 26, thanks to an awesome executive, I learned how a strategic partnership should work and I taught every executive after that how to work with me.

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Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In his book The Mask of Masculinity , Howes recalls the horror and embarrassment of being selected dead last. “In Howes realized he’d been leaning on football to harness the limited range of emotions he learned to express as a young man: stoicism or anger. Howes has just finished a book—his fourth—titled The Greatness Mindset.

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Productivityist

MAY 19, 2016

Stevie P is your friendly, neighborhood Earth traveler, intuitive coach, Reiki master, Siddha healer, kinesiologist, philosopher, writer, poet, positivity connoisseur and Pokemon master. Do you capitalize on your idle travel time? Traveling can be a tremendous opportunity for this. Here’s a good example. Think about that.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We will never be perfect at making decisions but we definitely need to take each bad decision or poor choice, learn from it, and commit to making better decisions in the future. Read Andy Stanley’s book, The Principle of the Path for additional information on how to get from where you are to where you want to be.]. Decision Maker.

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Success

JANUARY 1, 2023

Your employees look to you to set an example, and many of them may be struggling with a mental illness —after all, in 2020 alone, 52.9 And you should do coordination exercises, like playing tennis or dancing, to keep your brain active through the learning of new skills. I can’t consistently eat well because I travel too much.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Over the years, we’ve learned what tools you need to reach the top of your game. From other executive assistants to business owners, travel agents, corporate event specialists, the IT people, even the person who has connections for hard-to-get tickets or bookings can all be great “tools” in your network. For example, Unroll.me

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 9, 2017

Request more/less travel. Business travel is something that many people enjoy. Take a class, read a book, or simply offer to work on a task that stretches you beyond your current abilities. Create a lunch and learn group. You can probably learn a lot from the conversation. Transfer to a new location. Telecommute.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Google searches of his name are as likely to lead you to pictures and recipes of omelettes as they are books. Although a prodigious author and journalist, the major part of his legacy rests on a handful of novels and the fact he has an omelette named after him that is served to this day at The Savoy.

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Workplace Insight

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Google searches of his name are as likely to lead you to pictures and recipes of omelettes as they are books. Although a prodigious author and journalist, the major part of his legacy rests on a handful of novels and the fact he has an omelette named after him that is served to this day at The Savoy.

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Last year for example, at C-Suite Assistants, only 7 percent of our total placements in 2020 were for EA/PAs. For couples who travel frequently between homes and businesses and have busy lifestyles, this could mean coordinating professional and private schedules across different time zones and in different regions around the world.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Areas that are not traveled over, will have vegetation regrow and cover the once existing path. One example that he gives is to brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand. This exercise is a great example of how quickly our brain can begin to adjust when we ask it to do different things. Read a Book for Fun.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 7, 2017

I also organise his business travel. Since I commute to work, on my way to Frankfurt I read lots of books on the train or I like to surf the internet for things that put me in a positive mood. Since my boss travels a lot, I take care of his travel expenses and supplier invoices. I make sure that the whole day flows well.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 17, 2022

I use OneNote for virtually everything – from procedures to travel planning to the way I manage my projects and speaking events. In this example, I created a custom tag for one of my executives so I could quickly search by that tag to find all of the items I wanted to discuss with him. You can create custom tags for anything you want!

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, your Operations pile may have sub-categories such as: Building Lease, Copier Repair & Maintenance, and Parking Permit Administration. Here are some color-coding examples: Project Types. – Executive’s Name – Meeting/Travel Planning. – Business development projects are green (for money).

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Page Personnel

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Administrative assistants also often work closely with senior-level employees and executives to take care of organisational duties such as answering phones, booking meetings and making travel arrangements on their behalf. Business support competencies can vary, as no company operates exactly the same. Looking for your next great role?

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On The Job

OCTOBER 27, 2014

No one would ever claim that business travel is loads of fun, and much of that is because road warriors often get frustrated trying to stay productive while away from the office. That familiarity cannot only ease the stress of trying to learn new surroundings, but can also garner some perks from hotels.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 28, 2023

For example, are there equivalent or similar software on the market that would allow the candidate to easily learn your system? For most C-Suite executives, expertise in booking travel domestically and/or internationally is critical. Are these skills specific to a particular software or is there some flexibility?

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