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The Assistant Room Festive Brochure 2022

The Assistant Room

As the festive season approaches we are here to help you with everything from booking your festive celebrations at beautiful restaurants with complimentary champagne for all in attendance or saving up to 25% on gifts with big brands such as Jo Malone and Molton Brown.

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Five restaurants to recommend in the City of London

Practically Perfect PA

As Personal Assistant’s we book hundreds of restaurants every year for our colleagues, our executives and let’s not forget ourselves. Last year, I decided to set up www.Cityintrigue.com to give inspiration to my fellow PAs on trusted […].

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I Gave Up Drinking for Lent—and Here Are the 5 Things I Learned

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So as Lent approached, I tossed around the idea of giving up alcohol. I didn’t need to give it up, but I was curious as to what would happen if I did, just for a few weeks. What I gained by giving up alcohol for Lent These are five perks I experienced from giving up alcohol for 47 (long) days: 1. Probably for the best.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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Why You Should Keep a Journal

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I wrote ideas on restaurant placemats, long sheets, narrow sheets, little sheets and pieces of paper thrown in a drawer. So I became a buyer of blank books, something people found interesting. Twenty-six dollars for a blank book, why would you pay that?” Buying a book at a bookstore—also pretty easy. they’d say.

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Nurture Skills To Retain Employees

Allwork

In his book “Workquake: Embracing the Aftershocks of COVID-19 to Create a Better Model of Working,” Steve Cadigan, the former top LinkedIn HR exec, details why employees have grown increasingly dissatisfied in recent years, and how leaders can take advantage of the impact of the last two years to improve company culture. .

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Women in Wine: 4 Sommeliers Shaping the Future of Mexico’s Wine Industry

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“During one class session, I noticed several classmates were absent because they were applying at Le Cirque Restaurant, and the restaurant’s quality and fame at the time caught my attention, so I also went to apply,” she says. Ojeda grew up surrounded by her great-grandmother’s vineyard in Ensenada.