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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

Success

Job-seekers acquire these through education, training and experience. Attend workshops and seminars. In fact, the two are so intertwined, that soft skills training has become highly valued by most institutions. Read the best personal development books. Take online professional development courses.

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A Manual for Dealing with Rejection

Success

I tell people in sales that you can be having the worst day of your life, but no one has to know it,” says Hopkins, a sales seminar dynamo and the co-author of When Buyers Say No: Essential Strategies for Keeping a Sale Moving Forward. Hopkins has written 18 books, including How to Master the Art of Selling , which has sold more than 1.4

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The Holy Grail of Investing With Tony Robbins: Mindset Shifts that Lay the Foundation for Financial Freedom

Success

After many years of success—and yes, failure—Robbins today sits atop a phenomenal multibillion-dollar brand that includes live and virtual training programs and seminars, seven internationally bestselling books, more than 25 million social media followers and a successful podcast that reaches millions more.

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Choosing Administrative Training That’s Right for You

Office Dynamics

The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. I thought I would give you a quick overview of the various training platforms for assistants and a few words of wisdom.

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When Was the Last Time You Invested in Your Career?

On The Job

Will it require training or additional education? Are you finding ways to challenge your thinking with new podcasts or books? This is the time to jump in -- attend seminars, go to training events and meet new people and reconnect with others. Where do you want to be in one year? In three years? Reverse engineer.

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Zig Ziglar Defines Success with These 3 Tenets

Success

Over the course of his career he engaged thousands of audiences and sold millions of books and audio programs, including the best-selling See You at the Top: 25th Anniversary Edition , which sold more than 1.5 Ziglar commented that people frequently complain to him that the effects of motivational seminars, books and audios don’t last.

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Dale Carnegie and His Quest to Win Friends and Influence People

Success

When Dale Carnegie put those simple principles, among others, in a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People , he not only became a guru to millions of people the world over, he made publishing history. Since its first publication in 1936, the best-selling book has sold more than 15 million copies and is still popular today.

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