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The Nathalie Virem Foundation Helps Leaders Rediscover Their Purpose

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Nathalie Virem connects with her true calling The following year, Virem published her first book, Live With Purpose: Creating Positive, Lasting Change. The foundation donates scholarships to Virem’s workshops, a value of around $2,000 each, to leaders, social business owners and students. Or holistic, in a sense.”

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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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Before getting there, let’s unpack the essentials of what skill training really is. Rooted in the belief that skill acquisition doesn’t end after formal education, job training bridges the gap between academic knowledge and practical, on-the-job requirements. Leadership training Leadership skills are fundamental to career growth.

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Annie Särnblad Wants to Teach You How to Read Facial Expressions—So You Can Get Ahead in Business

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She leads workshops at conferences, is sought after by Fortune 500 companies and has facilitated high-level negotiations. She did much of her training on her own before getting certified—and a lot of that training took place outside of the United States. She can also code the 10,000 muscle combinations within human expression.

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Launching Assist Training

Practically Perfect PA

Following the success of the Assist Conference a few weeks ago I thought I would put together a more extensive training course for two of our favourite conference topics – Events Management for assistants and Social Media/Apps/Office Tech (I can’t think of a catchy title for this one!). It is a full day training course.

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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. Last several days.

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

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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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Coworking In A War Zone: Four Ukrainian Workspace Operators Reveal Their Experiences, And How You Can Help

Allwork

The flexible workspace industry has come together to provide support, training, resources, additional levels of safety and as many of the other basics as possible to help people to continue to live and work. . Different workshops and meetings often take place” in the coworking space. . Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb.

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