Eat Your Career

MAY 11, 2020

Projects involve an interconnected set of tasks designed to achieve a specific outcome within a finite period of time. Technology can help organize your projects, and it can even help execute certain elements of your projects, but it can’t manage your projects for you. And that’s just the beginning!

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Project Management Skills Management Administrative Professionals 262

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 18, 2016

After speaking at the Assist Conference Heather Dallas from Dallas Development has written a great follow up blog on her popular Project Management for Assistants session… Taking on a project is a great way of raising your visibility and getting you the recognition you deserve. Is it quality, time or cost?

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Project Management Management Budget 2017 100

Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Today the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget to the House of Commons. Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough.

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Budget 2023 Health Skills 98

Success

JULY 17, 2021

Career: A coach can help you advance in your organization, make peace with your boss, grow confidence, switch careers or get into your dream school. I limit myself to five clients at a time so I can manage another business and write every day. My rates increase with my confidence and reputation. Take vacation on short notice.

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Mentoring Confidence Training Resume 279

Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity. Explore ways to reduce supply costs by 5% to 10%. without interruption then create the blocks by a certain deadline.

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Goals Stress Filing Email 202

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. Trying to reach management, front desk, etc was of no help because either they were also closed or sales/events were not their domain.

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Interviewing Temping Resume Agencies 40

Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

If their price is beyond your budget, that’s okay – just tell them, then go look for someone in your price range. When the project is finished, if you think the price was too much for what was delivered, tell them why you didn’t see the value you expected. Trust freelancers to see the project through.

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2010 AT&T Project Management Elance 40