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How to Upskill Yourself to Earn More Money 

Success

Upskilling, or the process of taking your skills to the next level at work, can be a great way to increase your value at your current company and help you negotiate a higher salary when you start looking for your next employment adventure. One of the benefits of upskilling at work is learning new skills during company time.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. On top of that, these leaders don’t do a very good job of managing their schedules because they don’t have time to look at their calendar from a holistic perspective. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

You’d better learn to lead yourself first. The universe offers an infinite number of opportunities, but also opportunity costs. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. When you learn to coax the best from yourself, success is assured. Want to lead others? Decisiveness.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. They are proficient use of all Microsoft tools and have great calendar management experience. Low-cost training courses are available online.

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How much can I charge as a VA

Karen Vivarelli

What will be your costs each month to run your business (don’t add paying yourself). Reverse engineer it – look at how much your expenses are each week – how many hours will you need to work to cover those costs. Pricing standards You can work at a reduced rate while you learn. 3 = $486 to save.

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Do Bad Bosses Breed Bad Bosses?

The Office Professionals Place

Some bad bosses believe that what they say goes and there is no room for negotiation. How to deal with it: If you keep your bosses calendar, you can ask him ahead of time if he needs anything in particular for the meeting or if you know the agenda you can suggest information your boss can take to the meeting and have it prepared.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Pay attention or it could cost your company money. It was going to cost our company $5,000 plus in cancellation fees. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. It is always worth asking.