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Career development for Assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them

Practically Perfect PA

Recently, the OpenMeet team had the pleasure of participating in the annual Practically Perfect PA Assist Conference 2017 , where we ran a few workshops on career development for assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them.

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News from Assist Travel

Practically Perfect PA

The venue has been confirmed and we have some brilliant suppliers attending the exhibition. . It can be easy for assistants to justify training on tasks such as Excel or PowerPoint, but you probably spend much more time organising business trips. This year’s conference will take place at the Grange Tower Bridge Hotel in London.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Help them better leverage partners and suppliers? Structure: This is like an elaborate version of your résumé, perhaps most easily done in PowerPoint. Can you bring in new business, improve operating efficiency, reduce costs, help build the strategy that will form the company’s future? Help them attract and retain top talent?