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If You’re Not Operating Career-Forward and Building Professional Equity, You Could Stifle Your Success

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You focus on learning new things, honing your skills and going out of your way to gain new experiences that could be valuable in your role. You don’t need to cozy up to the CEO—that’s an overreach for most people. There is always more you could be doing to better set yourself up for success later.

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Effective Communication Skills

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Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Effective Communication Skills Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 28, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. If you want to improve your listening skills, you need to get control over the following bad habits: Interrupting the speaker. Thanks for visiting!

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Rate Your Time-Management Skills

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Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Rate Your Time-Management Skills Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on September 22, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Complete this short self-evaluation checklist to assess your time-management skills. Total up the number of times you answer yes and see below.

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Off Topic: Halloween in NYC!

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Submitted by Stephanie on November 02, 2009 at 01:27 PM Trying to get Ethan to dress up for Halloween is NEVER an easy task but when I suggested that we go a Mr. & Mrs. Don Draper from Mad Men (one of our favorite shows BTW) , he was up for it! hard disk recovery on With cloud computing, who needs to back-up their data?

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The Assistant's Toolkit - ProAssisting's free assistant training.

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Wanna impress your boss with your newfound skills? Go ahead and follow the instructions below to sign up today! To sign up and get your first free lesson now, follow these simple steps: 1. hard disk recovery on With cloud computing, who needs to back-up their data?

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Conference for Administrative Assistants – How to Get Your Executive’s Approval

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In today’s competitive marketplace and at the pace this profession is changing, if you do not continually enhance your skills, build new ones, and have a strategy for your career, you will get left in the dust. Don’t give up. If not, it will be a harder sell but don’t give up; be persistent. Points to Consider 1.

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ProAssisting Site Update

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But before we could begin to announce the partnerships we’ve been working on, we wanted to “spiff&# up our site a bit… So, if you’ve been here before, you’ll notice that our home page has a new “hero banner&# (that’s what designers call it, I kid not!) with our pad, pen and desk chair!

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