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Working with the executive team

Practically Perfect PA

As assistants most of us will interact with our organisation’s Executive team on a daily if not hourly basis. Your manager may well be part of the Executive team. Unlike other members of staff working with the Executive team brings a whole host of rules and a particular style of working.

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5 Tips to Help You Make a Winning First Impression

Eat Your Career

If you have a meeting immediately before, tell them at the very beginning that you have to wrap up on time. To help you assess (and enhance) your skill with this crucial maneuver, here’s a short excerpt from my e-book, “Modern Business Etiquette: More than Manners.” . Also, be cautious of arriving too early as well.

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Instilling company culture across geographic divides

Workplace Insight

A core tenet to building global company culture is understanding who makes up your employee base. There will be differences, ranging from the internal platforms they prefer to appropriate office etiquette. Understanding these nuances can help foster communication across global teams.

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Looking Forward With Intention [Free Webinar for Assistants]

Office Dynamics

Here at Office Dynamics International, as we wrap up this 25th year of business, we’re feeling both grateful and overwhelmed with all we’ve experienced in 2015. Joan will be sharing personal insights and helpful guidance for setting yourself up for success in 2016. It’s hard to believe another year is nearly over.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

For example, I set up a sales dial-in call with about 40 people from every continent on the call. I sat at my kitchen table watching my phone blow up while people were emailing and IM’ing me all at the same time wanting to know why they couldn’t get on the call. Any books or reading up on this would be helpful too please.

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Does it matter if we go to office party?

Laughing all the Way to Work

At our local IAAP chapter dinner we heard a speaker from an etiquette protocol company Savoir-Faire and she suggested that it was very important to go to the office party because it was more about protocol and networking and how you are viewed as a team player than socializing. And by golly, I think she is right! How about you?

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Playing nice in the sandbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some people dont play well in a team and can be like that link in the chain that keeps skipping. They know that once the issue is resolved, they will then have to scramble to make up for lost time with the person causing the slow down seemingly unaware that what they are doing is hindering everyone else.