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Fear Can Become a Monster If We Let It

Office Dynamics

The FEAR Monster. It has a way of becoming a “monster” if you let it fester because the more you think about the thing you fear doing, the worse it seems. Steps to Conquering Fear and an Example of a Fear. #1. Are you afraid to travel? Welcome to Halloween week. It hampers your receptivity as an individual.

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Set Healthy Boundaries at Work

Office Dynamics

I’ll give you a perfect example. Keep in mind; I travel quite frequently for business, so I know what I’m doing.) I told her, “You created the monster.” You will hear examples and learn specific language to use in common challenging workplace situations.). This is becoming problematic for assistants all over the world.

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Setting Healthy Boundaries Today

Office Dynamics

I’ll give you a perfect example that just happened to me this morning as I was traveling. Keep in mind; I’ve been traveling for 20 years about 75% of the time, each year so I know what to do.) I told her, “She created the monster.” Boundaries can be set anytime, any place, on anything, and with any person.

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

can sound like some kind of mysterious monster that’s coming for your job. To give you a few examples…The platform I use for my website had a recent update and now it allows you to generate A.I. For example, you might enter something like this: I am a senior executive assistant at a small wealth management firm in Northern California.

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Using Subtotals Function in Microsoft Excel

Professional Assistant Blog

The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). Imagine your boss comes to your desk and asks you to provide him/her with details of how much each firm earned in revenue on this spreadsheet. You think to yourself, how can I do this quickly, without much manual work?

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Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. No, you are not making your screen more lively - well, if thats what you are intending to do, then go ahead. When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. Then I have my faxes set up as green.

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Opening Microsoft Office 2007 Files in Microsoft Office XP

Professional Assistant Blog

For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.

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