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How to Deftly Handle Conflict With Your Boss

Success

But unlike these often-entertaining escapes, knowing how to handle conflict with your boss can have serious implications for your health and career path. How to frame the conversation Setting expectations and asking questions at the outset can go a long way toward mitigating workplace conflict. You have to advocate for yourself.”

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

If you’re looking to hire a new EA or EA/PA, it’s critical to assess the balance needed between “hard” technical skills and “soft” skills, before you start the process. Often, soft executive assistant skills are the difference between an average EA and the perfect EA.

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How to Use Microsoft Office and Google Workspace Apps to Document Your Procedures

All Things Admin

Before we dive into the specifics, let’s talk about why Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote) and Google Workspace (Docs and Slides) are ideal choices for procedures documentation: Accessibility : These suites are the office standards in the business world, making them accessible to most professionals. Register here to join.

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Teach Your Executive How to Work with You

Office Dynamics

In my early days as a secretary I didn’t know how to teach my executives how to work with me or what I needed. However, at 26, thanks to an awesome executive, I learned how a strategic partnership should work and I taught every executive after that how to work with me. Here are a few quick tips. Show it to him.

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

Office Dynamics

But often, it’s just lack of knowing how to sell the conference to the executive. 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. Sometimes it really is a budget issue.

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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. Look out for and take advantage of networking events and skills development wherever possible.

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Sharing your Skills

Laughing all the Way to Work

The next time you figure out how to do something, send an email to your team and share it. If you are at a meeting and have a PowerPoint presentation on screen (in Slideshow mode), but are not ready to show it yet, press B and the screen will go black, or W to make it white. Especially when it comes to technology.

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