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Why I Negotiated for a 4-Day Workweek Instead of a Raise

Success

I learned there’s a term for this kind of creative arrangement: “ idiosyncratic deals ,” or “ I-deals ,” which are customizations in employee-employer agreements that meet the needs of both parties and offer a valued worker something outside standard parameters. It was a win-win. Employees are in crisis. Photo by @Hanni/Twenty20.

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Trust Me on This: Building a Business Clients Love

Tips From T. Marie

Last week my newsletter touched on the issue of trust. As someone who has provided services remotely for going on seventeen years, I’ve learned a bit about just how important building trust is when you’re running a small home business. And if you’re not subscribed to my newsletter yet, what are you waiting for?

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Emerging Technologies for Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Becoming comfortable with using cloud-based tools and learning how to test and integrate them into your repertoire allows you to stay better connected to the tools you need when you need them. Depending on the type of work you do, you may not need to use these SMAC skills immediately.

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Handling Ethical Issues in the Workplace

Office Dynamics

For some employees, the ability to act with integrity and demonstrate ethical behavior is strong and feels very natural; others need some practice sharpening their ethical radar and learn ‘how to think first about how to react’ to achieve the best outcome. See Lisa at our Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence.

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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. The key to advanced productivity lies in the power of learning. Back in 2011, I took the time to learn new techniques in Microsoft Excel through a course. The value of learning is very clear.

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How to Keep Your Competitive Edge in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

If you ever find yourself saying, “There’s nothing more to learn,” you’re kidding yourself. A book costs about $10 and you can learn a ton by actually reading a book on any topic. As a leader, you’ll practice a variety of skills including communication, management, negotiation, collaboration and more.

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77 Things I Did In 2010

Brilliantly Better

But the whole process was fun and I learned a lot about how to measure your effort when starting such a task. I confess now that the game took only 15 hours of coding (including some learning of Lua). I used mainly to learn and test the AppStore submission process. I highly recommend you to subscribe to this newsletter.

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