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Elevate Your Productivity: What is the Benefit of Hiring a Permanent Executive Assistant Over a Temporary Executive Assistant?

C-Suite Assistants

An efficient and reliable executive assistant serves as the backbone of any successful organization, ensuring that executives can focus on strategic decision-making, rather than getting sidetracked with day-to-day tasks. Very few executive assistants would consider leaving a permanent role for a temporary or temp to perm position.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

He notes that “learning agility”—the deftness at gaining and using knowledge—is the “biggest predictor of long-term leadership success,” according to research by the Korn Ferry Institute. Workers who take charge of their careers by learning and growing will be far more successful than those who are overwhelmed by change. “We

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Beyond the Org Chart: How Procedures Elevate Leadership in Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Today, the mark of a truly exceptional admin lies in their ability to recommend, initiate, and refine the systems and procedures that keep their organizations running smoothly. The response was overwhelmingly positive, leading to further opportunities to share her knowledge and standardize practices across the organization. “I

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How Assistants Manage Their Workload (and all the extras, like training!)

Office Dynamics

We’ve witnessed firsthand hundreds, maybe thousands of assistants who take the time to get away for an hour, a day and sometimes a whole week to keep learning and growing their professional skillset. Here are four tangible ways you can make the time for your learning and development. Get organized! How do I know this?

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Independent Work Growing Option for Gen Y and Seniors

Small Business Labs

  But as Reuters Older Americans Learn New Trades in Tough Job Market points out, it's not easy to continue working once you approach retirement age or move past it. .  As we pointed out last week , most Americans feel a traditional retirement is financially out of reach. In the U.S.,

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What I Did This Summer: WordCamp Edition

Tips From T. Marie

Luckily, the temps here in Maine this week look like it should make it easy to pretend the first signs of leaves turning aren’t showing up on Autumn Lane. The organizers were fantastic and approachable, as were the speakers. I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time saying good-bye to summer. The people!

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Session 3 - Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011

Office Dynamics

She shared how her working career began back in Iowa, working as a temp worker scanning a seemingly endless supply of documents. All the other temps quit, some after only one day! She became an observer, learning to understand the person she supported, learning their values and thought patterns. It’s time to grow again!

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