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Soft Skills Training: 8 Soft Skills Courses to Elevate Your Career

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You could even ask someone with the skills you seek to mentor you and provide regular feedback and advice. For example, you can improve time management skills by tracking the time it takes you to complete tasks, making a daily to-do list and giving yourself microbreaks between projects.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. My first true events project was for an internal communications conference and summer party for 200 people.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. My first true events project was for an internal communications conference and summer party for 200 people.

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Have You Reached A Career Plateau? How to Regain Control

Office Dynamics

Other times, we’re simply drained after being tapped for a major undertaking or high stress project. If inexperience is holding you back, approach someone whose work you admire and ask him/her to mentor you. Mentor someone else, and you’ll find it’s also good for you. It’s Become Routine; I Could Do this in My Sleep. What to do?

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The Truth About Impostor Syndrome and How to Overcome It

Stephanie LH Calahan

You dislike the idea of having a coach/mentor because you can (and should) handle things on your own. You don't finish nearly as many projects as you start. She has spoken candidly about her challenges with imposter syndrome and how she negotiated the feelings of fraud. Teach Someone What You Know or Become a Mentor.

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Inside the Peterborough PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

My new role is exciting; I am supporting the Commercial Director, working on new projects for the business and in areas such as marketing and with our partners, so I have some new challenges ahead! We launched in April 2013, with presentations from Hays, the APA and Gail Thomas, a delegation expert, to around 25 Admin professionals.

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State of the Profession – Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects. Cross-training, Mentoring – Open your heart and be a mentor to others. o Negotiation. o Presentation skills. These are fundamentals, foundations that are critical to be in strength. These core competencies are your stronger core foundation.

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