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How to Deal with Non-Negotiable Unrealistic Expectations

Eat Your Career

While it’s our duty to clarify and push back on such expectations, we may face situations where that impossibly high bar is simply non-negotiable. (By By the way, if you need help learning how to professionally pushback, I have an entire webinar on the topic of “Setting Limits and Managing Expectations” in the Career Success Library.)

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Best Virtual Assistant - Qualities of a Top-Notch Executive Assistant

ProAssisting Blog

They possess a strong foundation in administrative duties, adeptly handling scheduling, email management, and organizing information. These virtual assistants excel in project management, exhibiting proficiency in coordinating multifaceted initiatives.

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Practical Project Management

Practically Perfect PA

After speaking at the Assist Conference Heather Dallas from Dallas Development has written a great follow up blog on her popular Project Management for Assistants session… Taking on a project is a great way of raising your visibility and getting you the recognition you deserve. Firstly the QTC Triangle. Keep up to date.

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What Are Soft Skills? 12 Examples to Benefit You Personally & Professionally

Success

For instance, a salesperson’s ability to communicate persuasively can lead to more successful client negotiations. For example, a project manager might use the soft skill of problem-solving to resolve unexpected issues during a project’s execution.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

Supporting Multiple Managers. Task and Project Management. Time Management. At Office Dynamics, we are consistently surveying executives, managers, CEOs, human resources professionals, and organization development professionals on what skills, attitudes, and behaviors they look for in an assistant.

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How to Put Your Employees’ Well-Being First

Success

Others are negotiating a hybrid schedule with a few days in-office. Companies should acknowledge that in a post-pandemic world, CEOs, executives and managers can build systems to improve workers’ well-being. Most managers struggle with the never-ending process of setting clear expectations at work. Employees can’t do it alone.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. My various support roles had always had an element of events management to them, all be it on a smaller scale, but for me it stood out as something I loved. Be a sponge.