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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

Difficult and stressful situations in particular require adept self-regulation. Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. After a stressful day for this entrepreneur, one particular customer service representative behaves rudely.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

Regus.com has a program that provides access to office space in 2,000 locations worldwide, with a couple of nice bonuses: The locations will answer your phone 24 hours a day as well as accept your mail and other deliveries. As a company, we lead with our hearts and are very transparent with our suppliers,” she says.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

Success

And then the phone rang. As the words “We have a problem…” came through the phone, the blood drained from my face and a sharp pain pierced my stomach. I was caught in the middle of a scandal, between one supplier and thousands of people I made promises to. It was my partner. But he wasn’t calling with good news.

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Ultimate travel itinerary

Practically Perfect PA

Well along with the usual stresses of travelling your boss also has to attend meetings and act professionally when in many cases they are dealing with jet lag and the continuous business activities back in the UK office. If your Director has a smart phone or tablet then do make use of online city guide apps. Book your place now.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. That will differ quite dramatically from what you need for a training session, interacting with a client or supplier, or for a videoconference with a colleague based on the other side of the globe.

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A day in the life: Saba Ali, Royal Academy of Dance

Practically Perfect PA

I also act as the central point of contact for both Directors which might include meeting clients/suppliers, telephone liaison and managing emails whilst they are away. I also get a lot of phone calls from an array of people about all sorts of things. As I’ve got older I realise that it’s important to have a balanced lifestyle.

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Working with other assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? Suppliers can be invited along to discuss the company’s requirements and you could even ask your colleagues to come in and present their area of the business so that all of the assistants are aware of what happens in other departments.

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