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What Is a SWOT Analysis Template & Where Can I Find the Best Ones for Free?

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Best of all, free SWOT analysis templates and charts in Word, PowerPoint and Excel as well as various online applications are widely available and easy to use. SWOT analysis templates in Word, PowerPoint and Excel formats are freely available online. Download your finished projects as image files or PDFs.

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How to Navigate Your Relationship With a Workplace Frenemy

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Full of good cheer and an inviting smile (so that you’ll share your thoughts in confidence), you’re taken with them until you discover they spilled your secrets, took credit for a project you authored or pointed a scolding finger at you, even if it should be wagged in their direction.

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7 Communication Mistakes You’re Making at Work

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Ditch the 35-page PowerPoint deck and explain why your project really matters. Encourage transparency and truth-telling, starting at the very top. Boring packaging. Sounds basic, right? If you want people to listen, speak in an interesting way. Tell meaningful stories. Inept listening.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

Several former assistants at Ernst & Young say they had an inkling their roles might be in jeopardy when the firm required them to pass a series of tests on PowerPoint and Excel. Being an excellent assistant is not just about PowerPoint and Excel. This is a huge misconception that society has embraced and projected.

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4 Ways To Send The Elevator Back Down & Why It Matters To Keep Doing It by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Before we begin, I want to thank Shelly for the great job she did on the XYZ project last week. I think we ought to involve him in leading other XYZ projects. Offer them an opportunity to work on a project that will highlight their PowerPoint design skills or event planning abilities. Specificity matters when you do this.

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Teach Your Executive How to Work with You

Office Dynamics

You become a more valuable asset because now they are relying on you for that task or piece of the project. For example, maybe you can think of a better way to spruce up your executive’s PowerPoint presentation. I’m here to tell you, I often asked my executives to give me more, teach me, and that I would handle it. Show it to him.

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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place. How will you use Basecamp?