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How to Navigate Your Relationship With a Workplace Frenemy

Success

Here are some tips on how to keep the drama to a minimum, using the stress of your work frenemy’s actions to propel you toward greater workplace success. The next tip is tough for many people, in or out of the workplace: showing vulnerability. But you still have to work with them.

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How to Deftly Handle Conflict With Your Boss

Success

Women also can be more likely to avoid confrontation in the workplace because conflict tends to affect them more negatively than men. In addition, studies have shown that people are predisposed to believe that women are more prone to workplace conflict with one another, which can lead to lower commitment and poorer working relationships.

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Guest Post: Tips & Tricks for Using Skype for Business

Tips From T. Marie

Her goal is to inspire and promote learning, one helpful guest post at a time. Now, I don’t personally use the Powerpoint, Whiteboard, Poll, or Q&A features that are also presentable so there isn’t much I can say without experience, only that those features are available and might be useful to you. A Note from T.

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Watch Out for That Wrinkle -- It May be a Career Killer

On The Job

I always considered an investment in a career to be attending a training session on PowerPoint presentations or taking a class at the university. After all, we see television programs that promote the young, the nubile and the unlined. It's very competitive these days. I consider it to be an investment in my career." Well, silly me.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events.

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Taking the time to acknowledge someone and say thanks.

Laughing all the Way to Work

The art of saying thank you can sometimes get lost in our busyness, but here are some examples of times it would be nice to send a card from work: To thank presenters who speak at your workplace. I dont often promote any businesses from my blog, but I thought this one was worth talking about. To apologize and try to make things right.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you can prove yourself as a good worker you can go up through the ranks and because they already know how you work, they are more apt to promote you. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? I have seen admin assistants climb up the corporate ladder just that way. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared?