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4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues

Professional Assistant Blog

Do they make inappropriate comments in a professional environment? Try following these 4 simple steps and you will find that your work performance will increase and hopefully, so will your salary! Do you feel that they are overbearing and don’t know when to keep their opinions to themselves? or “I wish I could quit!

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Small Business world News Round-up - 2009/10/27

The Small Business Blog

Here’s how to tell if your salary is sound. Plan Your Business Start-Up With Swot : During the planning phase of your new start-up business, you have to consider many different aspects of your business idea, yourself and you business environment. Do you earn what you should? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

Success

This panic arrives the moment we realize we’ve strayed too far from the paycheck mothership and feel compelled to run back to the salaried womb. When the 2008 financial crisis hit, Tel Ganesan, founder of IT and software company Kyyba Inc., Congratulations! The act of starting a business demands this initiation from every entrepreneur.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

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The hotel relaunched in fall 2022 with a new interior design scheme and an even stronger socially conscious mission: It now provides housing for the hotel’s 300 employees, with a small percentage of their base salaries taken out of each check to cover the housing costs. I’d rather hire locally and train.” But her persistence won out.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have asked for a raise however, but it was after I considered a move somewhere else and wasnt sure I wanted to go, so gave my employer a chance to match the new salary and they did. Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time ► April (2) Keeping focussed in a busy environment When your boss arranges meetings behind your back.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

In 2008 I took a job as an Executive Assistant and Corporate Secretary to a non-profit corporation. My boss left for another opportunity and couldn't take me with him because it was a very French environment and I unfortunately only speak English. This position was certainly different than anything I had ever done.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

Success

So although more money doesn’t necessarily make you happier (see the discussion of salaries below in “Happiness Roadblocks”), more happiness just might make you more money. When employers put the emphasis on results rather than hours spent at the office , productivity increases, say the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) study authors.

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