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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

from 2012—while the growth of male-owned employer businesses during the same time period was only 5.2%. million workers in 2019 and grew their workforce by 28%… between 2012 and 2019.” And the pool of millennial small-business owners is growing—just last year, they made up only 7% of the survey sample.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

Success

In a 2021 Digital.com survey , 41% of participants said they planned to quit their jobs to “find a job they are more passionate about,” and 32% planned to quit in order to “start their own business.” This article was published in November 2012 and has been updated. A life of greater impact. Photo by Sata Production/Shutterstock.

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Authentically Gen Z: The Values, Aspirations & Drivers That Will Re-Define The Future Of Work

Allwork

As Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—begins to enter the workforce, companies are realizing their current office spaces, operational policies, and company norms do not resonate as strongly with this emerging employee base as they did with those of decades past. Training & Development: One Size Does Not Fit All.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

Success

author of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth , created five simple questions to assess overall happiness—the Satisfaction with Life Scale—which has since become a universal survey used in most happiness research. In 1985, Ed Diener, Ph.D., are met, financial success does little to make us happier.

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. With the assistant role now encompassing so many varied tasks we should expect to see a rise in training for assistants in 2013. If you have been asked to take on additional work then expect to be trained in the new aspects of your job.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

My work is training executive assistants all over the world and lots of them have quit their jobs. One reason is, that for many leaders, a 2021 Zenger Folkman poll reports that most leaders don’t receive their first training in managing people until age 46. That number has increased from age 42 in 2012.

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

Workplace Insight

But according to a recent survey by Deloitte while 87 percent of organisations cite culture and engagement as one of their top challenges, almost two-thirds of executives do not feel they are effectively driving this desired culture within their business. Today, she is Director Media Communications of both Steelcase and Coalesse in EMEA.