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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

In 2013, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported a study that found students who traveled abroad showed increases in positive personality traits, including openness to experience and emotional stability. Yes, I’m the uptight stressed one, and he’s the infuriatingly open-to-whatever one. It can literally calm you.

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

Workplace Insight

This means they can manage their need for privacy, concentrate more easily and collaborate with their teams without disruptions. Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. Fixed Technology exceeds mobile by 2:1.

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Monday Motivator: Gratitude

Office Dynamics

November 25, 2013. If we had a bad day and we happen to talk on the phone at night about it, we end our call with, “What are you grateful for?” So no matter how rough things might be or how stressful our day might have been, we always end our day on a good note by being thankful. Managing Your Executive''s Day. (6

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. I sometimes would like to be a project manager or be able to take decisions. Seen as a secretary.

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Working with other assistants

Practically Perfect PA

In my recent blog on what I think Assistants can expect in 2013 I briefly discussed the relationship between assistants and how teamwork and support of each other will become more important this year. Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? Working as a team. So how do we do this?

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