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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

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survey of over 600 employees from 20 industries found that, “on average, employees have 17.7 meetings (totaling 18 hours) per week,” numbers which increase as “management level and number of direct reports increases.” Additionally, non-management employees reported that only 11.9 A 2022 Otter.ai The same Otter.ai

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Feeling unappreciated?

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Skip forward to summer 2014 and the voices in my head were pretty vocal about running some sort of event. but then I put the Practically Perfect PA survey out there. I wanted to share some of the survey responses with you today. I sometimes would like to be a project manager or be able to take decisions.

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How to Become a Certified Coach

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My 2014 was chaos. 2014 plus the rest of life’s traumas has made me a great coachee, but also a formidable coach. Coaches will use tools like visualization, assessments, stories, breathing and mindfulness exercises, project management software and paper-based exercises, emotional releasers, mantras, and on and on.

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