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4 Lessons Ultra-Athletes Can Teach Us About Grit—In Life and Business

Success

Lesson 1: Motivation to keep going and do whatever it takes As with anything in life, the drive to achieve a goal is a huge motivator to get things done. I think what’s helped me over the years to stay motivated is having something on the calendar, whether that’s a race or a big adventure with friends,” she says. “I

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

How to interview freelance marketers It’s impossible to achieve goals you never set — so define and communicate your objective and scope of work in the first interview. Erin Balsa, head of content marketing at The Predictive Index , has been hiring freelance writers since 2011 and managing them since 2015. What does a win look like?

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

As I write this, there are 37 hours left in 2015. It’s amazing how quickly the calendar year has flown by. At the end of each calendar year, I like to look back and see where I’ve been and what I’ve done. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

As I write this, there are 37 hours left in 2015. It’s amazing how quickly the calendar year has flown by. At the end of each calendar year, I like to look back and see where I’ve been and what I’ve done. This Friday (January 1) I’ll spend the majority of my day reading my journal entries from 2015.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. Training & Development. Discuss your training and development requirements with your executive.

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OFFICE DYNAMICS CONFERENCE RECAP PART III: The Final Day

Office Dynamics

As Joan explained, neither her career, nor this signature annual gathering, is about “training” — it’s about making work lives substantially BETTER for administrative professionals in every stage of their careers, and carving out the administrative path as a career of choice for high-performing and high-potential individuals.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

When I was an assistant 40 years ago we complained about not getting time with our executives; we complained about not getting enough information from our managers; we complained about not getting support for training. Here are some ideas: Daily Calendars Technology is not perfect and neither are humans. Great idea.