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Mirela Sula Is On a Mission to Empower Women Through the Global Woman Club

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She wanted to pivot from social services to a business model where she could help women build their confidence and gain financial freedom. So, in 2015, she founded the Global Woman Summit, an international conference where women can network and empower each other. Mirela Sula’s mission to help women I spoke to Sula over Zoom.

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What can assistants expect in 2015?

Practically Perfect PA

The last few years I have written a blog about what assistants can expect from the year and here you will find the tradition has continued into 2015. I genuinely think 2014 was a turning point in our industry and I think 2015 will see a consolidation of our efforts to take our profession forward. Assistant networking and events.

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Feedback: Take It or Leave It, but Don’t Defend Yourself Against It

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My manager sat down with me in a tiny conference room to review the 360-degree feedback I had received from my co-workers. No matter what role I’ve been in—direct report, manager, external consultant, mentor or mentee—I’ve found the ability to receive and act on feedback appropriately has been fundamentally important to my success.

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Commercial Interiors UK appoints new managing director

Workplace Insight

Commercial Interiors UK (CIUK), the Trade Association for the UK’s Commercial Interiors Sector has appointed Sean Holt as its new Managing Director. Post the pandemic and prior to joining CIUK Sean was Managing Director of the British Furniture Manufacturers Association.

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In a Sales Slump? How to Be Unstoppable Again

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It’s easy to blame your poor performance on a cause outside yourself—the economy, the president, Congress, your sales manager, your territory, your prospective customers or your commission structure. Every win boosts your confidence. You score a confidence-boosting win when a dream client you’ve pursued for years says yes to a meeting.

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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

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So, instead, we might replace it with an easier question: “How confident do I feel?” How to avoid it: When it comes to confidence, we want to have enough, but more isn’t always better. What we need is accurate confidence; we need our confidence to match our likelihood of success. Explicitly consider the other side.”

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‘Power Doesn’t Come from a Title’

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Bill McDermott made customer service a priority McDermott left the deli after college, but running a business instilled in him a kind of confidence rare in a young man, one that bears no trace of cockiness but is based on realistic knowledge of what’s possible. A lot of managers are Doctor No. I am truly a Doctor Yes.