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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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NEW! OneNote 2016 Training Series

All Things Admin

Whether it’s creating effective systems for minute taking, follow-up on action items, travel planning, procedures documentation, or developing communication systems that are easy for your executives to scan for information, organization is a vital skill for success-minded admins. Reviewing and setting up default save locations.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Nobody readily puts up the hand to take minutes and those of us who do sometimes fear the job because of the expectation that is put on us to produce discussions accurately. Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. Assertiveness.

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10 reasons to attend Assist 2016

Practically Perfect PA

Over the last few months I have been busy behind the scenes working on the programme for Assist 2016. There will be a number of specific skills based sessions for assistants, including an interactive workshop from Heather White , founder of Smarter Networking, on that all important question ‘what are you good at?’

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News from Assist 2016

Practically Perfect PA

I am absolutely delighted to announce the Assist Conference 2016 programme. During the course of the conference we will look at all manner of things that will help assistants improve their skill sets and remain relevant as the industry changes. The post News from Assist 2016 appeared first on Practically Perfect PA.

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Examining The Global Impact Of The Gig Economy Explosion

Allwork

According to estimates by the World Bank, the gig economy now makes up 12% of the global labor force. The gig economy is growing, and according to estimates by the World Bank , it now takes up to 12% of the global labor force. However, the study cites the presence of a considerable wage gap felt by women in many regions.

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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

Success

She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” And before your career, growing up, did you have a sense of gender equality? federal government, Deloitte, Google and Rubrik before landing her at AWS.

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