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Katie Blomquist’s Nonprofit, Going Places, Ensures Kids Living Below the Poverty Line Can Go the Distance

Success

A viral start for Katie Blomquist In the fall of 2016, when Katie Blomquist worked as a first-grade teacher at a Title I school in South Carolina, a boy in her class asked her for a bike for his birthday. The nonprofit also supplies the kids with locks, helmets, bike pumps and training wheels when necessary.

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Launching Assist Travel 2016

Practically Perfect PA

In last year’s Practically Perfect PA reader’s survey I asked you lovely lot “What area of your role do you think you need to learn more about? ”. As hard as it is to get out of the office I also know it is pretty difficult for assistants to receive funding for training courses. Business travel was a pretty clear winner.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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They are in abundance as developers jump on the corporate wellness train: there are mental health apps with therapists in your pocket. In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. Consider sending out surveys Then, they send out surveys periodically for employee feedback.

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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

Workplace Insight

Additionally, many executives surveyed believe AI will lead to job cuts, with 43 percent anticipating staff reductions. The report also highlights a trend noted last year: training models is getting expensive. New estimates show cutting-edge systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4 cost a staggering $78 million to train.

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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: 10 Assist Travel tickets!

Practically Perfect PA

Yes, that is right – a whole day of fantastic training specifically for assistants – completely for free! To enter the competition please complete the Travo survey. We will announce the winners on the 26th August 2016. The conference is taking place on Friday 9th September in London. More from our sponsor.

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How to Understand People’s Personality Types

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He came face-to-face with these realizations as his neuroscience research and training business began to grow. Often expertise comes from training. Nardi cautions that training and a certain level of expertise are needed to effectively evaluate and act based on personality testing. We get into a zone one of two ways,” he says.

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How Administrative Professionals Can Prepare for the Office of the Future

Office Dynamics

In recent Office of the Future research from OfficeTeam and the International Association of Administrative Professionals, 50 percent of survey respondents feel they have skills that are not being tapped at work. Almost an equal number of those surveyed (46 percent) said they would like to use their administrative skills to help in this area.