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Choosing Administrative Training That’s Right for You

Office Dynamics

As 2016 comes to an end, I hope you are working on your goals for your 2017 development. The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. We limit our on-site training classes to 25.

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

Workplace Insight

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. Compare that to just a few years ago, where state-of-the-art models cost a fraction of the price.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. They made all the improvements for the home, but by the time everything was said and done—between closing costs and renovation payments—they made less than $20,000. “I We’re done. That’s it.”.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. They made all the improvements for the home, but by the time everything was said and done—between closing costs and renovation payments—they made less than $20,000. “I We’re done. That’s it.”.

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Time to put down the devices if you really want things to look up

Workplace Insight

That’s a lot of screen time, but data I wasn’t necessarily surprised by having often travelled on the train into university in 2017 – 2020. Incorporating a digital detox zone is a low-cost solution which has the ability to benefit occupiers, building managers, and landlords, while offering up an idea which is extremely scalable.

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News on the Practically Perfect PA Virtual Summit

Practically Perfect PA

It can be almost impossible for some PAs to get away from their desk or leave the office for a day to attend training. Attending a virtual Summit means that you can watch the training from your office. It can also be quite difficult for assistants to attend training events if they do not work or live near a large city such as London.

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Practical Project Management

Practically Perfect PA

You may want to volunteer to organise the office move, the Christmas party, run a training course for the other support staff or organise an event. Is it quality, time or cost? If you are introducing a training course for colleagues on a shoestring budget, then cost will be the driver. Interested in Assist 2017?