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Things Assistants Do That Executives Appreciate

Office Dynamics

Watch Joan present the top 12 during her Facebook Friday video, 12/7/2018). Speaks up in my team meetings and has brought additional insights into our group forums that are highly valued. Stands up for herself more often so that others do not take advantage of her accommodating personality. Appropriately assertive.

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How Two Decades of Film Remakes Have Impacted Creativity in Cinema

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She points to examples of talents who can conform to the model (like Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn) and those who can’t and simply don’t last (like the team fired midway into directing 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story , reportedly over “creative differences”). “A

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How to Connect With Different Personality Types

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But it is a versatile and valuable tool at that—one that can serve as a baseline for understanding the differences that make up one another. Lastly, the high “D” will want to tone down his or her assertiveness and be more cognizant of practicing active listening. This article was published in June 2018 and has been updated.

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Commercial real estate lending hits ten year low

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Other key findings from the report, which covers data up to December 2023, include: All lender groups were affected by the decline in lending appetite. The share of international banks actively lending to commercial real estate in the UK market has been falling since 2018. ” Mid-year recovery?

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. This is not smart.

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