Success

JANUARY 12, 2022

Although she was able to use refillable containers for most toiletry items like shampoo, conditioner and lotion, it was those pesky travel-sized toothpaste tubes that she couldn’t refill and would have to throw away. In 2018, zero-waste bloggers began talking about Bite online, and the product gained momentum.

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2018 Lifestyle 2022 Purchasing 299

Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

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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Calendars 2018 Negotiating Skills 223

Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). This was in a brochure from a company who hosts supposedly high-level classes for assistants. He was a District Supervisor, who with all District Supervisors, reported to my boss and had to give me their weekly travel schedules. Pleeeaazzz!

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Goals 2018 Travel Administrative Training 200

Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I wrote an article in 2018 called “ Times Up for the Boss ” and I raise these ideas in our Be the Ultimate Assistant workshops. As women, we are intuitively mindful of our personal safety while traveling alone in ways that men are not. We either need to travel together or I get approval to order a car service. Or, I don’t go.

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Salary Collaborate Travel Stress 52