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How to Prevent Burnout

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Travel Association , 768 million vacation days went unused by employees in 2019, and 236 million of those had to be forfeited entirely. Whatever your relaxing activity is, make a date in your calendar a few times a week to find that space for yourself. According to the U.S. Move your body.

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5 Must-Have Skills for Progressive Assistants From Joan’s book, Who Took My Pen… Again?

Office Dynamics

Even if no one is watching over your shoulder or your executive travels 90% of the time, you have to answer to yourself. Think of the future in terms of: new projects outcomes goals your executive’s calendar important upcoming event potential business Consider trends and changes in technology. Decide and then evaluate your decision.

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Work Sabbaticals: The Latest Nonprofit Retention Strategy

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In December 2019, after years of requesting a sabbatical, my board of directors approved a 12-week paid sabbatical planned for June 2020, after our legislative session concluded. We pushed the sabbatical back two years so that I could steer the organization through the pandemic and be able to travel safely. I also did a lot of nothing.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

When I met Vanessa in 2019 we immediately clicked and I have had the pleasure of watching her grow and expand in her career. For most administrative professionals, the majority of our roles contain functions that recur, such as calendar management, expense reporting and travel arrangements.

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Ryan Anderson VP of Global Research & Insights MillerKnoll | The Return to Office & Reengineering Cities

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But we started reinstalling travel processes and saying, no, the executive team needs to go to where the work team is. So, let’s get our executive team traveling out to where the remote workers are or where the distributed workforce is on an ongoing basis. Zoom meeting doesn’t cut it. Virtual worlds as a metaverse.

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These Mobile Flower Trucks Make Their Businesses Bloom

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McCrary’s business acumen also earned 1818 Farms Amazon’s United States “ Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year ” award in 2019. Peak harvest is in July, when the muggy Alabama heat keeps customers from turning up on the flower truck’s route and there aren’t peak holidays on the calendar. We can’t force nature.”

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