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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

In 2019, I was hired by a large financial firm in San Francisco to develop and facilitate a boot camp for 5 young assistants with college degrees. Several former assistants at Ernst & Young say they had an inkling their roles might be in jeopardy when the firm required them to pass a series of tests on PowerPoint and Excel.

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Writing Meaningful Performance Goals

All Things Admin

For instance, becoming more proficient in PowerPoint can help reduce errors and editing time on presentations. If skills learned in one PowerPoint course save you 20 minutes on every presentation and you edit at least 50 presentations a year, that’s 1000 minutes of time (more than 16 hours) that you’ll save each year. “In

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