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Key skills round-up 2019

Practically Perfect PA

I hope you enjoy our key skills round-up 2019. We focused really heavily this year on increasing our content around the key skills Assistants need to develop in their role this year. Here are our […].

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Here Are 5 Benefits Virtual Reality Brings To Soft Skills Training

Allwork

More and more organizations are implementing or planning to implement a VR training program for soft skills. . According to Patrick Manglano of Roundtable Learning, there are five top 5 benefits that VR brings to soft skill learning. . For instance, in 2019, Walmart trained more than 1 million employees using VR.

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Try This Brainstorming Exercise to Come Up with Better Business Ideas

Success

Atop the columns, fill in six S’s: story, skills, strengths, situation, social and solution. Bring your problem-solving skills to this one. Some of the world’s most successful companies started just by coming up with a solution to an everyday problem. In rows to the left of your columns, list your ideas.

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Our false memory of work in 2019 is stopping us from having better conversations

Workplace Insight

The only grim entertainment still to be extracted from this bickering can be found watching the wild fluctuations in people’s critical thinking skills when faced with sets of information which back up their intractable stance, and those that don’t. Nobody was talking about this in 2019. It is a very 21st Century conversation.

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Hello Seven’s Rachel Rodgers Is Showing Marginalized Groups Become Millionaires in the Making

Success

Only 6% of women earn six figures, compared to 13% of men, according to a 2019 YouGov survey of more than 2,000 people. And it comes from having a clear-cut vision, determining what that vision will cost and assessing your existing skill set to help you navigate your way there. I just asked myself, ‘How could I show up differently?’

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

Office Dynamics

You have the fundamentals down pat and even demonstrate advanced skill sets. What might be missing from your bag of skills? Your executives need to know that even though things shift, change, plummet, switch up or fall apart, you are the glue that will hold it together. So where do you go from here? No shirking duties.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication.