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Workplace Roles: Knowing When to Manage vs. When to Lead

Success

As opposed to management, leadership means coming up with high-level goals and a vision for a team or organization to follow. They come up with a broad goal for a company or team, then delegate it to managers or other team members to realize. Leaders are focused on changing things up and staying flexible. What is leadership?

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The 11 Best Books on Mental Health

Success

If the answer is yes, go buy this book ASAP. The quick read features the stories of 33 people who have dealt with mental illness in some form, with their commentary on why we don’t talk about it enough—and why that needs to change. A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed. By Lori Gottlieb. Get Out of Your Own Way.

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Email That Works: Best Practices for Truly Busy People

Office Dynamics

When you’re a “Star” in your profession, you take the time to think before speaking or sending any kind of message – in electronic or written form. Hint: If your e-mail program permits you to “manage” messages – sending them to folders without showing up in your inbox, for instance – you may want to explore that option.

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7 Tips for Administrative and Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

Making a list simply allows you to organize your thoughts and decide what tasks need to get done ASAP versus those that can wait until the end of the day. I’ve found that when I write things down I’m not being distracted by emails popping up or different notifications. There are several different ways you can do this.

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Do you want to speak at Assist Travel 2016?

Practically Perfect PA

We will have four assistants up on stage talking through a topic related to business travel – it has to be personal and it has to have led to a change or positive outcome. If you are interested in being one of the four assistants and you are based in the UK , please use the contact form below ( here is the link for those on email ).

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/17

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/11/17 by Stefan Töpfer on Nov 17, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/01 by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 01, 2009 Here is this week’s news round-up for home business, micro business, sole-traders, freelancers, self-employed and any one who is interested in small business news from around the world.

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