Productivityist

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. The right skills and the right mindset can help with this. Aren’t people tired of setting goals? Is that it? Not exactly.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In addition to coming up with a goal—say, to learn a programming language to be more assertive with your boss—it’s important to understand who you are, what makes you tick, and how you deal with others around you. The right skills and the right mindset can help with this. Aren’t people tired of setting goals? Is that it? Not exactly.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Norma Carr-Ruffino has had some good material on behaviors such as: assertive, passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive. Develop being assertive. It is more difficult for an aggressive or passive-aggressive to intimidate an assertive person. Again, there are hundreds of resources on how to be assertive.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Quite often I am asked which courses I would recommend for assistants that are just starting in the profession and want to undertake some training to increase their skills and help them move up the career ladder. We have a shed load of skills that have to be kept up to date so that we can do our job effectively. Blogs (like this one!).

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 26, 2009

This is about asserting one's needs in a positive, professional and firm manner. This starts with confidence in knowing your rights. Then you have to use assertive communication, which I have written about in earlier Blogs. Tags: Admin Assistant Training Communication Skills Difficult People Mgr/Asst Team.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Norma Carr-Ruffino has had some good material on behaviors such as: assertive, passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive. Develop being assertive. It is more difficult for an aggressive or passive-aggressive to intimidate an assertive person. Again, there are hundreds of resources on how to be assertive.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 29, 2016

How to comfortably and confidently showcase your value. Great EA Blogs… www.officerenegade.com ; practicallyperfectpa.com; audaciousadmin.com and more. From what I understand, no one else had anything like the portfolio to showcase their skills. How to build, deepen, and strengthen alliances within your network.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 26, 2009

This is about asserting one's needs in a positive, professional and firm manner. This starts with confidence in knowing your rights. Then you have to use assertive communication, which I have written about in earlier Blogs. It's called Establishing Boundaries! This is different than saying, "No!". Joan Burge.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 9, 2018

You feel good for reasons that are too many to even mention in this blog. A few are that you feel confident, peaceful, in control (not walked over), respected, like a peer or business partner and viewed as a leader. Setting healthy boundaries is good for you and the other person. Good luck with setting healthy boundaries!

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 1, 2016

Many times, informing people of their bad attitude in a positive way (i.e., “I thought you’d want to know the impact that X, Y or Z is having on the rest of the department because I’m confident that’s not how you meant to be perceived.”) can help influence change simply by making them aware. Have an awesome week!

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On The Job

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4 ways to "manage up" Many people feel "stuck" these days. Don’t appear to “dither and dally,” suffering from what he calls “analysis paralysis.”

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 14, 2015

Hello New and Returning Readers, Many apologies that I have not been blogging as much. The inspiration this latest blog was spurred for 3 reasons. And in consulting with some of the people above, I also realized a part of it was tied to self esteem/confidence, knowing what they wanted, or establishing priorities.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

I would very much lie if I would tell you right now that you’ll find the answer to those questions by reading this blog post. I was putting to work some skills, but without putting my soul, my self or my life into it. How To Live A Scriptless Life Like I told you, you won’t find the answer to this in my blog post.

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