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How to succeed as an assistant

Practically Perfect PA

You can then use your initiative to appreciate what your manager’s typical week involves to enable you to deal with emails and phone calls and plan engagements into their calendar, without having to always consult your boss. Tip 2: Personal Effectiveness and Assertiveness. One top tip is to not be afraid to say “no”.

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Maximising your productivity and dealing with interruptions

Practically Perfect PA

Or even better, if you have to screens keep one just for your outlook calendars. Can they get the information themselves or is that you struggle to be assertive with lazy colleagues – can you say ‘no’ more often? Borrow your boss’s office, book a meeting room, work from home or go to your local coffee shop.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

Develop the 2014 content marketing strategy in line with business activities and the 2014 events calendar. To complete a training course on assertiveness so that I can learn to push back on administrative work from my departmental colleagues and focus on project work for the department Director coming up in Q3. To be completed by Q3.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

Develop the 2014 content marketing strategy in line with business activities and the 2014 events calendar. To complete a training course on assertiveness so that I can learn to push back on administrative work from my departmental colleagues and focus on project work for the department Director coming up in Q3. To be completed by Q3.

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SMART objectives for assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Develop the 2014 content marketing strategy in line with business activities and the 2014 events calendar. To complete a training course on assertiveness so that I can learn to push back on administrative work from my departmental colleagues and focus on project work for the department Director coming up in Q3. To be completed by Q3.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

Below are a few examples of general and job-specific goals: Set a professional development goal whether it’s attending a conference, completing an online course or program, reading a certain book or two, scheduling time each week or month for webinars, computer program training, time management courses, etc.

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Are You Too Busy for The Most Important Partner In Your Office? The Importance of Daily Huddles

Office Dynamics

They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. For years executives have asked me, “Isn’t there some kind of play book or operating manual for executives and assistants? We frequently have a break down in communications because each of them assumes the other tells me what’s happening and what’s needed. ’”.