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Hustle Culture Is Over. Slow Productivity Is the Way to Meaningful Work

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Yet, the people who are doing this find themselves burned out , and worse, not producing meaningful work, Newport asserts in his book. And while we think it’s our bosses or deadlines, or even our bottom line driving the stress to produce, he tells readers it’s someone else pressuring us—ourselves.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. I have personally experienced stress in the past too! There are ways to decrease the stress levels and frustration though! Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. Reduces stress. WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT? Technology is not perfect and neither are humans.

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How to Protect Your Time and Energy by Creating Boundaries

Jen Lawrence

Like many people, I didn’t feel the stress until I was so far down the rabbit hole that the only way out was to reach the bottom. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. Schedule in a few days (within reason, of course.) But the burnout hit me hard. You hate company happy hours?

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How to Protect Your Time and Energy by Creating Boundaries

Jen Lawrence

Like many people, I didn’t feel the stress until I was so far down the rabbit hole that the only way out was to reach the bottom. and you can even use color coding in your calendar to indicate task types. Schedule in a few days (within reason, of course.) But the burnout hit me hard. You hate company happy hours?

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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. Reduces stress for both the executive and assistant. Of course, sometimes this just isn’t possible. We frequently have a break down in communications because each of them assumes the other tells me what’s happening and what’s needed.

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State of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Joan then presented the Full Spectrum Competency Model for Star-performing Administrative Professionals , stressing the Advanced Adminology Skill Set , which will provide administrative professionals with a solid foundation. The general public boldly asserts: “ anyone can be an assistant.” By Nancy Fraze, Reporter in the Field.