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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The woman stepped back, said, “Well, I guess now we have a director,” meaning that Fanning had finally shown she had the assertiveness necessary for the job, and walked out. She had discovered the power of asserting herself and, in doing so, freed herself from being bullied, backstabbed or stepped on. It’s not an easy rut to escape.

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7 Must-Do Actions to be Successful in Your Career as an Administrative Assistant

Office Dynamics

Do you wish you were more confident? More assertive? Better managing conflict? Whether these morning meetings take place in person or over the phone they are vital to the executives and assistants team success. See yourself in a new light, starting today! A better communicator?

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How to succeed as an assistant

Practically Perfect PA

Do you find more and more is demanded of executives and senior managers’ time? However, with more being expected of your manager’s time, this in turn increases the expectation of what is anticipated of your job role and assigned tasks. Tip 2: Personal Effectiveness and Assertiveness. Tip 1: Working Relationships.

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Always make a great first impression

Practically Perfect PA

For example, there was that time I absolutely nailed a first interview and later that day I got the phone call to say the Exec didn’t need to interview anyone else and if I wanted it the job was mine. During interviews I went into the room feeling confident about the role, I knew I would be good in that position and I could do the job.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity. Learning is always a win-win for an employee & manager and progress is easily tracked.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

If our manager’s take little time to help us set good objectives (again this is fairly common) how do they know what to judge us on? I’ve added a few dual objectives that I shared with my manager so that we both had something to work on together throughout that year…. Business related objectives. To be completed by Q3.

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SMART objectives

Practically Perfect PA

If our manager’s take little time to help us set good objectives (again this is fairly common) how do they know what to judge us on? I’ve added a few dual objectives that I shared with my manager so that we both had something to work on together throughout that year…. Business related objectives. To be completed by Q3.

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