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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

Customer-service focused. But do you always “listen” or do you distract yourself with reading emails while someone is talking to you? Ability to prioritize. Accountable. Trustworthy. Ability to remain calm under pressure. Excellent calendaring skills. Excellent time management skills. Good listener. Professional presence.

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Tips for the Tourist in All of Us: The Savvy Admin’s Guide to Travel!

Office Dynamics

Hotel Requests or Repairs: Most hotels do their best to provide good customer service, neat and fully functional sleeping rooms, efficient staff, and tasty food. Be assertive in a professional fashion. It takes being proactive and organized. Download Our Free Comprehensive Business Travel Planning Checklist Here.

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Travel Tips for Your Administrative Professionals Conference or Training Event

Office Dynamics

Hotel Requests or Repairs: Most hotels do their best to provide good customer service, neat and fully functional sleeping rooms, efficient staff, and tasty food. Be assertive in a professional fashion. It takes being proactive and organized. However, with that said, hotel staff are people and people are not perfect.

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Administrative Professionals Conference or Training Event Travel Tips

Office Dynamics

Hotel Requests or Repairs: Most hotels do their best to provide good customer service, neat and fully functional sleeping rooms, efficient staff, and tasty food. Be assertive in a professional fashion. It takes being proactive and organized. However, with that said, hotel staff are people and people are not perfect.

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As Sage Goes Down Others Need A Reality Check. | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

But can you trust these often self-inflated assertions of knowledge and wisdom, by these so called experts? I don’t think any of the ‘competitors’ are: – claiming to be experts – claiming to be infallible – asserting (Self-inflated or otherwise) knowledge and wisdom either explicitly or by implication.

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Why educate women – isn't it a waste of resources? | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

Trivially, his assertion that educating women is a waste, is completely nonsensical, but the final result to the economy seems to suggest his analysis could be right. We may send you a confirmation email to check you are a real person We are sorry but any violation of the above rules will mean an automatic removal of your comment.

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How to Protect Your Time and Energy by Creating Boundaries

Jen Lawrence

Access to email means your boss can find you wherever, whenever. Customers and colleagues are using social media for business at alarming rates. I was always on-call, responding to emails within moments of receiving them and handling tasks quickly because I didn’t want to be a bottleneck in productivity. Sustainable.