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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

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We promote them every time we view power as something it’s not. In your first three months, you discover countless ways to improve the business : better project management tools, ways to streamline everyone’s workflow and straightforward meeting agendas. Learn everything you can about human nature.

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Members of Your Team Might Be Experiencing Middle Management Syndrome—Here’s How to Fix That

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And they spend their other days ensuring their bosses, often C-suite leaders and upper management, have everything they need. So, managers find themselves living in the forgotten middle, a term called “middle child syndrome” in families, or “middle management syndrome” at work.

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

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You’re in a meeting—perhaps learning about a new company initiative or listening to a boss who wasn’t happy with your team’s performance—and you have something to say, but then you just… don’t. She asks people to examine the costs of staying silent: “We unlearn being silent by recognizing and wrestling with the silence we’ve learned.

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

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More assertive? Better managing conflict? I’m not sure what is in the air, but assistants everywhere are going through some type of change whether it is losing a job, moving to a new job, promotion or change in their personal life. Learn to be a catalyst for change in your organization and it will catapult your reputation.

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Strategies for Advancing Your Career in Administrative Services

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For some, it involves climbing to the next level, becoming a “senior” support staff member or an administrative manager. These tips will help demonstrate your higher-level abilities and support your bid for promotion when the time comes. Take the Lead & Self-Manage. Advancing as an assistant can take many different forms.

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What is Holding Your Brand Back? PART 3

Office Dynamics

How many times have you sat in a management meeting and had the most phenomenal idea (but you said nothing)? Why should I get the promotion or the praise? Your brand cannot thrive until you can cure yourself from imposter syndrome and from that voice in your head that mistakes assertiveness and confidence for rudeness and arrogance.

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How to be an ally in the workplace: 13 ways to do it

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Listen and learn how someone pronounces their name, describes their identity and uses their pronouns. Birthdays, births, graduations, promotions and weddings are also nice moments for you to send a quick note. And when they are sharing their ideas or experiences, make sure you show compassion and empathy.

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