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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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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

I never take for granted the basic ‘platform’ skills I learned in the early days as a speaker. The world is moving at a much faster pace today so you have to be more organized, manage your projects better, take control of calendars, and cross every ‘t’ and dot every ‘i’ when it comes to travel planning. Time Management.

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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

For example, here are a few of the most common roles that may be a great fit for assistants, depending on your skills and interests: Project Manager. Training Coordinator. Learn how to run reports and queries, or maybe offer to help creating procedures for others to do the same. Event Planner. Virtual Assistant.

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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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5 Reasons Why Office Admins are the New Power Job

Office Dynamics

Working as an admin professional often means working closely with leadership positions and essentially acting as project manager for the C-suite. It brings a whole new meaning to learning on the job. “ I consider the biggest perks learning by osmosis by being in the same room as Fortune 100 execs. ” – Kiyomi D.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Organized Admin with Julie Perrine

Office Dynamics

There are 5 core systems I encourage assistants to look at first: Time and Task Management. Project Management. Key Tip for Everyone to Remember: Learn your unique organizing style and work WITH your time and space style instead of fighting it. Filing – paper and digital. Travel Planning. Event/Meeting Planning.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

Brilliantly Better

Train yourself to become better at killing tasks. The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. Introducing Assess - Decide - Do my life management framework. Many productivity techniques are using this subliminal approach. What you have to do is a burden. Instead let’s have livelines.

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