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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

Success

We promote them every time we view power as something it’s not. So young professionals feel like they have no power, especially when they want promotions or raises. Knowingly or unknowingly, you’re asserting your power through the act of helping others. 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

Success

A study by The Conference Board reported that only 19% of middle managers surveyed felt they received proper training in leadership and management after being promoted. Women managers also find it difficult to self-promote, thinking that their work will speak for themselves. Rosina Racioppi, CEO and president of WOMEN Unlimited Inc.,

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

Success

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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The Past, Present, and Hybrid Future of Networking

Allwork

Networking practices continue to change and evolve, and the Covid-19 pandemic rapidly changed the way businesses promote their services and build connections. . Networking changed because change asserted its necessity. . Of course, there was a learning curve. When one person speaks at a time, others learn to listen.

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10 Steps to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

On The Job

It often starts when they receive a promotion or new job and continues every time they achieve something new. Instead of beating yourself up for being human and blowing the big project, do what professional athletes do and glean the learning value from the mistake and move on. Right the rules. Fake it ‘til you make it.

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

Office Dynamics

More assertive? 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. A better communicator?

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What is Holding Your Brand Back? PART 3

Office Dynamics

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. Learn to say no. Learn to respect yourself. Are you living the same day, every day?