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24 Do’s and Don’ts to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Success

How you handle high levels of stress can mean the difference between being assertive and poised or being negative and disgruntled. Emotional intelligence is particularly important when pitching a proposal. When you live in the past, that is exactly what happens, and your past becomes your present, preventing you from moving forward.

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100 words that will making minute taking a breeze

Practically Perfect PA

Sometimes 50 words are not enough so I’ve listed 100 words that will make minute taking a breeze! Here they are… Acknowledged. As a result… Asked for. Brought up. Communicated. Complained. Considered. Course of action… Decided. Declared. In addition… In conclusion… Is aware of… Listed. Maintained.

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From the Archives: What It Means to Be a Precedent Breaker

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“How is it, I should like to ask,” said an indignant member of the Harvard University medical faculty, at one of its meetings, some forty years ago, “that after eighty years in which this faculty has been managing its own affairs, and doing it well, it is now proposed to change all our modes of carrying on the school?” “I

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Quiet Quitting = Suffering in Silence. Silence isn’t good. Period. By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

The quiet quitters do not feel empowered to assert themselves to their leaders about the root problems, so they justify their mediocre performance with thoughts such as; “ Why should I work so hard? They don’t care about me so why should I care about them?

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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

Brought up. Complained. Emphasised. Guaranteed. Identified. Implemented. ListedMaintainedMentioned. Recommended. Reported.

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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

Brought up. Complained. Emphasised. Guaranteed. Identified. Implemented. ListedMaintained. Recommended. Remarked.

Agenda 100
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A Test of Your Professionalism: Will You Pass?

The Office Professionals Place

Listen with empathy not sympathy and be assertive in your response. If you become timid when it comes to speaking in a group meeting, provided you know what the agenda items are prior to the meeting, put them in writing in proposal form and give them to the Chair before the meeting or slide them to him during the meeting. Seek answers.