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How to Assert Your Power in Difficult Situations

Success

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. Knowingly or unknowingly, you’re asserting your power through the act of helping others. We shouldn’t go about this process alone.

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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

Supporting Multiple Managers. Task and Project Management. Time Management. At Office Dynamics, we are consistently surveying executives, managers, CEOs, human resources professionals, and organization development professionals on what skills, attitudes, and behaviors they look for in an assistant. Problem Solving.

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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. I’ve spoken with several assistants that have voiced frustration at the standard process.

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Personal And Professional Development With PRINCE2 Training

Small Business CEO

PRINCE2 is a process-based methodology that offers non-proprietorial best practice guidance on project management, encompassing the management, control and organisation of a project. However, there are other skills that will also improve performance.

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The Death Of The Deadline As We Know It

Brilliantly Better

The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. I’m glad the new book is going to have a comprehensive overview of both the process and the app. I use the word “timeline&# instead and it makes the whole process so much more enjoyable. For A Liveline Philosophy Forget deadlines.

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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. Process your emails OUT of your inbox and into a TASK or CALENDAR appointment so you get them into your system for follow up, tracking, and completion. Filing – paper and digital. Travel Planning.

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