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How to Network While Traveling on Business

On The Job

If you''re like many business travelers, you''re only thought at the end of a day may be to head to your hotel room, watch True Blood and order room service. But for Patricia Rossi, business travel is more than getting from point A to point B with a minimum of hassles. Specifically, an Oxford Economics study conducted for the U.S.

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Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity

Stephanie LH Calahan

Work With Stephanie « 5 Easy Ways Kick-Start Your Daily Personal Productivity | Main | Grow Your Productivity by Hours a Day » Your Etiquette Practice Could be Killing Your Productivity Today I received a really nice note from one of my contacts, Amy Humphreys, at Illinois State University. 

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Zoe Ellis Moore Founder of Spaces to Places | Navigating the Changing Needs of Today’s Professionals: Trends in the Flexible Workspace Industry

Allwork

There’s so many different niches and it does depend on budgets and different things like that as well. They pop up in, I was about to say the most unlikely of places, but they are actually obvious places because you get lots of people passing through, business travelers and so on, who might need to pop in and use a desk for a few hours.

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6 Easy Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance

Professional Assistant Blog

Create a budget! Go out with friends, take a hot bath, listen to some music, join a club or take a class. Imagine that the end of the world is near. Picture what you would do in the last moments of your time. Try to do these things in your life starting today. Finances can weigh people down and create problems in relationships.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some assistants regularly manage small budgets when planning functions or have bookkeeping responsibilities and work regularly on spreadsheets. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work. Finance: An assistant with a head for numbers may be able to move into finance in an accounting or a tax firm.

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Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names will never hurt me

Laughing all the Way to Work

Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. That is a good time to recognize assistants for all that they do. I hope all of your professionals appreciate what a privilege it is to have someone look after them.