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Tips for the Traveling Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

Administrative professionals are the superheroes of travel planning. Admins use their telepathy to know what brands their travelers prefer, time travel to get days of work done in mere hours, and teleportation to support their travelers, even when they are halfway around the world. Their only kryptonite? Themselves.

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Let Your Dreams Take (Shamanic) Flight with ‘Avatar’

Success

Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully has traveled to Pandora in the place of his deceased brother, where he will control an avatar that looks like one of the Na’vi, who are native to the planet. It happens when Jake (in avatar form) has to spend the night in the wilderness, and he is rescued by his eventual love interest, Ney’tiri.

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Ready or Not: My Experience Launching a Side Hustle in 121 Days

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The 50s were a hook to celebrate my 50th birthday and just happened to form a great marketing shtick for an adventure trip. 121 Days to Launch: An idea starts to form. Relationships like that can be formed in any number of ways; it could be over books or wine or musicals. I talk to friends in the travel industry.

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Win a hotel break in Berlin with Roomex

Practically Perfect PA

You don’t need the extra hassle of searching for hotels, comparing and negotiating rates, keeping within budget and policies, chasing receipts and invoices at the end of the month… We understand. contact-form]. To get you in the mood, have a read of our business travellers city guide to Berlin.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

However, planning meetings also requires one to know and understand the hospitality industry and how it works, how to determine which venue and what destinations will work best for the types of meetings you’re asked to plan, the ins and outs of contracts and contract negotiations, budget prep and oh so much more.

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How to Kill Collaboration

On The Job

If one person really does have the skills and knowledge to complete a project, then don’t form a team to do what one person can do better. Nearly 60 years of research shows that individuals are really much more creative than teams, finds Leigh Thompson, the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Management and Dispute Resolution at the Kellogg School.

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How to make your event more environmentally friendly

Practically Perfect PA

Sustainability certainly hasn’t been a priority for assistants organising events, particularly as we often have to manage events alongside our actual day job and the budgets we have to spend on events are still quite a bit smaller than they were a few years ago. Your speakers and your attendees to travel by public transport.

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