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A staff away day that worked

Practically Perfect PA

Often no one actually thinks what the value is of running the meeting and you can’t count hangovers and gossip generated from the evenings drinks! The event had a budget of £50,000 and without a strategic objective like to reduce the time staff have in meetings once they return to the office the event may have been a waste of money.

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The New Economics: It’s About Time. (Governing Time)

Office Dynamics

Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. Budget - A budget is a set of choices. Is going back to school a wise budget of time? This keeps us fresh and our skills top notch. Make the simple mental switch to focus instead on a solution. So quit it.

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The New Economics: It’s About Time. (Governing Time)

Office Dynamics

Just like nail biting or gossip, whining is a bad habit - nothing more - and all bad habits can be broken. Budget - A budget is a set of choices. Is going back to school a wise budget of time? This keeps us fresh and our skills top notch. Make the simple mental switch to focus instead on a solution. So quit it.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills. Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch. One of our main duties is to keep our bosses organized.

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Ep 241: Elena Navarro on Corporate Culture, Toxic Workplaces, and Maintaining Confidentiality

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

––– THE LEADER ASSISTANT PODCAST IS PRESENTED BY EZCATER ezCater is the nation’s most trusted provider of corporate food solutions — the best way for companies to order food for daily employee lunches, meetings, and events of any size or budget. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that.

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Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

You will see that aside from typing, Word, and Excel, some of the bigger companies will test you on logic, grammar, listening, putting together a budget, creativity, and more. The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. Be the bigger person and don't gossip!

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Full-time Freelance Writing Jobs | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

So the economy gets bad, the company loses customers, and the budget tightens up. You have to be disciplined with money, a skill many writers don’t have. When my full time position ceased to exist (thanks to budget cuts), I was relieved. I have to admit that freelancing can get a little lonely. Smoke breaks with friends.

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