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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

Rather than becoming angry, hanging up the phone or ending the business relationship on impulse, the self-regulated entrepreneur controls their emotional impulses and approaches the situation more strategically. The product, price and speed of delivery are each excellent, yet their customer service could use some improvement.

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What makes a great administrative assistant?

Page Personnel

Administrative assistants also often work closely with senior-level employees and executives to take care of organisational duties such as answering phones, booking meetings and making travel arrangements on their behalf. Clear communication skills – admin assistants absorb all the communications that executives haven’t time to deal with.

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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. Learning is always a win-win for an employee & manager and progress is easily tracked.

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8 Soft Skills That Make for a Great Assistant

Audacious Admin

While experience in similar positions may get you the interview, your ability to showcase these soft skills should get you the job. It takes a very specific set of skills to assist an executive or manager. Whether you meet in person or over the phone, the assistant must build rapport.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

Success

For project management, Devesh Dwivedi of BreakingThe9to5Jail.com says “I love BaseCamp. It has every possible feature for project management, and other products from 37signals’ Suite [web-based apps for collaboration, sharing information and making decisions]. It has made us [nearly] 100% virtual.

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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. And one of them was a tenured employee. So it’s just so interesting to me.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was interviewed earlier this month and so I pasted it below. When people would ask me in interviews, my first answer was, “No nepotism here!” I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. Where did you go to school?