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

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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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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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He suggests trying things like calling your cable company and asking a phone rep to waive a late fee. When you decide to speak up about an important matter, is phone, email or face-to-face best (assuming you have options)? Joy then could have reminded him that, as a contractor, he works for her, the project manager.

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What makes a great administrative assistant?

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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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The art of finding the perfect venue for your corporate event

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In fact, you’ll be wondering how you ever managed without a venue finder. You need to juggle the demands for location, capacity, budget, amenities and environmental factors to get the right result for your event. Omar Afyuni, Assistant Manager Dubai, Project Management Office). . A low stress solution.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

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They oversee many aspects of daily operations, including hiring new staff and ensuring all necessary duties are completed on time and within the office budget. Office managers need to know every employee's schedule, or at least, they have access to everyone's schedules.

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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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How Small Businesses can ease their Carbon Footprint (and Exceed in their Industry)

Eco-Office Gals

Sure, you see many large corporations taking the initiative because they’re publicly traded companies so they can’t afford to anger the consumer market (plus they have the budget) but small businesses generally don’t have that luxury to suddenly flip a switch and become green within a few months. … or can they?