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Renovating Your Home? Think Like a Project Manager to Stay in Budget

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Whether you’re hiring contractors to renovate your home or just doing some weekend DIY projects, learning how to think like a project manager and get the best out of your team is a skill you can improve to help ensure your project goes as smoothly as possible. What is a project manager? Stay organized.

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Practical Project Management

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After speaking at the Assist Conference Heather Dallas from Dallas Development has written a great follow up blog on her popular Project Management for Assistants session… Taking on a project is a great way of raising your visibility and getting you the recognition you deserve. Keep up to date.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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What Every Business Needs to Know About Managed Development Services

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Working with managed development service providers gives you the ability to scale up or down based on your needs, helping reduce costs while alleviating the time crunch involved with delivering high-quality, innovative, customized apps. One of the most common phrases in project management is “good, fast and cheap – pick two.”

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Executive Assistant To Entrepreneur: Powering Your Own Path to Success

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From managing their calendars, emails, and travel arrangements to handling administrative tasks with precision, your efficiency, and professionalism will be in high demand. Providing top-notch executive support will free up your clients’ time, allowing them to focus on their core responsibilities and driving business growth.

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Repurposing Furniture: Realizing the Environmental, Economic, and Design Benefits

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According to the Environmental Protection Association (EPA), 80% of this “waste” ends up in increasingly scarce landfill space , leading to even more serious sources of pollution. According to the EPA, American companies spend up to $100 million in furniture disposal costs per year. So it’s win-win. Mongo San Francisco offices.

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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.