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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

I know many seasoned executive assistants who think they do not need to focus on or pay attention to their basic skills, what is also known as the fundamentals. Every career has certain core fundamental skills. I never take for granted the basic ‘platform’ skills I learned in the early days as a speaker. This is not smart.

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A Day in the Life of an Admin

The Office Professionals Place

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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Shining a Light on Black Assistants: It’s Not Black & White

Bonnie Low Kramen

This stark distinction in childrearing highlights why and how, because of structural, institutional, and individual racism, Black adults are taught how to manage and navigate a world that sees them as second-class citizens. As women, we are intuitively mindful of our personal safety while traveling alone in ways that men are not.

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Why Self-Help Can Become an Addictive Trap

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

By keeping my commitments brief, I’m always expanding my skill set laterally – instead of going super crazy deep on the latest pop psychology trend, I’ll look into it while also looking at it’s antithesis. Instead of hooking onto one particular school of thought, guru or even book I always sample from a whole range.

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Answering Your Questions

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Be willing to do anything and learn a lot of different skill sets and software programs so you are indispensable. They also travel a lot all over the world. If you are their #1 candidate, you have some power by how much they court you or negotiate with you. Tread carefully and speak humbly when you negotiate.

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How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)

Brilliantly Better

Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. You’re going to do this in two ways: you’re either growing and enhancing skills, either build new “reality sensors”.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

In PHP you write functions, in Objective C you write classes. Day 3 – Creating And Saving Data Spent too much time with the FetchedResultsController class, trying a simple select from DB. Took me a few hours to understand that FetchedResultController is a class designed specifically to be used with a TableViewController.

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