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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. After that list, I see advanced competencies such as negotiation or persuasion skills. This is not smart.

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Why You Need to Care About the No-Fly Zones on Your Team

Bonnie Low-Krayman

No-Fly Zones are the non-negotiable time constraints that employees now have as part of their lives – deal-breakers of a sort. Suddenly no longer forced to travel into an office, many staff had the chance to have dinner with their families for the first time in a long time. People have their No-Fly Zones. How did this happen?

2023 52
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MIPIM has changed, and mostly for the better

Workplace Insight

There is of course the irony of a global property conference discussing net zero whilst jetting in delegates from all corners of globe, but how do you get to inclusivity and diversity without the travel? all of which is more symbolic than impactful. , all of which is more symbolic than impactful. Without a green future there is no future.”

2024 52
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Answering Your Questions

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Or they will say they want people to be in the training program or how previous assistants have gotten promoted after a couple of years if they were the right fit. 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.

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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.

2010 40
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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. Let’s say you want to travel the world and you’re saving money for that. You may get the money and start traveling the world, but you’ll travel with this unspeakable feeling of “something is missing”.

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