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How to Stay Your Professional Best During Summer

Office Dynamics

I know that when I travel in the summer to places that are 85 degrees with 80% humidity, I feel like a mess! Is your company cost conscious therefore keeping the temp in the office higher than you would like it? World Class Assistant Certificate Program: World Class Assistant Parts 1 & 2 September 13 – 16.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Extension classes abound at colleges and universities. We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. Translation is a very cutthroat market.

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How Assistants Manage Their Workload (and all the extras, like training!)

Office Dynamics

This week I am presenting the World Class Assistant Certificate Program (Parts 1 and 2) at Nationwide Insurance. However, we have several assistants who traveled from out-of-state to attend this program. After class last night, she drove me to a local store. This entails four consecutive days (full days) of training.

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Resenting Your Boss & How to Overcome It

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The point of the above exercise is to figure out if the solution is something that can be fixed with a little action/daily maintenance (go on vacation, take better care of yourself, respectively) or will take long term planning and goals/strategy (move closer to family or save enough money to travel for a year).

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10 Tips on Taking a Vacation (and Derek DelGaudio)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. Other jobs, because they were temp to full time, I didn’t even have the benefits of paid vacation time or paid sick days for almost a year. During the interview process ask about the company culture.

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