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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

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Furthermore, the knowledge you gain provides the strength and confidence you need to meet emerging challenges throughout your organization and beyond. Boosted confidence: Gain the assurance you need to tackle complex challenges, take on a leadership role or begin your new career. They retire or move to a new company.

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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Still others hope to stave off the boredom of retirement, launching blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels to feed their souls. But it will also help instill confidence so freelancers don’t get waylaid by imposter syndrome. Others are taking on side hustles. Why not share what I’ve learned since I started freelancing in the (gulp) 1980s?

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Multigenerational Communication & Cross-mentorship

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When given the opportunity to meet with someone fairly new to the profession and someone embracing an upcoming retirement to explore even more in life, I enthusiastically embrace the moment and ask several questions of each! Attendance to national or international conferences together or individually.

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A sneaky peek at the Future Assistant programme

Practically Perfect PA

When I started looking at the programme I thought to myself, I really want to put a conference together that truly inspires and empowers assistants. This is a big dream, but I hope the programme reflects my objectives for the conference. The conference is taking place at the very cool Proud Camden on the 8th and 9th February 2018.

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

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Early bibles of the field (Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich , Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People ) urged workers to grow philosophically, to build qualities such as confidence and self-discipline. Three times a week we received clearly-worded challenges in topics such as “tidy code” and “retired tags to avoid.”

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NOT, “Just An Admin!”

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Mr. W’s confidence in me propelled my performance to a new level. Years later, I was working for Mr. K, by this time I had much more experience and was confident in my capabilities. I was a change agent, confidant and advisor. Come see Peggy live at our 24th Annual Conference For Administrative Excellence ! Facilitators.

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Overqualified and Interviewing

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Seeking better benefits; health, retirement, education assistance or flexible schedule. I needed health insurance and retirement opportunities and wanted to stay within the industry I had most of my career experience in. Returning after a career gap due to health, caregiving, education, etc. Changing career field.