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Gossip Girl!

Practically Perfect PA

Secondly, how do we have effective working relationships with our team when they know that we are privy to information that may concern them and lastly how do we maintain this trust when other members of staff are spreading office gossip? Office Gossip. How do I do this?

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A PA’s guide to confidentiality

Practically Perfect PA

As a PA or EA, your ability to handle confidential subjects, issues, emails and documents is essential. This guide offers insider knowledge that will help you to handle all things confidential with confidence. Confidential emails and digital files. When a confidential email arrives, avoid opening it in a full-screen view.

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Staying in the loop

Practically Perfect PA

How do you work out what is important information and what is really just office gossip? Read all of the newsletters, bulletins and company emails that pass by your desk. This is not really the case for Assistants – we have to be a little more cautious because maintaining the confidence of others is crucial.

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What Incivility at Work Costs All of Us

On The Job

I'd say there's probably more than a few discussions today around the watercooler and via email about mean bosses after a New York Times opinion piece "No Time to Be Nice at Work." It undercuts your confidence, it affects personal relationships and it can lead to emotional problems such as depression.

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Career Success A to Z: H is for Honesty

Eat Your Career

Things like gossiping about others. You have to have confidence that your actions—should they be publicized for all to see—are a genuine reflection of you at your best. Members have the option to sign up and receive blog posts directly in their email inbox as soon as they are published.

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Ep 241: Elena Navarro on Corporate Culture, Toxic Workplaces, and Maintaining Confidentiality

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. So yeah, you can email me on there. So both emails are their management@theprettyassistant.co, Yeah, Jeremy Burrows 30:15 perfect.

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Quiz: Is Your Attitude Hurting Your Career?

Eat Your Career

c) Accept the task as you would accept a task from any superior – with confidence and a willing attitude. Your constant workplace gossip is going to get you in trouble quickly if you don’t cut it out. Remember that gossip is incredibly harmful and unproductive. Email this to a friend? Share this on del.icio.us.

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