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Marathon Training Also Trained My Stress Tolerance—Here’s How

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Learning resilience on the Camino de Santiago My mindset changed this summer when I walked the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with only a backpack. The mental image fascinated me; I had never thought to train myself for a higher stress tolerance.

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Kim Gravel on the Importance of Finding Your Calling and Your Confidence

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In Collecting Confidence , Gravel shares lessons she’s learned from her public successes—including building an empire that spans hosting several QVC shows and episodes as well as a podcast , launching beauty businesses and mentoring young women—and private failures or challenges. Did you have confidence at a younger age?

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Resilience Training: 4 Tools to Help You Persevere

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In entrepreneurial pursuits, they take on setbacks as challenges from which to learn, grow, and win. But it requires resilience training. Real mindfulness can be learned. Practicing gratitude can have life-changing effects that build confidence and resilience. It makes them attractive for promotions, too. Mindfulness.

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3 Things I’ve Learned from Managing Entry-Level Employees

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But we needed to fill a training class fast, so we gave him a shot. I assigned the group a tough task: to memorize an essential part of our training manual in about 12 hours. It might sound like a cliché, but from Alex, I learned not to judge a book by its cover. Be eager to learn, and you’ll be prepared for anything.

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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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This gives you an overview of the whole category of technology tools, the expertise to speak to specific programs and how you use them, and then the confidence to learn a new program within that category when needed. AND THEN become adept at YOUR favorite within each catagory. And if you don’t, just say, “I don’t have anything to add.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

All Things Admin

If you don’t have procedures in place, one approach to onboarding involves having the new hire document the procedures as they learn. This method serves a dual purpose: it ensures that your procedures are up-to-date and allows the new employee to reinforce their learning through the act of documentation.

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Craft Your Career With These 9 Top Professional Development Courses

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Meeting those objectives requires commitment to learning in areas such as leadership development and soft skills education. Investing your time in professional development programs demonstrates a commitment to continual learning and self-improvement. It may even require advanced coaching in specialized areas such as real estate sales.

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