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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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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. I ended up pushing him right out the door.

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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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That said, use your emotional intelligence to understand when and how to bring up such ideas and concerns. If you find the right timing, can discern your principal’s openness at that time, AND come armed with a solution or highlight an issue they hadn’t considered, they will sit up and take notice. You’ve covered it.”

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

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You’re in a meeting—perhaps learning about a new company initiative or listening to a boss who wasn’t happy with your team’s performance—and you have something to say, but then you just… don’t. She asks people to examine the costs of staying silent: “We unlearn being silent by recognizing and wrestling with the silence we’ve learned.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

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The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Best practices for standing up for yourself. I apologized.

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What’s Next to Be Your Best? 3 Personal and Professional Development Trends in 2024

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Not only do personal and professional development opportunities provide key benefits to employees—like learning new skills, boosting confidence and credibility, developing leadership skills and increasing earning potential—but employers greatly benefit too.

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