Success

APRIL 19, 2023

To help you get started, focus on saving six weeks of your monthly costs to help you cover most minor emergencies. Consider the minimum amount you spend each month on non-negotiable expenses like: Housing Food Utilities Insurance (health, car, etc.) However, building that amount from zero can feel overwhelming.

Credit Card 298

Credit Card Expenses Retirement Goals 298

Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 19, 2016

If you do book business travel to Berlin remember to download their city guide for business travellers. Roomex.com is the leading online hotel booking platform for business travel. Best of all Roomex is available at no cost, with no contract and absolutely no catch. We will contact you to get your details! Learn more.

Travel 100

Travel Negotiating Learning Management 100

C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Complex travel arrangements, calendar management, and keeping up with technical innovations are only part of what an excellent executive assistant needs to do for you. There are many hidden costs in recruiting—some estimates suggest the recruitment process can cost an organization as much as three to four times that employee’s annual salary.

Agencies 96

Agencies Management Resume Networking 96

Success

MARCH 23, 2022

I talk to friends in the travel industry. To set the price , we make assumptions about costs. Pro tip: It’s not a great idea to set a price for your product before you know how much it costs to make it. Hotels, Airbnbs, canoes, routes, costs, what to feed them, what to give them to drink—it’s never-ending.

Social Media 267

Social Media Forms Negotiating Learning 267

Workplace Insight

APRIL 10, 2024

There is of course the irony of a global property conference discussing net zero whilst jetting in delegates from all corners of globe, but how do you get to inclusivity and diversity without the travel? There needs to be more innovation and creative thinking around housing developments to tackle the high cost and lack of development.

2024 52

2024 Negotiating Travel Lifestyle 52

Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 8, 2014

Alongside sourcing a venue, we have to think about the catering, any overnight guests, travel logistics, dietary requirements, speakers, training materials, seating plans, AV equipment… the list is endless. Not a confident negotiator? A venue finding agency will cost you nothing! Let them do it for you. Probably not.

Agencies 100

Agencies Negotiating Equipment Training 100

Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Don’t get me wrong they still travel for Board meetings and client engagement but they don’t get on a flight simply because there are no alternatives to getting everyone together. Once the initial cost of equipment has been paid teleconferencing is inexpensive. It is also not ideal for sales pitches or negotiations.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Equipment Expenses Negotiating 100

Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Don’t get me wrong they still travel for Board meetings and client engagement but they don’t get on a flight simply because there are no alternatives to getting everyone together. Once the initial cost of equipment has been paid teleconferencing is inexpensive. It is also not ideal for sales pitches or negotiations.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Equipment Expenses Negotiating 100

Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

They coordinate schedules, handle employee issues, negotiate with suppliers and work hard to ensure everyone gets along within the company culture. Low-cost training courses are available online. Read more: Building your travel administration skills as an EA What does it take to be a successful HR assistant?

Management 52

Management Payroll Fax Suppliers 52

Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

At first the consultants picked their own hotels and put the cost through their expenses and as you can imagine their choice of hotels varied wildly and so did the price. Once the recession really hit home my Director’s budget was cut quite drastically and she asked all of us to think of ways to cut back on costs.

Negotiating 100

Negotiating Suppliers Expenses Restaurants 100

Productivityist

OCTOBER 2, 2014

As I continue my travels, I''m offering up a guest post from a regular contributor to the blog, Mike Dariano. Grant also writes about how givers negotiate better than takers. In one study of student negotiators, the group trained as givers got better deals for themselves and their opponents. Are you a giver or a taker?

Negotiating 40

Negotiating Networking Salary Mentoring 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

Pay attention or it could cost your company money. It was going to cost our company $5,000 plus in cancellation fees. I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. It is always worth asking.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Negotiating International 100

Small Business CEO

MAY 6, 2013

While a prospective market may offer attractive rates, tariffs and low labor costs, consider how easy it will actually be to get your goods to and from destinations. While this does mean a lot of traveling on your part, building such a relationship automatically puts you in the know if there’s a crisis.

Negotiating 40

Negotiating Suppliers Networking International 40

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 21, 2024

Taking an active part in coordinating CyberCrimeCon (annual global cybersecurity conference) to streamline processes around international guests’ travel, negotiate with the hotels and sponsors to get discounts, and save additional costs by involving volunteers.

International 75

International ASAP Negotiating Administrative Professionals 75

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. It also costs a lot to hire someone else because finding the time to find the right person and training them is expensive in energy, manpower, resources, and money. Therefore, I only say the following just to say it and be thorough.

Agencies 40

Agencies Temping Skills Management 40

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 29, 2010

Do some flexibility games before a negotiation, it will make easier for you to see the opportunities in the discussion. On the website, the monthly subscription costs 14.99 . - do some brain games before meetings: memory games when you’re doing some public speaking, especially if you’re talking freely, without a written presentation.

Training 40

Training 2010 Social Media AT&T 40

Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

So, my travel to become a scriptless individual is going really well, but I may still be around for a while. Reply 15 Traveling Magi June 22, 2010 at 9:07 pm Great post! I call my Blog Traveling Magi because for 25 years I’ve immersed myself in the study of astrology, the symbolic language of the stars. You see now?

2010 40

2010 AT&T Skills Travel 40

Success

MARCH 4, 2024

At first she didn’t believe it, but eventually Fletcher tried it, became hooked and ultimately quit acting to travel to India to learn more about meditation. Florence Williams, who has been a contributing editor to Outside magazine, scoured the latest science while traveling the world for examples. Fletcher makes one thing clear.

UPS 215

UPS Social Media Etiquette Health 215

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

It was my way of healing the strange illness I got by this foreign image which I glued on me, at the cost of my own authentic being. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. Let’s say you want to travel the world and you’re saving money for that.

2010 40

2010 Health AT&T Skills 40