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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

It simulates human intelligence because it learns from experience and gets smarter (which sounds wild!). Practice & Play The absolute best and easiest way to learn something new is to get your hands dirty. You have to learn how to leverage the software fully and figure out how to implement it into your day-to-day workflow.

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The Assistant Toolkit

Practically Perfect PA

We have so much to do and juggle over the course of one day that you don’t even think about the skills you use for all of the different tasks. Meeting Management including Board and Committee Meetings. Minute Taking. It can be really easy for assistants to neglect their tool kit. Email and Diary Management.

Skills 100
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Training On-line

Laughing all the Way to Work

The good thing about on-line courses, is anyone can do it from anywhere. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. It works in the same way as last minute flights do. When it gets closer to the course date and it doesnt look like they will fill the seats, they offer the course at a cheaper price.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

We really dont have an excuse because it is becoming increasingly easy to take courses online. All you need is to put some time aside and close your door, or put some earphones on, and plug into your computer and learn. I have had great experiences learning online in interactive courses. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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When taking initiative isn't the best thing.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you are a new hire, take the time to learn and ask questions. Of course there will come a time when questions about certain things will not have to be asked as it is hoped the new hire will catch on to the office procedures and their initiative will kick in and they will take on these tasks on their own, but in the beginning please ask.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Years ago, when I worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), I took a training course on a Telex machine. Again, when I worked at the RCMP, I went on a training course for a machine to do criminal record checks. Of course I had to tell everyone at the office. * Needless to say -- it worked! See you soon!

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Meeting preparation.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some things I have on this list is a memory stick with the minute templates, tentcards, meals ordered, meeting packages, pen, notebook, highlighter, calculator (I hate math so just in case they ask something that requires mathematical skills) and attendance records to establish quorum for each meeting. It is interesting work.

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