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How Emotional Intelligence Can Improve Your Work Life

Success

Emotional intelligence can offer perspective in stressful situations and can help us discern optimism from toxic positivity when things look rough. EI is a sought-after trait in job candidates, especially for leading teams or working in customer service. Get ahead at work. Keep looking forward.

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Answering Reader Mail on Salary, Finding Great Talent

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This matters because it translates to how busy, stressful, how much experience you need them to have, and if you need a specialized Executive Assistant. The most popular question on this column is about salary and this is the answer I wrote: How much can the best executive assistants earn in a year?

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

After more than 2,500 workers moved to a 35- or 36-hour workweek and declared themselves happier, healthier and less stressed, the country is now moving to make this an option for the majority of its workforce. What’s more, revenues and profits rose because four-day weeks were cheap to implement and actually attracted new customers.

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March Madness

Office Dynamics

One big challenge is that while business is picking up for everyone, it is not at a point where salary increases will be given this year. Here are some tools to help you manage better and still provide good customer service: Look at your work with a question mark; not a period. This is my life and work philosophy. Joan Burge.

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How to Make Money With AI in 2024: A Beginner’s Guide to Saving Time and Effort

Success

My company started incorporating AI within our application and other forms, using AI customer service tools like DigitalGenius. We used Chatbase to create custom AI chatbots for customer service. We feed the AI tool data, and it manages customer service tasks.

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March Madness

Office Dynamics

One big challenge is that while business is picking up for everyone, it is not at a point where salary increases will be given this year. Here are some tools to help you manage better and still provide good customer service: Look at your work with a question mark; not a period. This is my life and work philosophy.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Yes, NVQ’s in Customer Services and Business Administration. Yes – NVQ in Customer Service. High standard of customer service and the ability to work under pressure in a busy environment and be flexible and adaptable is key. But it helps enormously if one wants to succeed in the public service.

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