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How to Encourage Employee Autonomy—and Why That Should Matter to You as a Leader

Success

Then one day, you’re promoted to manager. Companies that nurture employee autonomy definitely have an edge over their peer businesses. Check-ins allow you to practice your active listening skills while you find out how your direct reports are handling their autonomy. When you’re an employee, you crave autonomy.

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5 Considerations to Understand and Address Incompetent Coworkers

Success

Determine the degree and type of incompetence By definition, incompetence is the inability to do something successfully. The Peter Principle’ Your hypothetical colleague Diane was recently promoted to account director and doesn’t understand how to do a foundational element of her new role: managing account executives.

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The Innovative Admin™ 10 Years Later: Q&A With Author Julie Perrine

All Things Admin

I wanted to give people a different way to see not just the skills they need today, but the skills that they’re going to need tomorrow. The world looks a lot different now, but the book definitely still holds up. So much so that I didn’t even begin promoting the book until six months after it was released.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

Allwork

What’s the definitive, you know, list or definition? I want to meet interesting, you know, people from a business perspective, I want to promote my business, but at the end of the day to all humans and at the end. There’s going to be a big skills shortage coming up, isn’t there? Tim Leberecht.

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Tim Rowe – Founder and CEO of CIC | Flexible Workspaces: Competing Globally

Allwork

You’ve taken it to an entirely new high, working around other people, incubation theories, mentoring theories, accelerator theories, fundings, exits, team rooms, the very start up to the very exit point overall. Great at marketing and self promotion, but horrid at the concept of actually building a community inside of the facilities.

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Ep 241: Elena Navarro on Corporate Culture, Toxic Workplaces, and Maintaining Confidentiality

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Some have even gone above and beyond to personally mentor her throughout her time as an Executive Assistant – and now, Executive Business Partner! And I’ve had amazing mentors along the way. So I was very blessed in my roles that I’ve had with my C suite, that they were mentors to me. So here I am.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Yes, I have taken job-specific software classes, classes to learn organizational and people skills, and took computer certification classes which I was not aware I needed coming right out of high school. Again, these are skills I was able to cultivate on the job. Only the usual Microsoft skills. Not particularly.

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