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

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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 there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. So here I am. Jeremy Burrows 4:25 Love it.

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Answering Your Questions

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

A: I've been extremely lucky and have NOT worked for anyone difficult or nightmarish - high standards and extremely fast-paced or high-pressure environments, yes. Compared to, say, a more corporate environment where an executive assistant's career ceiling is really only that of a more senior executive assistant?

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Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It also means going on job interviews or meeting with any agency that calls you because they will often keep you in their database when the right job does come up. There are only so many personality types or people that will thrive in this sort of environment. Be the bigger person and don't gossip!

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The Enneagram at Work: Which Number Are You?

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Ideal work environment: Rewards and consequences are doled out fairly Productivity-boosting tip: Be OK with good enough Productivity-busting habit to watch out for: Procrastination until perfection. Their first impressions are hard to beat and, in an interview, Threes have a way of making past failures look like success.