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How to Deal with Non-Negotiable Unrealistic Expectations

Eat Your Career

While it’s our duty to clarify and push back on such expectations, we may face situations where that impossibly high bar is simply non-negotiable. (By By the way, if you need help learning how to professionally pushback, I have an entire webinar on the topic of “Setting Limits and Managing Expectations” in the Career Success Library.)

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Best Virtual Assistant - Qualities of a Top-Notch Executive Assistant

ProAssisting Blog

They effortlessly navigate a spectrum of responsibilities, from managing calendars and scheduling appointments to orchestrating complex projects across various domains. They possess a strong foundation in administrative duties, adeptly handling scheduling, email management, and organizing information.

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Win Together, Lose Together: Embracing a Collective Approach to Negotiation with Barry Nalebuff 

Success

If you’ve ever had a landlord dispute or a failed real estate deal, you know that negotiating can be difficult , frustrating and even downright dirty. In his latest book Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate , Nalebuff argues that considering the collective’s needs is the most productive way to problem solve.

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The Gender Pay Gap: 3 Steps to Work Toward Workplace Parity

Success

For years, we’ve been told the reason the gender pay gap exists is that women don’t negotiate or advocate for themselves. Why do companies and managers insist on making compensation dependent on someone’s self-confidence level or negotiating skills when, in most cases, neither has anything to do with their job and job performance?

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WeWork’s Ousted Founder Hopes to Buy it Back

Allwork

It’s led some landlords to accuse WeWork of withholding around $33 million in rent payments that was due on January 1 as a negotiation tactic. However, WeWork faces major challenges in renegotiating rent costs with prominent landlords while maintaining operations during these changes.

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Soft Skills Training: 8 Soft Skills Courses to Elevate Your Career

Success

Soft skills development looks to improve non-quantifiable characteristics like listening, communication and time management. For example, you can improve time management skills by tracking the time it takes you to complete tasks, making a daily to-do list and giving yourself microbreaks between projects.

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10 Essential Leadership Skills For The Modern Workplace

Allwork

Post-pandemic, many companies have shifted into a hybrid model or returned to the office completely — both of which require sets of team management skills that are often new, or, at best, untested in novel workforce arrangements. It involves the ability to understand and manage one’s emotions and the emotions of others.

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