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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

ProAssisting Blog

Understanding the Executive's Vision To truly become a business partner, immerse yourself in understanding your executive's vision and goals as well as the company’s. This means not just comprehending their immediate tasks but grasping the broader objectives guiding their decisions.

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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

All Things Admin

As the days fly by toward a new year, now is the perfect time to start setting your goals for next year. While that sounds good in theory, it can be a bit more challenging in practice when it comes to putting your goals in print. What are some goals to consider for the upcoming year? Attend a training event or workshop.

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Leveraging Procedures for Effective Training and Onboarding

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Consider recording your training sessions, whether they’re in person or via platforms like Teams or Zoom. This not only aids in creating a comprehensive procedural document for future use, but also provides a reference for the new hire to revisit as needed while they’re learning the ropes.

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Could Artificial Intelligence Eliminate Internships?

Allwork

From a strict cost-benefit analysis, training a revolving door of new employees who may or may not work out is exponentially more expensive than training a localized AI system that continues learning as it handles tasks. This is why it’s so important to understand the technology that’s permeating the workforce.

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The 4 Most Common Excuses for Not Delegating

Success

Maybe your goal is to earn $250 an hour, and you have tasks that need handling that you can outsource for $100 an hour. You’re not going to reach your goal if you’re spending your time on $100-an-hour tasks,” Hecht says. Training someone will take too much time.” It’s true that training will take time.

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What Is Professional Development? We Unpack the Essentials

Success

Before getting there, let’s unpack the essentials of what skill training really is. Then, we’ll look at the benefits along with examples of how to achieve your biggest goals. It refers to proactive measures you take to acquire new skills, knowledge and competency while increasing your value as an employee or entrepreneur.

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Bibliotherapy: Boost Well-being and Find Community With a Therapeutic Book Club

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These groups are often facilitated by a therapist or other trained professional. While American libraries rarely have a staff member who is a trained bibliotherapist, Allred says that their book makes the case that it is very feasible and rewarding to integrate bibliotherapy-informed practices into library programs, including book clubs.

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