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Life Is Not a Movie

Success

The jokes, gossip, laughs, arguments, and memories I miss. For our interview, Ebert answered questions by email, his preferred manner of communicating—although he did love a stack of Post-it notes, the handy-dandy talking technique he used with his wife, his full-time home nurse and the good friends invited to their Chicago townhome.

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5 Good Lessons from Bad Bosses

Success

In an effort to sound gracefully diplomatic during a grad school interview, I found myself referencing that particular experience in terms of “teachable moments,” a buzzy phrase I’d never used before in my life that suddenly made a lot of sense. I worked very well with one of my first managers, but I was definitely one of her favorites.

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EMEA East – Personal Branding Q&A

Practically Perfect PA

I was interviewed by the lovely Elena Aylott from EMEA East about my blog and social media in general. As I said earlier personal assistants tend to fall into the job and then don’t see the benefit of training or improving their skills. Last week I was asked to speak to a group of assistants in Sweden about personal branding.

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EMEA East – Personal Branding Q&A

Practically Perfect PA

I was interviewed by the lovely Elena Aylott from EMEA East about my blog and social media in general. As I said earlier personal assistants tend to fall into the job and then don’t see the benefit of training or improving their skills. Last week I was asked to speak to a group of assistants in Sweden about personal branding.

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When "What Do You Do?" Makes You Want to Punch Something

On The Job

While this seems like a fairly harmless question, if you're unemployed, it can have the impact of a freight train. The guy at the cocktail party or the woman you meet at your son's pre-school may be just the key person you need to know to get an interview or promising lead on a job. "So, what do you do?" Sound of crickets chirping.)

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2 Big Myths About Work You Need to Ditch

On The Job

I recently interviewed an employment law expert, who pointed out there are a lot of myths that employees believe, including the one that they can say what they want at work. which specializes in ethics and workplace compliance training, says that showing you’re dedicated by “volunteering” your time is a mistake. “A Thanks, Karen.

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

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

ezCater’s simple-to-use platform provides a network of over 100,000 restaurants nationwide, business-grade reliability, food spend management tools, and 24/7 support from their highly trained customer service team. So there’s a lot of, you know, office gossip and stuff like that. You’re You’re there to do a job.

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