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Gossip Girl!

Practically Perfect PA

Secondly, how do we have effective working relationships with our team when they know that we are privy to information that may concern them and lastly how do we maintain this trust when other members of staff are spreading office gossip? Office Gossip. Quite often assistants are referred to as the ‘eyes and ears’ of their manager.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Krayman

Olympia loved that at the beginning of the movie, the women could be seen as the beloved and well worn Southern female stereotypes – preoccupied with gossip, clothes, hair, flowers, and food. When you’re a star, your skills and talents will always be welcomed elsewhere. The script was about the friendship of women. Thanks, Olympia.

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How Even Obnoxious Colleagues Can Help Your Career

On The Job

If I didn't overreact, I could not only save her from herself, but demonstrate the kind of skills that are necessary to reach the higher levels of any career. There is a big push in the workplace today to provide feedback, whether it's manager to employee or employee to employee. Namely: By listening. By providing feedback. When 99.1%

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4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues

Professional Assistant Blog

Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Try following these 4 simple steps and you will find that your work performance will increase and hopefully, so will your salary! Don’t let your work performance suffer.

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Answering Your Questions

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Be willing to do anything and learn a lot of different skill sets and software programs so you are indispensable. Or there is combination of having the EA, a personal assistant, a nanny, and a whole crew of people at their service from an estate manager, accountant to lawyer that you the EA will have to interface with.

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Dispelling the Personal Assistant myth

Practically Perfect PA

We do have to remain silent even if we know intimate details about our boss that might be brilliant gossip. In fact many of us are juggling multiple priorities, multiple projects and multiple managers! Personal Assistants can demand good salaries and can influence and persuade their manager’s decisions.

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Dispelling the Personal Assistant myth

Practically Perfect PA

We do have to remain silent even if we know intimate details about our boss that might be brilliant gossip. In fact many of us are juggling multiple priorities, multiple projects and multiple managers! Personal Assistants can demand good salaries and can influence and persuade their manager’s decisions.

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