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Dealing With Unreasonable Requests

Professional Assistant Blog

Negotiating Time If the person persists on bothering you, one thing that you can always negotiate is time. Even if they are starting to irritate you, keep a smile on your face (even if its fake) and repeat yourself until they walk away. Ask them when it needs to get done and come to a "reasonable" compromise.

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Are You Afraid to Talk to Your Boss?

Professional Assistant Blog

Youd be amazed of how well it works and helps you negotiate the only thing that you really can negotiate - time! By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Filed Under: Organize A re you afraid to talk to your boss about your workload - if you really do feel stressed about the workload that you have?

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Three Tips - Preparing for Economic Recovery

Small Business CEO

Design an internal web page that displays your key business performance indicators. Identify contracts and negotiate rates before they automatically renew. Example projects: Create interfaces between systems. Many financial systems have pre-defined interfaces for import files.

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Expectations For Your Outsourcer to Reduce Your Risk

Small Business CEO

One company outsourced its IT, negotiating excellent rates. To minimize your risk, make sure someone with IT experience and availability is charged with managing them, whether it be an internal executive or a retained CIO. Did you sign up for outsourcing figuring you could forget about IT? Ignore the management of IT at your own risk.

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10 Tips for Planning a Successful Event

Jen Lawrence

Whether you have an internal share folder or use Google Drive, declare a location to track all information and save important files. Don’t be afraid to negotiate. The biggest negotiation mistake in event planning is focusing solely on price. 2) Send out meeting materials (pdf of presentation, list of resources, etc.)

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