Workplace Insight

APRIL 10, 2024

Lady Lucy French, CEO of the Fleet Street Quarter BID, was present to highlight a major programme to deliver over £5bn of development projects in and around Fleet Street, London. Whilst these projects are the main headline grabbers – many other development were on display throughout Saudi, being built at an unfathomable speed by UK standards.

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2024 Negotiating Travel Lifestyle 52

Page Personnel

JULY 20, 2022

An HR assistant must be well organised and be able to coordinate multiple tasks and projects at the same time. Negotiation skills : HR assistants will be regularly involved in various negotiations, including salary discussions and purchasing meetings. Skilled negotiators usually succeed in such a role.

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Payroll Negotiating Salary Suppliers 52

Page Personnel

JANUARY 9, 2023

Related: How to negotiate salary: 8 tips you need to know Transferable skills are innate abilities you’ve acquired in work environments and non-work situations such as volunteering, additional study, and education, groups, and clubs such as sports. Doing so will put you in a much stronger position for the future jobs you’ll be applying for.

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Skills 2023 Negotiating Salary 92

Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 19, 2016

For many assistants trying to negotiate a pay rise is extremely difficult and many are turned down because of their organisation’s internal structures. It can be a lot easier to find a new role and negotiate an increased salary during the recruitment process. Applying for jobs outside of the PA role.

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UPS Salary Negotiating International 100

Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2017

The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct. As an international client with limited knowledge on venues in the UK, I found her assistance outstanding. Omar Afyuni, Assistant Manager Dubai, Project Management Office). . Carrie is as professional as it gets.”

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Budget Negotiating Agencies Stress 159

Productivity Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Negotiating. Freelancers, however, must negotiate price, deadlines, and other details of their jobs all the time. As a freelancer, you will be exposed to a variety of software and other technologies, business models, and internal processes. And this involves marketing and selling both yourself and your services. Versatility.

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Negotiating Finance Skills 2020 100

Small Business CEO

OCTOBER 27, 2011

PRINCE2 is a process-based methodology that offers non-proprietorial best practice guidance on project management, encompassing the management, control and organisation of a project. Leadership is also an important part of the PRINCE2 project manager’s role, particularly knowing the right approach to take.

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Training Project Management Negotiating Assertiveness 40

Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects. o Negotiation. Succession Planning for Senior-level Executive Assistants – These need to be in place; companies are beginning to see the value of these as they anticipate the departure of their most experienced assistants within the next few years. Propose ideas.

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Mentoring Negotiating Travel Training 100

Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Other times, we’re simply drained after being tapped for a major undertaking or high stress project. Ask questions to assess degrees of urgency, and practice negotiating timelines or redirecting requests. We may feel under-appreciated, wish our job was more challenging, or have lost out on a promotion. What to do?

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Mentoring Administrative Professionals Negotiating Budget 100

My EA Career

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We’d had dinner together a few nights earlier and she’d told us she was going to be starting a new project…but she couldn’t say what it was. She is a kick-ass business leader who has led large teams, negotiating deals and acquisitions worth millions and leading business units with hundreds of staff reporting up to her.

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Negotiating Phones Confidence International 52

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2007

Youd be amazed of how well it works and helps you negotiate the only thing that you really can negotiate - time! Here are the basic rules to do this: Start off with something positive, such as you have been working hard on whatever project you want to mention and show some results of this. One last note.

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2008 Google Docs Cubicle 2007 100

Practically Perfect PA

JULY 2, 2015

Project Management – Time Management, Critical Thinking and Coordination Skills. Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others. Jennifer Corcoran is an Office Manager with 20 years’ admin/PA experience working with Senior Executives at international level. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning.

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Social Media Fax Skills Suppliers 100

My EA Career

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We’d had dinner together a few nights earlier and she’d told us she was going to be starting a new project…but she couldn’t say what it was. She is a kick-ass business leader who has led large teams, negotiating deals and acquisitions worth millions and leading business units with hundreds of staff reporting up to her.

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Negotiating Phones Confidence International 40

Recruit CRM

JUNE 17, 2021

You should have hands-on experience with web analytics instruments and have imaginative ideas for effective advertising projects, also to develop and manage marketing programs in specific channels. Strong and effective project management skills. Sales representatives are both internal or external sales reps.

Social Media 52

Social Media Skills Salary International 52

Small Business CEO

MAY 5, 2010

Have you reduced employee counts and canceled or delayed capital projects? Others enter the data into payroll, into project tracking systems and then again into client billing systems. Identify “quick hit&# technology projects that increase quality and productivity. Example projects: Create interfaces between systems.

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Fax Payroll PDF Negotiating 40

Small Business CEO

JULY 6, 2011

One company outsourced its IT, negotiating excellent rates. Your IT strategy, including project prioritization, should be driven from your business strategy. If a project does not support your business strategy, why are you spending money and resources on it? Do they focus on project prioritization and execution?

Purchasing 40

Purchasing PDF Negotiating Equipment 40

The Office Professionals Place

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Some bad bosses believe that what they say goes and there is no room for negotiation. This is frustrating because you have other projects you need to accomplish and you don’t like working last minute. Again, explain the benefits to requesting projects ahead of time and put it in writing. “Rules with an iron fist.&#

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Filing 2010 2006 AT&T 100

Small Business Labs

MAY 6, 2010

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.   They're an award winning magazine with a rich history and an international reputation for outstanding reporting.    So, Washington Post, we're opening the bidding at $50 (we want to leave some negotiating room). 

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2010 Retirement 2020 2005 100

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 21, 2024

An immigrant to the US, she has 11+ years of experience as an EA with international companies and counting – now on the US side! An immigrant to the US, she has 11+ years of experience as an EA with international companies and counting – now on the US side! She speaks Russian, English and some German.

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International ASAP Negotiating Administrative Professionals 75

Productivityist

DECEMBER 15, 2013

While some contractors offer skills that are useful for one-time jobs, our favourite VAs—apart from becoming our friends—became a part of our team and were involved in several projects regularly. Use technology. File exchange: Dropbox, WeTransfer. Task management: Trello, oDesk Work Diary, Wunderlist Pro.

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Dropbox Filing Google Docs Google 40

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. My first true events project was for an internal communications conference and summer party for 200 people.

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Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 24, 2017

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. My first true events project was for an internal communications conference and summer party for 200 people.

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Project Management Mentoring Negotiating Skills 195

Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Research published in the International Journal of Behavioral Science in 2011 suggests that approximately 70 percent of people will experience at least one impostor syndrome episode in their lives. You don't finish nearly as many projects as you start. Impostor Syndrome is More Common Than You Might Think. Under-Performing.

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Mentoring Self Esteem Facebook 2015 289

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! However, if you know how valued you are and what unique things you bring to the table, it does mean there may be some room for negotiating. They write. “Hi Hi there, I just stumbled upon your blog today and am glad that I've done so!

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Agencies Temping Skills Management 40

BMT Office Administration

MAY 9, 2024

Mail your requests for e-filing waivers to Internal Revenue Service Ogden Submission Processing Center, Mail Stop 1057, Ogden, UT, 84201. If the worker has the power to negotiate their pay and hire other workers, they’re an independent contractor. This includes income tax returns, Forms 941 and 940, and information returns.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

APRIL 22, 2011

Schedule some uninterrupted, non negotiable down time for yourself. Thanks to Dr. Shannon Reece of Reece International LLC. I pick about three projects a day to concentrate on besides the daily routine duties such as e-mail. Thanks to Maria Marsala of Elevating Your Business. Best De-stress. Stress-It Rarely Happens To Me!

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Stress AT&T Gifts Management 100

Allwork

JUNE 23, 2022

Now that we’ve become highly individual in our work habits, we must create a new blend of the personal and professional, especially because many teams will continue to collaborate in a hybrid scenario that negotiates that balance daily.

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Environment Equipment Collaborate Negotiating 218

Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 24, 2010

It’s a collaborative project started by my friend Jonathan Wells. I was able to reinsert myself into the local business circle and start working on new projects. Had to mentor projects and give advice to the attendees, evaluate the pitches and pick a winner. Started A 6 Months Consulting Project.

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2010 AT&T Promotion Interviewing 40

Men With Pens

MARCH 16, 2010

I took a break and made some food and thought about getting started on that new project. Now imagine this one: “I got up and immediately sat down and wrote down a bunch of new ideas that I had for that project. Two hours of work, and then you can get moving on that awesome new project that’s going to make you rich and famous.

2010 40

2010 Twitter AT&T Email 40

BioTeams

JULY 31, 2005

The more sophisticated the nervous system is the more external triggers it can respond to, the more internal states it can sustain and the wider its vocabulary of communications with its external environment. This network includes all the teams members and partners, internal and external, individuals and organisations.

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Ergonomics Networking Environment AT&T 52

Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 24, 2010

This quality allows us to identify changes in our universe and match them to our internal history. So, based on what the stimuli offers, we browse our internal library and pick whatever we think it might be appropriate. In my experience, a typical copy paste situation unfolds in 3 steps. Which is to withdraw. Well, I dont.

2010 40

2010 AT&T International Learning 40

Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

Your internal voices will start telling you: “nothing good will come out of this, because you didn’t respond with kindness”. And, depending on how powerful your script is, those internal voices can be pretty strong. Fact is that even if your internal script was broken, the outside reality was modified in your favor.

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2010 AT&T Skills Travel 40

Success

MARCH 4, 2024

To put this in perspective, here is a partial list of Dufu’s accomplishments: launch team member for Lean In; chief leadership officer at Levo, a career and social media website; president of the White House Project; associate development director at Seattle Girls’ School; and member of the Women’s Forum of New York.

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UPS Social Media Etiquette Health 290

Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

When I started to work for this project (and yes, it was just a pet project in the beginning), all I did was to log daily my progress. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Did a few tests with some sample projects to see how the building process works. Can be tricky at times. Got some rest.

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2010 AT&T Learning Promotion 40

Success

AUGUST 3, 2021

These benefits make it tempting to want to “type” your co-worker, but Enneagram teacher and coach Casey McCollum , who helps executives and leaders of organizations improve their team dynamics through the Enneagram, emphasizes that observed behavior and internal motivations are not the same.

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Environment Gossip Negotiating Salary 306

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. I know that first hand.

2010 40

2010 Health AT&T Skills 40

Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“If there is truly no internal way to influence change from the EA seat, leaving can be a very powerful way to preserve oneself.” ‘I have this big project, he’s not letting me on his calendar, how can I remedy that?’

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Administrative Professionals AT&T Retirement Environment 40