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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

Difficult and stressful situations in particular require adept self-regulation. Consider, for instance, an entrepreneur who has a great relationship with an essential supplier. After a stressful day for this entrepreneur, one particular customer service representative behaves rudely.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully. As a company, we lead with our hearts and are very transparent with our suppliers,” she says. Who you gonna call? A virtual assistant who charges per task can help you get started.

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How I Lost $3 Million in 24 Hours and Bounced Back

Success

I was caught in the middle of a scandal, between one supplier and thousands of people I made promises to. Even though I was constantly stressed and hated what I was doing, I was making too much money to step away from it, to care or to realize that I didn’t feel fulfilled. It wasn’t just my money, either.

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The benefits of working abroad for Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

I thought to myself, whatever happens, I will have a great story to tell in my interviews if I have to move back to London and get another traditional EA role. I couldn’t stress these more! Extending your network and working with global suppliers . I had always worked for large organisations in a very traditional role.

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Feeling like a fraud at work

Practically Perfect PA

You are here because you aced an interview, that your Executive and your Organisation saw something in that makes you awesome. Don’t give yourself undue amounts of stress. For example, so many of us are asked to organise events, manage projects, procure services and suppliers, manage budgets and recruit for new staff.

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Interview with Steve Pritchard from hiremyparents.com

The Small Business Blog

4 Comments » | Trackback | Share This 4 Responses to “ Interview with Steve Pritchard from hiremyparents.com &# Ray Said on December 9th, 2009 at 10:54 am Steve is right on the money saying there needs to be a market for your business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Day in the life: Torsten Maerz, PA at Deutsche Bank

Practically Perfect PA

Since my boss travels a lot, I take care of his travel expenses and supplier invoices. I then had to find suitable alternatives to get him there on time, all while speaking with the event manager to see how to amend the schedule, and at the same time dealing with another colleague to change a planned media interview.