Workplace Insight

APRIL 23, 2024

The sales industry has long esteemed the virtues of sharp negotiation skills and strategic thinking. A crucial component of EI is social skills. Additionally, leaders with high levels of EI are typically better at conflict resolution, an invaluable skill in the high-stakes environment of sales.

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Success

AUGUST 29, 2023

As with learning any new skill, personal growth takes skill and effort. On the contrary, Brown teaches readers that expecting perfection from ourselves leads to paralysis, inaction, stress and unhappiness. Today, understanding the basics of personal development has become more important than ever.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I'll be the first to admit I've not always been a great negotiator. Growing up with two sisters, negotiation wasn't in our vocabulary. You wanted something, you took it by force or by stealth, but there was no negotiating involved. Negotiation -- no. They believe negotiations are a win-lose proposition.

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

So, time leadership is about prioritizing and negotiating expectations. They’ll ask, “Is this truly the right use of my skills and time? But my upcoming Time Management Learning Lab is actually a blend of time management and time leadership principles. We all have too much to do and not enough time.

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Success

MARCH 16, 2022

What skills does it take, and how can you instill the company’s philosophy and ideals in new hires? Benjamin Kittle, co-CEO and founder of the growing debt-relief company Century Services, is working with an executive coach to strengthen his leadership skills. Creating systemic and regular channels for communication is non-negotiable.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2020

At Office Dynamics International, Secretaries, Executive Assistants, and Administrative Assistants alike have approached us on skills, tactics, and traits to implement in order to achieve agility and survive the pressures of today’s society. Earlier this month you may have been scheduling business trips, events and negotiating with vendors.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 14, 2011

But we can work through these issues with less stress by learning to be flexible. But, you can also avoid a lot of stress by leaving wiggle room in your schedules so when issues arise, it’s not the end of the world. Be willing to keep learning and exploring new avenues of revenue. Surprises always come up.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

As a savvy assistant working in the modern business world moving at supersonic speed, you must learn how to lead yourself in order to be at the top of your game, remain on the cutting edge and be prepared for the future. Apply self-management techniques vs. stress management. Develop persuasion and negotiation skills.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 11, 2016

This is an important skill to develop for any individual who has to work with others. As more companies embrace collaboration, you must learn to work with other people and truly become a team player to get the work done and help your organization be more competitive. It starts with having the attitude, then developing certain skills.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 9, 2016

As more companies embrace the spirit of teamwork, you must learn to work with other people and truly become a team player to get the work done and help your organization be more competitive. Having an “attitude of taking charge” is not necessarily the same as the “skill of taking charge.” 11 Seek Help from an Outside Source.

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Clutter Coach

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Anyone who works with people in situations where they feel vulnerable needs to have empathy and people skills to truly help them. Downscaling lowers the stakes, lowers the risk, and that in turn usually lowers your stress level and resistance to doing it. You can learn a lot even from a small project. Small is better.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Other times, we’re simply drained after being tapped for a major undertaking or high stress project. Offer to help coordinate a “lunch and learn” session, or an after-hours network of your peers. Ask questions to assess degrees of urgency, and practice negotiating timelines or redirecting requests. Feeling underutilized?

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Job Advice Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection While in Transition, Are You Keeping Pace with Technology? Many recruiters and hiring managers take advantage of them, and so should you.

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Job Advice Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection So, How about a Career Coach? Learn what your total expense will be, and find out what to expect once the coaching is done.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The question was, “ On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most, what is your stress level about your physical safety out in the world, on an average day?”. The question was, “ On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the most, what is your stress level about being Black in the world, on an average day ?”. Spencer is 45 years old and Black. “8.”.

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Energage

APRIL 12, 2016

Identify the values that are the most important to your organization and ensure they are non-negotiable hiring requirements. . As an employee from Transwestern put it, “Our managers are able to identify people’s strongest attribute and put them in positions that utilize their skills and help the entire team.”. . Set expectations.

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 6, 2011

They can help you set and achieve career goals , make smart business decisions, overcome workplace challenges , learn new skills or simply offer an outside perspective when you’re facing frustrations at work. It’s an incredibly fulfilling experience and I believe that mentors learn just as much as those they assist.

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Service Untitled

APRIL 10, 2013

The Customer Service Survival Kit helps us to diffuse even the worst emotional and intentional customer complaints, and step by step helps the customer service representative diffuse the anger and angst of those stressful situations in a calm, reflective manner. Strive for the phrase, “here is what we can do.”

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I also haven’t been growing or learning anything new since Day 1 because my boss won’t give me projects. It’s such a shame that there aren’t more managers who are good mentors that help each individual grow and learn more in their roles. You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

I'm really interested in progressing and developing my skills but feel that managing the office is hindering my ability to focus on the core of being an EA. You mentioned you really want to progress and develop your skills, but managing the office is hindering your ability to focus.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Impostor Syndrome reflects a belief that you are inadequate and, or incompetent despite evidence that you are skilled and successful. A 2014 study on Impostor Syndrome shows that those people with it tend to undervalue their skills or fail to recognize how other opportunities might place more substantial importance on their abilities.

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Success

DECEMBER 26, 2022

You’d better learn to lead yourself first. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill. When you learn to coax the best from yourself, success is assured. There is a tranquil minority walking among us who stress less, but live more. Want to lead others?

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Productivity Bits

JUNE 10, 2011

However, what can be a big secret is how successful professionals manage to balance the stress and responsibility of their work life, with the inevitable stress and responsibility of their home life. This is not only a way for us to ‘stop and smell the roses’ in our lives, but also to reduce our stress levels. 6 – Say No.

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Job Advice Blog

MAY 15, 2010

That depends: if you have good writing skills, you can draft a résumé and then have some people whose proficiency and judgment you trust review and edit it for you until it becomes excellent. If you are not skilled with language, I suggest you seek a professional résumé writer who has performed work for others and brought them success.

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Brilliantly Better

JUNE 22, 2010

So, I learned the rules , implemented them and become successful. I was putting to work some skills, but without putting my soul, my self or my life into it. That we “learned&# something. Assess – Decide – Do In A Nutshell Assessment is the state in which you analyze, compare, learn and store your experiences.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Everything flowed nicely without my having to stress out or decide what to miss. Cherie DeChenne from Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richmond WA said regarding this conference, “ You won’t be distracted, yet really be involved in learning here. What are the top five traits or attributes that “Star” assistants possess?

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Everything flowed nicely without my having to stress out or decide what to miss. Cherie DeChenne from Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richmond WA said regarding this conference, “ You won’t be distracted, yet really be involved in learning here. What are the top five traits or attributes that “Star” assistants possess?

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Success

MARCH 4, 2024

Success Habits: Proven Principles for Greater Wealth, Health, and Happiness By Napoleon Hill Though Napoleon Hill died more than five decades ago, there is still much one can learn from his teachings. Rather than leaving the reader with vague lessons learned, Kawasaki spells it out with tips, advice and quotes.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

If I had more work to do and would be learning along the way, I would stay. Aside from someone to love, something to do (job, a hobby, or life calling), you also need something to look forward to, and something where you learn and grow that is not too easy but not too hard. At work it’s mostly helping people vs learning.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. Stage Two: Growing Skills and Sensors After the assessment, you start to actually invest. You’re going to do this in two ways: you’re either growing and enhancing skills, either build new “reality sensors”. Of course I do.

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Success

JULY 12, 2021

It sometimes develops a little like a [post-traumatic stress disorder]. But what have you learned about yourself since you became an entrepreneur? SO: It’s very interesting to figure out that you have skills that are different than the ones you thought you had. But I can negotiate deals. So, that’s probably a plus.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

Not only because I coded every single line of it, but because this app is the tangible result of more than 3 years of testing, learning and writing about personal productivity. Third: I am obsessed with learning new things. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Program received “BAD_EXC” message.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I am very happy with my position, responsibilities, opportunity for learning and the support from all my colleagues and managers, but there is always the idea of greener pastures and higher salaries lingering in the back of my mind. Translation: Soft skills trump hard skills any day.

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