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4 Keys to Authentic Selling, According to Negotiating Expert Roger Dawson

Success

Learn about your competitors and their shortcomings. I first met Shield in Brisbane, Australia, when he introduced me to the audience at one of my Power Negotiating seminars. Come on Peter,” I’ll tease him, “when I want to go on vacation I can pick from thousands of travel bargains on the web. Photo by Szepy/IStock.

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Career Success A to Z: N is for Non-Negotiable

Eat Your Career

Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. But you also have to know what components are non-negotiable. I’ve made that mistake and now my soul is a non-negotiable. I have other non-negotiables too. I’m not willing to travel every other week the way I did for nearly a year in 2013.

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3 Keys to Earning and Increasing Capital as a Black Woman in Business

Success

Negotiating is essential for anyone starting or operating a business. Use these words during every negotiation session: “I appreciate all of your feedback.” Once you have their respect and trust , negotiations become much easier because people are willing to go above and beyond for those they care about.

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Unlearning Silence in the Workplace: How to Speak Up at Work

Success

You’re in a meeting—perhaps learning about a new company initiative or listening to a boss who wasn’t happy with your team’s performance—and you have something to say, but then you just… don’t. She asks people to examine the costs of staying silent: “We unlearn being silent by recognizing and wrestling with the silence we’ve learned.

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The Art of Persuasion: 4 Tips to Master Influence

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Ignore those safe, well-traveled paths that people love to suggest but aren’t quite you. Harris learned this lesson after building his first company by himself. Skill-hunters want to learn as much as they can, whether that’s marketing, negotiating or foreign languages. After that, it’s a matter of consistency.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. I never take for granted the basic ‘platform’ skills I learned in the early days as a speaker.

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Conference for Administrative Assistants – How to Get Your Executive’s Approval

Office Dynamics

That in itself is a learning experience. You need to continually learn and grow. Executives travel all over the country. Assistants should be a business partner to their executive, so start acting like a business partner and convince your manager why you should be allowed to travel out of state. Negotiate if necessary.

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