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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

Success

Many business card issuers also have opt-in dining programs that reward you for eating at certain restaurants. This article originally appeared in the March/April 2022 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. 5 Don’t carry a balance. Product and service information are the sole responsibility of the author. Photo by @DimaBerlin/Twenty20.

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Spotlight on assistant resources: PA Life

Practically Perfect PA

From magazines, blogs, exclusive membership clubs to events and exhibitions. PA Life magazine is published six times a year and includes a mixture of lifestyle features, updates on suppliers, industry news and articles on how to improve professional skills. There are a lot of different resources available to assistants.

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How can assistants stay on top of the scene?

Practically Perfect PA

Will you be able to reel off a list of the best restaurants in that part of town? Along with everything else that is asked of assistants we do have to possess some sort of encyclopaedic knowledge of the world’s best restaurants and hotels. Keep a list of great restaurants and add to it whenever you come across a new suggestion.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Magazine Subscriptions. On the day I reverted to ‘show and tell’ and picked up the annual catalogue of restaurants for both of my bosses which greatly impressed them. If I was ever impressed by a particular restaurant or hotel I would send them the link or bring them in the hard copy brochure to examine. Revised Job Description.

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Using social media to empower Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

You can follow and connect with other Assistants, clients, colleagues, suppliers, brand ambassadors and influencers. I can personally recommend the EUMA and Executive Secretary Magazine groups for interactive social networking across the globe. Through my work it has enabled me to make great restaurant, hotel and venue contacts.

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

That will differ quite dramatically from what you need for a training session, interacting with a client or supplier, or for a videoconference with a colleague based on the other side of the globe. Open plan offices must therefore be balanced with spaces for personal rejuvenation where staff can read a magazine, change posture and disconnect.

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Meeting other assistants who work near by, who share the same suppliers, hotels, restaurants etc. Sherien : Being awarded the PA Executive Magazine/Hays Award ‘1 st runner up for the PA Newcomer of the Year’ 2013 Award was an amazing achievement for me. It is brilliant!