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10 Essential Leadership Skills For The Modern Workplace

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How can you fairly manage a team when four of them are next to you in the office and seven others are scattered across time zones? Effective leaders are visionaries who can anticipate future trends and prepare their organizations accordingly. Strategic planning needs to start with determining your organization’s core values.

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Partnering with an Executive Assistant Staffing Agency: Benefits for Hiring Managers and Organizations

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As a staffing agency dedicated exclusively to executive and personal assistants for high-level executives, our executive assistant staffing & recruitment agency is dedicated to finding the perfect match to elevate your organization’s success.

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How to Plan a Working Vacation

Success

Everyone in your organization should be aware of your schedule and hopefully help you pick up some slack while you’re gone. If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted.

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Dealing With Unreasonable Requests

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Dealing With Unreasonable Requests By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 08, 2009 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail , among the many others that you receive each and every day. Ask them when it needs to get done and come to a "reasonable" compromise.

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Are You Afraid to Talk to Your Boss?

Professional Assistant Blog

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Filed Under: Organize A re you afraid to talk to your boss about your workload - if you really do feel stressed about the workload that you have? Youd be amazed of how well it works and helps you negotiate the only thing that you really can negotiate - time!

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. Fortunately, they were able to waive it and we only lost our $500 deposit. It is always worth asking.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

The CEO I was working for at the time was very busy and my meeting scheduling skills were put to the test. He was also an international traveler so I had to learn everything about time zones, flights and everything in between when your boss travels to a foreign country. And travel he did.