I spend a lot of my time in the training room with administrative professionals all over the country, I am often taken by the words of wisdom that are shared by the savvy assistants in my classes. In fact, I was struck by the words of one particular assistant who seemed savvy beyond her years. […]
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For many people, working at home is a dream come true. In addition to saying farewell to long commutes in bumper-to-bumper traffic, remote workers can pretty much wear whatever they want and often schedule projects around their families. Come tax time, they may be able to deduct a lot of their home office-related expenses. Of
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Love yourself. In honor of the month of love, I am going to offer some great info I wrote a few years ago with my BIG Life project. People often describe their self-esteem like a thermometer. It goes up and down. If someone is complimenting them or they have done a good job, they have
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Assistants, Don’t Let Collaborative Work Space Stop Your Education Last week I was conducting a full-day workshop with 25 assistants. I had been telling them about our monthly free webinars as a way to continue their education after our live workshop. One administrative assistant told me that with the new collaborative, open-space work environment,
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Did you miss our last free webinar for administrative professionals of the year? Catch the replay here and download all the resources available that partner with this program. In this webinar, Joan Burges spoke about 7 tips to set yourself up for career success in 2016. Towards the end of the session she referred to
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I recently received a request for advice from an assistant named Kathryn. She posed a typical problem that I have heard for years and I want to respond to her question in a blog as I bet many executive and administrative assistants run into the same problem. My challenge will be answering this concisely because