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6 Communication Skills That Will Make You a Better Leader

Success

Whether you manage employees, coordinate a team of volunteers, serve on a board or are in charge of juggling your family’s schedule every day, your leadership skills hinge on your ability to communicate effectively with others. Knowing your audience’s motivations, preferred communication styles, learning styles, etc.,

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Core Administrative Skills Always Need Improving

Office Dynamics

Now I am going to surprise you by telling you one of the most awesome administrative skills you can work on is being brilliant at the basics. Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. The basics. Joan Burge.

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The Top 3 Skills That Make Administrative Assistants Stand Out

Office Dynamics

Learning to communicate at the executive level is absolutely essential for success and it’s extremely rare. Defining your distinct professional trademark—and learning how to leverage that in the workplace—will help you shape how others see you. As you can see, these skills go beyond the basics. Hone Your Professional Trademark.

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The Assist Conference 2017

Practically Perfect PA

The theme for Assist 2017 is ‘The Assistant Tool Kit’ What is the Assistant tool kit? It is the bag of skills, competencies, qualifications and hard earned knowledge that you carry with you every day. We will look at the fundamental skills assistants will require in the next five years. Interested in Assist 2017?

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

Success

Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. If you want the best of everything in life, the skill of eliminating what you don’t want is critical. This article originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine. What’s the Attention Economy? It’s the world we live in.

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The Growing Army of Freelancers Providing Services to Businesses

Small Business Labs

provide their skills to business clients.   The common denominators among these roles are that the work is knowledge-based and that the skills they represent are often difficult to source through traditional labor markets. MBO Partners recently released its 2020 Client of Choice study results, which found that 7.6

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10 Things Effective Leaders Do to Encourage Innovation

Success

Test to learn. But here’s the difference: They assess ideas based on testing to learn and testing to succeed, versus testing to fail or testing to try. And they teach futuristic thinking skills to their teams. In fact, what is emphasized is a maximum return on learning, regardless of the outcomes. Cross-pollinate.

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