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From Executive Assistant to CEO

ProAssisting Blog

She has held many different positions throughout her 30 years working for the company but what is particularly interesting to us here at ProAssisting is how Ursula was mentored in the executive assistant position by her two different bosses. Finding the right boss who took the time—when there was time—to mentor her was key to Ms.

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How To Find Your Mentor

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Whatever stage you are in your career, you need a mentor. A mentor brings out the best in you. You might be the king of experts in your company but you still need a mentor. You might be the king of experts in your company but you still need a mentor. How do you find your mentor?

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8 Reasons Why You Should Work for a Tough Boss

ProAssisting Blog

Once you become trusted, these bosses can turn into mentors who will teach you what they know which then opens up career options for you down the road. If they didn’t, the company would have gotten rid of them a while ago because they are tough and demanding without the performance to back it up.

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How to be an Effective Mentor

Ian's Messy Desk

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to be an Effective Mentor Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on August 2, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Mentoring can be one of the most effective means of teaching: inviting someone to learn from the example of another with more experience. Thanks for visiting!

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3 principles to building — and keeping — a great relationship with a mentor

Ideas.Ted

I’ve had more mentors than anyone I know. Without a father in my life, I grew up hungry for advice — which gave me a reason to make my relationships with mentors more personal and more meaningful than the average mentor-mentee relationship. Mentors tend to be older than you and work with other older-than-you people.

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Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor

The Small Business Blog

Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. Top 5 Tips for Working With a Mentor by Stefan Töpfer on Jan 25, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Make sure that the mentor is aware of what you want from them e.g. cashflow advice.

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Mentoring a Young Executive - Jodith Allen

Office Dynamics

© Copyright Administrative Arts 2010. As Administrative and Executive Assistants, it is our role to help gently, and sometimes not so gently, educate our executives on our role and how we can best provide support. As I said before, it’s a difficult job, but probably one of the most rewarding ones in our career.

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