Exceptional EA
This weekend, we’re looking at
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A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: overlooking the gardens of Versailles, France
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Elegant
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: the False Creek Ferries putting on a pre-fireworks show in Vancouver’s English Bay
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Questions
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a waterfall in Vancouver, Canada
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Trust
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Molly Bawn’s in Mobile, Newfoundland. Here, I boarded a boat and participated in a release of young puffins out on the waters.
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Time
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Audubon Park’s gorgeous Live Oaks in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Porteau Cove, BC, Canada
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Youth
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Porteau Cove, British Columbia
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A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: in the skies above Chilliwack, British Columbia
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Solveig Kristensen: Insights from Oslo, Norway
For this week’s Real Careers interview, we’re near Oslo, Norway to hear from Solveig Kristensen.
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August
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: colourful hydrangeas by West Vancouver’s Dundarave Beac
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A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Livingstone Lake, at Vancouver’s Van Dusen Botanical Garden
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Thanks
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: pretty flamingos in the winter sunshine
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Achievement
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: from our visit to Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Shelagh’s Podcasts
Listen to my podcasts any time, any place You say you like to listen to podcasts during your commute? Maybe you prefer to set aside a bit of time at your desk to play them on your PC/laptop … or…
Real Careers – My Interviews With Assistants Around the Globe
Do you ever look at your administrative role models and wonder how they pull it all together? Or how the lives of your counterparts in other cities and countries vary, and where there may be areas of common ground? Exceptional EA features Real…
Travel Resources and Inspiration
Are you planning a holiday or business travel, either for yourself or your executive? Looking for some inspiration, or insights into cities in other locales? Or perhaps you’re planning a bit of bleisure travel. If so, you or your principal are in good…
weekend poll
Weekend Poll: How Confident Are You?
This weekend, we’re looking at confidence and resilience in the context of your career. This is my second annual poll on the topic, so watch for year-over-year results next Tuesday.
Weekend Poll Results: Do Your Principals Assume You’re Happy?
Do you and your principal discuss your job satisfaction and career aspirations? Or are there assumptions that you’re jumping for joy? Read on for the results of my latest Weekend Poll.
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A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: overlooking the gardens of Versailles, France
Nora Onishi: Insights from Honolulu, Hawaii
For this week’s Real Careers interview, we’re in Honolulu, Hawaii, to hear from Nora Onishi.
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A thought for your day, with my good wishes … Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability – Sam Keen