Category: Real Careers
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Weekend Poll: Do You Believe Automation Will Impact Your Career?
If you’re like me, you may have read yet another article last week about artificial intelligence and the likelihood of robotics and other tech advancements adversely impacting numerous jobs in years…
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Preferred Airlines
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: What Airlines Have Impressed You and Your Executives for Domestic and International Travel? While it’s incredibly easy to…
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Weekend Poll: Your Preferred Airlines
Air travel can be a treat or a chore. Independent of whether you’re flying economy, business or first class, airline employees – both on the ground and in the air – have…
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Weekend Poll Results: Perks of the Job
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: What kind of perks are available to you through your workplace? Read on to see the different types…
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Weekend Poll: Perks of the Job
Do you have access to Lower Body Blasts in your workplace? Before we go too far, you should know that’s just one of the fitness classes offered alongside pilates, yoga, Zumba classes,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Succession Planning for Assistants
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: Succession Planning: What if You Left Your Role? No one is irreplaceable, but has your management team thought…
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Weekend Poll Results to Follow Tuesday: Succession Planning for Your Role
Hello, all. Am just back in Vancouver from a month of travel, and so am delaying publication of my latest Weekend Poll results to Tuesday, March 1/16. Here’s hoping your…
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Weekend Poll: Succession Planning for Your Role
The question used to be framed as, “What if the CEO (other executive) was hit by a bus? Who do we have that could step in on an interim, emergency basis,…
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Melanie: Insights from Cheshire
Today we’re making our way to Cheshire, England. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and continents? Exceptional EA showcases Real Careers, in which administrators from…
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Weekend Poll Results: How Readers Are Doing With Minutes
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: Minutes: How Do They Consume Your Working Hours? Read on to see what your peers had to say,…
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Weekend Poll: Minutes – Bane of Your Existence, or A Piece of Cake?
In my Real Careers interview this week with Wales’ Catherine Thomas, she raised the point that many of us struggle with minutes. Thomas rightly pointed out that, if you don’t know…
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Catherine: Insights from Wales
This week, we’ve made our way back to Wales to visit with Catherine Thomas. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and continents? Exceptional EA showcases Real Careers,…
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Weekend Poll Results: How Management Changes Impact Your Job
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll. This weekend’s question: Have changes in management ever affected your job security? Unsurprisingly, given that many readers fill senior EA, MA…
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Chantalle: Insights from Wasaga Beach, Canada
Today we’re making our way back to Wasaga Beach in Ontario, Canada to visit with Chantalle Freeborough. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and…
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Weekend Poll: Changes at the Top
Thinking back to one of my most strategic and significant careers moves, I realise that my good fortune accompanied the reversal of fortunes for the then-Executive Secretary to the outgoing CEO.…
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Carla: Insights from Milan, Italy
Today we’re making our way back to Milan, Italy to visit with Carla Stefanut. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and continents? Exceptional EA …
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Rosy: Insights from Exeter, Devon
Today we’re making our way back to southern California, to visit with Jessica Davis. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and continents? Exceptional EA showcases…
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Jessica: Insights from Ventura County, California
Today we’re making our way back to southern California, to visit with Jessica Davis. Do you ever wonder how your career compares with those of admin. professionals from other countries and continents? Exceptional EA showcases…