Category: Self-Assessment
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Weekend Poll Results: Peak Productivity
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: At what point in your work day…
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Weekend Poll: When Are You Most Productive?
This week’s focus on time management strategies has highlighted the strategies skilled admin. professionals use on a regular basis. One of those strategies goes to self-awareness. Jacqui Quigley encouraged people to…
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Have You Reached A Career Plateau? How to Regain Control
Have you paused lately to assess where your career is going, and whether you’re making progress or reached a plateau? Think about it. Plateaus are generally flat expanses of terrain,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Packing for Conferences
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: Packing for Conferences: Do You Travel Light,…
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Weekend Poll Results: Your Q1 Progress With 2016 Goals
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: How are you progressing with your 2016…
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Weekend Poll Results: First Impressions – Trust or Respect?
Thanks to all who participated in my latest weekend poll, in which I asked: When you meet a new colleague for the first time, what has the greatest impact on…
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Weekend Poll: Will You Travel this Year?
The weekend is approaching, and I’m inviting you to join in Exceptional EA’s latest weekend poll. Perhaps it’s the fact that I’m writing you from Thailand, which I’m visiting for…
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Weekend Poll Results: The Significance of Your Professional Networks and Associations
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. Our focus this weekend: Do you belong to a professional association…
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Weekend Poll: Do You Belong to A Professional Association or Network?
The weekend is approaching, and I’m inviting you to join in Exceptional EA’s latest weekend poll. This weekend, we’re taking a look at the role professional networks and associations play…
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Weekend Poll Results: Checking in on Progress With 2016 Goals, Resolutions
With thanks to all who are participating, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. This poll’s focus: Have you established goals or resolutions for 2016? How…
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My January Challenge for You: Are You Ready to Take it On?
Welcome back to routine, everyone The holidays are over, the decorations are either put away or soon to be packed up for another 11 months, and we’re back at our…
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Pulling off that Work-Life Balancing Act
Great news! A high percentage of respondents are pulling off the balancing act … most of the time. Given Friday’s attacks in Paris, I’ve been of two minds in terms…
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Want to Become A More Valuable Employee?
You can do it by effectively speaking truth to power An astute executive values an assistant’s capacity to speak truth to power. S/he needs to have confidence that you have the…
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Public Speaking: Assistants Are Finding their Voice
With thanks to all who are participating in my Weekend Polls, here are last weekend’s results. The question: How comfortable are you with public speaking? The results: While roughly a third of…
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Increasingly, Assistants Are Conquering Public Speaking Rather Than Letting It Conquer Them
With thanks to all who are participating in my Weekend Polls, here are last weekend’s results. The question: How comfortable are you with public speaking? The results: While roughly a third of…
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Would you rather climb this mountain, or step up to the podium?
That’s right. Podiums where you feel the glare of the spotlight as you step up to the microphone. Earlier this week, I asked if public speaking is a piece of cake…
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What Would It Take to Get You to The Podium?
That’s right. Podiums where you feel the glare of the spotlight as you step up to the microphone. Earlier this week, I asked if public speaking is a piece of cake…
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Professional Associations and Blogs Play Major Roles in Your Professional Development
With thanks to all who are participating in my Weekend Polls, here are the results of this past weekend’s poll, which I’ve now closed. The focus of this past weekend’s poll:…