Category: Your Personal Brand
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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:…
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Would You Be Lost Without Makeup, or Just Fine?
… or would you be just fine without it? I will own that cosmetics were high on my shopping list when we arrived in Europe last summer. For, while we’d spent much…
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Scent Savvy for the Office
Are you scent savvy in your approach to preparing for work, or does your cologne or eau de parfum waft in and announce your arrival before you’ve stepped foot in…
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Going Grey: The Inadvertent Blonde
A few weeks ago, I wrote about making the transition from covering up my silvery grey to embracing it. Now six months in, the transition is well underway – even…
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Granny Grey in the Office
Pam is one of a number of women who sride through the office door each morning happily wearning their natural hair colour. She’s young and fit, and wears grey beautifully. Pam…
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Admin. Professionals’ Day Redux: Branding and Lending a Hand
Last week, I offered my conflicting thoughts on the merits of the occasions known as Admin. Professionals’ Week and Day. I raised the question of whether those of us in…
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Admin. Professionals’ Day: Moving Beyond Cards and Flowers
What are your thoughts on Administrative Professionals’ Week, and Administrative Professionals’ Day, which was celebrated yesterday? I find myself in the ambivalent camp on such celebrations, which run April 20…
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How Do Exceptional Assistants Become That Way?
Even the most accomplished assistants will tell you that it hasn’t always been smooth sailing Think, for just a few seconds, of two or three of the best assistants you…