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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

Success

He flies to international boat shows and often takes clients to see yachts for sale all over the world. Last year, COVID-related international travel bans kept Neff mostly grounded. Trying to buy international tickets at the last minute is a fortune,” Neff says. This year, he’s preparing to start hitting the skies again.

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To boost productivity in the UK, we need to think big and different

Workplace Insight

The direct cost of avoidable error in the construction industry, for example, is around 5 percent of project value according to international studies highlighted by construction industry experts GIRI (Get It Right Initiative). In addition, operational managers are often faced with variations of international, national, and regional standards.

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Jonathan Price Financial Expert | What Happened to WeWork?

Allwork

Guest Episode Video Transcript Jonathan Price Financial Expert Jonathan Price is an experienced commentator and authority in the coworking sector, having advised on its financing and valuation for over two decades. What they don’t like is having only one supplier.

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Networking with ACE Connects

Practically Perfect PA

Back in November I had the pleasure of speaking to 50 assistants who were attending a networking event organised by ACE (Assistant Community EMEA), an internal networking group set up by assistants at BlackRock. Networking at external events will put you into contact with new suppliers, like-minded assistants and even potential customers.

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Which tasks should assistants manage?

Practically Perfect PA

Assistants should manage all aspects of their executives business travel including both domestic and international trips. Including researching new suppliers, maintaining contracts, communications and invoices. Executives should not organise their own business travel, no matter how easy or quick they think it is! Point of contact.

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Pandora's Office May Have Been Worse than Her Box

The Office Professionals Place

For example, files related to finances can be green (for obvious reasons, right?), Another suggestion is to color code the labels, same example, use green labels for finances. Check out office suppliers such as avery.com and smead.com for storage and filing options. I like to use the color coding system.

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10 minute power meeting technique. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

by Stefan Töpfer on Oct 31, 2007 When you have internal meetings try to keep them short. Remember this is a rule for internal meetings, for meetings with customers this rule does not apply – within reason of cause. Suppliers will probably thank you for short meetings, so they too can get more done.

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