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Workplace Roles: Knowing When to Manage vs. When to Lead

Success

More concretely, the managing role involves directing and controlling groups of people to reach clear, specific goals. In comparison to leadership, management involves accomplishing the broad goals set by leaders. Leadership means inspiring people to do their best and accomplish goals that seem out of reach.

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

As the assistant wanting to get approval, you would fill in the Goal/Learning Objectives column and then present that to your executive and show the benefits of each. It goes back to what I said about your career goals and aspirations. Is that in line with your goals and the other things I discussed you consider in the webinar.

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Don't Underestimate The Importance Of Time Management

The Small Business Blog

Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. 6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." If you have a clear goal in mind for every day, or even each hour, then do all you can to achieve those goals.

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Travel Planning for Others – Putting Yourself in Your Traveler’s Shoes

Practically Perfect PA

TRAVO ’s goal is to boil down your arsenal of travel tools, ranging from sticky notes to Excel spreadsheets, to one single booking and planning platform. Our inspiration and drive for this goal has stemmed directly from conversations from admins just like yourself! This blog post is sponsored by Travo.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

My goal now is to "connect" with one or two people and not "collect" from everyone! Get Rid Of Those Cards ASAP. I send business cards to my virtual assistant or a service like eclick2business.com so that they can be entered into a system ASAP. Thanks to Brian Basilico of B2b Interactive Marketing, Inc.

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How Do I Cope With Conflicting Priorities?

Office Dynamics

Ask for specific deadlines – not simply “ASAP.”. Run each new item through your goals grid. Does it take you toward or away from your goals? Your goal is to work on the “A” priorities before going to “B” or “C” priorities. (These are the ones that would have a major negative impact if you did not get them done.).

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I'm Not Pavlov's Dog: Four Standards of Mobile Tech/Life Integration

Virtual Moxie

My goal: use tools to get my work done faster, so that I have more time to live. If not, I attend to the message (if there is one) literally ASAP. If that pushes us over on the side of more work and less life, I have one thing to say about it. It would never occur to me to fill the space I create by being productive with more work.