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The Pandemic Sabotaged Our Decision-Making Abilities—Here’s How to Start Regaining That Self-Confidence

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Whether it’s an anniversary vacation, a birthday trip, an annual convention or a trip home for the holidays that’s been continuously wiped off our calendars, we’ve all experienced having our decision-making power effectively paused. What will we do instead? Will THAT be safe?! Are these objective facts or subjective feelings ?

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These Are the 45 Most Important Minutes of Your Day

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Show me where I could have been more assertive today. Another powerful tool to keep yourself focused on the positive and your eye on the prize is through journaling If you do this exercise every day for a month, you’ll increase your self-confidence as well as improve your performance in all areas of your life. Creating Your Ideal Day.

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Things Assistants Do That Executives Appreciate

Office Dynamics

More confidence when addressing conflict in a way that leverages relationships. Increased confidence: more vocal, more influential and exudes a stronger presence with those she works with. My assistant looks at my calendar weeks away and helps me think about the time needed to complete projects or get ready for presentations.

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How to succeed as an assistant

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You can then use your initiative to appreciate what your manager’s typical week involves to enable you to deal with emails and phone calls and plan engagements into their calendar, without having to always consult your boss. Tip 2: Personal Effectiveness and Assertiveness. One top tip is to not be afraid to say “no”.

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Qualities Of A Great Assistant

Office Dynamics

Excellent calendaring skills. Interpersonal communication skills. Detail oriented. Positive, can-do attitude. Ability to prioritize. Accountable. Trustworthy. Ability to remain calm under pressure. Customer-service focused. Excellent time management skills. Good listener. Professional presence. Keeps delicate information private.

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Have you got game?

Loosely Speaking

If you’re a female executive, add that other balancing act, appropriate assertiveness versus perceived bitchiness, and you may find your carefully honed professionalism isn’t cutting it. And even athletes can succeed with a little temperance in the swagger and a liberal dose of humility and sweetness.

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SMART objectives

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Develop the 2014 content marketing strategy in line with business activities and the 2014 events calendar. To complete a training course on assertiveness so that I can learn to push back on administrative work from my departmental colleagues and focus on project work for the department Director coming up in Q3. To be completed by Q3.

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