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How Assistants can debunk stereotypes and create influence in the workplace

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How Assistants can debunk stereotypes and create influence in the workplace As Assistants, we've all faced the challenge of debunking stereotypes and ensuring that our colleagues and Executives understand the value we bring to our roles. Often, we may be seen as the traditional secretary, relegated [.

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How to Set Workplace Communication Boundaries

Success

Whether it’s in polite company or on a first date, traditional advice has been that you’ll get side-eyed (or shut out of a second date) if you broach politics, religion, money or anything about your ex. You would think the same would follow for the workplace. Given, however, that we use communication to connect with one another, you might feel yourself wanting to share your take on the issue of the day with a (supposedly) like-minded colleague.

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Repurposing Furniture: Realizing the Environmental, Economic, and Design Benefits

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Each year, Americans throw out 12 million tons of furniture, and a major culprit is the business sector. Wear-and tear is expected, but organizations should consider the cost of furniture restoration instead of investing thousands of dollars in new replacements. More than ever, workers want to be part of a progressive corporate culture that’s in keeping with their values and is also protecting the planet.

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Rewiring the Ancestral Parts of Your Brain with Dr. Rebecca Heiss

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Biologist Rebecca Heiss wasn’t always interested in stress management. It wasn’t until her sister-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer that Heiss reevaluated her life and realized that many of her choices were made out of fear. In one month, she quit her job, sold her house and divorced her husband. Since then, Heiss has leveraged the lessons she learned from that trying time in her life and turned them into Instinct, a book about helping people transform how they interact with stress.

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The Memory Edge: Outlearn, Outperform, Outlast

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

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New Data Suggests Demand For Coworking Spaces In India Have Doubled In The Past 4 Years

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What’s going on: New data released from the real estate services company ANAROCK reveals that demand for coworking spaces in India has nearly doubled within the past four years, according to Business Today. The net office space absorption for the January-March quarter – the amount of space leased minus the amount vacant – was a reported 8.2 million square feet.

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Jairek Robbins on the Importance of Building a Community

Success

“Hopefully there’s something useful being said here,” Jairek Robbins says, grinning widely, as we sit down to talk on a sunny afternoon in late January. It’s the kind of gleeful self-deprecation you only get from a guy who knows he’s got plenty of “useful” things to say. If anything, Robbins, the high-performance business coach, personal improvement coach, bestselling author and entrepreneur, who last year became the president of SUCCESS Enterprises, has too many good ideas to fit into just one

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