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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

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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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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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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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Remote Work Clause Not Included In Canada’s Collective Agreement

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What’s going on: The largest labor strike in Canada’s history concluded with the government and The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reaching an agreement regarding federal workers’ wages Sunday night. The two parties agreed on compounded wage increases of 12.6 percent over four years, “settling a dispute involving 120,000 federal workers”, according to the National Post.