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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. Assertion is a skill that can be learned like any other.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

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These students can choose between courses that teach both core soft skills, such as “ communications ” or “community and culture,” and hard technical skills. Many crew members found work at grocery stores and restaurants. They yearned for more and they knew they had the skill set to accomplish more.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

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According to Guidant, the highest number of women-owned small businesses were in retail (18%), followed by “food and restaurant” at 12% and “health, beauty and fitness services” at 10%. The industries of women in business The industries these women settled into differed between the reports. of women-owned businesses. “We

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Open competition launched to find design team for new museum of architecture and design in Helsinki

Workplace Insight

The central mission of the new museum will be “democratising the tools of design”, drawing on the history and present of Finnish and Nordic architecture and design to guide a programme of public activities that will look at how design thinking and skills are relevant to the challenges we face as individuals and societies in a rapidly changing world.

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Leveraging AI to Unlock Human Potential | Angela Hood – CEO and founder of thisway global Inc.

Allwork

They don’t say, this is why we exist in the world and this is where we are passionately driven and you are going to help us achieve whatever it is by you using your powers that you have, your skills that you have. The extra bonus here is that more job security and 300% more in salary than they were making in a library science type job.

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A day in the life: Lorna Cowan, Visit Belfast

Practically Perfect PA

My favourite way to spend lunch time though is either a picnic lunch during the summer months in the grounds of Belfast City Hall or in the winter months I’ll have lunch in the Linen Hall library. Preparation and multi-tasking skills are key. What do you have for lunch? What is the hardest part of your day?

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Secretary in the city

Practically Perfect PA

I thought I would share the trip with you and show that our skills can be transferred across from business to our own personal lives… plus there are a few pretty pics! We really fancied a full on American dining experience for dinner so we picked a restaurant on the Upper East Side called Brother Jimmy’s BBQ. Raging Bull!