What great admins do well
Bonnie Low-Kramen, author of Be the Ultimate Assistant, explains six things that make assistants good at their jobs and irreplaceable to their employers.
Category: Personal Development
Stop rumination from ruining your day
Focusing on bad feelings and experiences from the past can be a barrier to your present and future success. So, how do you stop it?
Overconnected and need a disconnect?
You’re not alone if you find yourself needing to “digitally detox” and come up with creative ways to ban digital devices from parts of your life. Caroline Tell, The New York Times, came up with a few ways to do it.
Feel underappreciated? You’re not alone
Feeling underappreciated can introduce bitterness into your work relationships, which will negatively affect your work. The lack of acknowledgment for your contribution can lead to bad feelings and an unwillingness to compromise when it comes to making decisions with a partner or co-workers, write Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer of Banyan Family Business Advisors.
Do you have the right soft skills?
In today’s marketplace, soft skills—intangible personality traits and qualities such as organization, flexibility and confidence—separate an exceptional employee from an average one.
4 techniques to build your people skills
Top admins exhibit bridge-building communication skills by emphasizing shared interests and minimizing resistance. Try these techniques to communicate better with colleagues.
1-Minute Strategies: August ’14
Manage a micromanaging boss with a careful conversation … Stop stress with a bit of laughter … Make socks your ultimate work accessory.
Have you paid it forward?
Remember the first day of your very first job? It might be hard to remember now that you are established in your career and feel competent, secure and confident.
How to boost morale among your peers
Some jobs are emotionally draining and can create morale problems for the people who do them. If management can’t or won’t help address these problems, is there anything colleagues can do to help boost morale for one another?
A look at wellness programs
There are many reasons why employers offer workplace wellness programs, including to combat obesity and the rapidly increasing costs of medical care and health insurance, writes Napala Pratini.