Sat.Jan 14, 2012 - Fri.Jan 20, 2012

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Sometimes Taking Action is Not the Right Choice

Stephanie LH Calahan

Sometimes taking action is not the right choice.  I have been thinking about that statement for a while now.  Then, tonight it came up again as I was interviewing Des Gray on Mindset.   OK, so maybe it is time that I write about it again. It seems funny for me to say it because I'm continually telling people they need to get into action and out of perfectionism and procrastination.  Just do something!

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Casual Friday Has Gone Too Far

On The Job

Last Friday I took a couple of hours off to run some personal errands. I wish I had stayed home, because my retinas are forever emblazoned with the visions I saw in "casual Friday" workplaces as I went to take care of my business. Casual Fridays were instituted as a sort of morale booster years ago, a way to let employees ditch the tie and pantyhose and wear something a little more casual.

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Why Emotional Decisions Aren’t Always Bad

Eat Your Career

Okay, listen up guys. I don’t say this often but here goes…. I was wrong. Well, maybe not completely wrong. But a little wrong. You see, I’ve written a lot in the past about why letting emotions guide you in the decision-making process is a dangerous thing. I, like the rest of the world, have been trained to believe that emotional decisions almost always lead to disaster.

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Crowdfunding – could it work for your business?

The Small Business Blog

Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular method for small businesses and social ventures to raise much needed funds. The map below gives you some idea of the scale of growth in Crowdfunding over recent years.

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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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High Productivity from Modern Workplace Design

Stephanie LH Calahan

There was a time that "open office design" was a new term, but it was a way of organizing your facilities that was reserved for large corporations. I remember, back when I worked in corporate the move we made from traditional offices to "open space."  I have to admit, I was really resistant!  However, over time, I came to realize how valuable that open space was for my team.

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The Very Near Future of Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

This is what we have been talking about and we find it very exciting that this is the forecasted direction of the assistant. Please read on and tell us what you think! This is an excerpt from a recent newsletter we received from Leni Miller, Found er & President, E A Search. The new year has arrived and with it, a significant increase in search activity for top executive and personal support professionals.

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Online Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

The Small Business Blog

Every small business wants to emulate the success of the FTSE 100 companies‘ online marketing strategies. But as many SMEs have significantly smaller budgets they believe that these strategies are simply too expensive for them.

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Why You Need to Grab for Training Opportunities at Work

On The Job

You may be so busy at work that you're lucky to hit the bathroom once a day and find time to grab a sandwich to eat at your desk. When your boss offers you more training, your immediate response may be to decline. More training? Who has the time? But in this story I did for Gannett/USAToday, you'll see that it's to your advantage never to turn down a chance to learn something new.

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It’s Mid-January – Do You Know Where Your Resolutions Are?

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Hard to believe we’re two weeks into the New Year. How are you keeping up with your business resolutions? For some of us, the resolutions we made a very short time ago are already just a memory, having been “hijacked” by other pressing matters. Others of us are struggling to make good on our intentions, but may have over reached by expecting too much of ourselves too quickly (i.e.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Moxie Tip 104: Filling Service Gaps

Virtual Moxie

The gap left where a client needs something that you don't do is a service gap. Having a database of valued resources who can fill those gaps allows you to be a one-stop shop for all your clients' needs. Be sure to have more than one vendor for each gap.you never know when someone might be unavailable, or where a client/vendor fit isn't just right and you need to offer another option.

Training 144
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3 real ways to help you stand out and build better relations with your customers

The Small Business Blog

Readers of this blog and my own across at www.adrianswinscoe.com know that I write about building better and more valuable relations with your customers and your people as a way of growing your business.

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SOPA: It only went as far as we let it!

Eco-Office Gals

We made noise and they listened! “On January 18th, 13 million of us took the time to tell Congress to protect free speech rights on the internet. Hundreds of millions, maybe a billion, people all around the world saw what we did on Wednesday.” This was unprecedented. Your activism may have changed the way people fight for the public interest and basic rights forever.

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Outsourcing Blog: The Good and The Bad

Productivity Bits

T he past year 2011 has been good to me in general. There are a lot of good things to remember from last year. I experimented with few things on this blog – I outsourced the blog to guest writers. With that, the blog’s Alexa Ranking and number of RSS subscribers have increased dramatically. But I am not happy with that improvement. Here’s why: 1.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Moxie Tip 121: Who do You Spend Time With?

Virtual Moxie

What you focus on increases. If you want a more prosperous business, spend time with people who don't let the economy--good or stagnant--stand in their way.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Logo Design

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. The most memorable business logos are often just icons. 2. Text on a logo is not always necessary if you can come up with a strong enough visual concept. 3.

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Corporate Meeting

Professional Assistant Blog

Image by Engin Erdogan. T his is a guest post from Maureen Santoro from Atlas Meetings + Incentives. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an emerging segment of corporate meetings that is likely here to stay. There is a good deal of debate among corporate managers over whether companies should engage in CSR. Although altruistic as well as a good PR move, there is a cost associated with performing a CSR volunteer activity both in terms of money and risk management.

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More Global Mobile Phone Subscribers Than People by 2015

Small Business Labs

I was reading GigaOm Pro's Global Mobile Subscriber Forecast and noticed that by 2015 the world will have quite a few more global mobile phone subscriptions than people.  As the chart below shows, GigaOm is projecting that there will be a bit over 8 billion global mobile subscriptions in 2015.  The UN is currently projecting global population in 2015 to be about 7.3 billion.    Looking at the two sources, it looks like 2013 will be cross over year when global mobile s

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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I Was iPhished! How This Geek Got Hacked!

Tips From T. Marie

I pride myself on internet security. I can spot a phishing e-mail in a flash, know how to build and use strong passwords and have security on my network that makes my ISP techs proud. So how in the heck did I manage to have $284.22 stolen from my PayPal account? That’s what I asked myself at 7:00 am this morning when I received an e-mail from PayPal telling me my account had been limited due to some suscpicious charges.

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Benefits of Storage for Small Business

The Small Business Blog

Not long ago it was significantly more costly to set up a small business. Advances in resources for working from home, such as high speed broadband among others have played a huge part in the changes.

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Moxie Tip 103: Building Client-based Resources

Virtual Moxie

Build resources you can share with your clients, allowing them to choose their own vendors and paying them directly. This reduces your liability while still allowing you to make things easier for the client--both very good things!

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Gmail: Use Mail Merge to Save Time!

Office Organization Success

Just this week I discovered a really neat tool for helping me to create mail merges using my Gmail account. It was something I used to do all the time when I used Outlook, but could never quite figure out how to do this with Gmail. And now that I have, it’s a huge timesaver! Here’s the link to the step-by-step instructions. Enjoy!

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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8 Characteristics of a Good Team Leader

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. Effective teamwork is one of the most important aspects in the corporate world. Team members should be completely comfortable while working with each others in order to give their best professional touch to whatever they do. A team is normally comprised of a number of team members and a team leader. While the onus for success lies on the shoulders of the entire team, the team leader plays a critical role in achieving success.

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Coworking 2.0

Small Business Labs

Jessica Stillman's Get Ready for Coworking 2.0  in GigaOm covers an interview with me on the shifts we're seeing in the coworking space.  She uses the analogy of the waves of change in the feminist movement to help describe the evolution occurring in coworking. I have to admit I don't know much about Feminist Theory , but based on what little I know I think the analogy is accurate.  Coworking was founded as a social movement.  The core values of coworking - co

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Data management- failing to plan is preparing for failure

The Small Business Blog

In the 1980s, the idea of protecting your company against a data loss may simply have been a policy of “back that file up on a floppy disk”.

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SOPA What is it? Why should you care?

Eco-Office Gals

If you come to Eco-Office Gals on January 18th – we won’t be here, along with many others in an effort to Stop SOPA. Here is a video with the basics. (Click through to post if you are viewing this in your feed). So, what should you do? Come visit tomorrow, but all we will offer is a page where you can easily write congress, let your voice be heard!

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha