Mon.Apr 23, 2012

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Collaboration

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you set achievable goals for your team to give them something to work together for. 2.

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What is Fit, and Why Does it Matter?

Virtual Moxie

. Jaime wrote to pick my brain : “Anastacia, yesterday's tip struck home for me. I don't want to struggle, or, as you said, "row against a strong tide." I'm not entirely clear about what that (fit) means. In what way(s) should there be “fit?” Do my clients and I have to be on the same page about everything?”. Great question! No one can ever be on the same page with another human about everything.

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Is Your Accountant A Bean Counting Historian?

The Small Business Blog

These days we hear much about business mentoring and business consultants and how important it all is to the survival of all SMEs/SMBs. I can’t help but wonder where it all went wrong? Business has always been surrounded by advisors, who could have helped, their accountants. Why this need for all this mentoring and consulting?

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Would You Reveal Your Shortcomings?

Office Dynamics

Welcome to the Who Took My Pen. Again? Annual Blog-a-thon for Administrative Professionals. If you are just tuning in, here's the scoop! We are holding 4th Annual Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession. We hold this blog-a-thon each April and the goal is to make assistants aware of the resources available to them and build a community of administrative assistant and executive assistants who want to learn and grow and flourish in their career of choice!

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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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Trip Advisors: managing holiday records

Practically Perfect PA

As I look out on another wet and windy day in London I’ve really started to think about when to take my next week off work. I think we all daydream about sitting on the beach with a good book in one hand and a cocktail in the other (well I do anyway!) Most employees take their annual leave , have a great time away, occasionally check their blackberry and think no more about work except on their return when they show their colleagues a few holiday snaps and say they had a good time… Well as

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How to Make Decisions about Decision-Making

BioTeams

It has been said that how a team decides how to decide is the most important decision it will make. I am pleased to feature a very interesting article by Jamie @ THOUGHT Stream which suggests practical tips for engaging your team, getting buy-in and how to use the Bioteams Action Zones and Rules to help.

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Book Review: The Welcomer Edge: Unlocking the Secrets to Repeat Business

Service Untitled

I recently finished reading The Welcomer Edge: Unlocking the Secrets to Repeat Business by Richard R. Shapiro who is the founder and President of The Center For Client Retention (TCFCR). Mr. Shapiro’s organization provides research, training, and consulting services to Fortune 500 corporations on how to improve customer service. The book begins with a lighthearted description of four distinct categories of customer service personnel any organization is likely to have on their payroll: We b

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Rise of Women News Roundup

Small Business Labs

Lots of news on the Rise of Women this week.   For those new to this trend, the quick summary is that a growing set of data indicates women are out performing men in a wide range of well-being, educational and employment measures.   Recent news includes: 1.   Gender Reversal on Career Aspirations from Pew Research got a lot of attention.   They found younger women are more ambitious than younger men (see chart to the right).