Wed.Mar 18, 2015

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

'The Importance of Daily Huddles. When I was an executive assistant, one of the best success strategies my favorite executive taught me, at a young age, was to have daily huddles with him. Now this came from an executive who traveled around the world, would work until 2:00 a.m., come in on Saturdays and had 10 Directors reporting to him. So, if that executive could make time for me, anyone can do this.

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Working with a boss who has never had an assistant before

Practically Perfect PA

'Working for a new Executive who has never had an assistant before can be a tricky situation to find yourself . You may have been an assistant for years and know the role inside out, but your new Executive doesn’t have a clue what you do and how to work with you. In this instance assistants really do have to take the lead. It can be time consuming and frustrating, particularly if you are also working with an number of other Executive’s or if you have been given this new Executive wit

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I Know It’s Boring But It’s Important

Office Organization Success

'How many of you track your business stats each week? I’m guessing not many! I know it’s not the most exciting thing to do, but it’s so critical to your business success. I actually do mine each Monday morning – I have it scheduled in my calendar, and it honestly doesn’t take that long to do. Having vital business statistics available at your fingertips is so important when it comes to managing your business, especially when it comes to product or program launches.

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Is average good?

The Small Business Blog

'When you talk to people about how their business is doing, they will often say something like: ‘OK – average, I guess.’ What does that even mean, I do not know and more to the point the people who said it don’t know either. I’m much more for the way Australians use the word ‘average’!… Read the full article here: Is average good?

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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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Wix, Squarespace, Muse & WordPress. Finding the Right Choice for Your Website.

Tips From T. Marie

'One of the most frequent questions I get from people in need of a website or a website makeover is: “Why WordPress, I’ve heard is so much better?”. You can fill the blank with Wix, Squarespace, Adobe Muse or any of the latest website builder tools that might be available and highly visible at the moment. Perhaps the best way for me to answer that question is to explain what some of the others are and compare them to what WordPress is.

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Start From The Edges

Productivityist

'When you begin to assemble a jigsaw puzzle, you are faced with a slew of pieces scattered randomly. The first thing you’ll want to find are the ones that have smooth edges – the edge pieces – because they will allow you to build the puzzle faster. Sure, there may be a few pieces you find during the process that don’t fit that description, but even if you manage to put two or three of them together, they don’t have anything to tether them to the puzzle as a whole.