Tue.Apr 18, 2017

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Strategies for Advancing Your Career in Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

Designed by Freepik. As a career-minded assistant, it’s easy to get to a place where you wonder, “Where do I go from here?”. Advancing as an assistant can take many different forms. For some, it involves climbing to the next level, becoming a “senior” support staff member or an administrative manager. For others, it means moving into a support position for a higher-level executive, assisting a CEO or CFO for example.

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Don't Become a Freelancer Before Talking to Someone Who Failed at It

Small Business Labs

Last week  we pointed out  that: "Almost every study done on the gig economy has found most gig workers choose to be gig workers, are satisfied being gig workers and plan to continue with gig work." This can make it is seem like almost everyone who works in the gig economy thrives. Unfortunately, this isn't true. Most gig economy studies, including ours, tend to overstate gig worker satisfaction levels.

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Take Extra Words Out of Your Writing and Add Clarity

Office Dynamics

To Whack Wordiness, Delete Wobbly Words. This is part of a series by editor Barbara McNichol to provide tips for writing like a pro. To take extra words out of your writing and add clarity, the easiest approach is to attack wobbly words. What do I mean by wobbly words? Well, they’re words that are vague, indefinite, and don’t add much to the meaning of a sentence.

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Growing a Business from Nothing: 5 Practical Tips

Small Business CEO

In today’s digital age, there are more opportunities than ever for budding entrepreneurs looking to set up and grow a business from nothing. The Internet makes the world a smaller place and opens global markets to everyone, and barriers to entry and startup costs for web-based companies are lower than ever. However, this has encouraged a fiercer competitive market across all industries, where only the strongest can survive.

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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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Katie Burke: A Winning Workplace Culture Starts with Time, Love, and Attention

Energage

How HubSpot Earned the Top Workplaces Award Seven Years Straight. HubSpot is on a mission to “make marketing people love,” and clearly, they’re well on the way. The 10-year-old Massachusetts-based company, virtually synonymous with inbound marketing, has more than 20,000 customers in 90 countries along with some 3,100 agency partners. And, HubSpot says, “We aren’t just helping companies globally grow, we’re helping more than one thousand employees grow personally and professionally.”

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Detrimental Desk Design: How the Office Environment is Affecting the Human Body

Small Business CEO

Are you someone that works in an office job? Chances are you do, or you have at some point. While it’s been found through various studies that working in an office makes you miserable and unproductive , there’s also evidence to suggest that working in an office may be bad for your health. It’s not all doom and gloom, of course, and with the right kind of input from you it’s possible to transform your working experience into a healthy and efficient one.