Thu.May 28, 2015

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A PA’s guide to confidentiality

Practically Perfect PA

As a PA or EA, your ability to handle confidential subjects, issues, emails and documents is essential. And increasingly, PAs are asked in job interviews how they approach the issue of confidentiality. This guide offers insider knowledge that will help you to handle all things confidential with confidence. Confidential emails and digital files. The issue of confidentiality is especially pertinent when it comes to handling emails and electronic documents.

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The Motivations and Challenges of Diverse Small Business Owners

Small Business Labs

Gallup's Diverse Small Business Owners Share Their Experiences covers a series of surveys of different segments of small business owners. The surveys asked about the motivations and challenges among Asian, African-American, Hispanic, Women, LGBT and Veteran small business owners. Their key finding is small business owners have pretty much the same motivations and challenges regardless of their ethnic, racial and social backgrounds.

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How to Best Work With International Colleagues

On The Job

When Erin Meyer visited Tokyo with a Japanese colleague shortly after her book, “The Culture Map” was published, she agreed to speak to about 20 Japanese managers. After her presentation, she asked if there were any questions or comments. “No hands went up, so I went to sit down,” she recalls. But then her Japanese colleague whispered to her that he believed there were some comments.

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Buying Options: Try Before You Buy

Small Business CEO

Running a small business involves more than just selling products or services at a profit – effective investment in new equipment can make a significant difference to your monthly bottom line. With that in mind, it’s usually a great idea to consider various options before you buy to make sure you’re getting the best possible value, and that the equipment you’re considering is right for you.

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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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Why Today Predicts Your Future

Productivityist

All Jay Jay French ever wanted was to make it in a hard rock band. French formed band after band in an attempt to get signed because he believed that was the golden ticket to music success. The only trouble was to get signed, you had to be seen by the right people on the right night. French reasoned that playing more meant more opportunities for someone to find him, so he performed as much as possible.