February, 2011

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What is Your Done List Telling You? A different take on the to-do.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort | Main What is Your Done List Telling You? A different take on the to-do list. Have you ever considered looking at your "Done List"?  Did you even know you had one?  You do!

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Is It a Curse -- or Blessing -- To be a Remote Worker?

On The Job

Most of the people I know who are remote workers say just like any work situation, there's both good and bad aspects. They love being able to dress more casually, of course, and appreciate that it often gives them a chance to see their kids more. But the downside for many is that they often feel left out of the loop and find it difficult to communicate effectively with the boss.

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Keeping a Journal

Ian's Messy Desk

10 Reasons to Keep a Journal. Keeping a journal gives outlet to your feelings in a way nothing else can. It is a place to record your deepest thoughts without fear of judgment. Journals allow you to be who you are; to examine your emotions in your way and time. Journal writing has many purposes. You may want to keep one as a historical document for future generations; as a prewriting activity for longer works you plan to publish; as a private means of expressing emotions and ideas; or much more.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Exporting

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Extensive research is essential before you even start considering exporting. Your product is likely to be subject to a wide range of tax duties varying by each individual country. 2. Make sure that you are aware of any modifications that you will need to make to your product so it is still legal to sell abroad. 3.

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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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5 Tips for Planning a Career Change

Eat Your Career

Today’s career experts agree that most people experience a change of career 3 to 7 times throughout their working life. This means a complete transformation—new job, new industry, new employer. It’s a big deal. These are the kinds of changes that cause massive amounts of stress, anxiety and worry. Sure, they can be exciting at the same time. But overall, a change of career is nothing to sneeze at.

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6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Link Lineup! Time Management Month and More | Main | What is Your Done List Telling You? A different take on the to-do list. » 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort We are really close to wrapping up time management month!  February will be over in just a few days.  Time is a very precious commodity!

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Best of both: Baseball & Knitting!

Loosely Speaking

Finally, baseball begins tomorrow for the Angels, and I’ll be there rain or shine. After a delightful winter spent doing repair projects and painting with hubby at a property we have listed for sale, I’ve mostly worn the same paint-encrusted duds five days a week. I look forward to scrubbing the primer off my hands and fingernails, changing clothes and getting out of town for a couple of days.

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Why a Lot of Small Business Don't Need to Use Twitter

Small Business Labs

eMarketer reports that 9% of the adult (18+) US Internet population currently uses Twitter at least once a month.  Their new forecast substantially lowers the Twitter use forecast they made last April.  Key quote from their press release: “Twitter has continued to gain traction but at more moderate levels than we had expected,” Verna said.

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WinWeb Pitch of the Week – Wild Lotus Patisserie

The Small Business Blog

Congratulations to Chelsea Singh of Wild Lotus Patisserie. Wild Lotus Patisserie specialises in vegan cakes and speciality baked goods. Like many Pitch of the Week winners, Chelsea’s business came from a personal experience leading to a business idea. Chelsea told us how she was unable to find a vegan cake for her own wedding; meaning that neither her nor her husband could eat any!

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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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Set Boundaries to Stay Sane

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. As a VA, you have the fortunate circumstance of being able to work from home, and work with clients from all over the world via e-mail and phone. At the same time, as an upstart business owner, you also rely on new and longstanding clients for income. Sometimes it can seem like you started your own business only to discover that you have multiple bosses!

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10 Tools to Help You Track Your Money

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest-Post. Productivity does not start and end at the office. I’ve said in the past that finance is an area that you have to be productive as well. In fact you have to be productive at all fronts. You are presented in this post some useful money tools that you can use to your advantage.

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Link Lineup! Time Management Month and More - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Mon Motivation - Do You Believe What You Are Told, or What You Know to be True? | Main | 6 Tips to Save You Time and Wasted Effort » Link Lineup! Time Management Month and More February is Time Management Month, so today I'll share some great articles to help you make the most of the time you have.  Every other Wednesday, I share links to a number of different blogs

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Get the insider secrets on hosting successful teleclasses

Office Organization Success

Teleclasses are hands-down one of the most effective ways to grow your online community and solidify your relationship with your clients and customers. They are also very easy to set up and host, but can just as easily feel daunting and overwhelming … after all you don’t know if anyone is even going to show up, and if they do show up, are they even listening!

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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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Corporate Sites and the Explosion of Small Business Media

Small Business Labs

One of the more interesting trends we've been following over the last few years is the rapid growth of small business media coverage.  The main reason for the jump in coverage is the growing popularity of small business, which is leading to a growing audience for small business content.  The Internet and new media are, of course, another reason for the increased coverage.  New media has created the opportunity for entrepreneurs to create new on

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Planning for Small Business Success

The Small Business Blog

Embarking on a new business venture or project can often be a difficult and stressful period for a business owner. This can often be made even worse due to a lack of sufficient planning to guide them through the turbulence. In my many years in business I’ve learnt than nothing is more important than planning for success (and failure, see this post here ).

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Lotus Notes Quick Tip

Ian's Messy Desk

Copy document view as a table. If you want to provide an overview of a group of documents you’re working on, you can use the following tip to create a table from a view of those documents. Related articles. 10 Lotus Notes E-mail Tips (ismckenzie.com). IBM LotusLive Symphony: Google Needs To Watch Out (cloudave.com).

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Let Me Introduce…My Business. With an Intro Packet

Tips From T. Marie

Many times we spend so much time and energy on finding clients that we fail to see other equally as important aspects of marketing our small businesses. One of those aspects is the way we introduce ourselves and our businesses. As a small business owner, you need to separate yourself from all of the other small businesses out there vying for your clients.

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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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10 Critical Elements Of A Team That Rocks

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. - A Proverb Quote. You might be a cubicle dweller and you might be the only occupant in that 5×5 cube. It’s not good to be a lone wolf in a cubicle farm. The good news is you’re not alone.

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Bring Your "A" Game to Work

Office Dynamics

I was recently talking on the telephone with one of our graphic designers who is working on a downloadable brochure for the Office Dynamics 18th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. (September 27 - 30). I was sharing with her our exciting, dynamic theme for this year. We were talking about how business seems to be picking up for large and small organizations everywhere.

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Following the Revolution in the Muslim World

Small Business Labs

Like most small business owners, we don't have a lot of time to devote to keeping up with the events in the Middle East.  Because of this we've turned to Stratfor - a leading geopolitical risk firm - for this information.  Their most recent article - Revolution and Muslim World - does a nice job of framing what is going on in that part of the world.  Stratfor has both free and paid content.  Their primary target market is geopolitical risk professionals.  We

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Rather Listen? Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « 19 Tips for Managing Your Email Even When You Dont Want To | Main | Mon Motivation - Do You Believe What You Are Told, or What You Know to be True? » Rather Listen? Productive & Organized Goes Audio in 3 Different Ways   As you know, this past November I started sharing my tips, tricks and strategy in audio format as well as in writing.  That process has evolved in

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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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10 Lotus Notes E-mail Tips

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. These tips work with Lotus Notes 8.5. Earlier versions of Notes may different configuration options. 1. Add a name to your address book from incoming e-mail. From the e-mail message: Select or open the e-mail message. Click More and select Add Sender to Contacts. A dialogue box will open with the basic name and e-mail address information filled in.

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The Middle

On The Job

One of the most uncomfortable situations at work is when two co-workers don't get along -- and you somehow get caught in the middle. Perhaps each person comes to you at different times to try and get you on his or her side. Heather might say, "Can you believe what Brad said in the meeting? What did you think about that ridiculous idea he had about moving the project deadline?

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Who's the Leader?

Laughing all the Way to Work

When dealing with meetings a good question to ask yourself is what is your role in it? Are you the leader or are you just providing your boss's availability? If you are organizing the meeting, then you are responsible to send the initial email out requesting the participants to attend. You will need to give them as much information as possible so they can make an informed decision about attending.

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Bring Your "A" Game to Work

Office Dynamics

I was recently talking on the telephone with one of our graphic designers who is working on a downloadable brochure for the Office Dynamics 18th Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. (September 27 - 30). I was sharing with her our exciting, dynamic theme for this year. We were talking about how business seems to be picking up for large and small organizations everywhere.

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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