April, 2012

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Moxie Tip 148: It Is What It Is

Virtual Moxie

Eggs still cost whatever eggs cost (not what each person who wants eggs can pay). And your services should, too; a client’s inability to afford you doesn’t say anything about you.

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The Need For Speed

The Small Business Blog

Money is the lifeblood of any business, start-up or 100 years old. Considering implications for your cash-flow should be at the heart of every decision you make in your business.

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World Class Assistants Adapt Communications for Various Generations

Office Dynamics

World Class Assistant Part 1 Certificate Program. At the World Class Assistant Part 1 workshop last week in Las Vegas, 19 bright, energetic executive assistants discussed how they would alter their communications for each generation. Here’s some advice they offer. Veterans: Respectful. Patient. Ask them, don’t dictate; Emphasis on rules. Facts, not feelings (no magic).

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5-Step Checklist for Sending Out Email Broadcasts

Office Organization Success

Being consistent in your business is one of the critical factors for ensuring long-term growth, and one of the ways to ensure consistency is to create systems. Everything you do in your business, from responding to emails to working with clients, needs to be systemized and documented, so that it’s very easy to create a repeatable process in your business.

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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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Will Tablets Become Our Primary Computing Device?

Small Business Labs

Forrester just released a report called Tablets Will Rule the Future Personal Computing Landscape.  In it they forecast that tablets will become the primary computing device for most users  within the next four years.  From a forecasting standpoint that's a pretty bold statement - especially given the short time frame of only 4 years.   In terms of numbers, Forrester is saying 375 million tablets will be sold globally in 2016.  This is almost twice t

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"No" is Never About You!

Virtual Moxie

When there’s a wished-for client or a client you work with that you've put time and energy into, hearing that s/he's decided to go in a different direction is disappointing. Disappointment is a completely understandable response to the situation, too. ?. What’s not reasonable or smart is to think that a client saying no to working with you is saying something’s wrong with you.

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Tips to bring business success

The Small Business Blog

Running a business, given its share of rewards and risks, could be a very daunting challenge. It is commonly thought that running a successful business requires large amounts of capital, hundreds of employees, to name a few – this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case.

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Trust

Office Dynamics

Dear Monday Motivator, The following is a short excerpt from the book, Who Took My Pen. Again? on Trust. Being Trustworthy. Being trustworthy is about how you conduct yourself. It goes without saying that you should always default to being trustworthy from the get-go; exhibiting trustworthiness in how you handle. yourself. confidential information. corporate resources. your time. your tasks and assignments.

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The 501 Productivity: Bolting Out The Door At 5:01 PM

Productivity Bits

I recently came across the 501 etymology and I thought of borrowing the concept over to productivity; thus, The 501 Productivity. The phrase “ 5:01 developer ” was coined to describe a “developer who bolts out the door at 1 minute past 5pm.” We’ve worked with these people – when the clock strikes at the 5:00 PM mark, they’re gone for the day.

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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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Effective Minute Taking Webinar - May 15, 2012

Laughing all the Way to Work

On May 15, I will be giving another webinar on effective minute taking. Click here for more information. I find one of the biggest hurdles to overcome in minute taking is the fear of taking them. Once you understand your purpose for being there and get a good grasp on what you need to capture, your confidence will increase. I hope you can join me.

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Who’s Building Your Website?

Tips From T. Marie

With the popularity of WordPress new ‘website designers’ are coming out of the woodwork. It’s true, the WordPress CMS framework is ideal for business websites as well as easy to work with in comparison to flash and html websites. That doesn’t mean that just anyone can create a well designed, professional website that is uniquely fit to your business.

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How to Start and Keep a Journal

Ian's Messy Desk

I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t start keeping a journal until later in my life. I had regarded writing in a diary as being too self-absorbed. However, once I overcame the perception and got started, I quickly discovered the benefit and pleasure that came from keeping a journal. However, it’s not always easy to keep a journal. We tend to side-track the process with self-imposed limits.

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Top 5 Tips for the New Tax Year

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. If you found the tax deadline to be very stressful, it is likely that you are doing something wrong throughout the year.

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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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Do the Technology Tango

Office Dynamics

Whether you like it or not “embrace technology” has become a common mantra in the business world. For the purposes of this book ( Who Took My Pen … Again? ), we state unequivocally, forget about embracing technology; you’ve got to dance the technology tango! Anyone who has watched the hit television show, Dancing with the Stars , knows two things about a successful tango: you must exhibit great passion and stay in step with your partner.

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Forrester Thinks Wearable Computing is Taking Off

Small Business Labs

Forrester issued a report saying wearable computing is about to take off.   As we pointed out in a prior post on this topic , wearable computing is not a new trend.  For decades computing devices designed to be attached to the human body have been available.  Most of have been targeted at health and fitness.  Workout related heart rate monitors, for example, have been around since the 1980s.   Forrester believes that consumer interest in wearables for applications i

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Keep the Ball Rolling After an Event

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. You’ve just returned from a conference, and you’re excited, motivated and feeling great! The party’s not over just because you’re no longer wearing a name badge! Resist the urge to get “back to business” the minute you walk through the door – now is the best time to harness that positive energy and put what you’ve learned into action.

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Moxie Tip 159: Believe What You See

Virtual Moxie

Absolutely believe a person when s/he shows her/himself to you for the first time, and be rapidly guided accordingly. If you see red flags, “Oh, but.” never serves you. You can't change anyone, ever, and they won't change for or because of you. Trust what you see and experience.

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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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Does WordPress have a BUB?

Eco-Office Gals

Years ago a computer teacher told the class “You will not find a BUB on your keyboard!” Huh?? Blow Up Button – Ohhhhh! I’m not saying wordpress has a blow up button but if you don’t take simple measures – it might as well! WP hacks & crashes have become a concern the past week or more including sites like WooThemes and one of my own valued clients site and I’m sure that is far – far from the end of the list!

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Who can you trust to help you and your biz?

The Small Business Blog

Who can you trust to help you to survive and thrive? There is a better way of getting help than from Government and Big Company funded start up and micro business support programmes. That’s not to say we don’t want their help and a lot of these free offers of help are good and needed.

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Supporting Your Leader

Office Dynamics

You know the old adage that two brains are better than one? Well, think of this in terms of partnering with your leader. We can definitely do great things individually but when we join forces with our leader we can be extraordinary! This excerpt from Who Took My Pen…Again proves a great point: Support. Partner with Your Leader. Do you partner with your leader?

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Who's Buying All Those iPads?

Small Business Labs

In case you missed it, Apple reported yet another quarter of strong sales and earnings yesterday.  Last quarter they sold 35 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads.  Not bad. So who is buying all the iPads?  Well, Bank Technology News covers this in their article The Young and the Affluent:  A Sweet Spot for Tablets.  The article reports on Tablet research conducted by the syndicated research firm Javelin.   Javelin says tablet owners are younger and wealthier

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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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Tips for Setting Up a Remote Workforce

On The Job

Since technology can keep us connected to work 24/7, many companies are scrapping the idea of traditional office space and instead embracing the idea that work can happen remotely. Still, such arrangements can come with challenges: • How does a boss keep employees engaged when they're thousands of miles away? • How can a leader communicate key concepts effectively so that workers are on the same page?

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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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A Green Life is a Good Life

Eco-Office Gals

Do you strive for a green lifestyle? It can sometimes be a struggle to keep with the latest green trends as you live your busy life. However, you might be surprised to learn how changing small facets of your everyday life can add up to big changes for preserving the planet. Making Your House a Green House. Thinking about ways to save the planet can sure keep you up at night.

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Getting into bed with the celebs

The Small Business Blog

Not about frocks Keep up won’t you; I’m not asking you to actually sleep with the celebs. I don’t allow anyone to sleep with me. Simon Cowell’s unofficial biography mentioned Dannii Minogue but not me. Yet, coincidentally, I also have a chic shorter ‘do and a couple of designer frocks with an of-the-moment statement shoulder.

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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