November, 2014

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Hilton Doubletree, Dundee

Practically Perfect PA

'There really couldn’t be a more convenient hotel in which to stay in Dundee. The DoubleTree sits on the seam of the outskirts of the city on the main roundabout off the A90 that sends traffic into or above the city of Dundee. The Hotel is exceptionally convenient for Dundee’s Ninewells Medical Complex and the burgeoning technology park – the birthplace of “Grand Theft Auto”.

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When Your Schedule Goes Off Track, Do This

Office Organization Success

'This weekend I finally got back into one of my hobbies that I haven’t done for many years — cross-stitching! Before the boys came along I used to spend hours sat doing this craft; I loved it. And then life got busy … as it usually does when you have a young family to care for. But I’m thrilled I now have some time in my schedule to allow me to take up this hobby again.

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Black Friday WordPress Deals: Gifts Your Website Will Love!

Eco-Office Gals

'I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I have so much to be thankful for, including Eco-Office Gals. I could never ask for a better gift then the ability to be my own boss and work with some of the most amazing clients. I’ve had the pleasure of working with creative entrepreneurs and small businesses, building their little piece of web real estate.

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How? You Must Continue.

Virtual Moxie

'I love Maya Angelou. And today I thought I''d share something she wrote because I think the message is completely appropriate for this Thanksgiving week, for our 30 Days of Business Thanks event (still going on, if you’d like to join in for the last few days!), and for where many of you may be in your Virtual Assistance practices. No matter what you may be considering for your present or your future, remember that Ms.

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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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BLACK FRIDAY CAME EARLY! Get a front row seat in life. starting today!

Office Dynamics

'Do you ever feel like you’re living life with “obstructed view” seating? Would you like to take your career to the next level? I’d like to offer YOU a front row seat. and with our Conference on Demand, you can begin right away, from the comfort of your own home or office! Reserve your full access pass now to our 2014 Conference on Demand and you also get this breakthrough session with Personal Power Expert, Marilyn Sherman.

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Technology of the week – Pdfconverter.com

Practically Perfect PA

'What is pdfconverter.com. pdfconvert.com is a very simple website that converts various documents to PDFs and converts PDFs back to their original format. Although free, if you sign up for membership (which is also free) users can convert unlimited number of files, there are no delays between conversions, no queues and users can convert all pages of the document to PDF.

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Free Get Clients Now! Training

Office Organization Success

'If you’re looking to start 2015 with a practice full of clients then you’ll want to register for this free GET CLIENTS NOW! ™ training. One of things I’ll be sharing on this live webinar is: What works, and what doesn’t work, when it comes to marketing your professional services business. Click here to register now! To your online business success!

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How to Trim the Learning Curve for New Workers

On The Job

'It’s often been said that it can take a new employee from six months to a year to really become effective in an organization, but in today’s fast-paced environment that’s like saying it’s OK to still use dial-up. Organizations that hope to remain competitive must ensure that they’re not only hiring qualified workers, but that these new employees will be able to trim their learning curve so their input will be felt as soon as possible.

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Cute Fruit Storage

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-08-13 10:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter I guess I've got fruit on the brain. I came across this striking fruit holder on Declutter It ! My first thought was that it looks like a toilet seat. But now I think it looks kind of like a life preserver. It's certainly unusual and would be a definite conversation piece.

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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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Focus with Business Mentoring

The Small Business Blog

'Business Mentoring could be just what you need to get your business back on track and you passion back in your life. Remember your ideas and passion for your business when you started – what happened? I tell you what happened, the everyday jobs and drudgery of doing anything in this world, that’s what happened.… Read the full article here: Focus with Business Mentoring on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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The New Minorities

Small Business Labs

'Citylab's March of the Non-White Babies  covers the rapidly shifting (at least by demographic standards) racial composition of America. The key message is sometime between 2040 and 2050 America will be a minority - majority nation. This means Euro caucasians (the politically correct term for white people) will comprise less than 50% of the population of the U.S.

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Why I’m thankful for my assistant career

Practically Perfect PA

'As it is Thanksgiving today – I hope all of my American readers are having a lovely day with family and friends – I thought I would spend a little bit of time reflecting on my career and what I am thankful for. Here are my top five reasons why I am thankful for my assistant career. 1. Working with decision makers. Working with senior members of staff, or ‘the powers that be’, was always my favourite part of the role.

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How to Create the “VIP Experience” for Your Clients with a Welcome Packet

Office Organization Success

'Are you making it easy for clients to work with you? When you start working with a new one-on-one or high-end client you want to set the scene for your relationship together and make them feel that they really have made the right choice in deciding to work with you – even though YOU know that they have! Whether you’re a coach, VA, or other service professional when you work one-on-one with your high-end clients you need to develop the “VIP experience” so that your clients feel that they are mor

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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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How Worker’s Productivity Determines Incentives

Productivity Bits

'Workers productivity is both important to the firm and the employee himself. A workers productivity is determined by various aspects which influence the efficiency and quality of work. Companies are investing heavily on their workforce because they are well aware that without them, there would be no production. Workers are the company''s assets and failure to maintain a good relationship with them may lead to low productivity thus leading to a drop in profits.

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Ezines — There’s No Excuse Not To Do Them

Step It Up VA Coaching

'by Donna Toothaker. I was recently doing some research for a coaching client that took me to several virtual assistant websites. I was amazed at the number of sites I visited that did not include an ezine or newsletter for visitors to register to receive. At first I thought “Why on Earth are they not doing an ezine? It’s the simplest thing in the world to do!

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5 COMMON CLOUDWARE MYTHS DEBUNKED

The Small Business Blog

'WORRIED ABOUT USING CLOUDWARE? WE ADDRESS THE MOST COMMON CONCERNS FOR BUSINESSES Despite the benefits it offers to the business world, some people still don’t trust cloud technology. This article seeks to set their minds at ease! Business cloud services or applications simply known as Cloudware is revolutionising the way businesses utilise software across their… Read the full article here: 5 COMMON CLOUDWARE MYTHS DEBUNKED on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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Small Businesses Hiring More Independent Workers

Small Business Labs

'New Geography's 1099 Economy on the Rise features data from Zen Payrol l showing: "the ratio of independent contractors to full-time employees has meaningfully risen among small and medium-sized businesses in states and major metropolitan areas across the country." In other words, small and mid-sized businesses are using more independent workers and fewer traditional employees.   The article chart below shows this data for various cities (click on the chart to enlarge).

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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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Secret Santa presents

Practically Perfect PA

'For those of you that are not celebrating Thanksgiving today I thought I would move very swiftly into our next seasonal celebration – Christmas! Last year I wrote a blog which was full of secret santa present ideas for your office Christmas parties. I had some good feedback at the time so thought I’d re-publish the post for you all. Most of you will have your parties over the next few weeks so I hope you find my ideas useful… .

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Building a Business Around What’s Important

Office Organization Success

'We had a fabulous weekend celebrating my son’s 10th birthday—I can’t believe he’s 10 already; the time has flown by. I remember how grateful I was that I was self-employed when I was expecting him. I gave myself a 10-month maternity leave and all I did during that time was send out a regular newsletter. Then when he was nine months old, I slowly started easing back into business again by working just a few hours a week, and gradually building up from there.

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Being Truthful Can't Include Pretending

Virtual Moxie

'I’ve recently had folks have talk with me about situations they find themselves in with colleagues and/or clients that have them upset, concerned about something, feeling worried, or generally feeling half a bubble off. I ask the logical question: "Have you talked with the other person about this?" I shouldn''t ask—the answer is always the same, and a resounding "no.

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Get Engaged In Your Work and Life for Resilience

Office Dynamics

'Big Resilience Is Being Engaged In Work and Life. Don’t panic. Thanksgiving is just 10 days away! In addition to the holidays approaching we want to be sure you are aware we will not be publishing a Monday Motivators on November 24. Can I also use this moment to thank you so much for being a Monday Motivator follower? I hope that I have inspired you each week this year through my weekly e-note.

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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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How to Tell a Good App Idea From a Bad App Idea

The Small Business Blog

'Have an idea for an app, but aren’t quite sure if it’s “good enough”? Plenty of factors distinguish a good app idea from a bad one, from the technical to the…not so technical. Even if you find your app isn’t the best idea ever, it still might give you an idea people are sure to… Read the full article here: How to Tell a Good App Idea From a Bad App Idea on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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Schedule Control and the Independent Worker

Small Business Labs

'Independent workers (freelancers, self-employed, etc.) consistently tell us they like the autonomy, control and flexibility independent work provides.  The National Journal article How Airbnb and Uber are Changing the Nature of Work  explores one aspect of this - schedule control.  Key quote: It's hard to overstate how much an employee's control over his schedule, even if it's a small amount of leeway, changes the work experience.

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Six reasons every assistant should be using a corporate taxi service

Practically Perfect PA

'A few years ago I was travelling with my boss to a number of appointments around London. It was February and it had just started to snow. Anyone that lives and works in London will know that the first sign of snow will initiate a complete meltdown of all public transport systems from airplanes to buses and everything in between. We had decided that they best way to get to all of our appointments was by cab so you can imagine my dismay when I couldn’t for the life of me hail a cab.

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Snail Mail 101

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2011-06-20 17:24:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Ah, the plague of the daily mail. Kind of like death and taxes, it’s inevitable. Here’s what’s in your mailbox: stuff to. delegate. read. act on. file. trash. Let’s call it DRAFT for short. Delegate. This is mail that you can fob off on someone else.

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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