November, 2012

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Choosing Your Distributor: A How-To

Eco-Office Gals

One of the biggest issues many green, small business faces is “how do I get my products to the people who buy them, and how can I remain green doing it?” If you are an independent contractor, selling things that you make yourself, the answer is easy: you simply mail them to the people who order them. But what if your business is bigger than that?

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12 Days of Christmas Sale is back! Dates & Deals Cheat Sheet

Office Dynamics

Hello! It's that time of year again and we are getting ready to launch our popular 12 Days of Christmas Sale once again! It's a great way to get your administrative peers or your assistant an excellent gift for the holidays at a great price! We aren't going to keep these deals a secret from you! Here is our cheat sheet for the deals you can find in our store this season.

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McKinsey on the Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

We've been interviewing senior HR execs, HR industry analysts, consultants and others to try to understand if the use of contingent workers is considered a strategic part of their talent acquisition and talent management plans. We've gotten a clear no from the vast majority of folks we've talked to.   To be honest, this surprised us.

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Moxie Tip 285: Take Care of Yourself to Take Care of Your Clients

Virtual Moxie

If you’re sick, be sick. Tell your clients you’re sick, and push deadlines back (or let them do stuff themselves—you do have a kick-ass policies and procedures doc for each client that gives them step-by-step instructions about how to do their own stuff, don’t you?). In truth, there’s next to nothing work related that can’t wait a day or two—but your health isn’t going to improve if you don’t take care of yourself, or worse, if you push yourself forward when you should rest.

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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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Is your business like one big, messy jigsaw puzzle?

Office Organization Success

Building a successful, long-term business is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. And, if you’re like hundreds of small business owners that I’ve spoken to this year, you’ve got all the pieces in front of you; you’re just not sure how they all fit together. And the reason you don’t know how they all fit together is because you don’t have the puzzle box with the picture on the front to use as your guide!

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Cinchspiration: I’m Fat

Eco-Office Gals

“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”. - J.K. Rowling. NO that’s not me – it’s just how I feel sometimes! Am I just trying to justify failure?

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The Holiday Lull—There’s No Better Time to Prepare Your Business for The New Year

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. With the sacred carving of the Thanksgiving turkey completed, and that first slice of your favorite pie eaten; the holidays are officially upon us! I don’t know about you, but it’s one of my favorite times of the year. It’s a special time to be with family and friends, and reflect on the blessings of the year, of which I have many.

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WELLNESS Pillar Ways to be well following W-E-L-L-N-E-S-S

Office Dynamics

Join our Pillar Huddle as we talk about Wellness. We meet daily and talk about our five pillars (Career, Family, Financial, Spiritual and Wellness). Each day a different team member leads our huddle. Today you will hear me, Jasmine Freeman, as I sum up what we have been learning about wellness and turn it into an easy to follow acronym. What would your wellness acronym look like?

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Moxie Tip 284: When Mistakes Repeat Themselves

Virtual Moxie

Maybe it's a choice (either conscious or not!). Maybe it's a sign that you're moving too fast and missing something. Maybe it signals there's a hole in a process. But it's absolutely no longer a "mistake.". Hopefully, the first time it happens, you pay quick attention and decide how to prevent it moving forward. But if you do, then it won't happen again, so if it's happened again, you either weren't paying attention and taking appropriate action, or something else happened to allow the thing to

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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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Can GTD and Pomodoro Work Hand in Hand?

Productivity Bits

As thought systems, they are incompatible. You cannot just focus on one particular task and maintain that same focus for all your other tasks. Pomodoro is singular in its approach; GTD is collective. Thank you for subscribing! Please grab my free productivity ebook!

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How to Manage a Micro-Manager

Eat Your Career

There’s nothing worse than feeling like you’re being smothered, and micro-managers are really good at making you feel that way. They hover over you, constantly check in, offer instruction when none is needed, and expect you to do things their way and on their schedule. Micro-managers don’t allow you to have any freedom and eventually, work can start to feel like a prison sentence.

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Eco Friendly Entertainment Options for Your Next Corporate Party

Eco-Office Gals

No matter how demanding work can be, if there’s one thing that most employers and employees alike look forward to, it’s whenever a corporate party is planned. That’s because it’s a time to be able to put aside the pressures of the office and really sit back and have a fun time. If you work for a company that is sensitive to the needs of the environment, or you would like to educate those on the staff about how they can enjoy themselves while still being eco-friendly, we a

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How to take your Marketing and Business to the Next Level for 2013

Office Organization Success

If you are looking to take you business to the next level in the shortest time then this FREE online event may just be what you need. I’m really excited about this event! The speakers in the Marketing Mastery Mashup are sharing some really high end information during this value-packed online event … at no cost for you to attend. All you need is a computer or telephone to participate from anywhere in the world.

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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 You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

Most of the entrepreneurs I talk with tell me that they started their business because they wanted some form of freedom.  What about you? Today I asked my friend Linda Siniscal talk about life beyond the profit and loss statement. Each month, you may anxiously await the reports that provide the numbers that help you manage your business.  Revenue, net income, total expenses, and payroll costs are just a few of the items that you may be monitoring on your profit and loss statement.�

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5 Etiquette Lessons for the Workplace

On The Job

The workplace sometimes changes so rapidly it's hard to keep up with what we're supposed to do and not do. But some things stick around -- like the importance of good manners. That's why I thought it was a good issue to explore for my Gannett/USA Today column. Is it OK to tweet during a business conference? Should you stand up when shaking hands? Do you get the boss a holiday gift this year?

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How do assistants ensure their emails are read?

Practically Perfect PA

Pin It. I got back from my holiday last week to discover over 200 emails for me to read, delete, action and generally sort through (I’d only been away for 4 days and that included the weekend)! As with any administrative task I crack on in a ruthless manner because I just want the job completed as soon as humanly possible – in other words I take no prisoners.

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Moxie Tip 283: Speed Can Be an Enemy

Virtual Moxie

1. Skillfully manage your energy (action, then rest….be sure to get enough rest). 2. Control your attention -- Stop multi-tasking (task-shifting). When you shift, you lose depth. 3. Cultivate emotions that serve you best -- Develop Emotional Intelligence. 4. Define and live your highest purpose. Tap into what’s most meaningful and move into something bigger than yourself.

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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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5 Ways to Greenify Your Business Travel

Eco-Office Gals

Are you someone who does a lot of traveling for business purposes? If so, that means that you’re, by default, expending a lot of your own personal energy. However, if you’re someone who lives a pretty eco-friendly lifestyle, you might be looking for ways that you can apply “green tips” while on the road. Luckily for you, we have a few suggestions (five to be exact) that can help you to greenify your business travel and, hopefully, help you to distress a bit in the process

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Is the World Really Awash with Money?

Small Business Labs

Evidently so.  Or at least that's the view of two fascinating articles:  A World Awash in Money , from Bain and Company, and  A Capitalist's Dilemma , from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen.  The basic point of both articles is capital used to be a scarce resource. Because it was scarce, our management methods and metrics are designed to minimize its use.

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How to Benefit from the Positive Job Market Outlook

Job Advice Blog

Based on a recent survey by economists, the job market outlook is projecting steady growth in employment. Recruiting consultant CareerXroads reports that new companies find 28 percent of their hires via referrals. Job boards represent one in five applicants, or 20 percent. And career Web sites, about 10 percent. For job seekers or those who [.].

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Launching Lessons Learned Interview: Cena Block

Stephanie LH Calahan

Have you been considering a product or program launch?  Today, I'll share another Product/Program Promotion: Problems and Profits -- Launching Lessons Learned.  Keep reading for my interview with Cena Block -- the Mom-Preneur Clarity. Catalyst, author of Getting It All Done and Time To Toss It.  Cena presents signature workshops and privately coaches professional women in transition and moms-on-pause who struggle manage their time, systems, and spaces while juggling all the

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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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You’re Not Taking Responsibility For Your Business

Office Organization Success

For those of us in the US we are enjoying the Thanksgiving Holidays. I actually think Thanksgiving is my favorite time of year; it’s like Christmas but without all the stress … so for that I am thankful! My trip to Charlotte was amazing. Even though I go there to teach and work with 100+ entrepreneurs in helping them get their systems in place, one of the big a-has that I came away with, is that business owners are not taking responsibility for understanding business management conce

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Crazy for Office Products: 16 Ways to Bring Fun, Function and Beauty to Your Work

Virtual Moxie

Tidbits about me. I have come, over the years, to know that I do my best work in a space that is, to me, lovely. As part of that, I surround myself with things that have meaning to me on a personal level, and use products that are efficient, effective, and generally beautiful. My feeling is that if I need to use paper clips, for instance, there's no reason they can't be different/special/beautiful.

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The Importance of Office Space and Location for a Business

Eco-Office Gals

Many business owners are unaware of just how important location and space are to their business. Getting the right office space is essential from the beginning because you will need to stick with this space until your lease is up. This makes it very important that you choose wisely. Here are some essential aspects to consider the choosing your new office space: Space – When choosing office space you have to ensure that you are getting the right square footage for your needs.

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Ever wondered how international courier companies work?

The Small Business Blog

Ever wondered how international courier companies work? The answer, unless you’ve used them a lot, is probably “No.” Shipping is one of those topics that most of us will only take time to learn about if we absolutely need to.

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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