September, 2012

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Moxie Tip 244: What's Your Destination?

Virtual Moxie

Focus on what you want, and what you hope for. Walk toward that. Keep your eyes on that. Make every action about that. And trust that which matters—which will never be your fears.

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Sitting on the fence

The Small Business Blog

When contemplating change people can often sit on the fence for quite some time. They may live in a world that is not black and white, but shades of grey and highly ambivalent.

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New Life: Eco-Office Gals is Mobile Responsive

Eco-Office Gals

Yesterday was pure misery, I was hacked at 4:30am by some you-know-what in Italy. I did the cardinal sin – I didn’t do my upgrades! POW! BUB was found ! I know I know, but it wasn’t my regular site, it was my host reseller management platform, I’m not on there often and we’re not all perfect. {hang head in shame}. My trusty HostGator was right on it and had me back online, but it was a bit of a mess.

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Stay Focused Tip #4: Unsubscribe from Online Groups

Office Organization Success

Unsubscribe from online groups such as Yahoo, Google, and Facebook groups that no longer serve you. If you’re not actively participating anyway, why add to your inbox by receiving group emails. You’ll only be tempted to check them, and so waste time.

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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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How to Thrive After a Demotion

On The Job

When the boss tells you that you’re being reassigned or reclassified, you still know that no matter the fancy title, it still looks, smells, and feels like a demotion. Few things in your professional life – aside from being fired or laid off – are more debilitating emotionally than being demoted. But after years of downsizings and cutbacks, that’s exactly what many employees have faced.

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Moxie Tip 250: How do you Show up?

Virtual Moxie

Think about your presence--it really is more than the "look" of your site, or the "design" of your Facebook fan page. It's the moment-by-moment way that you create a digital version of yourself; usually in type; sometimes by voice or video, often in images. What is it that you want people to see and experience of you? How do you know whether they do?

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Sitting on the fence

The Small Business Blog

When contemplating change people can often sit on the fence for quite some time. They may live in a world that is not black and white, but shades of grey and highly ambivalent.

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New Life: Eco-Office Gals is Mobile Responsive

Eco-Office Gals

Yesterday was pure misery, I was hacked at 4:30am by some you-know-what in Italy. I did the cardinal sin – I didn’t do my upgrades! POW! BUB was found ! I know I know, but it wasn’t my regular site, it was my host reseller management platform, I’m not on there often and we’re not all perfect. {hang head in shame}. My trusty HostGator was right on it and had me back online, but it was a bit of a mess.

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Genspace - A Biotech Coworking Community

Small Business Labs

Genspace is a community biotech laboratory in Brooklyn, New York.  According to their website, they. " offer hands-on courses to the public, provide extracurricular experiences for students, and encourage scientific entrepreneurship, particularly in the fields of molecular and synthetic biology." Long time readers of Small Business Labs know that synthetic biology is the application of engineering principles and approaches to biological system design and development.  More co

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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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5 Tips for Overcoming Public Speaking Nerves

On The Job

The only time I remember being really, really nervous when I was speaking in public was when I was 13-years-old and running for student council. I had to give a speech in front of the whole school, and my hands were shaking so bad I could barely hold onto my notes. After that, I took several speech and drama classes, and I became more comfortable being in front of others.

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Building a Business Case: How to Turn Lemons Into Lemonade Your Way - Pam Cradic

Office Dynamics

Pam Cradic shared a fast-paced, fantastic presentation on how to be BOLD! when things don't go according to plan, and how to turn adversity into opportunity. (What assistant doesn't need to have that in their toolbox?). When things don’t work, you can redesign a system, and lead the way to a new way of doing business in your organization. Pam relayed that she was an Army wife.

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Moxie Tip 249: The Long Haul

Virtual Moxie

The more I think about marriage, the more I think it’s really very much like having a business, or a friendship, or a child, or owning a pet or a car. If you want something long-lasting, you have to go into it prepared to care for it well, and to be committed for the long haul. Even though you know there's a way out, if you do in with that in mind, you're sunk before you've begun.

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What’s thong with ‘entrepreneurial’?

The Small Business Blog

Be disruptive not desperate ‘I’ll do it’ That’s the response you get from Tony Robinson OBE’s answer-phone. It doesn’t surprise me that he’s desperate for work – he can’t do anything. As a literary agent, to yours truly, he’s been as successful as my goldfish.

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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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Setting Boundaries with Clients — the Good, the Bad and Even the Ugly Ones

Step It Up VA Coaching

Here’s a question for you. When was the last time you hired a service provider, say an attorney or a mechanic and you were able to set their schedule for them? Or had them drop everything and come running every time you called? My guess is—probably never. When you deal with other businesses, you abide by their policies, their normal hours of operation, and you respect that, right?

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Are you Knitting or are you Camping?

Loosely Speaking

Or crocheting, or spinning, or dyeing, or weaving. To me, all are better when done outside, and especially while camping or sitting next to water. There are oodles of “Knitting Camps,” retreats combined with instruction, really, where you pre-register and attend classes. Some are in rustic accommodations while others are at hotels or even swank Inns in beautiful island settings.

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Are There Hidden Treasures in Your Inbox?

Tips From T. Marie

You see it all the time; an email announcing a new course or class that will make a difference in your business. Many of us send them to the trash bin before we even open them, but what if we’re trashing opportunities to do what we do better ? What if those things we think we already know how to do could be done better, faster and with greater results?

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Concurrent Sessions!

Office Dynamics

The concurrent sessions provide a unique intimate setting for learning in a small group setting. These break out sessions are especially designed to enhance attendee learning on various topics of each year’s conference theme This morning, we have: Kathy Tosoian, speaking on Imagine … Believe …. Achieve (Hands on Goal Setting to Reinvent Yourself and Your Career); Christy Brown Wright, speaking on Wired As Women; and Annette Brown, speaking on The Leadership Challenge, BOLD Practices of Exemplary

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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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Moxie Tip 248: Where do You Stand?

Virtual Moxie

Stand for your business. Stand for yourself. Stand for the dream you had when you first started working for yourself about how things would work, and about the freedom you would have. Do it by creating (mentally and in writing) great standards.

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Euro Update

The Small Business Blog

The euro’s renaissance continued into last weekend before running out of steam. It reached its highest point against the US dollar since early May and touched a three-month high against the pound.

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Hispanic Affluence Driven by Small Business Ownership

Small Business Labs

The National Journal's Next America's  Hispanic Sector Finding Affluence in Owning Businesses  covers the growing number of affluent Hispanics, many of which are small business owners. Key quote: the latest U.S. census figures show that Hispanic households with an annual income of at least $100,000 surpassed the 1.6 million mark in 2010. Those with household incomes between $75,000 and $99,999 accounted for an additional 1.3 million.

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Change is good!

Loosely Speaking

After 17 years, it’s time for another career move. I don’t know whether it will be lateral or vertical, but I’m calling it my second retirement. (The first was when I left the classroom in 1995). I’m keeping a couple of clients and taking time to figure out if I am really going to be retired or if I’ll just be looking for a different way to make a living.

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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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Retrofitting Offices for Sustainability: 5 Reasons to Update Your Commercial Building

Eco-Office Gals

During a job interview, I was asked the question, “What does the term ‘sustainability’ mean to you?” Interviewing before the word became synonymous with its modern green-rooted definition, I took the question out of context, saying I would be a valuable asset to the company for many years to come. Feel free to have a good laugh at that one.

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State of the Profession – Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. Joan’s last State of the Profession was given two years ago. She has reviewed her notes from that speech, and she notes the changes: G enerations - There are now four distinct generations employed in the workplace. We can benefit from all the generations. Bridge the gap with each other. It’s not them against us.

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Moxie Tip 247: Standards Are Your Foundation

Virtual Moxie

What’s important is to know what all your standards are, and to not just kinda know, but to have them written down after thinking about them strategically, and really embracing them as part of what forms the foundation for everything else you do.

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Keeping your business going when tragedy strikes

The Small Business Blog

I was saddened to hear that one of WinWeb’s clients were burgled this week. To make matters worse they are a small charity fighting to raise money for a very worthwhile cause – brain tumour support and research.

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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