June, 2015

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What To Do When Everyone Wants a Piece of You

Virtual Moxie

Your clients need everything. Today. Your best friend just left her husband and wants to b h about what a jerk he is. The dog won't stop barking, but you can't see what she's barking about. The baby is with your mother, but your mother has a headache and wants to bring the baby home. Outlook won't save new appointments for some reason, and even repeated reboots aren't solving the issue.

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Keep Tabs on Your Credit

Clutter Coach

by Originally posted 2008-02-26 09:36:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Recently, I got a brochure in the mail about identify theft from the Federal Trade Commission. It reminded me that it’s time for my yearly request for free credit reports. The Fair Credit Reporting Act says that all three of the major credit reporting agencies offer free credit reports to everyone once a year.

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Persevere No Matter What!

Office Dynamics

I recently read a statement that resonated with me. It says: Never let the circumstances of the moment supersede your dream. That statement struck me hard and made me stop and think: “How many times in the past did I let the circumstance of the moment impede my progress or stop me from doing something I really wanted to do?”. In honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday, it struck me how our forefathers from decades ago persevered.

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Being Too Casual Could Cost You at Work

On The Job

As you work your way up the career ladder, it may be gratifying to know that your hard work has paid off. Your skills and experience are valued, and you feel that your career is on the right track. Still, don't rest on your laurels. Right when you start to see your future become bright you could lose it all. How? You wear yoga pants on casual Friday with the word "sweet" across the butt.

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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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Economic Uncertainty Changing People's Decision Making

Small Business Labs

The American Institute of CPA's just released the results of an interesting survey looking at major life event decision making by Americans.  The  survey found that half of American adults (51 percent) have delayed at least one important life decision in the last year due to financial reasons. This up from 31% in 2007. The survey chart below shows that for many life events twice as many Americans are delaying decisions for financial reasons than in 2007.

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The Future of Cloud Computing

The Small Business Blog

Focussing exclusively on cost-savings is no longer sufficient when evaluating the benefits of cloud computing. Although there can be substantial cost savings, it is increasingly important that cloud services support businesses as a whole. This will allow companies to streamline business processes and react swiftly to market changes. The concept of cloud computing is actually… Read the full article here: The Future of Cloud Computing on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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Networking Is Important For Your Business — And The Follow Up Is Critical

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Developing a solid plan for marketing and networking takes work, doesn’t it? And then the commitment it takes to carry out that plan sometimes takes even more effort. Hopefully, you do have a plan and you are making that effort because you know how important it is to your business growth. So, what are you doing to follow up with the contacts once you’ve had that initial meeting?

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Does a Performance Improvement Plan Mean You’re Getting Fired?

Office Dynamics

A post from our friends at The Admin Pro Forum and Business Management Daily has generated a lively discussion with mixed views on whether an employee put on a performance improvement plan is on a slow road to nowhere or if it means opportunity lies ahead with a little effort and a bright outlook.What are your thoughts? Is a performance improvement plan the end of opportunity?

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5 Tips to Ensure Your Emails Get Opened (and Read)

Office Organization Success

It’s getting harder and harder to get your subscribers to open your emails… Let alone read and act on them! As a result, business owners are seeing plummeting open rates for their email newsletters (ezines) … some email open rates are being reported as low as 8.6%. With the sheer volume of other information avenues we’re constantly subjected to these days, it’s not surprising that email open rates are taking a hit.

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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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Millennials Pass Gen X as Largest Generation in the U.S. Workforce

Small Business Labs

Pew Research's Millennials surpass Gen X'ers as the largest generation in the U.S. labor force  reports that in Q1 of 2015 Millennials surpassed Generation X to become the largest share of the American workforce. The report chart below shows the generational shifts in the U.S. workforce over the past two decades.   An interesting sidelight to the report is Pew's definitions of age cohorts.

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How to Make Anyone More Excited About Their Job

On The Job

Brittle. Slow. Bureaucratic. These are the terms that Jason Jennings uses to describe the companies that have fallen by the wayside since the Fortune 500 was first published in 1955. In the last 60 years, the majority of those original companies are gone. Jennings, author of “ The High-Speed Company, ” says that managers must create a sense of urgency and growth in this “nanosecond culture,” or find themselves in the same boat as Sears and Kmart.

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Decision vs. Action: A Key Distinction for Success

Eat Your Career

I have a question for you: Three frogs are sitting on a log and one decides to jump off. How many frogs are left? If you answered two, you’re wrong, but don’t sweat it. Most people fall for it. Here’s the thing: One frog decided to jump off the log, but that doesn’t mean he necessarily did anything about it. Decision is not the same thing as action.

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Resolve to Clear Away All Bugs on the Windshield of Life

Virtual Moxie

Imagine yourself driving down the road. It's a sunny day, you're listening to great tunes, singing along, and everything's groovy in your world. Just then, a bug lands on your windshield, right in your line of vision. You immediately stop singing and frown. The bug isn't being blown off the windshield, either. It's riding along, bothering you, pulling your focus.

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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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The New Frontier for Business: Work-Life Integration

Office Dynamics

The days of a clear separation between work and home are a thing of the past, and we’re still trying to figure out how to integrate life and work in a healthy way. In a recent Advise America survey, 87 percent of respondents felt they overwork — but at the same time, more than a third also said they don’t feel overloaded by work. Work-life integration is different than simply trying to find balance and separation, however.

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How to Get Out of the House More Quickly in the Morning

Productivity Bits

Even if you love the mornings and bound out of bed as soon as your alarm rings, there’s a good chance your sunrise routine could use some refining. Many people find they feel flustered trying to figure out what they need to bring with them before leaving the house, which results in them getting out the door later than planned. If that sounds familiar, the tips below should help you get ready to go more efficiently.

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WeWork Moves into Coliving

Small Business Labs

Coworking giant WeWork is launching WeLive, a project combining their coworking spaces with dorm-style micro apartments. Here's the description of the Arlington, VA project from the press release : The Crystal City project will be WeWork's first residential building, bringing the same benefits of co-working – shared amenities, a sense of community and opportunities for collaboration – to a residential building.

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What Incivility at Work Costs All of Us

On The Job

I'd say there's probably more than a few discussions today around the watercooler and via email about mean bosses after a New York Times opinion piece "No Time to Be Nice at Work." In the article by Christine Porath, associate professor at Georgetown University, she noted that after studying the cost of incivility for nearly 20 years she finds that "insensitive interactions" hurt a person's health, performance and souls.

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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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Decision vs. Action: A Key Distinction for Success

Eat Your Career

I have a question for you: Three frogs are sitting on a log and one decides to jump off. How many frogs are left? If you answered two, you’re wrong, but don’t sweat it. Most people fall for it. Here’s the thing: One frog decided to jump off the log, but that doesn’t mean he necessarily did anything about it. Decision is not the same thing as action.

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Taking a mum break

Practically Perfect PA

A close friend of mine is due to welcome her first baby to the world any day soon. During one of her recent WhatsApp grillings amongst those of us already flung into the joys of motherhood, she was panicking about something that only lunatics or agitated pregnant people ponder – feeling bereft at not being at work. When you’re a PA, especially one lucky enough to have a decent relationship with your boss, you can be forgiven for feeling somewhat trepidatious at cutting ties for a substantial per

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3 Keys to Making This Your Best Week Ever

Office Dynamics

Can’t attend the live webinar? Don’t worry! All registered attendees will receive access to the recorded webinar. Three Keys to Making This Your Best Week Ever. Do you ever feel like some kind of 9-1-1 dispatcher for your office? Most administrative professionals are intimately familiar with “emergency” business situations and sky-high stress—their own, as well as the stress that practically radiates off of others.

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How to Design an Office that Is Eco-Friendly

Eco-Office Gals

The amount of energy that is used by offices and other types of commercial buildings is staggering. This is why it is vital that the business world commits to energy efficiency. In so doing, they will reduce the tremendous environmental impact they have. At the same time, however, it actually improves the bottom line, which means the benefits are there not just for the world as a whole, but for the business in particular as well.

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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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The Reports of the 1099 Economy's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Small Business Labs

If you followed most of last week's news about a ruling by  by the California Labor Commission that a Uber driver was an employee and not a contract worker, you'd think the 1099 economy will soon be dead.  But, of course, it's not. My first thought was to write a long article listing the reasons. But I decided it would be easier to reference the articles already out there that present a balanced view of this decision.

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[Quick Tip] For a Successful Launch Campaign

Office Organization Success

Phew! What a busy couple of weeks it’s been. I’ve been working diligently behind the scenes for one of my clients getting everything set up for her to launch her live 3-day event in October … and we got it launched earlier this week. There was a ton of set up work to do in Infusionsoft to ensure that the campaign would work correctly and the attendees would get all the necessary information that they need.

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The Science Behind Getting What You Want at Work

On The Job

When you were a kid, your mom probably asked you to say the “magic word” when requesting something. You quickly found out that saying “please” could get you what you wanted. But Tim Davis, a professional magician and communications expert, says there are actually seven magic words backed up by science that can help you persuade, influence and engage others.

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Focus on Your Own Stuff!

Virtual Moxie

It rarely happens, but occasionally, I'll get email from someone wanting to "make sure" I know what someone else in the industry is doing. In reality, I almost never know, or care. It's not that I am shoving my head in the sand, but that I've learned an important lesson (in last week's post —this is #2). Being successful requires you to focus on what you're doing, and what you want to do.

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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