August, 2007

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Job Interviewing 101

On The Job

I remember when my older son was just learning to read and write and I found his name written boldly in pen on the white marble of our fireplace hearth. “Did you do this?” I asked him, pointing to his name. His big blue eyes looked boldly into mine. He shook his head “no.” “Then who did?” I asked him. His chubby little finger quickly pointed at his infant brother, who was happily sucking on his sock as his older brother tried to sell him down the river.

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Small Business Failure – Reason: Funding | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. You ask a question, I answer!

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Finding Time in Your Day for Exercise

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am a firm believer in finding time in your day for at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. It may even improve your health and your productivity. So join a gym, go for a walk, climb the stairs each day, but do something and keep healthy. Check it out. At most gyms they offer corporate discounts for employees, check with your HR Manager or the gym when you sign up.

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Are You Afraid to Talk to Your Boss?

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Are You Afraid to Talk to Your Boss? By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Filed Under: Organize A re you afraid to talk to your boss about your workload - if you really do feel stressed about the workload that you have? Try using the "Compliment Sandwich" method. Youd be amazed of how well it works and helps you negotiate the only thing that you really can negotiate - 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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Learning to Mind Your Own Business

On The Job

The report was just sitting there, almost under your nose. OK, so it was on the boss’s desk and you were sitting a few feet away, but you have really good eyesight – and the ability to read upside down – so it wasn’t really your fault you read a co-worker’s recent performance evaluation, was it? And it wasn’t really snooping when you were looking for a pencil in a colleague’s desk and came across her pay stub – your eyes just accidentally happened to focus on how much she makes a month.

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Happy and Laughing at Work

On The Job

I spend much of my time listening to people gripe about their jobs and their bosses. That’s why when I had two surveys land on my desk that show – gasp! – that not only are some people happy at work but – double gasp! – think their bosses have a good sense of humor – I knew that either I’d fallen down the rabbit hole or things weren’t really as bad as sometimes portrayed.

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How to Create Mail Merge Letters

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise How to Create Mail Merge Letters By The Professional Assistant on Sunday, August 26, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook E ver have trouble doing a mail merge in Microsoft Word? The mail merge wizard is the simplest tool to use to get your letters or e-mails out to your clients. Here are the basic steps to take to do a simple mail merge (make sure you have either a contact list created in Excel or Access for this, otherwise you can create a list within Wor

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How to Write Effective E-mails

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise How to Write Effective E-mails By The Professional Assistant on Saturday, August 25, 2007 Filed Under: A re you the type of person that likes to ramble on and on about something? Do you try to get your point across with advertising in between your message? If you chatter away in your e-mails and are trying to get your point across, this information will be quite juicy for your fingertips.

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Dressing for the Office

Laughing all the Way to Work

How important is it to your career how you dress at the office? Here is what Marjorie Brody, Fabjob.com, says: "Most business professionals recognize that the expression,"You don't get a second chance to make a first impression" is true. The simple fact is that in and out of the business world, people are judged on their wardrobe. The clothing you wear can have an adverse affect on your career." 1 Our office thought it was important enough that they organized an event for the assistants and invi

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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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Say something profound today. | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life!

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes.

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Cost Cutting for Small Business – Payment Terms | THE SMALL.

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. What is Small Business Infrastructure?

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How to Organize Tasks Effectively

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise How to Organize Tasks Effectively By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 23, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize A task here, a task there! When does it ever end? Have you ever felt like you were in a whirlwind situation where you were asked to do so many different tasks and don’t know where to start?

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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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Save the Assistants

On The Job

They are often the unacknowledged heroes of the workplace – the assistants. Not many companies could get by without them. They know tons of critical stuff – from how to fix the office copier to how to set up conference calling with Switzerland to how to get a company party catered for 200 with less than 24 hours notice. They are smart, tough and critical to the success of their bosses, and yet they can be treated like doormats.

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Small Business Failure – Reason: Fixed Cost | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. You ask a question, I answer! Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP.

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Getting organized and staying that way.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I cannot stand clutter so to me it is very important to keep myself organized. If my desk has sticky notes all over the place, files here and there and papers, papers, papers, then I begin to feel buried and out of control. I need to be organized so I can think and function better. I have found what works for me is having a place on my desk for everything.

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Teamwork for Small Business Is Way To Success | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes. Build your own network! Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business.

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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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Calculation of Discounts in Excel

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Calculation of Discounts in Excel By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Excel H ave you ever wondered how to calculate discounts on certain products/services that you or your firm offers? One of my colleagues had this dilemma a few days ago. I tried searching around for an answer on Google, but no luck.

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Don't Let the Numbers Get You Down

On The Job

I’m the first to admit I have never been a math whiz. In fact, when my kids have homework that starts off with something like “If a train leaves the station and is traveling at 80 m.p.h…” I sort of hear this buzzing sound in my ears and my vision starts to blur around the edges. But I know that math is critical in our world, and I still hold in high esteem anyone who managed to make it through Miss Boren’s algebra class.

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Learning to Ask for Help

On The Job

First, let me admit that I am not big on asking for help. I think part of the reason is that I’ve always been sort of an independent spirit – I like to do things my way without anyone else telling me how to do it (which is why I’ve threatened on numerous occasions to leave the males in my family along the road somewhere the next time they try to tell me how to drive).

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Small Business Checklist: Business Costing | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Enhance Your Work-Life Balance Have it all your way – family, friends, work and most of all a life! How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Build your own network! Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Outsourcing Options For Small Business Focus on your business, timeshare professionals.

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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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Communicating Effectively at Work

On The Job

I spend a lot of time trying to be a good communicator. Sometimes I’m better at it than at other times (anyone related to me by blood never seems to understand my request to take out the garbage), but I keep at it. Despite technological advances, trying to communicate effectively can be frustrating. Trying to connect via e-mail or phone can be tricky when everyone is so busy.

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Blogging can get you fired.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was interested to find this article on blogging and work. For the complete article click here. 1 Wallack, Todd, "San Francisco Chronicle", Beware if your blog is related to work, [link] , (accessed August 11, 2007). Tags: blog work fired blogging.

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The Miserable Job

On The Job

My oldest son, a teenager, has been a busboy/dishwasher for about two years now, and he recently told my husband and me that he had come to an important realization about his job. “You get yelled at for doing something wrong, but no one ever says anything to you if you do something right,” he said, in apparent disgust. “And it’s the same thing, every day.

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Listen to My Interview

On The Job

If you've never heard an honest-to-goodness Okie accent, you might want to check out my interview with Peter Clayton at Total Picture Radio. Peter and I have been trying to hook up for months, but he's been busy moving (I understand after moving five times in 13 years), but we finally got together. The interview was fun and interesting, and of course, the first subject we discussed was how I lost my perspective -- and got it back.

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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