October, 2014

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An Invitation to Join Me for 30 Days of Business Thanks!

Virtual Moxie

'Some of you may remember that for a few years, one of my beloved side projects was something I called the 30 Day Project, which was centered around creating a gratitude practice, where we''d focus on one specific area (friendship, love, healthy, money, etc) for a month. It was great fun, but ran its course. The topic for each November was 30 Days of Thanks.

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Should I get certified as an administrative professional?

Office Dynamics

'Although demand is high for qualified, knowledgeable administrative professionals, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. Did you know that in the United States alone, there are over 4 million jobs in the administrative field, including those for executive assistants and administrative assistants like yourself? Identifying the best administrators can also be a tough task for talent managers.

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Finding the Right Clients Starts With Knowing Where To Look

Step It Up VA Coaching

'by Donna Toothaker. Some years ago (for those of us “seasoned” enough to remember), there was a very popular country song entitled, “Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places.” It was quite a catchy little tune, and it came to mind as I began today’s article. Do you ever feel like you’ve been looking for clients the same way?

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Interview questions and answers for assistants part 5

Practically Perfect PA

'I’ve written four blog posts on interview questions specific to PAs, EAs and Administrative Assistants and they are all extremely popular so I thought I’d add another ten questions that I have been asked at various interviews over the years and my answers. This time I will focus on two specific interview questions – career development and scenario based questions.

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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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This Will Take You Less Than 5 Minutes

Office Organization Success

'These past couple of weeks I’ve been immersed in lots of online trainings and, as a result, I’ve been re-working my sales and marketing funnel — in the 3 Ms to Online Business Management Success business model, this is S tep 1: Manage. So you can see, even though I’ve been in business for over 13 years, as my business evolves I still need to go back to the first step and revisit some of the stages there to make sure I have the right systems in place for my business.

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How Small Changes Can Build a Stronger Team

On The Job

'When it comes to influencing others to change their behavior, the smallest changes can make the biggest differences, contends a new book called “The Small Big” by Steve J. Martin, Noah J. Goldstein and Robet B. Cialdini. Using scientific research, the authors explain how small changes can help you build a stronger team and make team members more productive and motivated.

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Four Lessons You Can Learn about Personal Effectiveness from the Ryder Cup

The Small Business Blog

'Firstly: if you don’t know about the Ryder Cup it is a biannual golf match played between the professional golfers of Europe and those of the USA. As with many international sporting events it is used by many commentators as a barometer of what is good or bad about the state of the particular sport,… Read the full article here: Four Lessons You Can Learn about Personal Effectiveness from the Ryder Cup on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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7 Tips to Manage Time and Priorities

Office Dynamics

'Hello, Motivators! I’m sure you can relate to this week’s message. My ‘To Do’ list is getting bigger and bigger; I am managing more people than ever before; and more people need my time and attention than ever before. Additionally, it is important for me to go to service on Sunday mornings and make time to see my children and grandchildren-family is very important to me.

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Technology of the week: befunky.com

Practically Perfect PA

'What is befunky.com? Befunky.com is a website dedicated to making photo editing as much fun as taking the picture was in the first place. On the website and via the App users are able to edit photos, add effects and create photo collages. What does it do? The photo editing function allows users to crop, resize, or add a frame to the phone. Users can also adjust the colour, brightness, contrast, saturation and sharpness.

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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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Product/Program Launch Campaign Quick Tip

Office Organization Success

'Give yourself enough time to plan and implement your launch. So often business owners don’t allow enough time to put in place all the key steps needed to ensure a successful launch campaign. There are so many moving pieces in a launch cycle that if at any point in the process a step gets missed, it could spell disaster for your launch and means it might not to be as successful as you hoped it would be.

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The Emergence of Freelancer Management Systems

Small Business Labs

'"Freelancer Management Systems (FMS)" is a term used to describe cloud-based systems that allow businesses to better engage and manage independent workers, freelancers and other contingent workers. These systems allow users to search for contingent talent and then activate, manage and pay the independent workers they hire.  These systems also allow the creation of private talent pools that provide access to profiles of approved contingent workers.  Freelancer management syst

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How Road Warriors Stay Productive

On The Job

'No one would ever claim that business travel is loads of fun, and much of that is because road warriors often get frustrated trying to stay productive while away from the office. No matter their good intentions, it seems delayed flights, overbooked hotels, noisy surroundings and bad connections undermine them. But with savvier planning, anyone can become more productive – and less stressed – while on the road.

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Changing Habits Requires Motivation

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-04-25 15:16:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Changing habits is hard. It’s easier the more motivated you are to do it. Tip: be honest about what motivates you. I was riding in my friend’s car the other day and she mentioned that she was trying to keep h er speed down to 55 mph to maximize fuel efficiency. Her car is a Prius, so she’s really into that kind of thing.

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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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“Are You a Truck Driver?”

Loosely Speaking

There were a lot of changes in latitude in our family this year. Between March and October, my dad-in-law, my husband and I, and two of my sons moved to new addresses. There was a lot of hauling, caterwauling, and aching.

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Practically Perfect PA Survey 2014 Reminder

Practically Perfect PA

'Thank you to everyone that has completed the Practically Perfect PA survey. So far we have received some great feedback but we would love to hear from more of you so please do take ten minutes out of your day to complete the questionnaire. I’d appreciate your honest feedback, I really would! I’ll share a summary of the results next month, for the curious.

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8 Ways to Make Your Landscaping Eco-Friendly

Eco-Office Gals

'Being environmentally-conscious is a big deal for many businesses today and most likely your company has embraced practices that are eco-friendly. You recycle bottles, cans and paper. You’ve embraced digital documents over paper ones. You opt for energy-efficient office equipment, and you’ve even worked on greening your business strategies. All of these are great ways to help the environment, but while focusing on the inside of your business, you may be forgetting about the outside.

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Insight, Innovation and Finding Aha's

Small Business Labs

'The Harvard Business Review article Where to Find Insight provides a good primer on how to spot trends and create business insight that can drive innovation. The article defines insight as: an imaginative understanding of an internal or external opportunity that can be tapped to improve efficiency, generate revenue, or boost engagement.  Insights can be about stakeholder needs, market dynamics, or even how your company works.

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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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Sealing the Deal with Clients – It’s An Art Form All Its Own

Step It Up VA Coaching

'by Donna Toothaker. One thing I hear a lot from VAs and other entrepreneurs is how they want to increase their “closing the sale” percentage because it’s so low. Let’s face it; that’s what we all want, isn’t it? But there’s a right way and a wrong way to make that happen. Let’s take a look at a few of my best tips for sealing the deal with the right clients.

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Is Your WordPress Website Secretly Harboring Malware?

Tips From T. Marie

'Dealing with a malware injection on a WordPress website isn’t a picnic on the best of days. Dealing with one my first day after arriving in Maine ; after a 993 mile drive in a packed Ford Focus with my 6 foot 2 son and a ticked off cat? Well, let’s just say my first day in my new location was far from peachy. Yet I’m willing to re-live it via this post in order to give you a heads up about WordPress and malware.

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Any Decision is Better Than Staying Stuck

Virtual Moxie

'Beth and I were talking about how paralyzed she feels. She''s been trying to choose between two options for a project she''s working on for her business. Because she has no prior experience with this thing she''s trying to choose, and neither option seems perfect, she''s been unable to make a decision—for six weeks. Six weeks ! That''s a long time to be undecided.

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The ultimate guide to diary management

Practically Perfect PA

'I have written a lot about diary management over the years, which is not surprising when you think assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their manager’s calendars. Juggling our boss’s time is a complex operation. There are also a lot of tasks related to diary management, for example ensuring our managers get to their meetings on time, understand the reason for the meeting and are prepared for it.

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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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Career Goals: Safe In The Harbor Or Setting Sail?

Office Dynamics

'Safe In The Harbor Or Setting Sail? Guest Post by Debbie Gross, CEA to CEO, John Chambers, Cisco Systems. . “You are the Captain of your own ship!” I am fond of the saying that we are all “captains” of our own ships. I fully believe that we are in complete control of our destiny – no one person or company has that control.

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Freelancers Hire Lots of Other Freelancers

Small Business Labs

'We think one of the most important findings from the MBO Partners State of Independence researc h is that freelancers hire a lot of other freelancers.   In 2014 38% of independent workers (self-employed, freelancers, independent workers, etc.) reported spending about $92 billion over the past year hiring other independent workers on a contract basis.

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5 Ways to Get Others to Listen to You

On The Job

'Do you sometimes feel like you''re wearing Harry Potter''s "cloak of invisibility" at work? No one really pays attention to you. You''re often interrupted when speaking in a meeting, and your boss scarcely seems to know who you are. Perhaps the problem is not what you’re saying, but how and when you’re saying it. Let’s say that you’re on the agenda of the next office meeting to give a brief rundown of a project you’ve been working on for several months.

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Christine Arylo on self love, success and clutter

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2009-06-01 13:35:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter. Creating an organized space makes it easier for you to lay your hands on the things you need and helps you be more effective because you now have time for the important stuff. It's also an essential part of taking care of the most valuable person in your life, yourself.

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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