February, 2015

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Scientists Use Robot Penguins to Spy on the Real Thing

Small Business Labs

'Popular Mechanics has a great story about robot penguins being used to study Emperor penguin colonies in their natural habitat without disturbing them. After discovering tagging penguins with bands around their flippers was harmful—it impaired their survival and the number of their offspring, presumably by reducing their speed in the water - scientists switched to implanted RFID tags.

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Follow-Up Is Simple – So Why Isn’t It Easy?

Office Organization Success

'Doing a good job at follow-up is a piece of cake. You just capture every lead or potential referral partner you run across, then place a call or send them something, or both. If you don’t make a sale right away, you calendar them for the next follow-up and do the same thing again. Pretty straightforward, isn’t it? So why is follow-up such a problem?

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“Month of Love” Prize Winner Announcement

Office Dynamics

'Thank you to all who entered our “Month of Love” contest this month by attending one of our Wednesday Webinars. Congratulations to our prize winners: 30 min private coaching session with Joan Burge: Jana Reffel. 2014 Conference On Demand: Lori Bules. Mastering Exceptional Self-Leadership On Demand: Tracey Hall. The post “Month of Love” Prize Winner Announcement appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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Ready to Take Your Startup to the Next Level? Consider Outsourcing These Services

The Small Business Blog

'Outsourcing sometimes gets a bad reputation as it can conjure up images of workers being paid low wages while a company’s profits soar. While that certainly happens in some instances, outsourcing can also be a really savvy way for business owners to take their startup operations to the next level. Below you’ll find a list… Read the full article here: Ready to Take Your Startup to the Next Level?

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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 Become Better at Delivering Feedback

On The Job

'If you Google “performance review phrases” you will turn up more than 4 million sources offering advice such as how to deliver “good” feedback (the employee “is ready for any challenge”) to the “bad” review (the employee is “hostile to feedback or criticism.”) The reason that millions of these sites exist is because delivering criticism to any worker often feels like handling a rattlesnake – a manager is never sure that it’s not going to turn around and bite him or her at some point.

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Cats Drive 15% of All Internet Traffic

Small Business Labs

'Regular readers know we like pet trends. But I admit our coverage has been slanted towards dogs, mostly because I like dogs.  But cats are more popular with online audiences. In fact, according to Bloomberg's The Magazine Trying to Bring the Web's Cat Obsession Offline , cats drive almost 15 percent of all Web traffic. There are also about 30 million Google searches per month for the search term “cat" Despite cats dominating web traffic, a few dogs and other

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Understanding your boss

Practically Perfect PA

'One of the best things about being a PA is the challenge of building relationships with each new boss you support. But it’s never easy – with each new boss comes new work styles, quirks, habits and expectations. This guide looks at how you can get on to your boss’ wavelength quickly and easily. Start by getting a one-on-one meeting booked in. At this meeting: Find out your boss’ priorities and goals.

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Assistant Certifications, what’s the deal? A Free Webinar

Office Dynamics

'Have you been curious about the various assistant certifications? In today’s competitive workplace, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. Employers want admins with more than experience. They want true professionals—people who are committed to the administrative profession as a career choice, willing to invest in their own growth, and eager to go the extra mile to expand and prove their capability.

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Do You Feel Lucky? You’d Better Be If You’re Using a Social Media Page as Your Business Website.

Tips From T. Marie

'“You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky?…Well do you punk?”- Dirty Harry. I see it a lot these days. Businesses who are using a Facebook Page rather than their own website. I know it must seem like such a good choice, after all, we’ve all heard about the sheer numbers of people on social media sites right? So why not focus on a great Facebook page or active Instagram or Pinterest account?

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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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How to Organize Your Wallet

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-06-12 10:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter It may be small, but your wallet can be chock full of clutter. You don't want to be one of those people who holds up the line trying to find her preferred shopper card, do you? Or the guy with the unsightly rectangular growth on his backside (because we know it's not all money)?

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How to Avoid Canned Responses to Interview Questions

On The Job

'Job seekers often worry that if they practice responses to interview questions too much, they will come off as insincere, their answers having that "canned" quality. I think that''s partly true, but you also don''t want to use it as an excuse not to prepare for an interview. So how do you strike a happy medium so that you''re prepared for anything, but don''t sound like a robot?

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The Backlash Against Sharing Economy Jobs

Small Business Labs

'Over the past month or so there's been a crescendo of negative press on the sharing economy, with sharing economy jobs being the primary target. The negative press tends to focus on Uber, which has established itself as the company everyone - except Uber users - hates due to their rough and tumble business practices. Adding to the negative press is a growing litany of complaints by sharing economy "providers", which is the industry's term for their workers.

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Buying a Green Home? Be Sure to Look For These 6 Things

Eco-Office Gals

'Often when it comes to buying a home, so much of the focus is on location or size. But if you’re an especially environmentally-conscious person, you may want to know how “green” a home is. Does the home use a lot of electricity? Are there aspects of the house’s history which make it a potential health hazard? If you’re looking for an ideal green home, here are some important tips to remember as you shop around.

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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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Shake It Up!

Office Dynamics

'It’s time to shake things up. Okay, Monday Motivators, it is the last week of February 2015. What did you do last week that demonstrated you “living your life on purpose” ? (Please comment at the blog to share.). This week I’d like you to really step out of your comfort zone—shake it up! What are some ways you can do that? Take on a new task or project.

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Not Enough Clients? What’s In Your Way?

Office Organization Success

'What’s stopping you from getting all the clients you want? Do you know? The answer to this one question may be the key to making your marketing more successful. It would seem from the questions people ask me about marketing that everyone is trying to fix just one type of problem — how to fill their marketing pipeline with more new prospects. “What else should I be doing to attract potential clients?

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It’s February – Do You Know Where Your Resolutions Are?

Step It Up VA Coaching

'by Donna Toothaker. Hard to believe we’re already deep into February. How are you keeping up with your business resolutions? For some of us, the resolutions we made a very short time ago are already just a memory, having been “hijacked” by other pressing matters. Others of us are struggling to make good on our intentions, but may have over reached by expecting too much of ourselves too quickly (i.e.

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How High Achievers Keep Things Running Smoothly

On The Job

'Every day millions of us search for our car keys, our smartphones and our sunglasses. We can’t remember passwords for our online banking account and lose critical emails or other bits of data important for our work. While dealing with such stress and frustration, we’re being constantly bombarded with information from thousands of different sources.

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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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Smartwatches Forecast to Drive Wearable Computing Market

Small Business Labs

'BI Intelligence has released their wearable computing forecast to 2020 and they are very bullish on smartwatches.   As the chart below shows, BI Insider is forecasting that wearable computer shipments will grow 22% per year on average through 2020, reaching 235 million units shipped in that year. Smartwatchs will drive a big chunk of this growth and will make up 52% of total wearable computing shipments in 2020.

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The Assist Conference is just over a week away

Practically Perfect PA

'Yup, that is right my event baby is almost ready to be born (my actual baby *fingers crossed* will arrive a few weeks later). I must say it has been an amazing few months getting the Assist Conference up and running. The initial idea was first conceived in September last year while eating a sandwich in the lovely Cameron House just outside Glasgow.

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Choose Your Battles Wisely

Virtual Moxie

'A friend sent me this funny thing (whether or not it''s factual is in debate!): You''ve Gotta Love the Irish! This is the transcription of the ACTUAL radio conversation between the British and the Irish off the coast of Kerry, October 1998. Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-98. IRISH : Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

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Manage Expectations with Email

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-05-29 09:15:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter People put a variety of information in their email signature files , from business phone numbers to favorite quotations to colorful images of their signatures. I recently got an email that had a very clever sig line , as follows: "I reply to emails at 8AM, 2PM and 4PM. Calls returned: 10-11AM, 1-2PM and 5-6PM." Short and sweet, gets right to the point.

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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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How to achieve simplicity in a complex world.

The Small Business Blog

'Making it easy for your customers to do business with you is one of the cornerstones of business success. Customers are happy to invest in relationships that promise simplicity in the future, i.e. with their personal data. But what good is all that if that data is then locked away and not available when needed,… Read the full article here: How to achieve simplicity in a complex world. on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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How to Make Any Job Interview Pay Off

On The Job

'It can be frustrating when you interview for a job and then aren''t offered the position. "What a waste of time," you think. But it doesn''t have to be. That''s because you can always learn from every interview, and taking the time after meeting with a hiring manager to sort of "debrief" yourself can provide valuable insight so that the next interview could be the one to nab you a job.

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Small Businesses Turn to Their Accountants & Each Other for Advice

Small Business Labs

'Barlow Research Associates is an analyst firm that works with banks to help them better understand the needs of small businesses. According to one of their recent surveys, small business owners turn to a number of sources for advice and as the chart below shows, accountants are their first choice. We were somewhat fascinated that the survey asked about Google.

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Technology of the week: Highrise

Practically Perfect PA

'What is Highrise? Highrise is a flexible contact management tool which helps users keep their contacts organised. Prices start from $24 per month. What does it do? Highrise has a number of features which allow users to track the people, conversations and tasks that make up any business. This includes: Highrise can be used to track contacts and communication so that a team can view the status of any deal or relationship.

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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