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18 Books Every Administrative Assistant and Executive Assistant Should Read

Office Dynamics

Office Dynamics has put together a list of books for administrative assistants and executive assistants that will help you with your professional development and personal life. Because we had so many great choices we decided to make it a little easier for you to find what you are looking for by breaking the blog into two sections. The first half of the blog contains titles that are dedicated towards the administrative assistant and executive assistant while the second half of the blog contains t

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How to think more analytically

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve just finished reading Think Better Analytically, and I want to share my learning with you! I decided to read the book because I don’t think of myself as someone who thinks logically or analytically. I’m much more of an emotional thinker, placing more value on my instincts than the evidence in front of me. […].

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The Most Common Professions of Skilled Freelancers Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

We're often asked what the most popular professions are for freelancers and independent workers. This is not as easy a question to answer as it seems. Independent workers serve all industries, work with both businesses and consumers and participate in pretty much every job type and profession. They also tend to self-identify in very specific and often idiosyncratic ways.

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You Hate Your New Job -- Now What?

On The Job

With a low unemployment rate, some employers are pulling out all the stops when it comes to recruiting workers, such as offering perks and higher salaries. But sometimes the hiring manager goes a bit further -- and doesn't present a realistic picture of what you'll really be doing if you take the job. So, on the first day when you show up and expect to begin working on exciting projects, you're told that those projects are sort of on hold.

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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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Coaching for Executive Assistants and Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

I am happy to say that more executives are investing in their assistants by providing one-on-one coaching for them. Over the past two years, Office Dynamics has done more on-site coaching for executive assistants than we have done in the past seven years! And we continue to get more calls for this type of work. I love it when an executive is willing to make this kind of investment.

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McKinsey's Bias Busters Collection

Small Business Labs

McKinsey's Bias Busters Collection covers how are decisions are often affected by cognitive and/or organizational biases.  These include being unwilling to cut back on an under performing asset or activity, getting too distracted by shiny new initiatives, sticking with numbers or projections that are out of date or likely incorrect. But our favorite was what they call taking an "outside view" of a project or forecast.

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Eco-Friendly Medical Product Can Help You Gain New Patients

Eco-Office Gals

When it comes to medical products such as bandages and gauze, people don’t often think of going green. You wouldn’t believe it, but most medical products contain hazardous chemicals and other materials, which end up in landfills and are bad for the environment. The oddest part is that some of the chemicals that people are exposed to through medical products can actually cause them to become sick in other ways than they may already be.

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Administrative Assistants Working in a Team – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Ask an Admin is a concept that brings administrative professionals together for the best peer to peer advice from administrative assistants and executive assistants from around the world! This week Elizabeth comes to us with a tough question: Dear Admins: I find myself in a conundrum. In our division, we have myself (Executive Administrator) and three Team Assistants (two in our building, and one in another state).

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Working with an incompetent Executive

Practically Perfect PA

Everyone moans about their boss. Fact! There are occasions when your Executive takes ages to get back to you on something, they are always in a meeting or out travelling. They never have enough time. They don’t manage your needs or expectations. They don’t make decisions, or they make the wrong decision, and they don’t […].

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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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The Recruitment Entrepreneur – A Series of Articles

Recruit CRM

Prologue: Having co-founded a startup in the recruitment technology space (recruitcrm.io) many of our customers are young ‘Recruitment Entrepreneurs’ I do often get the request for guidance on a range of issues faced by them. With more than a decade of experience in the recruitment/staffing industry at leadership levels, I feel it would be useful to share my experience regarding.

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How to Wake Up a Sleepwalking Mind

Productivityist

Spoiler Alert: This is not a piece about meditation. The framing I am thinking about when I use the term “sleepwalking mind” is the idea that a mind that is walking in its sleep is less likely to make great gains. It’ll go through the motions, fiddling away on tasks that can be done quickly but are also devoid of much value.The kind of things a sleepwalking mind will do involve low levels of engagement.

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Administrative Professionals Not Getting Respect – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Ask an admin is your place to ask your question and have other administrative professionals, from around the world, give you their advice based on their experiences. This administrative professional, Seething in the South, asks us: What do you do? How do you handle….a Manager who doesn’t acknowledge or respect my contributions? This isn’t the first time I’ve been dissed.

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Proper Domain Name Considerations For New Business Owners Going Online

Small Business CEO

Just imagine how much business you’re losing every time a user mistyped your domain name or worse – forget it. Sometimes the word is hard to spell, maybe it doesn’t make sense, or perhaps it’s unremarkable. Online consumers are prickly people. They won’t spend precious time looking for your location and most of them would just consider other similar product or service on offer.

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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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2. The Recruitment Prerequisites | Getting Started

Recruit CRM

(This is part of a series of articles on becoming a Recruitment Entrepreneur. These articles are meant for first-time recruitment entrepreneurs and the more experienced recruiters may find some parts elementary. I shall start dwelling deeper into each aspect once we get done with the basics. If you wish to contribute to this topic please write to ajay@recruitcrm.io I will be happy to incorporate.

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Writing Professional Development Goals for Executive Assistants

Melissa Peoples

I am excited to share Part 1 of my latest podcast in our new virtual coffee chat series. To kick off our series, I was thrilled to chat with the amazing Michelle Parise! Michelle is the former EA to the CEO of Pinterest and is now the founder of With Purpose Coaching. You can view the podcast below. Don't miss out on Part 2 & 3 this series - Subscribe to my YouTube channel!

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How to Get a Job When You're Not Qualified

On The Job

In the Great Recession many years ago, employers were ridiculous with the job qualifications they requested -- a master's degree to be a receptionist or NASA astronaut experience to drive a bakery truck. That was when jobs were in short supply. Now, those tables have turned and employers are lowering their requirements. You won your elementary school's spelling bee?

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Thinking Big: How to Prepare Yourself and Your Business For Big-Time Success

Small Business CEO

We often hear successful entrepreneurs tell stories about the importance of being able to recover from failures. While it is essential to have the ability to learn from, integrate and grow past a failure or setback, it is equally important to know how to cope with the increasing pressures of growth and how to prepare for the impending success of a 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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1. I want to be a Recruitment Entrepreneur

Recruit CRM

(This is part of a series of articles on becoming a Recruitment Entrepreneur. These articles are meant for first-time recruitment entrepreneurs and the more experienced recruiters may find some parts elementary. I shall start dwelling deeper into each aspect once we get done with the basics. If you wish to contribute to this topic please write to ajay@recruitcrm.io I will be happy to incorporate.

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Connecting with Customers in Ecommerce: Why CRM is a Must-Have

Small Business CEO

Ecommerce isn’t a forgiving industry. If you’re one of the millions of online retailers that’s competing to earn the business of new customers, the lack of proper tools at your disposal could be what’s holding you back. The good news is that with the right marketing weapons, you can expand reach and nurture new as well as existing customer relationships to great success.

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Benefits Of Pest Control For Businesses

Small Business CEO

If you are running a business like a hotel or a restaurant, the last thing you want to see are pests. You cannot hope to reach the upper echelons of the industry you are in if you can’t even manage to keep out pesky intruders from within your premises. Trust us when we say that spraying insect repellants and placing in traps are never enough to keep them out.

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8 Reasons Why Strong Branding Is Important for New Businesses

Small Business CEO

Many small business owners overlook branding efforts because they see themselves as a business and not a brand. Global giants like Amazon, Disney, Facebook, and Samsung started as small businesses. The reason why those companies are successful is that they branded themselves. But what’s a brand? A brand usually represents the perception of people on the reputation, customer service and advertising from a company.

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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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7 Main Points a Young Marketer Should Pay Attention To

Small Business CEO

Students learn about the basics of marketing at colleges and universities. They’re also taught how to apply this knowledge in real life. Today, institutions of higher learning strive to keep up with the times by offering trendy majors, such as social networks or CRM. In this industry, things change even more quickly than Lady Gaga changes her weird dresses during one show. photo credit: Augstudy.com.

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Data Analytics: Helping Healthcare Evolve

Small Business CEO

Data is increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. All industries are adopting data analytics in order to find more efficient methods for operations. This is particularly true in the healthcare sector, where there is a lot of room for improvement, and also a lot of potentially useful data. These are a few ways data analytics is helping healthcare evolve.

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4 Tips to Keep Better Control of Your Inventory

Small Business CEO

Inventory control isn’t just an issue for small business owners, it has almost shut the doors of major corporations. According to reporting by Business 2 Community , JP Morgan lost a staggering $6 billion in 2012 due to inventory spreadsheet errors. They also report that Hershey’s once failed to deliver $100 million in candy to stores in time for Halloween due to a failure in their supply chain system.

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4 Things Business Owners Need to Know Before Hiring a UI Designer

Small Business CEO

Did you know, as many as 79% of people who visit a site and don’t like what they see, go back and search for another website (most likely one of your competitors). In light of this, UI design has never been so important. If you don’t boast the necessary skills to do this yourself, you’ll need to hire a professional to handle this for you.

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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