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A day in the life: Laura O’Malley, Team Lead and Executive PA, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Practically Perfect PA

What are the main aspects of your role? I provide PA support to the Director and Deputy Director of Operations and the Director of HR. I am also the Team Lead for the Corporate PA Team, so I coordinate the teams work, ensure cover is arranged for annual leave, sickness etc. and line manage the two administrators and our reception staff. What is your morning routine before you get in to the office?

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How to Master The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers

Office Dynamics

The article, Juggling: The Art of Supporting Multiple Managers by Stacy Leitner was originally posted at AGreatDaysWork.com. This article has been shared by permission from the author. . If you are an assistant who works with multiple managers or executives, you know the work can be overwhelming at times. For nearly a decade, I primarily supported one person—the CEO.

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Hosting Your Own Teleclass? 6 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful Outcome

Office Organization Success

Hosting teleclasses is one of my absolute favorite list building strategies. . Apart from being easy to do, it’s a great way to interact with my audience and get to know them, and also let them get to know me. But as with anything new there’s always a learning curve involved. Over the years I’ve developed my own style for hosting teleclasses and found some shortcuts that allow me to present my content so that everything flows smoothly.

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3 Ways to Overcome Imposter Syndrome

On The Job

A confident stride, a firm handshake and a calm demeanor in a crisis will more than likely ensure that you are seen as a real pro at work, someone who is competent and skilled in her job. But before work every morning, you're a mess. Your stomach may even cramp at the thought of putting in another day in a job where you feel like a fraud. You worry that everyone is going to find out that you're really not qualified and the job and your life are going to crumble into a million pieces.

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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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Let’s talk team bonding

Practically Perfect PA

A bonded team is a happy team, and happy teams are engaged, motivated and ready to do their best work. Did you know, when employee engagement is high, revenue growth is 2.5 times higher, employee turnover is 40% lower and customer satisfaction is 12% higher? Team Bonding is just one part of Employee Engagement. When a team is aligned, energized and working together towards a common goal, nothing can stop them!

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How do You Know That You're the Best?

Virtual Moxie

Kathy came to me to ask me to review her business in the hopes that I would tell her where I think she fits in the overall landscape of Virtual Assistants. She told me that if I thought she was one of the best, it would absolutely do wonders for her business, proving she was great and helping her compete for clients. I took a deep breath and shared that in my view, the fact that she wants someone to tell her she's one of the best means that she doesn't believe she is.

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How to Give the Best Virtual Presentation Ever

On The Job

Giving a virtual presentation to a tech audience has special challenges, but an expert provides tips to overcome any obstacles and give an engaging and informative talk. It’s fairly easy to tell if people aren’t paying attention during your presentation or meeting. Eyes glaze over, bodies slump in chairs and someone appears to be engrossed in a Sudoku puzzle.

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Launching Assist Travel 2016

Practically Perfect PA

In last year’s Practically Perfect PA reader’s survey I asked you lovely lot “What area of your role do you think you need to learn more about? ”. Business travel was a pretty clear winner. From this Assist Travel was born. We ran our first conference and exhibition for business travel booking assistants last September and I’m very excited to announce that we will be running Assist Travel again this year.

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Better Writing: When to Use “Like” vs. “Such As”

Office Dynamics

Have you ever wondered about the distinction between “like” or “such as” in your writing? Here are two phrases to consider: the answers that so-called geniuses like / such as Newton seem to embody. centuries of innovations like / such as the airplane and the space shuttle have resulted. In these examples, “such as” is preferred over “like” because the word “like” implies comparison while “such as” implies inclusion.

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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 One Thing Small Businesses Need to STOP Doing

Tips From T. Marie

Are you an author, coach, restaurant, or other small business? Listen up. I need to tell you something. Stop Using Facebook as Your Website! I’ve written about it before. The dangers of using Facebook as your business website. Sadly instead of seeing a decrease in the number of businesses taking part in the practice, here we are a year later, with more small businesses than ever believing they can get away with using Facebook as their business website.

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Expect More Internet Connected, Quantified Dogs

Small Business Labs

Based on our site stats, we have a loyal core of readers who love pet trends as much as we do.  So this group will no doubt want to be updated on the acquisition of Whistle, a maker of "Fitbit for dogs" devices, by consumer products giant Mars. The dog below is wearing one of these devices. Tech Crunch recently reported Mars acquired Whistle for north of $100 million.  Key quote on Whistle's products: Whistle’s GPS Pet Tracker makes it easier to keep tabs on your pe

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Storage Units: Good or Evil?

Clutter Coach

by My general rule about storage units is this: avoid them at all costs! People rent them and forget ’em and they often turn out to be filled with junk. Let’s look at why you really might need a storage unit. There’s a short list of reasons that are acceptable. You are temporarily living in a place that’s too small for your possessions.

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Assistants Are Simply The Best

Office Dynamics

The team at Office Dynamics International is ecstatic to work with administrative professionals around the globe every day of the year. It’s one of our favorite things! Assistants are simply the best. This year we’re celebrating the administrative profession with our annual blog-a-thon in honor of administrative professionals. Marathon blogging right here at www.officedynamics.com.

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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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Is an Espresso Machine Good for You?

Professional Assistant Blog

Espresso machines produce highly concentrated ,dark and rich brew that are mostly found at the coffee shops. The coffee beans must be finely ground and packed to produce strong coffee which some people prefer to take as shots. Espresso machines can also be used to make milk-based beverages such as lattes and cappuccinos, where milk is heated separately using the machine’s frothing tube which blow steam into the milk whipping it to froth.

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11 Top Tips for Time Management

Productivity Bits

1. Wake Up Early Are you a morning or a night person? When you’re busy all the time, waking up early essentially adds an extra hour or two to your day. Although it can be difficult at first, waking up early can boost your time management skills, simply because you have more time to get things done. It is also reported that waking up early can leave you feeling more refreshed and energised for the day (providing you get enough sleep).

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30 Minutes to Less Clutter

Clutter Coach

by Want less clutter on your desk? Can you spare half an hour? What if it would make the following half hour twice as productive? And the hour after that too? Spending time on organizing is a great investment because it always gives you a high return (unlike many investments these days). Starting. Figuring out how to start is often the hardest part of decluttering.

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Silvia isn’t just an admin, an appreciation letter

Office Dynamics

An appreciation letter to Joan Burge, CEO and Founder, Office Dynamics International. We receive letters from executives and assistants about the impact of our work. In fact, we have hundreds of letters stored away here that we’ve never shared with you before. Why not take a few moments during our blog-a-thon for the administrative profession to highlight YOUR stories and why we’re here?

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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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Contract Jobs Dominated Job Growth Since 2005

Small Business Labs

Fusion's Harvard economist: All net U.S. job growth since 2005 has been in contracting gigs  covers a study by two noted academic economists that found all net employment growth in the U.S. economy since 2005 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements. In other words, contingent jobs have been growing quite rapidly over the past decade.

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The “Ancestor Syndrome” – Or Why You Don’t Have Enough Money

Brilliantly Better

There is this saying that, from a financial point of view, you are the average of the top 5 people you spend time with. While I find this to be completely true in real life, I think it’s incomplete, though.… The post The “Ancestor Syndrome” – Or Why You Don’t Have Enough Money appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Organize your bedroom

Clutter Coach

by Wouldn’t it be delightful to walk into a serene, welcoming bedroom after a hard day’s work? It would invite you to relax and nothing else; nothing to put away, nothing to distract you from chilling out. The way it is now: The bed is unmade, clothes are slung over chairs and doorknobs, newspapers and magazine are on the floor, the bureau and nightstand are littered with stuff.

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Expectations of Today’s Assistant

Office Dynamics

Welcome to April! We are into the 4th month of 2016. How is it going for you so far? Office Dynamics is all a buzz with the anticipation and excitement of Administrative Professionals Week the end of this month. But we don’t just celebrate assistants the last week of April, we love to celebrate the profession the entire month. Why? Because administrative professionals are the backbone of every organization.

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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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4 Compelling Reasons Why Business Dashboards are Important to SMB’s

Small Business CEO

As a small business owner you already understand the importance of being able to collate and monitor data , to help you align your business in the future. However, this is often a time consuming process which could be made easier with the help of a business dashboard. Through a convenient ‘easy-to-read’ visual display, dashboards pull complex data relevant to your company from multiple areas and present it on one screen.

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Running For Beginners

Brilliantly Better

One of the fundamental building blocks of my online business is a short page called Contact, on this very blog. You wouldn’t believe the amount of feedback, constructive criticism, profitable ideas and partnership proposals I get through that tiny page.… The post Running For Beginners appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Free High Performing Teams Instant Healthcheck Tool Spreadsheet

BioTeams

An important free tool which I provide with my new book ‘ A Systematic Guide to High Performing Teams ‘ is a Team Process Health Check Spreadsheet written in Microsoft Excel. The spreadsheet allows you to rapidly assess each of 16 important team process elements on a scale of 0-3 ranging from ‘totally absent’ to ‘present and effective’ The results are shown graphically as a bar chart (summary level) and a spider diagram (detailed level).

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How to Present Data to Your Executive

Office Dynamics

Business is becoming increasingly complex and data is becoming extremely important in order for companies to be able to stay ahead of the curve; remain current and be competitive. Executives need to make decisions that ensure the success of the entire company. Conveying data in a meaningful and clear way is not is as easy as it sounds. This presentation will walk you through three ways to present data clearly and provide three tips to find ways to communicate data-based information for your Exec

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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