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What the Paperless Office Has to do With Self-Driving Cars

Small Business Labs

Lyft's cofounder John Zimmer's essay The Road Ahead provides a fascinating look at Lyft's vision for transportation over the next 10 years and beyond. It's a pretty compelling forecast of how ride-sharing and autonomous vehicles are going to change transportation and even society. The two key forecasts are:  Autonomous vehicle fleets will quickly become widespread and will account for the majority of Lyft rides within 5 years.

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Free Webinar Replay: Don’t Let Fear Sink Your Career

Office Dynamics

Our free webinar series includes a free webinar offered each month. In this month’s program we covered the topic: Don’t Let Fear Sink Your Career. . Learning Highlights From Webinar: How to identify the fears holding you back from living your best life. 7 surefire steps to conquer fear confidently and courageously—including a real-world example of the process in action.

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Sustainable Business Practices for 6 Popular Industries

Eco-Office Gals

Although our nation once relied on the concept of reducing, reusing, and recycling to lessen our environmental impact, many businesses are now turning to sustainability development as a means of reducing our overall carbon footprints and protecting the environment. In fact, it’s an initiative that can be adopted by many different companies in nearly every industry imaginable.

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Finding the Right People to Make Change Happen

On The Job

When deciding which team member will be tapped as a change agent to help drive a new initiative, do you: a) select someone who has time to do it; b) has experience in the area; or c) draw names out of a hat and hope for the best. While most leaders would likely not choose the third option, many do rely on experience and availability as important criteria to be a change agent.

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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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$1 Million Ain't What it Used to Be - You Need More Than $5 Million to be a 1%er

Small Business Labs

The number of U.S. families with more than $5 million in investable assets exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2015.  This is one of many interesting stats about the growing number of rich Americans in the Baron's article Penta Millionaires: The New Rising Class. Penta is the name of a Barron's blog and quarterly publication that has the tagline: "Trusted Advice For Families With Assets of $5 Million or More" It has all sorts of fun and useful articles such as Superyac

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So, Assist Travel happened… again!

Practically Perfect PA

On Friday 9th September we held our second Assist Travel event at The Grange Tower Bridge and from the feedback we received it looks like everyone had a thoroughly good day. After spending quite a bit of time shaping the programme and finding the right speakers I was really pleased with the content which gave lots of practical support for assistants booking business travel.

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How to Deal With a Lazy Colleague

On The Job

I'm not sure anyone embraces Monday with total enthusiasm. It may take more than a few cups of coffee or even a stupid cat video to really rev us up to work on the first day of the week, but we do eventually kick into gear. But what about those colleagues who don't get going on Monday? Or Tuesday? Or Wednesday? What can be done about the person who seems to constantly slack off, finding any number of ways to avoid putting in a solid day's work?

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It's Tough Being Old in Silicon Valley

Small Business Labs

My last corporate job was running marketing for a Silicon Valley tech firm. This was long ago during the Internet boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s. I turned 40 during this job and one of my coworkers jokingly pointed out that I may have been the firm's oldest employee.  After a bit checking, I discovered at age 40 I was the sixth oldest out of roughly 900 employees.

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Don’t Let Fear Sink Your Career Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

Our free webinar series includes a free webinar offered each month. In this month’s program we covered the topic: Don’t Let Fear Sink Your Career. Learning Highlights From Webinar: How to identify the fears holding you back from living your best life. • 7 surefire steps to conquer fear confidently and courageously—including a real-world example of the process in action. • What “courage” actually is and what it is NOT.

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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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Animated video scenes for a client promoting their technology product

Andrea Kalli

Using animated scenes with a moving jeep and character, I was able to personalize this video based on the clients specific request for a jeep scene. This was a FUN project and allowed me to explore creating some custom animation sequences based on client requests. By combining the custom animated jeep scenes with some explainer style scenes, it brought just the right amount of animation and simplicity that the client wanted to promote their new technology product.

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Podcast 023: The two minute rule

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. In this episode, I’ll talk about how to get more done by not putting off small tasks, and learning how to fit them into little time pockets. Here are some highlights: How much can you really get done in 2 minutes ? But I have an important project to finish! I can do that any old time.

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The Epic Battle Between The Two Minds

Brilliantly Better

It’s 6AM in the morning and the park is almost empty. I can barely see a silhouette every now and there, strolling through the grey light of the dawn. It’s silent. Very silent. The only thing I hear is the… The post The Epic Battle Between The Two Minds appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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5 Effective Email Marketing Best Practices for Small Business

Small Business CEO

In this always-on, mobile world, consumers receive a constant flood of marketing communications across multiple channels, including email, SMS texting , smart phone apps, social media and now even smart TVs. But email remains among the most efficient and cost-effective ways for a small- to medium-size business to promote itself and generate business. photo credit: Kevin Fitz.

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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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The Productivityist Podcast: Michael Bungay Stanier

Productivityist

On this episode of The Productivityist Podcast I speak with the author of The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier. We talk about deep work, simplicity, elegance, the questions you can ask to help you get more out coaching, and much more. Relevant Links. The World Domination Summit Experience | Productivityist. Box of Crayons. Box of Crayons Blog | Inspiration for Teams, Leaders and Organizations.

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Do you have the courage to be the best?

Office Dynamics

It takes courage to be the best at what you are good at. As children, we are each gifted and talented in different ways. All of these are good and carry the capacity to change the world and enable us to live happy, fulfilling lives. But something happens. Somewhere along the line, we prize blending in over self-fulfillment to embrace our destiny. We are afraid to stand out and be good at something.

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How to Come Up with Content Ideas for Your Business’ Blog

Small Business CEO

Running a business blog can definitely be challenging at times, especially if you’ve completely run out of ideas and have been staring at a blank page for the last hour. However, if you’re reading this, there’s nothing to worry about as you’ve definitely come to the right place. For business owners who manage their own blogs and can’t afford to pay a team of writers who’ll be able to come up with ideas for them, dealing with a blank mind can be stressful.

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Streamlining the Management of Your Construction Business

Small Business CEO

Managing a construction business can be very strenuous. However, with the availability of innovative software and technologies, construction project managers are able to streamline the various process involved to build smarter and faster projects. photo credit: Chong Fat / Wikimedia Commons. Planning a construction projects takes too many details into consideration but even with the best laid plans, there are many internal and external variables to cause the plan to go awry.

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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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Business Meetings Reimagined: Epic Event Ideas That Inspire and Spark Excitement

Small Business CEO

What you really want to hear from any delegate or business colleague who has just attended one of your organized meetings or events, is when is the next one? In order to achieve that, you need to arrange everything with care, from choosing the right event representatives (in house or outsource) to choosing the right staging solution (you can find it from the Poet Companies or any other companies dealing with designing and building what you want to make your event one to remember.).

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Choosing the Right Content for Your Inbound Marketing Campaign

Small Business CEO

Utilizing an inbound marketing strategy is a smart choice for any business. Inbound marketing allows you to reach multiple customer bases without exhausting your resources or sales staff. photo credit: Michael Conway / Flickr. Depending on your business model and available resources , there are many content driven campaign models that can work well for your company’s lead generation, but choosing the correct ones is imperative.

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Tips to Conduct Human Resources Audits

Small Business CEO

Annual audits of human resources are necessary for all companies out there. It does not matter how many employees the business has. HR audits can be compared with the health checks that you do for your body. Organizations have to measure current standings and then determine accomplishments possible with the purpose of improving HR functions. An HR Audit and Compliance report involves reviewing basically all HR functions.

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What is Invoice Factoring and How Does it Work?

Small Business CEO

If you have been searching for a quick and easy way to finance your business activities, invoice factoring may be the best solution. Invoice factoring (also known as debt factoring, accounts receivable financing, and under other names) is a quick and easy way to get the cash you need to keep your business afloat. This is especially true if you are facing serious liquidity issues.

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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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A Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Rid Of Procrastination

Productivityist

Today’s guest post is from Jamie Robinson. Jamie runs SelfThrive.com , a site that focuses on personal development through motivation, positivity, health and productivity. Jamie is passionate about supporting individuals’ self-development goals and encouraging improved productivity. Procrastination eats away at your momentum and is what keeps you from making real progress.