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First Impressions Online: How PAs Virtually Greet Business 

Practically Perfect PA

I am a keyboard warrior. Not necessarily by choice, but rather by circumstance. I’ve worked as a PA and Office Manager across the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare and now Foodservice industry since 2011. In recent years I’ve found myself in the online space where first impressions with clients happen over live chat, email or phone. A heart-warming […].

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Study: Corporations Rely on Their Non-Employee Workforce

Small Business Labs

SAP Fieldglass's External Workforce Insights 2018 study, 44% of workforce spend at large corporation is on external, non-employee talent.  The report goes on to say this share will grow over the next few years due to "increasing demand and competition for external workers"   A important point to note is when corporations talk about contingent talent or external talent they generally include services firms (consultants, marketing agencies, facility management companies, et

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Lessons from ATD Convention

Office Dynamics

There was no shortage of information, lessons, best practices, and thought-provoking conversations at the ATD Convention my team and I attended last week in San Diego. In case you did not see my Facebook posts, there were over 11,000 attendees from around the world; 300+ concurrent sessions; 400+ exhibits in the big convention hall, and an amazing networking night aboard the USS Midway!

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How to Take a Job Out for Test Drive

On The Job

One time the transmission fell out of my car (this is bad, very bad), so I was forced to rent a car to get to and from work. I decided to rent a car that I had been considering for some time, with the idea that getting to test drive it for a while would help me make a decision. It certainly did just that. After one day of driving that car, I didn't like it much.

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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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Top tips to impress the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Is it just me or does it feel like your boss expects more and more from you? I love the challenge this brings but jeez, sometimes it’s beyond difficult to bring more to the table than I already do – I, mean, I like to think I’m already perfect! I thought I’d share some of […].

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Podcast 096: The four tendencies: questioner

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ? Stitcher ? Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play. You can leave a review here! This is podcast 96 and it’s about being a questioner as one of the four tendencies. If you’ve been listening to me for awhile, you know I love to ask questions! I love to ask what I call stupid questions, the ones that people don’t ask because they take the answer for granted and it doesn’t occur them that they even CAN question it.

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Research: What Drives Superstars to Quit

On The Job

There's an old saying: "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." But new research suggests that for some top performers, when the going gets tough -- they quit. Wharton professors Maurice Schweitzer and Katherine Milkman find that it's usually a good thing to set high expectations, because you generally rise to meet them. But, they also discovered that if you're tapped to be a favorite to win in a competition -- and you run into some difficulty -- you're more likely to quit.

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Common Pitfalls Small Businesses Face and How to Avoid Them

Small Business CEO

Starting up a business is, without a doubt, an exciting venture. If you’re not excited about your new small business, then you just aren’t doing the right thing. However, it’s also a nerve wracking one and even the most seasoned of business owners will come across struggles along the way. What makes a successful entrepreneur over one destined to fail, however, is the ability to avoid common pitfalls.

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Study: Uber Drivers on Average Earn $11.77 Per Hour

Small Business Labs

T he Economic Policy Institute (EPI) , a DC non-profit think tank, recently released a study showing the average Uber driver earns $11.77 per hour after expenses.  The study -  Uber and the Labor Market  - is based on a detailed analysis of driver income and expenses.  The study's key findings include: Uber drivers average $24.77 per hour in passenger fares.

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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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Why reading fiction makes you a better entrepreneur

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

I’ve noticed a trend amongst business owners I find personally – and psychologically – disturbing: Reading ONLY non-fiction. The logic is simple. In a world where there’s so much to learn, ain’t nobody got time to lose themselves in imaginary narrative and prose! . It’s understandable to feel this way. I personally have the expensive habit of 1-click purchasing almost any non-fiction book my friends recommend.

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Morning Routines with Benjamin Spall

Productivityist

On this episode of The Productivityist Podcast, I speak with Benjamin Spall. Benjamin is the co-author of My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired , and the founding editor of the blog of the same name. During our discussion we touch on how morning routines are important to both early risers and night owls alike, what was discovered about routines during the research for the book, what he has taken from some of the routines that are in the book (and from the website as

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4 Reasons why Small Business Entrepreneurs should start Blogging

Small Business CEO

For a business, promoting the product or service is the biggest task that can take away a large part of the investment. This investment cannot be afforded by small businesses which majorly rely on online promotion methods. One of the most effective ways for promoting your product or service is by blogging. Yes, blogging when combined with social media will help small business in promoting to wider audience.

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Why your newest project is always the most promising

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Uninformed Optimism is a cognitive bias that wreaks havoc in entrepreneur brains. . It goes like this: . The less you know about a project or business idea, the easier it is to believe it’ll be simple to make the idea succeed. . This is particularly true for “marketing tactics”. The people selling “shortcuts” know it, too. . The best way to make millions with a scummy info product is to be on the absolute bleeding edge.

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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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Why taking responsibility for everything is the entrepreneur secret weapon

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

The last decade I’ve spent working with entrepreneurs around the world was also a decade spent studying entrepreneurs around the world. . (Best free MBA ever. In fact, I got paid to do it!). And if I had to pick one thing that unites the upper echelons of extraordinary overachieving founders – if something definitively sets them apart from everyone else – it is this one thing: .

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Equity Crowdfunding – A Beginner’s Guide

Small Business CEO

While you once needed a lot of capital to gain equity in private companies, new laws have made possible for small investors to invest using limited capital through equity crowdfunding. In this article, we’re going to give you a small introduction to equity crowdfunding and a few tips to help you get started. What is Equity Crowdfunding? Simply put, equity crowdfunding is similar to regular crowdfunding with the exception that you get an actual share of the company you’re investing in.

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How Translation Can Help You Achieve Greater Organic Traffic

Small Business CEO

“ When trade stops, war begins ,” warned Jack Ma, the CEO of Alibaba at Davos 2018. This simple yet powerful statement serves as a reminder that your business needs to keep reaching customers. Ma went on to say that global selling is not just the birthright of big companies alone. Technology has effectively made the world so small that you can buy a product from Europe even if you are thousands of miles away in Australia.

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5 Investment Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make in 2018

Small Business CEO

With increasing volatility and frequent market fluctuations, making smart investments is not easy. When you look for information online, several inputs laden with economic jargon tend to perplex you furthermore. There is always some new way of making quick money that everyone is talking about, and usually that’s the investment that one should not make without doing their research.

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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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Bringing the Outside In

Small Business CEO

Some companies just love festooning their hallways, reception areas and meeting rooms with flowers and other plants. The sight and smell of greenery (and any other colours you care to throw into the mix) elevates the feeling in a building and, according to NASA, living plants help to filter out airborne pollution. Other companies think that a floral touch is too frilly and makes the place look fussy and unprofessional; they may also see caring for plants and buying in new flowers each week as un

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5 Ways to Connect to In-Store Customers via Mobile

Small Business CEO

Some store owners bemoan the sight of shoppers peering at their phones as they wander the aisles and pick up what they need, but those owners lack vision. A customer on the phone is an opportunity to reach out, engage, and inspire loyalty — but only if you’re willing to provide the high-tech mobile services that your target market craves. It doesn’t take much, but it’s probably time you at least considered the idea of designing an app to benefit your business and help you with

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Myths About Lawyers

Small Business CEO

If you want to joke about a particular profession, you’ll find plenty of material in lawyers. There are probably more jokes about lawyers than there are actual lawyers who have passed the bar exam. Even Shakespeare made a lawyer joke when he had one of his characters say, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”. The law profession isn’t terribly well understood, and there are a lot of jokes in part because there are also an awful lot of myths.

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The Next Level: 4 Signs It’s Time to Expand Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

In the highly competitive world of small business, finding a way to carve out a niche in your industry is vital for success. According to recent studies, economic uncertainty is the main factor that prohibits small businesses from growing. If you are like most business owners, you have a number of ideas you want to put into practice. When the time comes to grow and expand your business, having a game plan in place is essential.

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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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Here’s Why Many Small Businesses Fail at Ecommerce – Don’t Be Among Them!

Small Business CEO

Even though you’ve worked hard at building rank with the search engines and your organic searches are mostly found on the first pages of the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages), you find that your bounce rate is through the roof and that you just aren’t making the money from your website that you had anticipated. After all, your prices are competitive, you have a product line that is trending, and you’ve invested heavily in marketing.

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The Location of Your Business is Crucial

Small Business CEO

Whether you are opening up a new shop or relocating your existing business, where you decide to go is essential to the overall aspect of your business. The right location can both boost sales and keep your doors open, or it could end up making you close the doors. There are many factors to consider while you decide where to locate your business. From operating costs, accessibility and even taxes, these all influence the overall performance.

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Why your newest project is always the most promising

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Uninformed Optimism is a cognitive bias that wreaks havoc in entrepreneur brains. . It goes like this: . The less you know about a project or business idea, the easier it is to believe it’ll be simple to make the idea succeed. . This is particularly true for “marketing tactics”. The people selling “shortcuts” know it, too. . The best way to make millions with a scummy info product is to be on the absolute bleeding edge.

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Why reading fiction makes you a better entrepreneur

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

I’ve noticed a trend amongst business owners I find personally – and psychologically – disturbing: Reading ONLY non-fiction. The logic is simple. In a world where there’s so much to learn, ain’t nobody got time to lose themselves in imaginary narrative and prose! . It’s understandable to feel this way. I personally have the expensive habit of 1-click purchasing almost any non-fiction book my friends recommend.

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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