Sat.Sep 19, 2015 - Fri.Sep 25, 2015

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Are You Too Busy for The Most Important Partner In Your Office? The Importance of Daily Huddles

Office Dynamics

I recently received a request for advice from an assistant named Kathryn. She posed a typical problem that I have heard for years and I want to respond to her question in a blog as I bet many executive and administrative assistants run into the same problem. My challenge will be answering this concisely because I have a lot to say about executives and assistants meeting daily, whether it is on the telephone or in person.

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10 Ways to Improve Interpersonal Communications at Work

On The Job

In one of my previous posts, I wrote about how we all need to take more responsibility for writing better emails. Now I think it's time to look at a more difficult problem -- interpersonal communications. You know, when two or more human beings actually talk to one another? In his book, "The 27 Challenges Managers Face," author Bruce Tulgan gives a "code of conduct" that sets a standard for interpersonal communications.

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Global Small Business Forum October 23rd in Chicago

Small Business Labs

The number U.S. small businesses exporting goods and services has increased substantially over the last decade. We call the smallest of these firms Micro Multinationals  and thanks to the Internet and a growing array of online marketplaces and services it's never been easier to be an exporter. But despite the growth in SMB exporters, too many small businesses are missing out on the opportunities presented by global markets.  This is why we're a sponsor of the upcoming Global

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Creating More Profits: 3 Essential Areas to Focus On

Office Organization Success

Making more profit is NOT the same as generating more revenue. They are two completely different areas, and something that I see very little discussion on. Sure, I see LOTS of talk about revenues, i.e. six-figure businesses, multi-six-figure businesses, seven-figure businesses, but you never seem to get to the real story behind these headlines – how much profits are they really making?

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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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Give the Benefit of the Doubt to Honor Your Relationships

Virtual Moxie

Recently, I ran into a seriously difficult problem with a trusted vendor. Friends told me to walk away--find someone new. But because this is a trusted vendor, and I've worked with this company for years, I want to have a conversation and find out what happened, as well as what will happen to prevent this thing in the future. The point of my telling this story is that I'm sure there are lots of people who wouldn't bother.

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Toxic Work, Freedom and Why More People are Choosing Freelancing

Small Business Labs

The New York Time's article A Toxic Work World nicely summarizes the growing Darwinian nature of traditional jobs. Key quote: FOR many Americans, life has become all competition all the time. Workers across the socioeconomic spectrum, from hotel housekeepers to surgeons, have stories about toiling 12- to 16-hour days (often without overtime pay) and experiencing anxiety attacks and exhaustion.

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Periscope: Here is Why I Wouldn’t Use This as a Marketing Tool

Office Organization Success

There is always the latest *hot* new marketing tool that you can use to market your business. What was in favor just a couple of years ago has now been replaced with the latest whiz-bang tool. Just because there is a new tool available doesn’t necessarily mean it’s right for you and/or your business and you should use it. One of the latest marketing tools I’m hearing about is the new social media tool, Periscope.

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Be even more successful by using these 3 little words

Office Dynamics

One of the benefits of being in my line of work is learning little-known, proven workplace-effectiveness techniques that increase success – and then sharing them with you! For example, did you know that changing just a few of the everyday words you use while conducting business can actually enhance people’s positive impressions. Be even more successful by using these 3 little words.

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How to Spur Employees Into Being More Loyal and Productive

On The Job

You might remember a time when you knew not only the names of everyone in your department or company, but details about their likes and and dislikes. You knew who hated coffee, who played in a jazz band and who was training for a marathon. Nowadays, however, you’re lucky to remember an employee’s last name. Your department or company is growing and that means there are a lot more people on the payroll.

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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 Canadian Coworking Conference & the Globalization of Coworking

Small Business Labs

Last week about 150 people gathered in Toronto for the 1st Annual GCUC Canadian Coworking Conference.  There are about (or, as they say up north "aboot") 100 coworking spaces in Canada and this conference was about the same size as the first global coworking conference, which was held back in 2009.  There are now coworking conferences all over the world and the industry has grown to thousands of spaces.

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Would Life Just Be Easier if I Got a J•O•B?

Tips From T. Marie

If you’re an owner of a micro business like I am, most of the time you consider yourself lucky to be your own boss. Yet every once in a while the stress of highly fluctuating income, self-employment taxes, and the solitude of going it alone makes you wonder. “Would life be easier if I just got a job?”. Perhaps it’s been the upheavals in my life during the past 12 months, or perhaps it was an amazing job description, but I recently found myself; :gasp: *cough* ; applying for a job.

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Natural Organizing

Clutter Coach

by Originally posted 2011-05-03 13:55:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter You aren’t a cookie cut from a generic mold (even though you’re sweet). You deserve more than a cookie cutter approach to organizing. Methods you’ve read about in books may partially work, or not work at all. Or they’ll work for awhile but then something happens to make them stop working.

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Building Client Trust: Communication is Key

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. Effective client communication is a crucial element in running a service-based business, yet it is often overlooked in favor of things we think are more important, like client work. However, it is so important for clients to feel as though they are in good hands, to know that work is getting done and progress is being made, and not to have to worry that things are falling through the cracks.

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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 Story Of Transmaraton – 64 KM Ultramarathon

Brilliantly Better

Last year I ran my first mountain half marathon, in a competition called Transmaraton, on “the most beautiful road in the world, Transfagarasan” (I didn’t … The post The Story Of Transmaraton – 64 KM Ultramarathon appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Why You Need A Clarity Day (And How To Make It Happen)

Productivityist

Over the summer, my to do list grew exponentially. I expected a break but never really got one. I felt frazzled part of the time and completely wiped out the rest of the time. As a result, I was cranky and short with people, which is really out of character for me. My sleep patterns were all over the place and I wasn’t able to move forward with as much drive and focus as I was accustomed to.

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5 smart tips to avoid going broke as a freelancer

Men With Pens

Click here to read the full article →Another rocking post from Men With Pens! 5 smart tips to avoid going broke as a freelancer first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Why Breakthroughs & Epiphanies don’t work anymore

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Is there any human desire more universal than the itch to improve ourselves? The itch is the force behind multi-billion dollar industries in health, fitness, self-help, publishing, medicine and therapy. It’s especially vexing to entrepreneurs, who are the most optimistic of all when it comes to their intentions for the future versus where they are today.

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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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Productivity Advice: Break Your iPhone

Productivityist

I recently did something I should not have. I opened up my iPhone and tried to clean off the dust on the camera lens. Well, I got the dust out, but managed to break my iPhone. That happened a few days ago. While I’ve had time to cool my heels – and activate an old phone – I’ve realized that this snafu indeed has a silver lining. I am much more productive now.

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The Productivityist Podcast 58: Building Better Teams with Jared Brown

Productivityist

This episode features a discussion with Jared Brown of Hubstaff. Jared and I talk about what you need to do in order to make bringing people on to work with you a more beneficial experience for everyone involved. As someone who is growing a team (slowly, but surely) I wanted to get some solid advice from an expert, and Jared certainly fits the bill.

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Review – Critical Tactics In OmniFocus

Productivityist

Evernote Essentials , by Brett Kelly is without doubt one of the finest software guides I have ever read. I was able to read it as an Evernote ‘newbie’ and found myself taken on a voyage of organizational discovery with a remarkably balanced mix of expert guidance and child-like humor. It remains one of the easiest books I’ve consumed because it was so much fun.