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The 1 Word Every Successful Career Needs

On The Job

Here's my 2011 gift to you: I'm not going to write a list of new year's career resolutions. I'm not going to come down in favor -- or not -- of setting goals for yourself this year. (If you'd like to read such a post, there are about 62 million out there floating around on the blogosphere. Take your pick.) Instead, I'm going to offer you a simple way to know if you're doing what you should be doing this year for your career.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

Continuing our annual tradition, below is our Top 10 Small Business Trends list for 2011.  To see our past lists, click on the year: 2010 , 2009 , 2008.  Our overall economic outlook is for continued moderate growth with U.S. GDP increasing 3%-3.5%.  While we expect hiring and the job market to improve, unemployment will remain stubbornly high, finishing the year around 9.2%.  Economic. 1.  The Small Business Economy Recovers from the Great Recession: &#

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Guide to Eco Cruises

Eco-Office Gals

Eco cruises are steadily growing in popularity as more and more cruise enthusiasts, and travelers in general, discover the friendlier way to enjoy a cruise vacation. Not only are cruise trips becoming greener and greener, but eco conscious activities and tours are being incorporated into the options available to guests. Some cruise lines, such as Princess Cruises and Holland America are being noted or their ocean friendly practices, eco tours and activities for green enthusiasts of all levels.

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Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie Share Her Story on #WIBRadio on Jan 3 @ 1pm CST | Main | Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc. Link Lineup! » Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs It is hard to believe that it is already January!

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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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Hello, hello, hello, hello.

Virtual Moxie

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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Virtual Assistants – Get in Touch!

The Small Business Blog

Happy New Year to you all – I hope that 2011 brings you all health and prosperity. My last post of 2010 spoke about the “ Trough of Disillusionment ” that many Virtual Assistants currently find themselves in. I believe that Virtual Assistants are the best way for businesses to grow, by allowing businesses to outsource the tasks that the business owner does not specialise in.

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Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Procrastination, Email, Multi-Tasking, Family Management, Soc Media Backup Etc. Link Lineup! | Main | Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show » Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization Corinne McElroy of Edge of Change knows that the business advice you depend upon comes from m

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How often should you publish your ezine?

Office Organization Success

This is something I get asked all the time! In fact, just this week a client asked me, I was wondering if you think a quarterly ezine is acceptable as opposed to a monthly one. It would certainly be more content rich but do you think that a quarterly schedule may not be “regular&# enough and result in out of sight out of mind… ? And here’s my reply: With all the emails that are currently flooding our inboxes it’s so easy for your’s to get lost in the masses, and if

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Have A Successful and Organized New Year! + A Giveaway

Complete Organizing Solutions

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Our family enjoyed Christmas festivities in New York this year which included an extended stay due to a wintry snow storm that canceled our flight home for several days. We thoroughly enjoyed sledding and it was great to have the extra time visiting family, but it is definitely good to be home!

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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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Bad Career Advice: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

Eat Your Career

This post is part of my Bad Career Advice series in which I expose outdated, clichéd, and counterproductive advice for exactly what it is. A few years ago, a small book titled Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff became an overnight sensation in the self-help world. The general idea—that you shouldn’t get so bogged down in the details that you lose sight of the big picture—was fine in theory.

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Knowing Your Customer’s Most Basic Needs

Make or Break Moments

I am reading the latest Good Housekeeping magazine and had to laugh out loud at a brief article touting a new website and mobile application. The company is called Run Pee. Target audience: post child bearing women or people with a weak bladder who love to go to the movies. Visit Run Pee to learn [.].

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Easy Office Organization Home-Study System is now available as an all-in-one product!

Office Organization Success

Yep! You read that right. The Easy Office Organization Home-Study Program has been extremely popular since I launched it in September 2008, but over the past couple of years several of you have come to me and asked if it’s available to purchase all in one go as you didn’t want to have to wait a whole six months to get all of the information.

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7 Ways to Become a Better Writer

On The Job

Writing is easy for me. Figuring out how to work my food processor or keep the cats from chewing on plastic bags until they puke is much tougher. Fortunately, there is help for those who struggle with writing. (And anyone who can figure out how to work my food processor is welcome to buy it at my next garage sale.) If you want to become a better writer, check out this column I did for Gannett/USA Today: Have you ever written an e-mail or report that uses phrases like "multiple regression analysi

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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 Telecommuting Leading to Peak Travel?

Small Business Labs

Wired's Study Suggests We've Hit 'Peak Travel" covers research that suggests demand for travel and automobile ownership in the developed world may have reached a saturation point.  The study authors looked at travel patterns for a number of countries between 1970 and 2008.  They found a strong correlation between rising prosperity and travel.  But the trend flattened starting in 2003.  Key quote: “Since 2003, motorized travel demand has leveled out or even

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7 Steps to Better Note Taking

Ian's Messy Desk

Image via Wikipedia. When I first started playing around with computerized mind mapping, I used an early offering from MindJet called, Smart Mind (I believe). One of the sample maps included with the software was an outline of steps to taking better notes. I wasn’t sure about mind mapping at the time, but I wanted to keep the information from this map.

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Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Webinar

Laughing all the Way to Work

Hi Everyone, Once again I will be presenting on Taking Effective Meeting Minutes. The webinar is scheduled for January 25, 2011 at 1 p.m. ET. It is an informative session that will bring you from the pre-meeting checklist to taking the minutes, with ideas for formatting and suggested wording. Please click on the link for more information or to register: [link] I look forward to meeting you live on the webinar.

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Making it Easy to Do Business

Make or Break Moments

Today the mirror was held up to my business and the reflection wasn’t pretty. It has nothing to do with the oral surgery from yesterday and my swollen chipmunk cheek or the red nose from a wicked bad cold… nope, a potential customer showed me that I wasn’t that easy to do business with. In this [.].

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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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Perceived as Overqualified—What Now?

Job Advice Blog

Some job seekers, especially those who’ve been in transition for an extended time, start undervaluing their worth, and as a result, they might begin applying for positions below the levels they had in past. The hiring authorities then ask the obvious: why would an applicant take a lesser job than previously held, and why should [.].

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January unfolding

Loosely Speaking

It’s a contemplative month for me. One child leaving home (for the second time), another well into adulthood and having a birthday, the holidays over, snow on the ground, work AND life to consider… So, enjoying a few dear minutes or so of absolute alone time today, I got a new client’s project proposal sent off and sat down to do a little sewing for two of the sweet granddaughters in my life who have birthdays right around the corner.

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Looking Forward in 2011

Laughing all the Way to Work

Happy New Year everyone! The new year is a good time to bring up the Look-Forward Agenda. One of the challenges the recording secretary will have is to make sure they don't miss items that need to be dealt with at each meeting. The Look-Forward Agenda is very helpful for this. It is basically a list of items that are regularly dealt with throughout the year and provides a timetable of when these items need to be added to the agenda.

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baby molly

Eventualism

My heart has been touched. That hardly ever happens, eventually or otherwise. I’m not going to make like a productivity pundit today. I’m also not even going to try to explain the whole story of Molly Campbell, despite my way with wordage. But what I will say that is that this little baby girl from [.] baby molly comes courtesy of Eventualism.

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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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Trip To Switzerland – January 2011

Brilliantly Better

Tweet As you already know, I’m on a quest to tame 12 monkeys by the end of this year. But as busy as I can get while taming those monkeys, I promised myself to keep having a life. And, most important, keep traveling. So, I spent the New Year Eve at my sister, in Geneva, Switzerland. There’s not much to tell about my staying there, other than I thoroughly enjoyed being with my family.

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50 Sources For Free and Low Cost Photo Images

Small Business CEO

Adding images and photos to your blog posts seems to add visual interst to just about any article. But if you post to your blog daily or almost daily then you know just how costly it can be to purchase stock images. So today we’re sharing with you a large list of photo image sources. TJ McCue, a regular contributor to Small Business Trends, has compiled a list of 50 image sites where you can get photos for free or at minimal prices.

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Three Ways Writers Evolve Over Time

Men With Pens

You know, I sat here for a long time trying to think of something to say about Phil. I mean, he’s got a goofy looking avatar, he’s shorn closer than a sheep and he sends me good posts. What more can I say? Then it hit me – for all that I don’t know much about Phil, I know this: he observes and pays attention to his writing. Not just how he’s writing now, but how he used to write, and how he’ll be writing in the future.

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Exclusive January Entrepreneurial Productivity Special **Limited time & number available.**

Denise Aday

Get and stay ahead of the curve in 2011! Make the most of your time from the get-go this year by jump starting your own personal productivity and refining your business systems and procedures. We’re looking to work with a few online solo or small team entrepreneurs who are highly motivated to cut through the noise and mess to focus on the essential and to be and do their very best this year.

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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