Sat.Jun 03, 2017 - Fri.Jun 09, 2017

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Day in the life: Tess Keppe

Practically Perfect PA

This month’s day in the life is from Tess Keppe who is a private PA. Tess has a varied role with lots of different aspects of her day. She has some great advice for other assistants, here is the day in the life: Tess Keppe. . What are the main aspects of your role? My role is making sure that my boss’ life and day run smoothly and efficiently.

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Despite Strong Job Market, Economic Uncertainty Still High

Small Business Labs

We consider the trend towards rising levels of economic uncertainty and insecurity to be one of most powerful trends we follow. We also think it's one of the least studied and understood. A combination of factors drive economic uncertainty. These include relatively slow growth, stagnant wages, middle class job losses and declining job security. In addition, a growing amount of research also points to income volatility as a cause of economic uncertainty.

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Small Steps to Cut Down Your Meat Consumption

Eco-Office Gals

Vegetarianism and veganism seem to be everywhere at the moment. You’ve tried to ignore it, but at the back of your mind, you can’t help but feel swept up in it. Netflix is full of documentaries about the benefits of eating less meat , be it for environmental, health or animal welfare reasons, and once you’ve seen a couple of these docs, you might have decided you’d like to attempt to cut down on eating meat, but aren’t sure where to start.

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3 Ways to Deal With a Blame Shifter

On The Job

Many workplace cultures encourage employees to make mistakes as a way to learn and push toward innovation. Unfortunately, there are still many workplaces today that also have little tolerance of missteps and end up breeding employees who become very adept at shifting the blame. If you're a teammate of someone who never accepts responsibility for an error and is willing to throw you under the bus, then it's time to take some steps to ensure it doesn't hurt your career.

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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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Did we make the Virtual Summit happen?

Practically Perfect PA

So, did we make the Virtual Summit happen? I just wanted to write a very quick blog post today to let everyone know that we did indeed raise all of the money we needed for the Practically Perfect PA Virtual Summit to happen! In fact, we surpassed the target of £5,000 and managed to raise just over £6,800! Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that pledged their support!

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Eco-Friendly Buildings Found All Over Globe

Eco-Office Gals

Because our planet is faced with finite resources and problems with pollution, opportunities to erect eco-friendly buildings must be embraced whenever possible. Fortunately, there is a huge trend toward “green” architecture, which includes sustainable materials and environmentally sensitive design choices that lower the structure’s carbon footprint.

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IT Security Services and Technology – Sci-fi promo marketing video

Andrea Kalli

Here’s my latest IT Security Services video project for a client – a Sci-fi theme promo video. Designed and edited by [link] – Andrea Kalli – Video Design. Video Editing Services. Video Marketing. If you want to see more, check out my showcase videos: [link]. Technology Marketing Videos for your IT Support and Services or MSP Business.

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The art of finding the perfect venue for your corporate event

Practically Perfect PA

Organising a business event or corporate hospitality can be a tricky and time consuming task. The art of finding the perfect venue for your corporate event is never easy. When the pressure is on to find an impressive venue to wow your clients, or source the ideal training venue for your delegates, or book the perfect executive meeting room, it’s good to know that help is at hand.

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Meal Delivery Heating Up

Small Business Labs

Blue Apron , a meal kit delivery service company, has filed for an IPO.  The company reported $795 million in revenue for 2016, up from $341 million in revenue for 2015. It lost $55 million in 2016 compared to $47 million in 2015. There's been a lot of press coverage recently on the failure of VC-backed food delivery businesses. Most of it claims  that food delivery in general is not a viable business.

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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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Tips for Combining Work and Play Around the Home

Productivity Bits

No one likes chores. The word itself implies a task that must be done but gives no pleasure. Where did this poor relationship with housework originate? For most of us, it probably began in childhood, when we had to quell our urge to run around with friends and play the day away in order to complete those whine-inducing chores. Chores became synonymous with having the fun sucked out of the day.

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Podcast 059: Living with others

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! Living with others, whether it’s roommates, kids or adult children, takes work. Look at running your home like a business to improve productivity, communication and shared vision. Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play.

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Technology of the week: Feedly

Practically Perfect PA

Today’s Technology of the week : Feedly. Here are all the details… What is Feedly? Feedly is an app and website that aggregates all of your news, feeds and online content into one place. It compiles news feeds from a whole load of sources for users to read and share with others. What does it do? Feedly has lots of different functions, firstly you can use the app to collect all of your different news feeds, blog posts, articles and other online material and store it in one place.

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New Minute-taking Webinar

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am giving a minute-taking webinar on June 14 and invite you to join in. Along with the more traditional minute-taking role, I will be talking about 'live' minute taking. It can seem very intimidating when all eyes are on you as you type, but there is a way to make even this less stressful. I will also talk about those times when your boss calls you into a meeting at the last minute to take notes and you weren't expecting it.

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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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Can’t Keep a Job? Here’s Why

Eat Your Career

Every week, I get a ton of emails from blog readers with career questions they want me to answer. Typically, I don’t provide career advice via email—that’s why we have the monthly Q&A (“Ask the Career Coach”) video sessions. Members of the Free Career Resource Library can attend for free and submit questions of their own. But one question I get asked a lot is about job hopping.

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Focus like a celebrity chef

Clutter Coach

by What do celebrity chefs know that you don’t? Well, you probably do know about it, but may not have thought about applying it in different areas. . They spend a lot of time preparing before they work so everything will go more smoothly. How do you set up your work space so you can stay focused and get things done? Mise-en-place. . Do you watch cooking shows?

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How Gamification Leads to Business Success

On The Job

Look at your keychain. See all those "reward" tags hanging from it? Now, check out your wallet. Are there credit cards in there that offer frequent flier miles? What about your smartphone? Got apps that help you track what you've eaten today? If any of these apply to you, then you are living proof of the power of gamification, or using game-like elements to encourage customer participation.

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One Word To Change How You View Productivity

Productivityist

Today’s guest post is from Johan D’Haeseleer. Johan is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Extra Time. Johan’s passion is helping people make the most of their time and reduce their stress levels. . Productivity can get confusing at times, right? But at its core, productivity is actually simple. To be productive, you have to do the right things in the right way.

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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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Micro-Influencers: What They Are and Why You Need Them on Your Side

Small Business CEO

When it comes to promoting a business online, marketers and business owners need to get creative and use all the best tools and tactics available to stand out among their competition. In this blog post, I want to show you why micro-influencers can be one of the strongest and most effective tools in your arsenal and how they can help with the growth of your SME.

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Be your own “boss”

Clutter Coach

by This week I’m giving you the second tip in my new book. This is one of my favorite tips, actually. I think it’s applicable in many situations. Be your own “boss” and delineate specifically what needs to be done. Then put on your “employee” hat and just get to work; no more deciding or second guessing or looking for new ideas.

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Caught in the Employee Engagement Trap?

Energage

Why HR Can’t Be Solely Responsible for Employee Engagement. From recruiting and retention to productivity and profitability, the connection between employee engagement and business results is well established. Through our own Top Work p laces research, we’ve identified organizations that achieve employee engagement levels more than double the U.S. average and outperform their peers on business metrics, with nearly 30% better returns.

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Emotional Intelligence Meets Travel Planning

Office Dynamics

What do emotional intelligence and travel planning have in common? Plenty. I have been traveling extensively for business (and a little pleasure) for 3 straight months. To be honest, it is wearing on me. Several of my trips involved being gone for 5 days; only to come home for 3 or 4 days and leave again for a week. I have been a business traveler for 27 years.

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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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5 Important Marketing Trends for Legal Professionals

Small Business CEO

There are few industries that move faster than marketing. Especially now that marketing is essentially combined with the even faster-moving technology industry, it can be very difficult to keep up. Legal professionals that stay on top of marketing trends and effectively use the latest strategies can get a leg up on all of the competition. Those who do not keep up and adapt can quickly find themselves left behind.

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Real Artists Don’t Starve with Jeff Goins

Productivityist

Jeff Goins is out to prove that real artists don’t have to starve. In fact, he is out to prove that they can thrive in his latest book Real Artists Don’t Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age. My wife and I had the chance to spend time with Jeff at Tropical Think Tank in early 2017 and we had some fantastic conversations surrounding artistry, writing, business, family, and more.

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A Manager’s Guide to Giving Proper Employee Performance Evaluations

Small Business CEO

Make no mistake about it, administering an Employee Performance Evaluation is never easy. While the process of assessing employee performance may seem intimidating at first, they do become easier the more a manager does them. Performance, including productivity and morale, go up significantly when managers empower employees with the constructive criticism and positive feedback they need to strive to be the best they can be for the betterment of the company.

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How Small Businesses Save With Cowork Solutions

Small Business CEO

Whether you’re expanding, want a more professional environment or are just sick of working alone, there comes a point for every small business where your home office is no longer the right environment. However, you may not have the finances or a business requirement to rent a permanent office space. There is another option. One that is more flexible and cost effective compared to a traditional office space: coworking.

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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