Sat.Apr 21, 2012 - Fri.Apr 27, 2012

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The Elevator Pitch Checklist

Job Advice Blog

A recent article of mine covered most people’s lack of efficacy in practicing their elevator pitches at job search networking meetings. I wanted to follow up on that and prove my tenets, so I brainstormed with a group of trusted associates—all of whom are in transition—and we came up with some “best practices.” Following are [.].

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Collaboration

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Make sure that you set achievable goals for your team to give them something to work together for. 2.

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The 501 Productivity: Bolting Out The Door At 5:01 PM

Productivity Bits

I recently came across the 501 etymology and I thought of borrowing the concept over to productivity; thus, The 501 Productivity. The phrase “ 5:01 developer ” was coined to describe a “developer who bolts out the door at 1 minute past 5pm.” We’ve worked with these people – when the clock strikes at the 5:00 PM mark, they’re gone for the day.

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Supporting Your Leader

Office Dynamics

You know the old adage that two brains are better than one? Well, think of this in terms of partnering with your leader. We can definitely do great things individually but when we join forces with our leader we can be extraordinary! This excerpt from Who Took My Pen…Again proves a great point: Support. Partner with Your Leader. Do you partner with your leader?

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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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A Green Life is a Good Life

Eco-Office Gals

Do you strive for a green lifestyle? It can sometimes be a struggle to keep with the latest green trends as you live your busy life. However, you might be surprised to learn how changing small facets of your everyday life can add up to big changes for preserving the planet. Making Your House a Green House. Thinking about ways to save the planet can sure keep you up at night.

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What is Fit, and Why Does it Matter?

Virtual Moxie

. Jaime wrote to pick my brain : “Anastacia, yesterday's tip struck home for me. I don't want to struggle, or, as you said, "row against a strong tide." I'm not entirely clear about what that (fit) means. In what way(s) should there be “fit?” Do my clients and I have to be on the same page about everything?”. Great question! No one can ever be on the same page with another human about everything.

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The Reshoring of Manufacturing Continues

Small Business Labs

Reshoring is the latest term for manufacturing returning to the U.S. from overseas.  "Insourcing", "boomeranging" and "inshoring" are also used to describe this shift. We first spotted this trend in 2007 (and yes, we are patting ourselves on the back), and it was clear by 2010 this trend was gaining momentum. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) gave reshoring a major PR boost last year with a report on this topic.  Key quote from their report: "Over the next

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Happy Administrative Professionals Week

Office Dynamics

Dear friends and colleagues, Please allow me to be one of the first to wish you a Happy Administrative Professionals Week! From April 23 – 27, it’s time to salute you for the extra hours you put in, the extraordinary efforts you make to assist others, the masterful way you keep clients and employees happy, and so much more! Think of this week as a “new year” for success-minded assistants like yourself.

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Is Your Accountant A Bean Counting Historian?

The Small Business Blog

These days we hear much about business mentoring and business consultants and how important it all is to the survival of all SMEs/SMBs. I can’t help but wonder where it all went wrong? Business has always been surrounded by advisors, who could have helped, their accountants. Why this need for all this mentoring and consulting?

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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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Moxie Tip 159: Believe What You See

Virtual Moxie

Absolutely believe a person when s/he shows her/himself to you for the first time, and be rapidly guided accordingly. If you see red flags, “Oh, but.” never serves you. You can't change anyone, ever, and they won't change for or because of you. Trust what you see and experience.

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Does WordPress have a BUB?

Eco-Office Gals

Years ago a computer teacher told the class “You will not find a BUB on your keyboard!” Huh?? Blow Up Button – Ohhhhh! I’m not saying wordpress has a blow up button but if you don’t take simple measures – it might as well! WP hacks & crashes have become a concern the past week or more including sites like WooThemes and one of my own valued clients site and I’m sure that is far – far from the end of the list!

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Would You Reveal Your Shortcomings?

Office Dynamics

Welcome to the Who Took My Pen. Again? Annual Blog-a-thon for Administrative Professionals. If you are just tuning in, here's the scoop! We are holding 4th Annual Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession. We hold this blog-a-thon each April and the goal is to make assistants aware of the resources available to them and build a community of administrative assistant and executive assistants who want to learn and grow and flourish in their career of choice!

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Getting into bed with the celebs

The Small Business Blog

Not about frocks Keep up won’t you; I’m not asking you to actually sleep with the celebs. I don’t allow anyone to sleep with me. Simon Cowell’s unofficial biography mentioned Dannii Minogue but not me. Yet, coincidentally, I also have a chic shorter ‘do and a couple of designer frocks with an of-the-moment statement shoulder.

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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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Moxie Tip 158: Struggle = Less Billable Time

Virtual Moxie

The more you struggle with people who don’t fit, the less free time and time to do billable work you have. At the first red flag, end the conversation graciously and move on.

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Tips for Setting Up a Remote Workforce

On The Job

Since technology can keep us connected to work 24/7, many companies are scrapping the idea of traditional office space and instead embracing the idea that work can happen remotely. Still, such arrangements can come with challenges: • How does a boss keep employees engaged when they're thousands of miles away? • How can a leader communicate key concepts effectively so that workers are on the same page?

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Who's Buying All Those iPads?

Small Business Labs

In case you missed it, Apple reported yet another quarter of strong sales and earnings yesterday.  Last quarter they sold 35 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads.  Not bad. So who is buying all the iPads?  Well, Bank Technology News covers this in their article The Young and the Affluent:  A Sweet Spot for Tablets.  The article reports on Tablet research conducted by the syndicated research firm Javelin.   Javelin says tablet owners are younger and wealthier

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How Cloud Computing is Revolutionizing Project Collaboration and Gaming

The Small Business Blog

As technology has advanced over the past decade, cloud computing has revolutionized life for both businesses and individuals. Cloud computing allows users to store data, process information, and retain settings on a central server. This allows mission-critical data to be stored in a safe location.

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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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Showcase Your Talents

Office Dynamics

I truly believe that every person has a special gift they were born with—something that makes them unique, different, and distinct. And I know that is true of you. After 21+ years of inspiring greatness is administrative assistants, secretaries, and executive assistants, I have witnessed the beauty of “the special gift” being opened. It takes courage to dig deep, explore your uniqueness, and then bring it forward.

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Who’s Building Your Website?

Tips From T. Marie

With the popularity of WordPress new ‘website designers’ are coming out of the woodwork. It’s true, the WordPress CMS framework is ideal for business websites as well as easy to work with in comparison to flash and html websites. That doesn’t mean that just anyone can create a well designed, professional website that is uniquely fit to your business.

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How to Start and Keep a Journal

Ian's Messy Desk

I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t start keeping a journal until later in my life. I had regarded writing in a diary as being too self-absorbed. However, once I overcame the perception and got started, I quickly discovered the benefit and pleasure that came from keeping a journal. However, it’s not always easy to keep a journal. We tend to side-track the process with self-imposed limits.

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The Secret Behind The Success of Group Buying

The Small Business Blog

In recent years, businesses have been exploring new ways to market and sell their products and services. Group buying is a phenomenon that has caught on in the last few years and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down in the future.

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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 Ways to thank the assistants who help you succeed

Office Dynamics

Did you know it’s Administrative Professionals Week? This happens to be one of my favorite weeks all year – and not just because I was once an assistant myself before I founded my company back in 1990. I love celebrating this week because it gives me a chance to thank my own assistant for everything she does to help be even more successful. If it weren’t for administrative professionals, business would cease.

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Keep the Ball Rolling After an Event

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. You’ve just returned from a conference, and you’re excited, motivated and feeling great! The party’s not over just because you’re no longer wearing a name badge! Resist the urge to get “back to business” the minute you walk through the door – now is the best time to harness that positive energy and put what you’ve learned into action.

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Forrester Thinks Wearable Computing is Taking Off

Small Business Labs

Forrester issued a report saying wearable computing is about to take off.   As we pointed out in a prior post on this topic , wearable computing is not a new trend.  For decades computing devices designed to be attached to the human body have been available.  Most of have been targeted at health and fitness.  Workout related heart rate monitors, for example, have been around since the 1980s.   Forrester believes that consumer interest in wearables for applications i

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Moxie Tip 160: Spend More Time Initially

Virtual Moxie

Do more work on the front end of things with clients, to prevent running into problems, conflicts, etc., once the relationship begins.

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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