Sat.Aug 29, 2015 - Fri.Sep 04, 2015

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3 Simple Strategies for Discovering What Your Target Market Wants

Office Organization Success

To find out exactly what your target market wants, you gotta ask them! Sounds easy enough, right? But you’d be surprised at how many business owners don’t do this. They just assume they know what their audience wants. Or they see someone else having success with a product or program, so offer something similar to their own clients and subscribers (I remember once a mentor telling me that I’ll always have success if I offer list building.

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Beginning Your Job Search? Start By Building Your Brand

Office Dynamics

Maintaining and building your online persona is a part of the new job search. Building your personal brand is crucial to standing out from the crowd when job hunting. After all, Inc reports that every corporate job opening attracts an average of 250 resumes, but on average only four to six people will interview for the position. Here’s a look at some tips on how you can build your online presence and find the job that is right for you.

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5 Personal Development Tests to Help You Be More Successful

Virtual Moxie

As a coach to smart women wanting to run smarter businesses, I help clients explore all manner of things (like who they are, what they do well, what they should be focusing on, how to set up a business strongly, and how best to market their services). Exploration of themselves, others, and the world around them is some of the most important work they'll ever do.

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The 4 steps of business travel planning: Delivering your Exec to their destination

Practically Perfect PA

Over the last few weeks I have been looking at the four stages of business travel planning. Today I am going to write about stage two – delivering your Executive to their destination. At this point we have organised the trip, confirmed flights, booked the hotel, written the itinerary and waved goodbye to our Executives. Now, from the comfort of our desk we have to ensure they arrive at their destination without any problems.

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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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Freelancers Embrace Health Insurance

Small Business Labs

According to data from the 2015 MBO Partners State of Independent study , the percentage of U.S. full-time independent workers/freelancers who report having health insurance increased from 64% in 2013 to 82% in 2015.  This increase in coverage means that roughly 3.2 million more freelancers have health insurance than in 2013. Full-time independent workers are defined as those who work at least 15 hours a week as independent workers/freelancers (self-employed, independent contractors, etc.)

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Opportunity Is Disguised As A Barrier

Office Dynamics

What’s standing in your way? Do you give up at the first sign of resistance? As soon as you hit a bump on the road to your dreams, do you back off? Do you say to yourself, “This just isn’t meant to happen?” Or “This must be a sign that I need to forget this dream.”. Opportunity Is Disguised As A Barrier. Opportunities for growth might be more commonly known as barriers, obstacles or road blocks.

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The hidden side of getting organized

Clutter Coach

by Originally posted 2012-07-31 17:20:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter How does it feel to be disorganized? Not so good, right? I’ve heard people say embarrassed, overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious and desperate. Here’s the thing. It can be really hard to make a change when you’re in the grip of such negative emotions. If you act from those emotions, every decision will be agony and you’ll feel so tired and disheartened that you won’t get very far anyway.

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Defining the Human Cloud

Small Business Labs

The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) - a leading, global analyst firm focused on the use of contingent workers by businesses - recently released a report on the human cloud. It's only available to their members. But since I called them a "leading, global analyst firm" and pitch them again at the end of this article, I'm hoping they'll be OK with me "borrowing" a bit from their report.

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5 Reasons Your Team Hates Data -- and How to Get Them to Love It

On The Job

When leaders start to talk about data to non-technical employees, reactions can vary. Some employees will immediately break eye contact, thinking about how to fake an aneurism to get out of the room. Others will nod agreeably, but seem to have a glazed look in their eyes as if they’ve just entered a parallel universe. Still others will get agitated or angry, sort of like 5-year-olds who have just been told they will now only get broccoli for dessert.

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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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Labor Day Sale On Your Favorite Items

Office Dynamics

Our office is gearing up for a holiday break and we hope that you are doing the same! This is the time of year that everyone is heading back to school. After you settle back in with a cozy cup of pumpkin-flavored-anything we hope you take a moment to think about your own personal and professional development. What are your goals? Are you planning on diving into an online learning course that you can study at your own pace?

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6 Email Principles To Boost Productivity And Reduce Stress

Productivityist

David Ly Khim is a growth marketer for Sidekick by HubSpot where he writes about email productivity. When he isn’t writing, he is often found reading a book or on the dance floor. He would love it if you connect with him on Twitter @davidlykhim. Email is a strange beast. There’s a fine balance between using it as an effective means of communication and letting it drain your mental energy because you’re checking it sporadically.

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The Newspaper Death Spiral

Small Business Labs

The Observer's Newspaper Death Spiral Made Plain in One Chart covers the decline in newspaper ad revenue.  The key quote is: Newspapers are not a mass medium anymore. Newspaper penetration has fallen from a high of 124% in 1950 (when Americans bought multiple papers) to 37% in 2013, according to Editor & Publisher data. Two-thirds of Americans do not buy newspapers.  The one chart, shown below, is not surprising but still quite stunning.

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The 3 Deadliest Traps Of The “Helping People Syndrome”

Brilliantly Better

There is this Buddhist story about two monks sitting in meditation on the shore of a deep river. At some point, a man comes and … The post The 3 Deadliest Traps Of The “Helping People Syndrome” appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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My Coworkers Appear Frustrated with My Disability

Office Dynamics

It’s just a common, minor handicap–so why does it frustrate staff so much? Question: “I wear a hearing aid, but still I often have the need to ask co-workers to repeat things. They all know about my handicap but naturally they don’t always remember to speak a little louder until I ask them to. I sense that a lot of them find it very aggravating to have to repeat sentences when they talk to me, and sometimes I get a polite ‘Oh, never mind, it’s not that important,’ w

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How We Use Slack

Productivityist

I’ve only sent a handful of emails to the Productivityist team over the last year. Why? It’s all because of Slack. Slack has not only improved the flow of communication throughout the team, it has also improved our overall productivity as well. Slack allows us to focus on using email for other areas of our work. It has also given us one place to look when we need to locate something for our team.

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Why You Should Let Your Client Make a Mistake

Men With Pens

Click here to read the full article →Another rocking post from Men With Pens! Why You Should Let Your Client Make a Mistake first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — 2015, [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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This is Why You Always Need to be List Building

Office Organization Success

Last week I had one of the highest number of unsubscribes for a single broadcast than I’ve had in a while. And this is perfectly normal! I know it wasn’t the content of this particular broadcast; if it was that there was something wrong with the content, I would have gotten feedback to let me know. No, the reason for the unsubscribes was simply the time of year!

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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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The Productivityist Podcast 55: The Productive Woman with Laura McLellan

Productivityist

This episode features a lengthy discussion with the host of The Productive Woman – and a productive woman in her own right – Laura McLellan. We chat about the possible differences that women and men approach productivity as well, productivity tactics to explore, and how she manages to deal with everything in her life. (And there’s a lot for her to manage!).

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Essentialism: Focus on Less Tasks to Get More Work Done

Productivityist

This is a guest post by Niklas Goeke. Niklas is a freelance writer and coach on coach.me. Action is his cure to anything, so he won’t be mad at you if you cut some corners and jump right to the audiobook and video workshop version of this post. Have you ever felt like there are just not enough hours in the day? You feel like you’re rushing from one task to the next, but still do not catch up to a point where you feel good about the stuff you got done?

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