Sat.Jan 02, 2016 - Fri.Jan 08, 2016

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Top 5 Strategies to Get Your Office Schedule Back on Track!

Office Organization Success

Getting back into the swings of things after a break is always challenging! Whether it’s time taken off during the summer, a break during the Holiday season, or simply a week’s vacation, the first few days back at your desk are usually spent playing catch-up. For me, one of the first things I do is review my stats to see what’s been happening while I’ve been away.

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The Rise of the Independent Professional Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

Getting lost in the various debates around the "gig economy" is the size and growth of the segment of independent workers who provide professional services to businesses.  As the chart below from the HBR's Your Company Needs Independent Workers shows, the number of U.S. independent workers serving businesses has grown from 4.5 million in 2011 to 6.4 million in 2015.    This is about 3 times as fast as overall employment growth during this period.

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Well, Hello, New Year--You Look Marvelous!

Virtual Moxie

Ok, I have to ask—where in the name of Pete did the past three months GO? My mother used to say that time flies so much faster as you get older, but I don't think I really felt it in a deep way till this fall. It really seems like my sabbatical just began.except it's January, and it's over. I had such a good time. I did some traveling (and fell in love with tiny-town Tennessee as well as a beautiful place in Georgia called Serenbe where I hope to hold a retreat in the Spring), slept a lot, sang

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Welcome to the new Practically Perfect PA Website

Practically Perfect PA

Hay everyone, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year! I have been busy busy busy over the festive season sprucing up the website, giving it a bit of a spring clean and adding a few new touches here and there. Basically I have completely changed the website! Why you might ask? Well, some might say that I happen to get bored pretty easily and want to change things on a fairly regular basis… Other’s might say the old blog needed modernisation and a new fresh look… I couldn

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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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How to Better Explain Complicated Information

On The Job

No one doubts the intelligence of technical people, but that doesn’t mean they’re good at everything. One of the areas where many could use some improvement is communicating technical information to non-techies. Techies often believe that communication is one of those skills that is nice to have, but not critical to their career. If they ever need it, they believe they’ll figure it out.

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Let’s Work on Your 2016 Plan Together

Office Organization Success

I know many of you are just getting back into the flow of work again this week and are probably thinking about the upcoming year … what you’re going to be doing, what you’ll be offering etc.? If you’re a bit like the deer in the headlights and are not quite sure what you’ll be doing this year, let me offer you a solution to get everything all mapped out… Business Planning Success: Create Your 90-Day P.R.O.F.I.T.

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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: Assist Conference ticket!

Practically Perfect PA

Thanks to our wonderful partners at The PA Show we have a very special giveaway for Practically Perfect PA readers this month. We are offering one lucky reader the chance to attend the Assist Conference for free. Yes that is right – a whole day of fantastic training specifically for assistants – completely for free! The conference is taking place on Friday 26th February 2016 in London.

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Daily Practice for Those Little Messes

Clutter Coach

by It’s Wednesday! That means time for a new chapter. You can read them here every week, or buy the ebook here. Simple Way #4. Tidy Up. Daily living involves getting stuff out, using it, moving it around and combining it with other stuff. No one stays organized at every moment because life creates little messes. So make it a daily practice to clean up those little messes.

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Costly Office Supply Management Discussion

Office Dynamics

In the case of the office supply management that Sula details below, is signage the answer or can this admin team come up with some additional solutions to the costly office supplies issue? Question: “We’re having a real problem keeping office supply costs in check. When things are supplied for people free at work, they seem to get extra careless about their use, and the number of pens, sticky notes, plastic spoons, paper towels and cups we go through is staggering and expensive.

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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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Slow Cooker Red Roast Pulled Pork Recipe

Professional Assistant Blog

Comfort food is always welcomed in the winter time when staying in is a choice. Here’s Mardi Michel’s slow cooker red roast pulled pork recipe from JamieOliver.com. Slow Cooker Red Roast Pulled Pork. Serves 6. Ingredients. 1kg pork shoulder, bone in. 2 teaspoons vegetable or peanut oil. For the sauce : 1 large shallot. 2 cloves garlic. 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger. 1 teaspoons Chinese five spice powder. ½ cup (120mls) pomegranate juice. 2 tablespoons brown sugar. 2 tablespoons soy s

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How the On-Demand Economy is Making it Easier to Start a Business

Small Business Labs

Intuit CEO Brad Smith's article How On-demand is Ushering in a New Era of Entrepreneurship  covers a very important and under appreciated benefit of the on-demand economy - it reduces the friction and risk associated with starting a business.  "Friction", in this case, means the amount of time, effort and money associated with getting a business going.

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Three DIY Organizing Solutions

Clutter Coach

by For today's post, I decided to wander around the Instructables website and see what clever ideas people had for simple household organizing problems. This site always has inspired creations and hacks to improve your daily life. Here are three fun ones I found: Plastic Bag Dispenser This amusing Instructable tells how to make a dispenser out of a sweatshirt sleeve.

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Take a Customer Service Approach to Retain Employees

Office Dynamics

Four ways to use the customer service approach to retain employees. Outspoken billionaire and founder of Virgin Airlines Richard Branson once said that employees come first in a company, even before customers. Research into employee retention and job satisfaction takes Branson’s words a little further, recommending that the same customer service techniques used by successful companies should be used on employees.

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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 2016 Running Calendar

Brilliantly Better

The first half of 2016 is already planned – there will be 5 races: 1 semi-marathon, 2 full marathons and 2 ultra-marathons. As for the second part of my 2016 running calendar, I chose to keep a little bit of flexibility, party… The post My 2016 Running Calendar appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Is the Staffing Industry Facing a Kodak Moment?

Small Business Labs

These are good times for the temporary staffing industry. As the American Staffing Association chart below shows, the industry has been booming since the steep declines caused by the Great Recession.  2015 was another record setting year and pretty much everyone in the staffing industry is predicting good times ahead. Many in the industry also feel the threat posed by online talent marketplaces, freelancers management systems and independent contractors in general is minor or simply doesn&

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Starting Somewhere

Clutter Coach

by Starting is hard. It means going from a standstill into some. useful activity that you may not feel confident about doing. Once you have. started, though, it’s much easier to. continue. That’s why I have a bunch of tricks for just getting started, any. which way. One typical problem people have is that everything they need. to do seems equally important.

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A 5 Step Guide to Productive Travel: How to Keep Going Forward When You’re Going Places

Productivityist

As I write this, I’m sitting in a hotel room in Seattle preparing to head off for a week of travel. It doesn’t matter when travel takes place, it is disruptive. This disruption can wreak havoc on your productivity and can even carry over beyond your travel period if you don’t deal with it accordingly. I’ve been there and it’s not fun.

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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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How To Follow Your Passion And Make A Living Out Of It

Brilliantly Better

Everybody and their mother will tell you nowadays to follow your passion. To dream big. To be bold. To make whatever you can to turn your dreams into reality. If you’ve been around on this planet for long enough (let’s… The post How To Follow Your Passion And Make A Living Out Of It appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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A day in the life: Catheryn Fellowes, EA to Sophie Hulme

Practically Perfect PA

What are the main aspects of your role? I am Executive Assistant to British Fashion Designer (Creative Director & CEO) Sophie Hulme. I have been working for Sophie for almost 2 years, and every day since joining has been different! The main aspect of my role is to support Sophie both professionally & personally across all aspects of her work and personal life.

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Tips for Taming Distractions at Work

Clutter Coach

by I often hear from people that they come in to the office early in the morning or on weekends just to get some work done in peace. They don’t particularly like doing it, but they do like the quiet and the lack of interruptions from phone, email and coworkers. Lifehacker yesterday ran a post about “guerilla tactics” people use to get some distraction-free time at work.

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Seeing Through The Fog

Productivityist

I wear glasses. Thick glasses with progressive lenses because my vision is pretty terrible. I’ve gotten used to wearing them every day, but the one thing that irks me about wearing glasses is how they fog up when I come in from the cold. This morning I walked with my kids to school and then came home to write. The moment I settled into my chair, the fog set in on my glasses.

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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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Don't Sort Things Unless Absolutely Necessary

Clutter Coach

by Here's Chapter 6 of my book. Not exactly keeping to the Every Wednesday plan. I may have to spend some time automating this procedure (make it happen automagically!). You can read right now, or buy the ebook here. Note: if you're going to read right now, why not take the action step too? Just sayin' Simple Way #6. Avoid Sorting. Don’t sort paper unnecessarily.

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How to Optimize Space

Clutter Coach

by Although I still have websites, the blog is the place where I put my new content. The websites are ridiculously hard to a not-too-computer savvy person like me to edit. The blog, by contrast, is easy as pie (thanks, Typepad!). However, there’s some valuable content on the sites that people aren’t seeing as much because my traffic is coming here rather than there.

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Make Time for Your Mail

Clutter Coach

by Last week, I wrote about setting up a way to sort your incoming mail. That’s step one of handling the mail. It paves the way for the more important step of doing something with all that mail. This means getting it to its final destination rather than letting it stack up on the counter or in lovely labeled file folders. The biggest mistake I see people make with mail is that they open it, glance at the contents, then set it down again “for later.” Sometimes they’re eve

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Less Information = Fewer Decisions to Make

Clutter Coach

by I’ve written many times about decision making (here and on my previous blog , which I wrote between March and October of 2006) and how to make it easier and less time consuming. Today I discovered a new way, which is just having fewer decisions to make. I wrote the other day about Timothy Ferriss’s “ low information diet.” Another of his posts is about a man who followed the Bible literally for a year and found, among other things, that life was easier because decision

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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