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What It’s Like to be a PA in Tech

The Assistant Room

Do you want to know what it’s like to work in one of the most demanding and fast paced industries in the world? Originally hosted […]. The post What It’s Like to be a PA in Tech first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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The Pandemic Increased Interest in Self-Employment

Small Business Labs

Forerunner Ventures' The universal holding pattern: a period of trial followed by an era of opportunity   covers survey work they've done on the impact of the pandemic on consumers. One of their main findings is the desire for empowerment and independence has increased.  Key quote: The pandemic offered a taste of independence with remote work for some and a desire to have control over one’s own destiny in a fractured economy for others, making self-employment an increasingly

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The Ownership Mindset: An Essential Ingredient for Career Success

Eat Your Career

“Your company owns your job. You own your career.” Earl Nightingale. In my training programs, I cite the above quote more than any other…and for good reason! These words were originally coined by Earl Nightingale, an “old school” motivational speaker who grew up during the Great Depression and gained notoriety as a businessman and an award-winning radio broadcaster.

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How to Get Good Habits to Stick

On The Job

A lot of people developed new habits and routines during the pandemic. For some, it was learning to set boundaries during their workday so they could go for walks or spend time with family. For others, it was just the opposite -- they found themselves working longer hours and unable to disconnect. If you're part of the group that developed habits that aren't healthy or that you would like to change, you may be looking for way to adopt a better diet, sleep more or use technology less.

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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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Increasing IT Spend: Where to Invest

Small Business CEO

Eighty per cent of businesses expect to see growth in their IT budgets this year, with Gartner reporting an anticipated 4% rise in IT spend worldwide — an increase of over $3 billion in terms of market value. But why is IT spending seeing such a large shift? Digital transformation drives have accelerated. The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many businesses to evaluate the value of their digital assets, and most are starting to realise they’ve not invested heavily enough in some essential operationa

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Microsoft, AI, And Your Best Self

IAAP

When famous cartoonist Carl “The Duckman” Barks coined the quote, “Work smarter, not harder,” in the 1930s, he may not have realized how it would apply to AI in our lives today. As a developed mindset for daily workflows, our constant drive to manage ourselves, along with others, all while developing healthy work habits, prioritizing, sustaining positive attitudes, accepting change, and creating focus time for ourselves, can seem far from this concept.

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52 Templates and Tools for Every Successful EA

Worxbee

As an executive assistant, your job role tends to be very versatile. You become the go-to for many different types of tasks or queries, and you’re often the person making sure that others have completed their part of assigned tasks. You can be a sort of “jack of all trades,” so you need a good toolbox! What does every successful EA need among their tools?

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5 Types of Tax Fraud Activities You Should Know About In 2021

Small Business CEO

Tax fraud is a heavily laden term that means much more than an error in judgment. The violation occurs when a person knowingly provides incorrect information on the tax returns. Strangely, a simple tax problem could spiral out of control and attract hefty penalties, including criminal charges and jail terms. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) treats all tax issues seriously, and this includes filing a false tax return and accompanying documentation.

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Led by Retail, The Surge in New Business Applications Continues

Small Business Labs

The new business application surge, which started last summer , continued in April, with about 488,000 applications submitted.   This data comes from the U.S. Census' Business Formation Statistics and based on IRS Employment Identification Numbers (EIN) applications.   Most of the applications are what the Census calls "applications other than high propensity" (grey in the chart; click to enlarge).  These are applications from businesses that are unlikel

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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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Know When to Say “No”

IAAP

When managers ask subordinates to take on an assignment, it is often a sign of their confidence in an employees’ abilities and reliability. The same goes for when colleagues ask each other for help. But sometimes those extra assignments can cause an employee to become less reliable if the workload becomes too burdensome. That can cause the quality of an employee’s work to falter or they are forced to work an insane amount of hours just to get caught up on their to-do list.

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Ep 115: Suzie Flynn – Mindset & Business Coach for Virtual Assistants

Go Burrows

Suzie Flynn is a motivational speaker, international mindset & business coach with years of experience as an executive assistant throughout her career. In this episode, Suzie talks about whether or not becoming a remote virtual assistant is the road for you, how to shift your mindset from being an employee to being a business owner, tips on working remotely and finding clients, and more.

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What Your Small Business Needs in Order to Succeed

Small Business CEO

The cold hard truth is that more new businesses fail than succeed. While many people have the dream of becoming a small business owner, it’s easier said than done. Overall, you need to have your fundamentals covered in order to achieve long term success as an entrepreneur. photo credit: Cristina Morillo / Pexels. Below are some of the things your small business needs in order to succeed.

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The Berlin Wall Inside Our Minds

Brilliantly Better

I lived in a communist country, Romania, until I was 19. Just after I turned 19, Romania went through a process called “the Romanian Revolution” (which turned out to be not quite a revolution, after a few years) at the end of which it became a democracy. But until then, the farthest place allowed for. Read more. The post The Berlin Wall Inside Our Minds 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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Respecting The Office Staff

IAAP

Yesterday, I heard disrespect loud and clear in the tone of voice used by my dental hygienist. She asked the receptionist who has a strong Russian accent, “What are you looking for?”.

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To the Unicorns

Admin Awards

As 2021 Administrative Professional’s Month is once again behind us, I found myself really reflective this past year, on what it means to serve in a profession that means so much to so many of us. My whole life I’ve witnessed the passion and pride that Admins have for their Leaders, Organizations, and Profession. As the daughter of a retired Executive Secretary, I remember how often my Mom would talk about how she couldn’t wait for Mondays to come.

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Reasons to Offer Employee Benefits, and Tips for Choosing the Right Benefits for Your Business

Small Business CEO

It’s easy to push offering benefits to your employees to the bottom of your to-do list, especially if you’re in charge of a small operation with a small team. Although it may be acceptable to forgo benefits when you first get your company off the ground, eventually, you should start adding employee benefits to the mix. photo credit: Alexander Suhorucov / Pexels.

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It’s A Learning Process

Brilliantly Better

About 5 years ago I found myself in a pretty bad financial situation. A combination of bad luck, big entrepreneurial risks and political changes (affecting the economical landscape) turned my life upside down. I won’t go into details, maybe I will do this later, in a separate post. It took me about one a half. Read more. The post It’s A Learning Process appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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Episode 371: Find Your ONE Thing with Geoff Woods

Productivityist

With a simple, powerful concept to focus on what matters most in your personal and work lives, Geoff Woods joins the show to share how you can find your One Thing. This episode is sponsored by LinkedIn Jobs. When your business is ready to make that next hire, LinkedIn Jobs can help by matching your role with qualified candidates so that you can find the right person quickly.

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Six tips for starting a new job

Page Personnel

Six tips for starting a new job Anonymous (not verified) 24/01/2023 Leaving your current role and starting a new job isn’t always an easy transition. The final few weeks at your current role almost always turns out to be a very busy period and involves lots of handover: forwarding to emails, advising colleagues of your project updates, informing your clients of their new point of contact, and wrapping up your final duties.

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6 Benefits of Hiring Students For Your First Startup

Small Business CEO

The first startup of any business person is associated with risks. People are afraid to do something wrong or not see the proper response from the target audience. But the biggest fears come from hiring employees. Will a new person understand the specifics of the job and become part of an effective working mechanism? If you want to launch your first startup, then you should pay attention to students.

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If People Move, Money Move

Brilliantly Better

Money doesn’t exist intrinsically, by itself, isolated from context. It’s a collective hallucination, hence it relies on people constantly creating it. Our minds are tricking us into believing that money is “solid” and “real”, but that’s just another example of how magic thinking helps us cope with the unpredictability and uncertainty of our lives.

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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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Highlights from a Talk With the CEO of SHRM: What HR Really Thinks About EAs

Bonnie Low Kramen

Highlights from the BTUA Podcast interview conducted by Bonnie Low-Kramen and Vickie Sokol Evans with SHRM CEO Johnny C. Taylor Jr. & COS Emily M. Dickens. SHRM is the Society of Human Resource Management with 300,000 members. By Bonnie Low-Kramen for the February, 2021 issue of Executive Support Magazine. It was time for a 1:1 talk with HR. I had questions and so I asked.

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Case Study: Recruit CRM Helped South Africa Based RPO Firm Slay The Recruiting Game

Recruit CRM

As the world market is saturated with recruiting and staffing agencies, it's no doubt that recruitment entrepreneurs have it hard with respect to making it big on a global scale. A foolproof checklist has to include recruitment automation and thoughtful investments made in a suitable Applicant Tracking System , CRM Software, interview scheduling software and so on.

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The Smooth Day-to-day Operations of an eCommerce Business

Small Business CEO

No business is easy because it takes hard work and determination to even get it to take off from the ground. Just because you chose to stray off the corporate path and decided to become an entrepreneur doesn’t mean you no longer have to put in your blood, sweat, and tears. photo credit: Kampus Productions / Pexels. In fact, those are more vital now that you’re setting off on your own and making your own mark in the world.

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Nearly Missing It

Brilliantly Better

I almost missed yesterday’s post. As you probably know, I started a 365 days writing challenge at the beginning of the year. The goal is to publish an article every day of 2021, until it ends. In the beginning I even had enough slack to schedule articles for 2-3 days in advance, but that’s not. Read more. The post Nearly Missing It appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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