Sat.Mar 04, 2017 - Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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Fighting Co-Worker Dragons (2 of 3 part series)

Office Dynamics

Image Designed by Freepik. Hopefully, you read part 1, Fighting Manager Dragons , where I introduced and explained the topic of office dragons. In case you did not open that issue, you may want to check it out as I discussed employees’ perceptions of manager dragons and tips to success. Today, I want to address co-worker dragons. When I teach my Star Achievement Series® classes, I ask participants, “What are some of the things co-workers do that make them “appear” to be dragons?

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More Industries Moving to the On-Demand Economy

Small Business Labs

The On-Demand Economy is commonly defined as the economic activity created by online marketplaces that fulfill customer demand via the provisioning of goods and services immediately or much faster and/or easier than traditional firms.  Uber, Lyft and ridesharing services are often cited as examples. But Amazon is in many ways a better example.

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Don't be Afraid to Question the Data

On The Job

“Don’t fall in love with the data.” – Frank Sesno Not many companies ignore data these days since it’s often thought to be the secret sauce that’s going to lead to greater success. Yet data can be an inexact science. Whether it’s erroneously predicting the winner of a presidential election or the number of expected flu cases in a certain year, data science is a technology that “can see things as never before, but also can be a blunt instrument, missing context and nuance,” finds The New York Tim

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How to prioritize

Clutter Coach

by After a business group talk I gave, someone asked me how to figure out what the highest priority task is. He looked at his project list and felt they were all equally important, and then he ended up not doing anything because he felt unsure. I told him about David Allen’s four criteria model for prioritizing , which takes into account more information than simply how important a task or project is.

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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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Career Success A to Z: N is for Non-Negotiable

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. When it comes to career success—and more importantly, career fulfillment—it’s important to know what you’re looking for. Everyone has a different version of what “success” and “fulfillment” really mean to them. Recommended Download: How Nourishing Is Your Career?

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The True Cost of an Arrogant Boss

On The Job

Do you have a boss who discredits the ideas of others while claiming to have superior ideas? Does your boss blame other people and refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? Does your boss reject feedback? If so, you have all the makings of an arrogant boss, someone who can drag down an organization with his or her sense of superiority in all things.

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Do you suffer from tomorrow syndrome?

Clutter Coach

by If you’re the type who is always planning to tackle a particular project tomorrow, but then you don’t do it, you’ll like this. A behaviorist asked smokers who wanted to quit to smoke the same number of cigarettes every day, not to cut down. Sounds counterproductive, doesn’t it? This put the smokers in a bind. They wanted to quit, but they promised to continue smoking.

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5 Ways To Improve Work-Life Balance When You Work At Home

Productivityist

Micheal Gilmore is a blogger and editor at Resumesplanet.com. He enjoys writing about business, marketing, productivity and personal growth. In his parallel life, he loves hiking and can’t wait to see the Himalayas one of these days. Whenever I say that I’m working as a freelancer writer, people around me believe that working from home is easy.

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20 Days Into Intermittent Fasting – First Impressions

Brilliantly Better

For the last 20 days I’ve been on an intermittent fasting challenge. What is intermittent fasting, you asked? Well, intermittent fasting is not a diet, but an eating routine. It groups all the meals of the day in a certain… The post 20 Days Into Intermittent Fasting – First Impressions appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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Technical School Uses Employee Feedback to Develop Its Culture

Energage

Being Recognized as an Oklahoma Top Workplace Is an Honor for Meridian Technology Center, but Capturing Employee Feedback Is the Real Reward. With a mission to educate, enrich lives, and se cure economic futures, Meridian Technology Center is a driver of economic development and offers full-time career training programs, short courses, business and industry services, and entrepreneurial support.

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3 Time Management Tips for Small Business Owners

Small Business CEO

One of the toughest parts of owning and managing a small business is the feeling of never having enough time to accomplish everything. To reduce some of your workload, you add a few employees. But, having employees brings a new set of small business owner responsibilities, such as employee hour tracking. There never seems to be enough time in the day to complete all your small business tasks.

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The Key To Personal Productivity

Productivityist

This guest post is by Productivityist team member Jim Woods. He is a writer, content editor, and Productivityist Coaching Practitioner. You can connect with him @jimwoodswrites on Twitter or his website jimwoodswrites.com. It’s really easy to get lost in the sea of productivity apps. Don’t get me wrong; there are some AMAZING apps out there.

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10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello New & Returning Readers, About 2 years ago I wrote an in-depth post about how I job hunt. I had always meant to expound on that post about how the internet, social media, and networking online play a very big role for how I conduct my search and also improve my chances of protecting myself. So I figured, now would be a good time for part 2.

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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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Podcast 046: Done is better than perfect

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about why getting things done and out the door always trumps trying to make them perfect. Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. This podcast is based on my book, 52 Simple Ways to Get Organized, available on my website.

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Choosing a CRM That is Best Tailored to Your Needs

Small Business CEO

Small to medium businesses often do not have the need to use the most robust and expensive CRM tools. Nevertheless, even if you have just decided to become an entrepreneur, having one can help you keep track of your client relationships, attract new leads, boost sales and help with business process automation. Of importance is for you to identify your business needs before going out in search of a CRM tool and choose one that can meet such.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Automating, Growing, and Selling with Joshua Latimer

Productivityist

In this week’s podcast episode, my guest is Joshua Latimer – the man behind Send Jim and Automate Grow Sell , which help small businesses tap the power of relationship marketing. A few years back, Joshua left his job as a banker at JP Morgan Chase and decided to open a cleaning business in Michigan, which he eventually sold in 2015. He is now based with his family in Costa Rica managing a company that creates more freedom for businesses through automation and systems.

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Desktop Tools Driving the Growth of Small and Solopreneur Manufacturing

Small Business Labs

3D printers get all the press. But there are a growing number of other manufacturing tools and equipment democratizing manufacturing and enabling small and even solopreneur manufacturing companies. Kickstarter's article Future Fab Lab and More at the 2016 World Maker Faire covers some of the more interesting of these tools.  Wazer, for example, is a desktop waterjet cutter.

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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 Stand Out When Applying for a Job in Australia

Small Business CEO

Australia ranks high among the countries in the world when it comes to its resilience in the face of global crisis. Its beautiful natural landscapes, low pollution levels, low population, and eminent positions in quality-of-life rankings attract people overseas to come and make Australia their home. The country’s multicultural society also offers the kind of diversity that makes it easier for migrants to fit in.

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A Quick Guide to Importing Goods into the United States

Small Business CEO

Whether you’re looking to leverage cheaper-made merchandise or diversify your product line, selling imported goods in the U.S. is a very lucrative business. Importing doesn’t necessarily mean you’re cannibalizing the economy. In fact, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco , every $1 spent on an item that’s made in China puts 55 cents to U.S. businesses for marketing, sales, and related services.

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Choosing a Domain Name that Works for You and Google

Small Business CEO

If your business is just starting out or going through a radical rebrand, you’ll be only to aware of the importance of choosing a domain name that works for both internet users, and search engines. This balance isn’t always easy to achieve. Humans respond better to domains that are short, memorable and unique , while search engines respond to domains that are semantically relevant to your service and industry.

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4 Business Insurance Tips Agents Don’t Want you to Know

Small Business CEO

There are many different types of insurance policies available to small and medium-size business owners. There’s so much to consider, much of it being industry dependent, and also depending on what risks you, your employees, and customers undertake while doing business together. Of course, if you’ve done any research to this point, you’re probably interested in seeing if you qualify for a comprehensive Business Owner’s Policy (BOP), which is great if you qualify and in fact need all that a BOP p

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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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Important Financial Tips for the New Small Business Entrepreneur

Small Business CEO

People start small businesses all kinds of ways, but one common factor within these diverse origin stories is the difficulty of controlling money. Money, essentially, is the reason all businesses exist. When your business starts up, it’s flowing all over the place. If you don’t have a lot of experience in the world of business accounting, it can be difficult to get the finances right during the critical early stages of your business’s existence.

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A Wiser Approach To Business Spending

Small Business CEO

Businesses are not cheap to run. Even a small home business costs money. Instead of putting your new business into debt immediately, it makes sense to learn how to be a bit wiser with the money you have. New business or old business, many of these tips can help you. However, they are definitely well suited to someone that is just starting to think about launching their own business.

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How You Can Outsource Talent On a Budget

Small Business CEO

If you’re a small business or startup, or just simply operating on a small budget but you have a particular project that needs to be completed you might be considering outsourcing it. Outsourcing talent can be particularly valuable if there’s some level of specialization required for the project, and you don’t have the need to bring someone on full-time to tackle it.

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Packing Smart For Your Next Business Trip

Small Business CEO

Business trips can be stressful, and the last thing you want to add to your plate is the worries of forgetting something that you really needed. That’s why it’s important to have a packing strategy in place. Of course, if you do forget something you can always use it as a business expense when you need to purchase a replacement. No one wants to have to always buy a bunch of stuff when they get to their destination, though, just because they forgot things that could have been easily remembered.

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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