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Do You Have an Internal Admin Site or Hold Lunch N Learns Where You Work?

Office Dynamics

Ask an Admin was created by Office Dynamics to help administrative professionals with their problems through the help of their peers. We don’t always have an answer to each individuals problem but we know some of you might. Please read the question and comment below. Admin on SF Peninsula asks: Looking forward to your replies! Do you have an internal admin site where you work?

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Assistants should seek mentors

Practically Perfect PA

Regardless of your administrative title, industry or organisation size, you need to find a good mentor explains Joan Burge. Mentors save you time, energy, and even money. They reduce stress and make life easier. Mentors challenge us to be our best, hold us accountable, and make us take a close look at ourselves; which is […].

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What to Do When You’re Put on a Formal Performance Improvement Plan

Eat Your Career

No one goes to work with the intention of performing poorly. Yet, it happens. Quite frequently, I hear from people who have been put on a formal Performance Improvement Plan (or PIP) and they’re wondering how to handle it. The process can be overwhelming and emotional. However, if managed well, a PIP can actually lead to some important personal and professional discoveries.

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Small Businesses Worried About Corporate Concentration - and Especially Amazon

Small Business Labs

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance recently released its 2019 Independent Business Survey. The key finding is small independent businesses see large corporations - and especially Amazon - as their main competitive threat.  They also feel government policies have not helped. Key quote from their article on the study : Many public policy decisions in recent years have fueled market concentration and favored their big competitors.

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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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Podcast 125: Process over results

Clutter Coach

by Listen or subscribe here: iTunes ? Stitcher ?. Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play ? iHeartRadio You can leave a review here! ?. This is podcast 125 and it’s about focusing on process rather than results. Someone I met recently has decided finally to declutter and get organized and is fired up about it. The time has come! Let’s go! Now! While I admire his enthusiasm, I cautioned him that his project might be a bit too ambitious.

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Positive Career Affirmation #25

Eat Your Career

What I do (and how I do it) matters. To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #25 appeared first on Eat Your Career.

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WeWork Files to Go Public

Small Business Labs

WeWork released its S-1 this week, which is the legal document a company files prior to going public.  WeWork going public is a bit of a watershed moment for the coworking industry. It's the first of the new wave of coworking spaces to do so. It's also a highly watched and controversial company, particularly due to its high private valuation and steep losses.

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The 3 Things You Must Do Before Leaving an Internship

On The Job

Many internships are drawing to a close as students head back to school. But before anyone leaves an internship, there are some things to do that are critical (beyond snagging a few free pens and a coffee cup with the company logo): 1. Meet with your boss. Make sure you go to this meeting with a list of your accomplishments to share with your supervisor.

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Venues + Events Live 2019

Practically Perfect PA

We are delighted to invite you to attend Venues + Events Live this Autumn (18-19 September, Old Billingsgate, London & 24 September, Manchester Central) where you will discover the best tips and tricks to help you plan your next event. We understand the busy life of PAs and EAs and how spending your time as […].

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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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5 Smart Accounting Tips to Help You Manage Your Startup

Small Business CEO

Startups and small businesses are sources of both excitement and frustration for their owners and managers. And one of the biggest sources of the latter is accounting for all the money that goes in and out of the company. However, bookkeeping doesn’t always have to be a big source of headache for budding business owners. If you’re thinking of ways to make your processes easier, then read on for some smart accounting tips that might just do the trick.

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The BBC's List of 101 Things You Need to Know About the Future of Work

Small Business Labs

The BBC's The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today really does cover 101 different trends, shifts, people and things impacting the future of work. The long list includes a brief description of each item. For example, item 88 - Soft Skills - is described as: "Employees need abilities computers and automated systems don’t have – like creativity, adaptability and persuasion.

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Episode 257: Emotional Time Management with Paula Mosher Wallace

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast, I spend time chatting with Paula Mosher Wallace. We spoke about the emotional component that needs to get considered when you’re trying to manage your time. It’s something that Paula feels gets cast aside in a world driven by the pursuit of productivity at all costs. This episode is brought to you by Blinkist.

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Lessons on Selling and Persuasion from 5 Popular Films

INSIGHTS: The Guthrie-Jensen Blog

There’s no such thing as an overnight success. If you want to reach your goals, you need to constantly improve your skillset. Watch these movies for some valuable sales lessons.

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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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Top 5 Successful Ways to Expand Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Starting a business is a significant achievement, but scaling one is a huge challenge. Small enterprises are critical to the development of global economies The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) confirms that small businesses create income and employment, they react to new or narrow demands and they strengthen social inclusion rates.

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Emotional Intelligence for Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

I have grown to love speaking on and teaching assistants about emotional intelligence. This definitely is a skill every assistant needs to know. This is a skill you can use every single day! In our World Class Assistant course, we cover this topic and participants work on real work world case studies. They are scenarios that assistants can relate to.

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Episode 257: Emotional Time Management with Paula Mosher Wallace

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast, I spend time chatting with Paula Mosher Wallace. We spoke about the emotional component that needs to get considered when you’re trying to manage your time. It’s something that Paula feels gets cast aside in a world driven by the pursuit of productivity at all costs. This episode is brought to you by Blinkist.

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3 Tips For Protecting Your Eyes When Working On A Computer All Day

Small Business CEO

Doing the same thing day in and day out for your job can be very draining. Not only do you need to be careful about getting enough movement in your muscles and joints so you don’t live a completely sedentary life while working a desk job, but you also need to know how to protect your eyes if you spend a portion of your day working on a computer or other screen.

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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 Make a Flawless Testimonial Video That Helps You Sell

Small Business CEO

The times where companies monopolized the discourse around their products and services already gave way to a new era. Thanks to social media and user-generated content, we’re living in a time where what customers say about your company or products is more important than what you say about yourself. Which is precisely what makes testimonial videos so great.

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Pay-Per-click: Effective Marketing Strategy of Boosting Your Business

Small Business CEO

Pay-per-click is a terminology almost all marketers are familiar with as a widely accepted marketing strategy to promote businesses. The main question is; how much do we know about PPC? Pay-per-click (PPC) marketing is often referred to as paid search, search engine marketing (SEM), or google advertising. If you’re quite observant, you would have seen sponsored ads particularly at the top of Google’s search engine result page – That’s pay-per-click advertising.

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Are You a Negative Thinker? How to Snap Out of it Quickly

Small Business CEO

When negative thoughts invade your space, it can cause a lot of damage. Negative thinking can affect your relationship, career, and even your physical health. A lot of people experience negative thoughts, which prevent them from making and enjoying new experiences. Negative thoughts can also cause a lot of distraction from the important things in life and drain energy.

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How Translation Services Will Help Your Business Expand To The Global Market

Small Business CEO

Communications can break or make your business. Without proper communication, you risk losing clients—something that will automatically kill your business. Plus, the internet has provided many market opportunities for business establishments. So, you don’t have to limit your business to its parent country. You can venture into the global scene and thrive.

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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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What Forms of Custom Newspapers are in Vogue

Small Business CEO

Newspapers play an indecisive role in forming opinion, and giving us the impetus to be thoughtful in our responses on a wider scale. These print media are useful in our daily routine lives, keeping us informed, about the events, shows, and happenings around us. Creating or printing the newspaper has become customized, ever since online printing has taken the shape.

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How to Manage a Company Trip or Organize a Client Conference

Small Business CEO

It may feel like you’re herding cats sometimes, but managing a company trip or organizing a client conference doesn’t need to be as difficult, or stressful. In fact, it can be pretty fun and rewarding. From big conference and expo to small company trip to attend an event, the planning and management doesn’t change all that much. The grandiose nature does.

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So, You Want To Invest In Ethereum Classic

Small Business CEO

If you are looking at investing or buying any cryptocurrency, chances are high that you have noticed that there are a surprising number of options both in what you can buy and how you can buy them. You may also have noticed that there are two Ethereum’s – Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC), which is surprising if you are unaware of the circumstances that lead up to the establishment of these two cryptocurrencies.

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