Sat.Dec 15, 2012 - Fri.Dec 21, 2012

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How to Deal With an Overly Critical Boss

Eat Your Career

I’ve heard from a lot of people lately who are all suffering with the same problem: An overly critical boss. There’s nothing worse than working for someone who only sees the negative. When you do great work, it’s ignored. But when you make a mistake or somehow fall short of expectations (even completely unreasonable ones), you’re criticized. It feels so unfair.

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4 Simple Steps to Securely Send Credit Card Information

Office Organization Success

Many business owners find themselves in a situation where they are asked to send their credit card information in order to finalize a business transaction. If the vendor you’re using doesn’t have a secure shopping cart interface that you can use, there are a few other alternatives. But first, a word of caution …. Don’t EVER send sensitive financial data via email – even if it is split across two emails.

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Christmas gifts for assistants!

Practically Perfect PA

It’s nearly Christmas! As assistants I’m sure you have been aware of this fact for quite some time as you would have been running around organising everyone’s Christmas festivities including parties, cards, presents, decorations and goodness knows what else! I hope all of your efforts have been greatly appreciated by your colleagues and if not you at least have some time off over the holidays to relax with your loves ones.

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More Workers with Autism Entering Workplace

On The Job

Autism is a subject that often promotes a great deal of debate. The causes. The solutions. Employers are now entering that discussion, as they will be seeing more job applicants with autism spectrum disorder. It's an issue I looked at in my latest Gannett/USA Today column. An estimated 1.5 million people in the United States have autism spectrum disorder, so chances are you may be affected by autism in some way.

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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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Three Qs and As About Taking Time Away From Your Biz

Virtual Moxie

Whether you celebrate the Christmas holiday or not, there's no way around the fact that, in many parts of the West, things slow down--or stop completely--around the Christmas and New Year holidays. That makes it a perfect time to either get more stuff done for your business, or take time away. I rarely hear from the people who want to use the time to get more stuff done, but the people who want to take time away often write to ask me a variety of questions about how to make it work.

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Intuit and Instagram - Two Views on Who Owns Your Data

Small Business Labs

I was not surprised to hear Instagram, the photo sharing site acquired by Facebook, was changing its privacy policy.   But I was stunned by the change. In addition to the expected changes to allow Facebook advertisers to be able access your personal data, they are also reserving the right to use your username, photos and other data in advertisements.

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Why Spiked Eggnog May Be Just What Your Career Needs

On The Job

Are there visions of sugar plums dancing in your head? Thinking about settling down for a long winter’s nap? Trying to figure out where you’re going to find seven lords a-leaping? It’s not unusual for many of your thoughts this time of year to be about the holidays and the millions of things you have to do before Santa miraculously stuffs himself down the chimney.

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Can’t Find a Job? Do You Know Why?

Job Advice Blog

Growth, evolution, changes. Technology may be a wonderful thing, but it has negative elements—especially if you’re in transition and looking for a job. Why? Perhaps you don’t know how to conduct a contemporary job search. Well, that may not be true, and don’t blame yourself. The résumé Two decades ago, applicants would submit their IBM [.].

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Is it the end? Far from it

The Small Business Blog

Everyone up to speed on the Mayan calendar? Don’t rush out and buy one, because it ends … er … two days after tomorrow, as may the world as we know it.

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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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Big Data: The Great Equalizer for Small Businesses and Consumers

Small Business Labs

The New Data Democracy: How Big Data Will Revolutionize the Lives of Small Businesses and Consumers is a new research and trends forecast report from Intuit and Emergent Research (that's us).  The report is on big data for the little guy , which is Intuit's phrase for describing how the data and analytics revolution is empowering consumers and small businesses with new opportunities to improve their lives and businesses.

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Offering Up Our Works in Honor of Newtown Elementary

Office Dynamics

It is very difficult for me to write my usual Monday Motivator as I am so saddened by the massacre that took place Friday at Newtown Elementary. I am a mother and a grandmother with 4 little ones ages 6, 7, 7 and 11. I cannot imagine the heartbreak of their community, family, and friends. I cannot conceive the grief of losing a child. I cannot picture what the children who survived that event are feeling.

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Working Online: What is Really Needed?

Eco-Office Gals

The economy is slowing recovering but that doesn’t mean that every industry is coming back in the same shape it was in before. Many positions are coming gone and are probably never coming back because there are more efficient ways to perform those tasks. New positions have been created in various industries. In a number of industries all across the nation, people are choosing to work from home, performing their jobs remotely.

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Moxie Tip 294: Review Your Year

Virtual Moxie

We outgrow clothes, shoes, relationships, jobs, houses.so it makes sense that we outgrow our standards. My saying that standards can always be higher is my way of reminding people to check in with their own, to see if they've been outgrown and need adjusting. In my view, that shouldn't cause burnout. Maybe doing it once each year is enough. Or maybe, if you're like me, it's easier to be awake and aware and adjust things as you go, with one over-arching review each year.

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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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What is the Industrial Internet?

Small Business Labs

Industrial giant GE has been pushing the idea of the Industrial Internet, including publishing a detailed white paper on the concept.   This is a larger scale variation on the concept of the Internet of Things , first coined back in the late 1990s. The basic idea behind both concepts is more and more objects are being embedded with sensors and gaining the ability to communicate.

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BIG Surprise Drawing Winner Recorded Call

Office Dynamics

Thank you for participating in our 12 Days of Christmas sales and prize drawing! Each purchase during 12/3 - 12/18 was entered into a drawing to receive a BIG surprise! We called our winner today to announce the news. Listen in below by clicking on the play icon.

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Top Ten Countdown of Best Business Tips for 2012 – Part 1

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. While brainstorming ideas for my last two articles of this year, I knew I wanted to share something with you that would lead you into 2013 with renewed energy and motivation. As I sat thumbing through this year’s articles for inspiration, I had one of those fabulous “Ah-hah!” moments (don’t you just love those?!), and it hit me—let’s do a recap!

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Now Scheduling for January

Office Organization Success

Wow! All 6 spots to my complimentary Business Success Systems Assessment went within a couple of hours. Obviously, I’m hitting a nerve for so many of you. And if you missed out, don’t worry. Click Here to schedule your one-on-one assessment with me in January. And one of the biggest A-ha’s from this week? You cannot begin to get your systems set up unless you know who you want to work with and the results your services deliver.

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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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Why you secretly want the apocalypse to happen

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Humans have been predicting the apocalypse for hundreds of years. We’re intoxicated by the idea that when we hit a certain date, everything will change. Entrepreneurs, smart though they are, are no less seduced by this thinking. Business owners get sucked into the idea that the calendar will tick over and suddenly… something will happen.

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I Believe In You! An Open Pillar Huddle

Office Dynamics

It's the end of the year and while we are winding down we are still moving and planning for our BIG return in early January. We have many hopes and dreams for the New Year and we have many accomplishments to celebrate from this year in the days to come. I'm sure you are feeling ready to chill out for a few weeks, too! Today our Pillar Huddle is open because it is a message I wanted to share with you, too.

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30 Things I Did In 2012

Brilliantly Better

Although, technically, we still have 2 more weeks until the end of the year, I decided to publish this blog post right now. I know many things can (and, according to my schedule, will) happen in the next two weeks, but I needed a time and place for this blog post. It’s a recap. A [.].

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Launch Multiple Businesses With Tips From 1-800-Got-Junk?

Small Business CEO

Now that you have one business up and running, you may be itching to dive head first into something new. You may not realize it but you now have an advantage over other new business owners. You’ve been there and done that. From growing your first business, you know better now what to do and what not to do. That ‘ s exactly what Brian Scudamore, Founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?

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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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The 5 Myths of business: How they invisibly drive our thinking

BioTeams

Strategy and Business Magazine has just published an excellent in-depth article "The Dueling Myths of Business" based on the work of scenario planning expert Betty Sue Flowers who worked with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and the world of big government where she helped draft many influential scenario planning reports. In the article Flowers defines a Myth as: "a view of the nature of reality, so prevalent that it goes unseen.

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12 Days of Christmas Sale Day 12

Office Dynamics

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me twelve drummers drumming a grand finale! Today is our final day of the 12 Days of Christmas sale and we saved something special for you! Today only get 40% off all Live a BIG Life books and product found at www.JoanBurgeBIGLife.com. Just use the coupon code BIG40. The entire BIG store is on sale, today only.

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Building a Thing to Build a Bigger Thing

Productivityist

Productivityist.com by Mike Vardy Start Here Archives Store Contact Building a Thing to Build a Bigger Thing Posted on 12/15/2012 // Leave a Comment After a very busy week, Craig Jarrow and I had a couple of discussions. One of them took place Friday night, where we talked about the week gone by and even more about the weeks ahead. The funny thing about this talk was that it felt freeing — perhaps even more freeing than our most recent conversations that we had as we were preparing to laun

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What Not to Forget During the Holidays

Men With Pens

The holidays are here. Many of you will be welcoming kids home from school, rushing about doing last-minute gift shopping, preparing to receive guests or making travel plans to visit family. It’s a busy time of year… but not for your business. During the holidays, most freelancers let their business fall off the priority list. You probably backburner yours as well.

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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