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A day in the life: Bethany Fovargue, EA Data Interchange

Practically Perfect PA

I have recently changed roles, becoming EA to the Commercial Director at Data Interchange, where I have worked for four and a half years. My new role is exciting; I am supporting the Commercial Director, working on new projects for the business and in areas such as marketing and with our partners, so I have some new challenges ahead! What do you enjoy most about your role?

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6 Ways to Become More Likable at Work

On The Job

No matter what anyone says, it's difficult to go into work every day if you feel like no one likes you. It could be that you're quiet, and so it's difficult for you to strike up conversations or participate in discussions at lunch. Or, it may be that you have the problem of sticking your foot in your mouth, always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

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Nanotechnology and the "Golden Age" of Materials

Small Business Labs

The Economist's New Materials for Manufacturing covers what it calls the "golden age" of materials. Key quote on what this means: New, high-performing substances such as exotic alloys and superstrong composites are emerging; “smart” materials can remember their shape, repair themselves or assemble themselves into components. Little structures that change the way something responds to light or sound can be used to turn a material into a “metamaterial” with very different properties.&#

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End-of-Year Exercise: Rate Your Career Fulfillment

Eat Your Career

It’s that wonderful time of year again…where we all drink eggnog and sing merry songs as we reflect on the past and make plans for the future. It’s the perfect time for a quick career reassessment! That’s why I’m sharing this super-fast exercise to help you determine your End-of-Year Career Fulfillment Rating. It’s a very simple tool, but helpful nonetheless.

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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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5 reasons to learn a foreign language to further your career

Practically Perfect PA

In today’s global society being bilingual is one of the most advantageous skills you can have. With several financial, employment, as well as social and health benefits to knowing a second language, it is surprising that only one quarter of Brits are actually able to speak in another tongue. Learning a new language takes time and dedication, but the development of smartphone technology has brought new opportunities to fit learning into your daily routine.

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DC Buzzing about Portable Benefits for Gig Workers

Small Business Labs

Busy week in DC related to the new economy: The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a gig economy event yesterday. The main topic was potential labor law changes. Brookings proposal is laid out in their paper Modernizing Labor Laws in the Online Gig Economy. It has multiple law change proposals, with the big one being creating portable benefits for gig workers.

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Vacation Thinking

Clutter Coach

by I just got back from vacation. I stayed with a friend part of the time but mostly I lived out of my rental car. I had the right clothes, plenty to drink (I was in the desert), great music to keep me company and money for whatever needs came up (such as a new camera battery. Dang!). I felt free and ready for anything, even though I hardly had any things.

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Why Every Employee Must Understand Digital Transformation

On The Job

When you’ve been involved in business operations for more than four decades, you’ve learned a thing or two about strategies and how to put them in place. A veteran shares his wisdom and best practices for digital transformation that makes sense – even for those outside IT. Eric Clemons, a professor of operations, information and decisions for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, often begins any advice he offers on digital transformation by couching it in terms of history.

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Celebrating the season? Preserve your professional image

Office Dynamics

Welcome to the final installment of this year’s series of Monday Motivators e-zines! It’s been a great year, and I can’t thank you enough for joining us in our continuing journey to promote workplace excellence and administrative effectiveness! In this special edition, I want to cover a topic that’s worth repeating every year because it is so important to helping or hindering your career.

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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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End-of-Year Exercise: Rate Your Career Fulfillment

Eat Your Career

It’s that wonderful time of year again…where we all drink eggnog and sing merry songs as we reflect on the past and make plans for the future. It’s the perfect time for a quick career reassessment! That’s why I’m sharing this super-fast exercise to help you determine your End-of-Year Career Fulfillment Rating. It’s a very simple tool, but helpful nonetheless.

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1 in 5 Humans Got a New Smartphone in 2015

Small Business Labs

Everyone knows mobile computing has gotten big. But every so often a number comes along that still amazes us. IDC has released a study that predicts worldwide smartphone shipments will grow 9.8% in 2015 to a total of 1.43 billion units.  This is equal to about 19.6% of the world's population  (7.3 billion). In other words, 1 out of every 5 people in the world got a new smartphone in 2015.

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The Tyranny of "Free"

Clutter Coach

by These days we are bedeviled with two tempting sources of free stuff: Craig’s List and Freecycle. A visit to either site can feel like finding ten bucks in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn in awhile. Every day you’ve got a new opportunity to win the jackpot. So, what’s the problem? People have a more convoluted relationship with free stuff than they do with stuff they buy.

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End of Year Reflection and Celebration Webinar Replay

Office Dynamics

Did you miss our last free webinar for administrative professionals of the year? Catch the replay here and download all the resources available that partner with this program. In this webinar, Joan Burges spoke about 7 tips to set yourself up for career success in 2016. Towards the end of the session she referred to a chart she completed on what normally is happening with her “when (her) life works” and forwarded that along with a blank template for you to use along with referring Sean Stephenso

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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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How to prevent the brain fog that stops you thinking straight and moving forward

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

We all – us entrepreneurs – want to be “in-the-zone” as much as possible. The term gets thrown around a lot. What does it actually look and feel like? Crystal clear thinking. Singular purpose. Impervious to any distraction. Excited. Enthusiastic. Passionate. Like a laser-guided missile homing in on a target. Like the total alignment of mind, body, spirit and purpose.

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Help Me Help You

Brilliantly Better

I’m getting out of the comfort zone. Again. As of January 1st 2016, there will be a paid section in DragosRoua.com blog. The access will … The post Help Me Help You appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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The 3-Second Website Test You Should Try

Men With Pens

Click here to read the full article →Another rocking post from Men With Pens! The 3-Second Website Test You Should Try first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — 2015, All. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Upcoming Free Webinar! Overworked But Underutilized: Go From Order Taker to Cognitive Being

Office Dynamics

Are You Overworked But Underutilized? One of the most common complaints we hear from modern administrative professionals is that they feel busy—overwhelmed even—but they still aren’t really being utilized. The problem? Today’s tech-savvy executives are independent and self-sufficient, and many don’t even know how to leverage an assistant. As a result, you’re left stifled, with a to-do list full of mundane tasks but still unable to contribute the value you’re truly capable of.

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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 Get Better Perspective (In Just 90 Seconds)

Productivityist

Here’s a typical day for most people: Wake up. Get ready for work. Go to work. Work. Get ready to go home. Go home. Do “home” work. Have some leisure time. Go to bed. This may be simplifying things, but those are the basics. Sure, some of these things may be placed in a different order, but they happen at some point in the day. But there’s more to it than that.

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How to prevent the brain fog that stops you thinking straight and moving forward

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

We all – us entrepreneurs – want to be “in-the-zone” as much as possible. The term gets thrown around a lot. What does it actually look and feel like? Crystal clear thinking. Singular purpose. Impervious to any distraction. Excited. Enthusiastic. Passionate. Like a laser-guided missile homing in on a target. Like the total alignment of mind, body, spirit and purpose.

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The Importance of Being Unimportant

The Marq

Fame.fortune.glory! None of these matter. The importance of measuring against anything arbitrary that has no relevance to my basic human needs are.well.unimportant. How wealthy am I compared to the Joneses? Irrelevant, since wealth, in and of itself, buys time and material things. It doesn't buy me affection, though it can buy me the appearance of affection or love.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

In 2008 I took a job as an Executive Assistant and Corporate Secretary to a non-profit corporation. My daughter had just left home and I was a empty nester so I had time to try something different and put some time and effort into a new position. This position was certainly different than anything I had ever done. When I took the job, I had never taken minutes before and I had a Board of Directors' meeting in two months that I had to prepare for.

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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 Task At Hand Vs. The Time On Hand

Productivityist

Note from Mike: This is a post that was originally published in The Productivityist Weekly. Not signed up for the newsletter yet? Click here and you’ll get it delivered to your inbox every week and receive a copy of The Way of The Productivityist Manifesto absolutely FREE! If you’ve ever watched my 3 minute TEDx talk , you’ll see that the central theme is in order to be more productive, focus on the task at hand rather than the time on hand.

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6 Uber Hacks You Need to Know

Productivity Bits

Uber is a big part of many people’s lives. Hearing phrases like “let’s grab an Uber” or “should we Uber?” is now commonplace in our society. There’s good reason for this, as the shared ride phenomenon leaves public transit and taxis in the dust, at least in terms of convenience, reliability and cost. Unless you’re running a taxi business you’ve likely come to embrace Uber.

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The Productivityist Podcast 70: The Art of The Side Hustle with Nick Loper

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast I speak with the founder of Side Hustle Nation, Nick Loper. We talk about some of the unconventional productivity tactics he uses and dive into some of the equally unconventional side hustle experiments he’s undertaken. Relevant Links. Nick Loper (@nloper) | Twitter. The 3 Laws of Side Hustle Physics | Side Hustle Nation.

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The Task At Hand Vs. The Time On Hand

Productivityist

Note from Mike: This is a post that was originally published in The Productivityist Weekly. Not signed up for the newsletter yet? Click here and you’ll get it delivered to your inbox every week and receive a copy of The Way of The Productivityist Manifesto absolutely FREE! If you’ve ever watched my 3 minute TEDx talk , you’ll see that the central theme is in order to be more productive, focus on the task at hand rather than the time on hand.

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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