Sat.Mar 26, 2016 - Fri.Apr 01, 2016

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How to create an assistant handbook

Practically Perfect PA

On March 26 th I joined some of the PA community’s most motivated and inspiring representatives at the annual Assist conference, speaking in a case study slot on “Future proofing your career” One of the best ways to add value, progress, and drive change is by creating a handbook for assistants at your company. Having led the development of a handbook for two global organisations, my session focussed on the process from start to finish: Systematically planning the handbook.

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Why This Blog-a-Thon Will Change Your Career

Office Dynamics

Welcome to April, a month that can change your career if you’re an administrative professional. We love this time of year, it’s time to shine the spotlight on our favorite office professional, you, the assistant. While we serve the administrative profession all 365 days of the year this is the month that you get a week of recognition, or at least a day.

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Why the Lone Wolf Mentality Won't Work Anymore

On The Job

No other group in the workplace operates quite the way that the sales department does. Human resources doesn’t ring a cow bell and jump around when they sign up an employee for benefits. A product development worker doesn’t get a commission when he or she has a new idea. Sales teams have an “eat what you kill” mentality, which means they don’t collaborate or brainstorm, but instead zealously guard their territory and are rewarded individually for their successes, says Tim Sanders, former Yahoo!

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Small and Independent Brewers Continue to Gain Share

Small Business Labs

According to the Brewers Association , small and independent craft brewers continued to gain share on beer industry giants in 2015. Key quote from their press release: In 2015, craft brewers produced 24.5 million barrels, and saw a 13 percent rise in volume and a 16 percent increase in retail dollar value.  Retail dollar value was estimated at $22.3 billion, representing 21 percent market share.

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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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Technology of the week: Subject Line

Practically Perfect PA

What is Subject Line? Subject Line is a free tool that will test email subject headers for what can only be described as attention grabbiness (yes I have just made that word up). It is also a great online resource for anyone that writes marketing emails with lots of helpful blogs and tips. What does it do? It is a pretty straight forward tool. Simply enter a test email subject header and see how it scores out of 100.

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Do You Speak "Spinglish"?

On The Job

Ever heard of "Spinglish"? It's a term used to describe the jargon often used to conceal the real meaning of what is happening. For example, companies don't lay off workers. They "rightsize" the organization or there is a "synery-related headcount restructuring." Even workers do it. Instead of goofing off at work, you're "zero-tasking." These are a few of the examples in the new " Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language, " by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.

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Home office clutter management

Clutter Coach

by If you’re not lucky enough to have a separate room for your home office , you’ll make do on the dining table, or setting up a desk in a corner of the living room. This poses a special challenge because any clutter you leave on your desk is also now in the common living area for all to see. If you live with others this can be, well, a problem.

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Eco Domain Names Are Finally Coming This Year

Eco-Office Gals

The fight to bring.ECO domains to the general public began as far back as 2009 when Al Gore, the former US vice president, backed the efforts of the company Dot Eco LLC to allow ecologically friendly businesses to enjoy the new TLD. According to Al Gore, the new domain will provide a unique opportunity for environmental movements such as his Alliance for Climate Protection (ACP), to enjoy increased online visibility. 7 years later and the dream is about to come to pass as.ECO domain names are ex

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A Watershed Moment for External Talent Platforms

Small Business Labs

The Harvard Business Review's How PwC and The Washington Post Are Finding and Hiring External Talent  covers the growing use of external talent platforms by corporations. Emergent Research Managing Partner Carolyn Ockels and I co-authored this article. We've covered PwC's Talent Exchange in the past , so I won't go into detail again here.

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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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How to become a Type-A maniacal entrepreneur 

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Ever hung out with a true maniacal genius of an entrepreneur? I’m talking about the type of person who seems to have an inhuman ability to focus. They have shitty work/life balance. They’ve never heard of lifestyle design. They sometimes forget to eat while working. They’re so weird, they tend to alienate everyone around them. And yet, they’ve attained incredible levels of success.

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Christine Arylo on self love, success and clutter

Clutter Coach

by. Creating an organized space makes it easier for you to lay your hands on the things you need and helps you be more effective because you now have time for the important stuff. It's also an essential part of taking care of the most valuable person in your life, yourself. Christine Arylo, coach and author of the new book, Choosing ME Before WE , graciously took some time from her book promotion schedule (you can hear her speak on June 2nd at 7pm in Oakland at Great Good Place for Books) to

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Employee Retention Challenges are the Result of Changing Labor Force Economics

Energage

Why Employee Retention and Hiring Plans Matter Now More Than Ever, Part I. Organizations are benefiting from a stronger economy, and that’s good news overall. But leaders beware: you’re likely to face some daunting employee retention challenges in 2016—if you haven’t already. It’s time to make sure you are doing everything you can to keep great people, or risk watching them walk out the door.

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Tesla's Auto Pilot and Underground Self-Driving Cars

Small Business Labs

I had the opportunity to experience Tesla's self-driving auto pilot mode in their new Model X SUV. It's very cool and the car really does drive itself. While in auto pilot mode the human driver doesn't need to have their hands on the steering wheel or touch the pedals.  Sensors circling the Tesla coupled with front-facing radar and a camera mounted by the rearview mirror continuously scan the road. This allows the car's computer to automatically follow traffic, stay i

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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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Why I Run Ridiculously Long Distances

Brilliantly Better

When I started to run ridiculously long distances, 2 years ago, people who found out about that were puzzled: “How can you run 200 kilometers, Dragos? Even by car, this is a very long distance!” For a while, this was… The post Why I Run Ridiculously Long Distances appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Nag Me, Please

Clutter Coach

by Nagging is just another form of reminding, isn’t it? How you feel about the subject dictates whether you think of a reminder as a nag or as a helpful productivity tool. There are lots of ways to nag yourself; put books by the door that you have to kick out of the way if you’re not going to pick them up (and return them to the library), stick Post-Its on the mirror where they block your view, leave things out where they’ll visually bug you till you do something about them.

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Key Steps to Improving Employee Retention

Energage

Why Employee Retention and Hiring Plans Matter Now More Than Ever, Part II. Take me back to Part I. Do you know how many workers are looking to leave your company? Leaders are often surprised when I tell them their employees are considering better opportunities elsewhere. Turnover is costly, from lost productivity to recruitment and onboarding. Research shows the cost to replace senior leaders is 1.5 to 2 times their annual salary, and the cost for employees and team members is approximately 70%

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How I Use Evernote for Meetings

Productivityist

Evernote is a big part of my workflow. I use it to hold my ideas until I’m ready to do something tangible with them. I use it in conjunction with Todoist all the time, and I even used it to build my CreativeLive course. And I also use Evernote for meetings. Now I know there are plenty of services out there that you can use for meeting organization. But there comes a time where you need to decide whether you want to use a service for only one thing or whether you can use something you’re already

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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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What is your current legacy…what do you want it to be?

The Art of Admin

It is with a heavy heart that I write this blog after receiving news of a friends passing into a better place and I feel the need to be creative so the topic I want to talk with you about. The post What is your current legacy…what do you want it to be? appeared first on The Art of Admin.

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Time Management is You Management

Clutter Coach

by Here are some helpful hints from Jan Hayner for managing your time , courtesy of the Clutter Control Freak Blog (sponsored by Stacks and Stacks , which has some fab organizing products). These hints are especially helpful for those of you who have a hard time saying no. This means scheduling things during lunch so that you have no break time (not to mention no lunch) and otherwise feeling compelled to fill up your entire schedule with requests from others.

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The Toxic Potential Of Expectations – Just Another April Fools

Brilliantly Better

This morning I posted this story on my Facebook wall (approximate translation, the story was in Romanian): “Sometimes, enough is enough. I feel that Connect Hub is one of the most interesting projects I did in the last 17 years,… The post The Toxic Potential Of Expectations – Just Another April Fools appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Testing Isn’t Only for the Technical Team: The Tests Your Business Needs to Be Doing

Small Business CEO

Frequently, when we talk about testing, we are talking about tests done by a dedicated testing team. More recently, development have also had to think about developer testing. There are many different types of testing: development testing and automated testing such as unit testing, integration testing and regression testing; as well as manual testing performed by dedicated QA staff.

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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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How do you define Administration?

The Art of Admin

Don’t you think this is an interesting question? It’s certainly a great place for me to start my blog! Administration is so broad and varied yet so specific and simple in its nature and definition (below). It can be entry. The post How do you define Administration? appeared first on The Art of Admin.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Getting Momentum with Jason and Jodi Womack

Productivityist

On this episode of The Productivityist Podcast, I speak with Jodi and Jason Womack. They are the wife and husband team behind Get Momentum, a coaching program designed to help people realize their full potential. They are also the co-authors of the book of the same name. During our conversation we talk about what it takes to get and maintain momentum, what questions you should ask yourself in order to become a better version of yourself, and much more.

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How to become a Type-A maniacal entrepreneur 

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Ever hung out with a true maniacal genius of an entrepreneur? I’m talking about the type of person who seems to have an inhuman ability to focus. They have shitty work/life balance. They’ve never heard of lifestyle design. They sometimes forget to eat while working. They’re so weird, they tend to alienate everyone around them. And yet, they’ve attained incredible levels of success.

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How Your Business Can Go Global (And Why It Should Go Micro-multinational)

Small Business CEO

With the internet levelling the playing field for how far a company’s reach can extend, more businesses than ever are able to go global without relocating or losing capital in the process. Micro-multinationals , as they are known, are able to keep costs low whilst still operating on a worldwide scale. They embrace technology to keep their teams connected, but still maintain traditional face-to-face business relationships with clients, which has been proved to be financially beneficial in the lon

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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