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Is an Executive Assistant Certificate for You?

Office Dynamics

'Completion of Certificate Programs, Certifications and Designation are industry marks of excellence. They are immediately recognizable and say to others, “I take my career seriously.”. In today’s competitive workplace, it’s easy to get lost in the crowd. Employers want administrative and executive assistants with more than experience. They want true professionals—people who are committed to the administrative profession as a career choice, willing to invest in their own growth, and eager to go

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10 tips for public speaking

Practically Perfect PA

' My first attempt at public speaking was back in 2013 at an exhibition for assistants and office managers. At the time I was absolutely petrified. Every fibre of my being was telling me to run away as quickly as my shaky legs could carry me. I managed to get through that first speech and since then I have presented at a number of events. Although I still get incredibly nervous I am less likely to bolt or shake uncontrollably.

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Keystone Habits: Leveraging the Power of Small Habits

Productivity Bits

'Discipline. That''s it. That''s no drama. That''s no secret either. But the question is how to attain that level of discipline that will get everything you committed to doing done. Habits. Discipline, in a sense, is adherence to habits that you, yourself, have established and decided to stick to. Thank you for subscribing! Please grab my free productivity ebook!

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Demonstrating Emotional Intelligence Important in a Job Interview

On The Job

'Customers no longer just want a great product and good service – they want a great customer experience. But the challenge is not only how to provide that in a sustainable way, but how to hire those who will be able to provide it. One company, the Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), believes it has found the key to hiring employees with the emotional intelligence to drive long-term customer experience satisfaction.

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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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Lead From Anywhere: How assistants can exemplify leadership

Office Dynamics

'A Conversation with Joan Burge – Author, Master Trainer and Founder of Office Dynamics. Joan Burge, a renowned author and administrative expert, is the creator of the Star Achievement Series®, World Class Assistant™ Certificate Program, more than 40 customized workshops and seminars for administrative professionals and author of several books.

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Same Day Delivery and the Uberfication of Logistics

Small Business Labs

'Seems like everyone is getting into logistics. Same day delivery services are being offered by Amazon , Ebay  and Google  in a variety of geographies.  In addition to Internet companies, traditional retailers are also starting to offer same day delivery, with  Macy's  and  Ace Hardware  as diverse examples.

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Agreements: Protecting the Stuff That Dreams are Made of

Virtual Moxie

'I''ve been asked what I think a Virtual Assistant should do if a new client wanted her to sign a confidentiality agreement about his intellectual property. The VA was disinclined to do it because she 1) thought the client should trust her, and 2) because this particular confidentiality agreement spelled out, very specifically, an exorbitant amount of money she''d be responsible to pay him if she spilled the proverbial beans.

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It Really Doesn’t Matter What You Choose

Office Organization Success

'As I was wrapping up my latest GET CLIENTS NOW! program with my clients last week, I left them with this thought for the day: It really doesn’t matter what you choose; the important thing is that you choose. After working with many clients over the years, there is one thing that they all have in common and that is that they’re overwhelmed; they don’t know what to do first, second, third in their business.

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Don’t Let the Pessimist Get You Down!

Office Dynamics

'I’m sure you can all think of a person at work who seems to take the joy out of everything. Or no matter what good is going on, they can find a down side to it. You really have to be careful and protect yourself from these people because they can affect your attitude, productivity, progress, and success. Individuals who tend to focus on the negative or what could go wrong, tend to be pessimists.

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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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Scientists Use Robot Penguins to Spy on the Real Thing

Small Business Labs

'Popular Mechanics has a great story about robot penguins being used to study Emperor penguin colonies in their natural habitat without disturbing them. After discovering tagging penguins with bands around their flippers was harmful—it impaired their survival and the number of their offspring, presumably by reducing their speed in the water - scientists switched to implanted RFID tags.

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Why Your Weight May Determine Your Career Success

On The Job

'If you''re one of the millions of Americans who are overweight, it''s going to be more difficult to get a job or promotion at work. That''s because according to a new paper by Wharton University, "The Affective and Interpersonal Consequences of Obesity," there is clear bias against the obese -- even by those who themselves are overweight. Some key insights from the paper: Both men and women are biased against obese people.

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Technology of the week: Camscanner

Practically Perfect PA

'What is Camscanner? The Camscanner App allows users to convert and save any document into a PDF using their mobile phone. Camscanner uses a freemium pricing plan, with a free basic account. What does it do? Camscanner has a number of features. From a mobile phone users can: Scan any kind of document in seconds, texts or graphics. Scan multi-page documents.

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Covering the front desk without missing a beat

Office Dynamics

'Each month we spotlight a questions from our friends over at AdminPro Forum. This month we’re looking at the questions submitted by Nancy about covering the front desk at her office. Please chime in and let us know your thoughts on this subject in the comments section below. How do you feel when you are expected to take time away from your work so that you can be covering the front desk?

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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 Great Decoupling?

Small Business Labs

'The Great Decoupling is a term some economists use to describe the economic decoupling of productivity, wages, jobs and GDP growth. These 4 factors used to move more or less in unison. But as the chart below shows, starting around 2000 the growth in labor productivity "decoupled" from job growth.   But the decoupling is even broader. As the hard-to-read (sorry) chart below shows, labor productivity and GDP growth has also decoupled from median household income (it's the bottom

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Somewhere between “Everything is Awesome” and “Glory”

Loosely Speaking

During our 2015 Oscar party, my DDIL and I both infamously voted for the “Lego Movie” as the winner in the best song category. No matter that I didn’t know that song because I forgot to watch “Lego.

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A day in the life: Gabriele Power, 4Talent (Channel 4)

Practically Perfect PA

'What are the main aspects of your role? Job title: 4Talent Team Assistant and Personal Assistant to Head of People Services, HR. It’s a bit cliché, but no day is ever the same. Diary management is my smallest yet most consistent task; meeting invites popping into the diary throughout the day and I deal with them as they come. 4Talent on the other hand, is the arm of Channel 4 that does the outreach across the UK to inspire and engage young people to find or create their paths into the creative

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Declutter the Digital

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-01-17 12:27:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Rule of thumb: it’s easier to organize things when there are fewer of them. How often do you look through a folder or collection of digital photographs and find only a handful that you want to show to anyone? The rest are too dark, out of focus, more versions of the same thing, make you look fat, or you have no idea why you even took them.

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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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Book Review: Hand to Mouth - Living in Bootstrap America

Small Business Labs

'In 2013 Linda Tirado saw the following question on an online forum she followed: Why do poor people do things that are so self-destructive? Tirado felt she could explain what she'd seen and how she'd reacted to the pressures of being poor, so she wrote a response.  Within a couple of days her response  - This is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense - went viral.

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I Know a Knitter Who is a (fill in the blank)

Loosely Speaking

I recently heard a podcast segment which reminded me that we aren’t JUST knitters or crocheters. We are all primarily something else, professionally or personally.

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Why You Need to Choose Between Success and Popularity

Men With Pens

'Click here to read the full article → Another rocking post from Men With Pens! Why You Need to Choose Between Success and Popularity first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — 2015, All Rights Reserved.

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3 Things You Need to Know About Online Defamation

Small Business CEO

'When considering the modern landscape of communication and news-gathering, we can all agree that the use of blogs and social networking outlets are increasing in their popularity and usefulness. Unfortunately, this incredible rise in use and visibility also increases the risks of online defamation. Defamation occurs when someone online writes something that falsely and negatively affects another person’s reputation and/or business.

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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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Choose Your Conventions Wisely

Productivityist

'I ran on the treadmill for an hour. Why did I stopped at the hour mark? Because that’s when the treadmill stopped the workout. If a workout was for seventy minutes, I probably would have gone that long. I also could have turned it on again. The only thing that stopped me from running more was my convention. Conventions are all around us, and something we’ve highlighted here in the Cookie Method of Productivity post, but it’s worth a deeper look to set up and think about.

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3 Simple Sign-up Strategies to Grow Your Email List!

Office Organization Success

'If you’re not fully maximizing your website you’ll be missing out on new subscribers. There are many ways to capture a visitor to your website, and turn them into a new subscriber, but if you’re not fully using all of the strategies available to do so, then you’re going to be missing out on filling your pipeline with potential clients and customers.

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How to Start Your Digital Career Portfolio

Office Dynamics

'By now you’ve likely heard of the importance of keeping a Career Portfolio. Do you have one? Have you considered the digital version of your portfolio? It’s a lot easier to create and update a digital portfolio than you might think … even if you aren’t a tech-loving person! I’m going to break down 6 easy-to-use resources for you that will help you to get started on the digital version of your career portfolio.

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Features Every Multichannel Software Should Have

Small Business CEO

'If you’re using more than one online marketplace, you can understand the frustration of having to log into multiple different channels to manage your orders and inventory. Perhaps it’s time to think about investing in a multichannel software. To help you, we’ve compiled this list of features every multichannel software should have.

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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