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Blatant Pronoun Misuses You Want to Learn and Avoid

Office Dynamics

by Barbara McNichol. I love watching the TV show “Dancing with the Stars” but even this escape doesn’t give me a break from grammar glitches. In one episode alone, I counted four times when participants and/or hosts misused the pronouns as they spoke. As a society, if we repeatedly hear words used incorrectly on national TV (and all around us), how will we ever know what’s right?

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Business travel without the stress

Practically Perfect PA

Business travel can be a stressful experience. Unfamiliar surroundings, time and performance pressures, networking in a second or third language, and a confused body clock all contribute to rising stress levels. We look at simple techniques that help you get the basics right, so you can keep stress to a minimum. If you can eliminate […].

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3 Steps to Take When You No Longer Like Your Job

On The Job

Sometimes you accept a job and are really excited about it. But as you spend more time in that job, you start to lose some of that enthusiasm. Before long, you feel stuck. It can be difficult to finally admit to yourself that you're not happy with a job you thought was a good fit. You feel a bit guilty because you know about the time and effort the employer has put into hiring and training you.

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Pet Obsessed Millennials Pamper Their "Fur Babies"

Small Business Labs

Last week the online retailer Zulily celebrated their first annual pet week. In honor of this auspicious occasion, t hey released a set of survey results on pet owning millennials. It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows a pet owning millennial that they're, on average, a bit obsessed with their "fur babies"   Our favorite finding is over 8 in 10 (84%) millennial pet owners report experiencing separation anxiety when away from their pets for even short periods of time,

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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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Fighting Office Dragons

Office Dynamics

I have been speaking about office dragons for years and how to professionally deal with the dragons. Dragons were huge, dominating, fictitious creatures. Medieval writers had vivid imaginations for big, scary things. For many people, work is like a dragon. It can be overwhelming and certainly dominates well over half of our waking hours. Sometimes the people we work with can be pretty “fiery” creatures to deal with, too.

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Paperless Post- Can E-Cards Work For Businesses?

Tips From T. Marie

Paperless Post, a service providing ecards and evites, contacted me and asked if I would be interested in checking out their service and possibly writing about my experience. They provided free credits so that I could take the service for a test drive and give my readers my opinion and review of what they have. Read more. The post Paperless Post- Can E-Cards Work For Businesses?

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Coworking, Differentiation and Segmentation

Small Business Labs

Kansas City's Laya Center  (pictured below) is the  the first coworking spa in the U.S.   In addition to having the only natural cryotherapy chamber in the Midwest, the Laya Center also offers chromotherapy as well as yoga and other traditional spa treatments and services. And, of course, it offers a workspace. As the coworking industry continues to expand, so do efforts on the part of coworking spaces to differentiate themselves and target niche market segments with specia

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What is Holding Your Brand Back? PART 3

Office Dynamics

By Anel Martin. Well, that is a big question! Personally, I think what is holding us back from powerful, successful and valuable brands is the same thing that holds us back from fulfilling careers and happy lives. That is a big statement but here goes! I think it is the inability to speak up, trying to fit in, not being able to decide and FOCUS, believing we don’t deserve it (whatever “IT” is for you), lack of self-discipline and confidence.

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10 Instagram accounts to help develop your career

Practically Perfect PA

I loooooovvvvveee me some Instagram and I’m sure most of you are the same. I think it might be my favourite social media platform, although that is like picking your favourite child, it kinda depends on the day. Anyway, I do love Instagram and it has so much to offer Assistants who are looking for some 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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My conversation with Chris Wilson of Unstuck School

Clutter Coach

by On Monday I was the guest presenter, talking about limiting your options and why it’s a good idea. No, a necessary thing to do if you want to get anything done! Click the image to watch the replay and find out why. The post My conversation with Chris Wilson of Unstuck School appeared first on Clutter Coach.

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LinkedIn's Deep Dive on VanLifers and Digital Nomads

Small Business Labs

LinkedIn's From van life to careers, figure it out as you go covers a couple who have spent several years as VanLifers.  It includes an excellent video that is the most professionally done of any VanLife video we've seen and is well worth watching. For those not familiar with with the VanLife trend , it refers to the growing number of mostly millennials who have traded in their homes and apartments for life on the road in vans.  Key quote from the article on the featured VanL

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Everyday Leadership in Action

Eat Your Career

The word “leadership” is often misunderstood in the workplace. Most people think it requires a title of some sort. You’re a leader if you supervise others or if you have a few fancy letters after your name. I don’t think leaders are defined by position or organizational hierarchy. To me, leaders are defined by their actions. Consequently, I believe that anyone in any role has the ability to be a leader.

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Project Management 101: Getting to grips with MS Project

Practically Perfect PA

At the recent Future Assistant conference we held a session on Project Management for beginners. It was a really popular session and it made me think that we could do a lot more blog posts on project management, particularly as so many of you are working on your own projects and in supporting project teams. So […].

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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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Paperless Post- Can E-Cards Work For Businesses?

Tips From T. Marie

Paperless Post , a service providing ecards and evites, contacted me and asked if I would be interested in checking out their service and possibly writing about my experience. They provided free credits so that I could take the service for a test drive and give my readers my opinion and review of what they have to offer. I have what could be considered a paperless office.

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You're Always Being Watched

On The Job

Years ago I was volunteering at a community fun fair, which is another way of saying that kids were running around juiced on too much soda and candy, and parents were paying $10 for a hot dog. All of it was in good fun since it was aimed to raise money for a local community project. I worked alongside a 13-year-old boy, who never said "no" to anything I requested.

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Why Home-Based Businesses Need More Than Homeowners Insurance

Small Business CEO

A potential client comes to your house to take a look at your portfolio. Being the gracious host that you are, you offer a beverage. A martini? Sure. Extra dry? Fine. Have you got olives? Of course you do. Client is thoroughly blown away by your superior mixology skills. Just as you’re about to cross the t’s and dot the i’s, said client trips over your laptop cord.

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The 3 Ingredients Of A Minimalist Productivity Workflow

Productivityist

I don’t consider myself to be a minimalist. But when it comes to my personal productivity, I definitely have minimalist tendencies. I align tasks with my time in a way that allows me to move forward with as little friction as possible. I put templates and frameworks in place that reduce decision fatigue so I can leverage every moment of my time. I am very deliberate with the tools I use—both digital and analog—so I know what to use and when to use it.

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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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EXPOSED: The Dark and Nefarious TheMarq.com Blog

The Marq

It's been about three months since I posted anything on TheMarq or the YouTube channel, but that's changing today. I've published the video speaking to why I've been away for so long and exposing the dark and nefarious actions of.THIS SITE! ;-) Enjoy the video.and if you want to contribute to the survey, this is it. Copyright(c) 2017 TheMarq.com.

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3 Website Essentials to Boost Service Business Sales

Small Business CEO

Service businesses are interesting. Small towns may only have one electrician that has a monopoly on the industry, but other cities may have dozens of electricians all vying for the same business. It’s a difficult situation to be in, but there are ways to use your website to boost sales. People flock to the Internet to review companies, search for the best prices and find a service provider to meet their needs.

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4 Tips for Successful Social Media Marketing

Small Business CEO

Digital marketing in the modern age is a beast to be reckoned with. Although there are tons of people constantly studying the shifts in the dynamic of internet marketing, it changes so often that it can be difficult to know where to get a hold of understand exactly what you can and should do to make your business and marketing strategies more successful.

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The Key to Cybersecurity Awareness? Tell Your Employees to Slow Down

Small Business CEO

Do you have a cybersecurity awareness training program in your office? If so, what’s the central theme? How about… slow down. There are of course many tenets of a successful cybersecurity awareness program, but none more central to stopping human error and negligence. photo credit: Juan J Martinez / Flickr. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 State of SMB Cybersecurity report, negligent employees were the number one cause of SMB data breaches.

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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 to Beat the Competition: 24/7 Phone Answering Service

Small Business CEO

A common complaint among small business owners is the battle to beat out the competition that exists in this day and age. Since businesses open and close every year, estimates as to how many companies there are in the world are hard to make. Some experts place numbers well over 100,000,000 global businesses operating at any one time. So how then is it possible to compete, even beat the competition operating in your industry?

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Why Today’s Construction Projects are Leaning Towards Modular Building

Small Business CEO

Off-site construction and modular building are favoured modern building methods and no wonder: they save time, money and resources. MTX Contracts take a look at why this is the case, using examples from around the globe. It is a form of building that is here to stay. Modular building affords the client many options, from complete customisation to amazing savings on time and money.

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6 Unusual Business Ideas that Actually Worked

Small Business CEO

Every business starts with an idea. If someone hasn’t thought of it yet, or the market is still low in competition, it’s the prime opportunity for you to implement your idea into a business plan and start working! The key is a great business idea, which are hard to come by, but sometimes the most unusual or strange business ideas are exactly the ones that will be most successful and high-earning.

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3 Things That Can Make Your Day at the Office Easier

Small Business CEO

Any day at the office has its challenges. From the time you wake up in the morning to the morning commute to the actual time spent in the office, what you do for a living can be more of a frustrating task than a joy. We all look forward to any idea that might be able to help, within reason. Thank goodness that with the evolution of technology comes a few gadgets that could make your day at the office a little easier.

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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