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How can assistants add value in the workplace?

Practically Perfect PA

Firstly, happy New Year! Last year was a mixed bag wasn’t it?! I hope you all had a lovely break and are looking forward to the year ahead. As usual, we have a packed schedule for 2017, starting with the Assist Conference in February. Today I am writing about one of the key themes for this year’s conference – using your tool kits to add value within your organisation.

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The Rise of Solopreneur Manufacturing Companies

Small Business Labs

The Wall Street Journal's Big Growth in Tiny Businesses nicely covers a trend we'e been following for years - the growth of solopreneur, non-employer manufacturing businesses. Key quote: "The number of businesses classified as manufacturers with no employees has been rising steadily since the depths of the recession. The tiny operations often make food, craft beer, toiletries or other niche products.

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From Possibility to Reality

Office Dynamics

This past October, I was honored to be part of the 2016 Office Dynamics International Conference, The Revolutionary Assistant. If you had asked me several years ago if it were possible to pull off a 400-person think tank, I’m not sure how I would have responded. Happily, I believe in exploration thinking, so today, I can say, “Absolutely!” And here’s why.

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Why It's Time to Stop Suffering in Your Job

On The Job

There you sit, at the pinnacle of your profession. Successful, well-respected, making good money. It took lots of hard work, a little bit of luck and many personal sacrifices. Still, it was worth it. Wasn’t it? Unfortunately, many people in this exact position are saying “no.” They’re not doing something they like, they’re not happy, they’re not able to say they like what they’ve done with their life.

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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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Tech of the week: TransferWise

Practically Perfect PA

What is TransferWise. TransferWise is an online money transfer service. It allows users to move foreign money from one bank account to another while avoiding high bank fees. What does it do? Using peer to peer technology, TransferWise is 8 times cheaper than transfering money via a traditional bank. If someone wants to change pounds to euros, the technology will match someone who wants to transfer euros to pounds.

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Virtual Assistant…10 Years Later

Tips From T. Marie

Although I won’t celebrate my 10 th year of being a #girlboss until September of this year, January 2017 does mark an equally important point in my life as a female entrepreneur. It was 10 years ago, this month that I first stumbled across the term ‘virtual assistant ’. At the time, it was a relatively unknown term and I wouldn’t find myself really investigating it until August of 2007 after receiving my first (and last) pink slip as the real estate bubble burst under the weight of predatory l

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How to Keep Your Job When You've Got Fickle Customers

On The Job

As companies invest more in the customer experience , there is some concern about whether such a commitment will be enough to retain increasingly fickle customers who are constantly being wooed by competitors. A study of 2,000 U.S. consumers by Accenture, for example, shows that 40% were willing to change their brand loyalty for at least one reason, such as: The customer could receive discounts or coupons via the retailer’s social media channels. (18%) Google Wallet or other form of mobile payme

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Valentine Logo Reveal with Particle Hearts

Andrea Kalli

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. No really, it is. Hard to believe, I know. That means I’m beginning to design new Valentine’s Day videos for you to send to your client, just to let them know how much you love working with them. I had a lot of fun following tutorials and getting into a creative mode by designing this Valentine’s Day Logo Reveal project for a client, complete with a swooshing trail of particle hearts.

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & Views January 6, 2017

Eat Your Career

This post is part of a series in which I share some of my favorite Internet finds (related to career advancement and professional development) from the past week. Enjoy! From Yours Truly. I wrote a few new articles for various outlets including U.S. News & World Repot and Ivy Exec’s Executive Perspective’s over the past week. If you missed them, take a peek here: 3 Reasons to Never Skip Salary Negotiation When Accepting a New Job.

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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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Podcast 037: The power of checklists

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about how how valuable checklists are and why you should use them. Here are some highlights: Why should I write down little mundane tasks? How will it help me? What’s the best way to use a checklist?

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2016 – A Monkey Year

Brilliantly Better

In the Chinese zodiac, each year has a certain characteristic, borrowed from one of their basic signs. 2016 was “the year of the monkey” And boy, what a monkey it was… I’m not gonna insist on the zodiac part, I… The post 2016 – A Monkey Year appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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2D Animated demo for Contact Outro video

Andrea Kalli

I’m putting together some packages for a few marketing agencies, and one thing that is part of the Branding Package are a couple of video outros. These are a lot like animated business cards that you put at the end of your video with some sort of contact information. This particular group uses 2D Animations for several Contact Outro videos design ideas.

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Positive Career Affirmation #4

Eat Your Career

“I know my value. Recognition from others is always appreciated but never essential.” To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #4 appeared first on Eat Your Career.

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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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1 in 4 CEOs are accountants. Here’s why

Small Business CEO

A CEO is the most important person in a company. Jumping from meeting to meeting, calling shots, taking risks, making and sometimes breaking businesses. We see these larger-than-life figures giving talks, announcing products and lining the pages of the Forbes Rich List. But where do they come from? A recent survey has shown that nearly one quarter of FTSE 100 CEOs come from a background in accounting.

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How I Use Sanebox

Productivityist

“Email is familiar. It’s comfortable. It’s easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.” – Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite. We’re all too familiar with email. I receive upwards of 100 emails per day across my various email accounts. While I’m quite good at processing email (using a process I call 3Mail – one of the plays in The Productivityist Playbook), I’d be remiss if I didn’t use certain tools to help me along the way.

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Career Success A to Z:F is for Fail Forward

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. After a short break for the holidays, we’re back in full swing and covering an appropriate topic as we enter a new year. While most of us are thinking of goals and resolutions , we tend to also struggle with another f-word at the same time. That one is FEAR.

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9 Personalized Gift Ideas to Give Clients in 2017

Small Business CEO

Most of us have received a gift from our professional connections at some point in our careers. When I look back, the very best gifts I’ve been given over the years have been those that come from the heart – when a customer or other contact has given me something that makes it obvious they took just a little extra time to make it special. Heartfelt gifts such as a card with a special message, or a coffee mug or pen with my name, or favorite saying of written on them are always a treat when

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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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Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Women

Small Business CEO

In recent years, many women have started to lead the way in Silicon Valley. These women are leaders in social media, marketing, healthcare and a wide range of other industries, that were often dominated by their male counterparts in the past. These women are inspiring future generations of female entrepreneurs who no longer need to be concerned about becoming a leader in their chosen field.

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5 Inexpensive Small Business Ideas For 2017

Small Business CEO

Starting up a small business is not as complicated as one might initially believe. eFlirt.com, a popular dating site, started from $50 and a Twitter account. It is easier than ever before to build a home-based business from scratch. The internet revolutionized the world of business for entrepreneurs. Technology gave the average person a shot at financial freedom.

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My 3 Words For 2017

Productivityist

Over the past few years, I’ve followed a practice shared with me by my friend Chris Brogan. Every year I choose three words that I use as a waypoint for my year. These words are focal points – Productivity Pillars of sorts – that guide my year the way I want it to go. I usually choose words that all start with the same letter. In 2016, my words were Harmony, Health, and Helpfulness.

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8 Best Ways to Get Fund for Your Startup Easily

Small Business CEO

Funding for the startup is one of the most difficult areas for a newbie entrepreneur and going to start a new startup and as well wanting to seek out some cash for initiate the idea. Then don’t worry more; there are lots of ways where you can find funds if you have a brilliant and excitable idea and a good team. Indeed, finding funds for startup is one of the toughest parts always and nowadays it become more competitive as well.

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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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Increase Employee Activities with These 7 Tips

Small Business CEO

On the average, an employee spends about 8.8 hours per day at work, and 7.7 hours sleeping. In short, employees spend more time in the workplace than in at home and this calls for plenty of socializing with one’s co-workers. Individual personalities being what they are, life in the office can be stressful and although some workers remain unaffected by the situation it may cause others to become apathetic and this can also affect the other people in the workplace.

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This One Industry You’ve Never Heard of Is Crucial to the Global Economy

Small Business CEO

Lots of industries fly under the radar, free of the glitz, glamor and attention that higher-profile enterprises earn. That doesn’t mean these industries are any less important than their better-known counterparts, nor that they’re any less likely to attract the best and brightest employees. In fact, some of the most creative entrepreneurs in the world find opportunities where others see only chaos — or, more likely, nothing at all. photo credit: Oregon Ducatisti / Flickr.

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How to Survive Your First Business Trip

Small Business CEO

A huge number of people travel to destinations around the country and even around the world in the name of business. Taking a business trip can be exciting and rewarding but it can also be tiring, daunting, and a challenge. If you are planning to take your first business trip there are ways in which you can make the process far easier on yourself and make your business trip a more enjoyable one.

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The Productivityist Podcast: The Well Life with Briana Borten

Productivityist

Anytime is a good time to establish a “well life”, and it just so happened that we’re starting 2017 with a means to help you do just that. On this episode of The Productivityist Podcast, my guest is Briana Borten. She is a peace engineer and wellness entrepreneur who owns The Dragontree Spa and co-wrote The Well Life. Backed up with their experiences in alternative healing and a genuine yearning to help their clients to live a more fulfilling life, Briana and her husband Dr.

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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