Sat.Jan 21, 2017 - Fri.Jan 27, 2017

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Tactfully Voicing Your Opinion In The Workplace

Office Dynamics

I hope you had a great week last week and were able to apply the tips I had for communicating with people from different generations. In case you did not read the last two Monday Motivators , I have been writing a 3 part series on communicating for business success. The first one was, Be a better communicator at work and the second was, Bridge the Generational Communication Gap.

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5 Ways to Slay Small Talk with Your Boss

Practically Perfect PA

You’ve got an event coming up and your boss suggests that you meet and travel together. You know that this is a great opportunity to have one to one time with her, but are not sure if you have anything in common. You start to imagine hours of uncomfortable silence, like a bad date, but one where you have to the see the person again. This could be the longest and most career-annihilating journey of your life.

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Obamacare's Impact on Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment

Small Business Labs

There's no doubt the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or better known as Obamacare) has been a good for freelancers, the self-employed and other independent workers. As the chart below shows, the percentage of full-time independent workers with health insurance has increased from 64% in 2013 to 83% in 2016. This increase is clearly due to Obamacare, which took effect in 2014.

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How to Get Colleagues to Trust You

On The Job

When you buy your popcorn at the movies, you probably don’t have more than a fleeting thought about the concession clerk, which is why such a relationship is referred to as transactional. You hand over the cash, and the clerk hands over the popcorn. It’s a transaction, and you don’t have any real investment in that relationship. But at work, you probably chit-chat with colleagues before beginning a work-related discussion.

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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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Top 8 Time Management Tips To Hack Productivity

Office Dynamics

Amongst the hectic schedules and infinite demands of modern life, we often feel like there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything we need to done. This pressure has resulted in many self-aware individuals seeking ways to save time throughout their day. Some of this is relevant to work life, some to home life, but all time management hacks end up with you being more productive while you work and having more ‘me-time’ as a result.

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Annotated Agenda

Laughing all the Way to Work

It is very useful to use an annotated agenda. For those who have never used one, it is simply an agenda with notes on it. For the agenda that I send to the meeting participants, I annotate it to let them know why an item is on the agenda or if there are any attachments. In my example below you will see that I put brackets around the notes and italicize them.

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How to Deal With Employees Who Drive You Loony

On The Job

When managers get really, really fed up with a team member, they often a) explode at them in a crazy, bug-eyed, spit-spewing way or b) walk away and hide in their offices, wearing camouflage clothing and trying to blend in with a ficus. Neither strategy works. Screaming at someone makes you look like a lunatic and everyone starts dusting off their resumes because no one wants to work for a lunatic.

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10+ Lessons Learned In My 10 Years with Office Dynamics International

Office Dynamics

I woke up this morning with the strange realization that this is my very last day with Office Dynamics International. What a very weird feeling. As I write this I am feeling all the emotions. I’m remembering many of our incredible stories that we’ve collected over the last decade of partnership. Life has been filled with so much joy and with an unbalanced amount of pain.

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Space clearing expert Karen Kingston on clutter

Clutter Coach

by I heard Karen Kingston, author of Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui, speak at a NAPO conference years ago. I was familiar with her work, but hadn’t read her book so I went and bought it after the conference. . Although she’s not an organizer, her work ties in quite well with organizing. One of the skills she practices is space clearing, which means cleaning out stagnant energy and replacing it with new vital energy.

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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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Pet Tech Booming

Small Business Labs

Despite a decline in venture capital investments last year , 2016 was a record year for venture investments in pet tech startups. As the CB Insights chart below shows, the amount of venture capital investments in pet tech startups is up 4 fold over the past 5 years. As CB Insights explains in their article New Breed: Pet Tech Is Seeing Investor Interest Take Off  pet tech includes: companies whose core business is using tech-enabled solutions to serve the pet owner market.

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Lioness Magazine publishes my article on Business-to-Business Videos

Andrea Kalli

January is really shaping up! Publisher, Lioness Magazine , picked up my article – “ How To Use Video To Drive Business–To-Business Sales ”, at – [link]. A few key points about the article are: Before you create content, define your purpose or your message. The video purpose drives the script, tone, tempo, style, call-to-action, and more. You have to know the reason you’re creating the video before you even start.

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Career Success A to Z: I Is For Initiative

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. This week, I want to talk about one of my favorite topics: Initiative. This is a critical part of being proactive—another topic I’m passionate about. In fact, my book, The Proactive Professional , discusses the importance of taking initiative in-depth, and it also addresses how to do it appropriately in the workplace.

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Podcast 040: Pump your decision making muscles

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about how you can improve your decision making skill. Hint: it’s like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Here are some highlights: But what if I get it wrong? I need to know more first.

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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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Millennials career advice that will help you!

Job Advice Blog

Millennials career advice that will help you does not grow on trees. Allow me to give you some advice that will help you with your career. I can guarantee you that […] The post Millennials career advice that will help you! appeared first on JTL Services Inc.

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The RideShare Guy's 2017 Driver Survey

Small Business Labs

The RideShare Guy released their  2017 Survey Results: Driver Earnings, Satisfaction and Demographics.  It has lots of interesting data on those who drive for services like Uber and Lyft.  One of the most interesting findings is Lyft drivers are much more satisfied than Uber drivers. More than 75 percent of Lyft drivers said they were satisfied with their experience, while only about half (49%) of Uber drivers said they were satisfied.

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The Million Dollar Dog: Pet Industry Gold Mines

Small Business CEO

Money has gone to the dogs – but in a good way. According to the American Pet Products Association (APPA), Americans spent about $62.75 billion on their furry, feathered or finned friends, including dogs. The APPA note that 54.4 million homes have pets. That means that even if home included only one person, over 54.4 million customers are looking to make their pets’ lives fun and healthy.

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Title: Habits That Will Make You A Happier Person

Brilliantly Better

This is a guest post by: Matthew Snider We all want to be happy throughout life, but we may wonder if nonstop joy just appears in our lives without us doing anything to get it. It’s true that happiness can at… The post Title: Habits That Will Make You A Happier Person appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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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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Why Not Stand Out?

A Great Day's Work

There are millions of administrative professionals throughout the world doing what you do each day. Are you pushing yourself to stand out to become indispensable? Or are you settling to blend in with the others in your office or perhaps even worse desiring to go unnoticed? What projects, tasks, programs, or relationships are you driving forward each day in your workplace?

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6 Reasons Why You Fail to Reach Your Goals

Productivityist

Robert Morris is a freelance writer and personal development coach. He helps people reach success and achieve their personal and career goals. Currently, he writes for NinjaEssays writing service. While some of us reach our goals, others struggle and fall short. Some people have huge goals like becoming millionaires or even owning a football team. Others want to live a peaceful life, spend more time with their families or spouses, and not stress too much.

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The Baby Boomer Business Continues to Grow

Small Business CEO

Conventional wisdom has long held that when it comes to making money on a product, it pays to market it to young people. In our youth-obsessed society, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Companies typically focus on younger demographics not only because they could become customers for life but because they tend to be more tech-savvy and more willing to try new things.

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Fellowship Community Culture Makes Four-Year Recipient of Top Workplaces Award

Energage

A Culture of Appreciation and People Focus Leads to Company Satisfaction for Both Residents and Employees. The name Fellowship Community alludes to a strong network for its residents. However, it describes much more for its 359 staff members. For a fourth consecutive year, Fellowship Community was named on The Morning Call Top Workplaces list. This recognition comes from a workplace culture focused on appreciation, employee engagement, and a strong relationship with the community.

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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 Build an Input Management Plan

Productivityist

Have you ever used a power bar before? You know, the ones that have 5–7 outlets on them so you can plug a bunch of devices into them? I’m betting you have. Now, have you ever had to look at one you’ve filled and had to figure out which device needs to be expelled because you’ve got a new one that needs its plug? That’s how input management works. You only have so many slots to house inputs, so you should replace one input source with another instead of trying to stack them.

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Top 5 Habits of The Best World Leaders in History

Small Business CEO

The idea of being “successful” is indeed a matter of personal judgment. There are timeless truths and habits that helps one achieve success, regardless of one’s personality or industry he/she works in, or a point in history. photo credit: Wikipedia. The world’s top leaders and professionals employ unique ways to boost their productivity.

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How To Deal With A Debt Collection Agency?

Small Business CEO

In recent times, ignoring creditors’ phone calls and failing their continuous attempts of setting the debts has become a massive issue. Though a majority of individuals do not ignore creditors intentionally but yet it seems like you are making a big mistake by avoiding them. If you’ve been recently contacted by a debt collection agency for the first time, you may worry that this can happen again anytime in upcoming days.

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17 Small Business Dilemmas and Its Solutions for Budding Entrepreneurs this 2017

Small Business CEO

Startups face a lot of challenges. Sadly, some don’t triumph over these challenges and end up closing down. We are here to help new entrepreneurs by taking into account 17 of the most common small business challenges, and how these problems can be solved. 1. Thinking of the right business. Coming up with the right business idea is on top of the list of the challenges that new entrepreneurs safe.

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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