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Choosing the Best Administrative Assistant or Executive Assistant Conference

Office Dynamics

An administrative conference should feed your brain and soul! You have finally gotten the approval to attend an administrative conference, maybe you have decided to invest in yourself by attending an administrative conference but choosing the best administrative assistant or executive assistant conference is no easy task. Attending an administrative conference is a big investment of your time and money.

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Deloitte on the Future of Work

Small Business Labs

Deloitte has become, in our opinion, one of the key go-to sources of information and analysis on the future of work. Their recent article Redefining work, workforces, and workplaces is a good example. In a relatively short article, it nicely synthesizes and explains "multiple converging trends and how they are already fundamentally changing all aspects of work."   As the article chart above shows (click to enlarge), they focus on three main areas: work, workforce and workplace.

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Preparing for an Assistant video interview

Practically Perfect PA

The vast majority of recruitment agencies and employers now use video as part of their interview process, because it saves time and money on the early stages of the interview process. In our recent interview with Hayley Lawrence, PA for the Regional General Manager on Necker Island, she told us that she had to submit […].

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Positive Career Affirmation #12

Eat Your Career

I maintain a comfortable but organized area that inspires my best work. To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #12 appeared first on Eat Your Career.

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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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How does an Administrative Professional Set Up an Official Process? Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Welcome back to Ask an Admin! The blog series that allows administrative professionals to ask any questions they may have and have their peers give the best advice they can provide. This week Stacey asks: I am the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO, and the only assistant (the only admin, really) at this location. Coworkers leave documents on my desk; the expectation is that I secure the signature of the President and CEO, and then return it to the requestor (who’s assistant am I, anyw

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What meetings should you have with your Executive?

Practically Perfect PA

We all know that communication with your Executive is key to a successful working relationship and I’ve found over the years, the more access an Assistant has to their Executive the more they are seen as a critical asset within the organisation. But, when you work with a busy Executive, it can be challenging to […].

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Improve Your Productivity With Green Office Design

Eco-Office Gals

When you envision the typical office environment, do you see greenery, natural light and a clear view of an adjacent landscape? The average person associates their office with worn carpeting, buzzing light fixtures and tall partitions. The most they see of nature is from motivational posters on the wall. While this is somewhat of an exaggeration, the point remains the same: The traditional design for the American office space is simple and utilitarian, serving its purpose without supporting the

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8. Variable Pay for Recruiters

Recruit CRM

Motivating your team Now you have a team and have assignments to do. One of the most important elements of building a business is the motivation of your team to achieve organizational goals. Much as enough has been spoken and written about motivational factors and hygiene factors in a work […] Source.

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Are You Burned Out? Here's What to Do

On The Job

"I'm so burned out." I overheard the comment while on a subway recently as a young woman talked to someone on her cellphone. I was surprised to see how clearly distraught the woman was -- and how young she appeared to be. I thought about that young woman several times that day, especially since I had just read statistics saying that one in five adults in this country experience mental illness in a year.

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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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5 tools to help create organisational charts

Practically Perfect PA

Having worked through a few company restructures in my career I have often been given the horrible task of creating new organisational charts. Back in the day, there were only two platforms available for this job – PowerPoint and Visio, they had their problems, and although, yes, I could create charts with both programmes, I […].

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The Speed of Right

Productivityist

“Slow and steady wins the race.” – The Tortoise and The Hare. In our quest to get things done, we can find ourselves moving too fast. When that happens we run the risk of missing key components of task completion, which can result in lower quality results. The need for speed is alluring because the rewards associated with speed are compelling: we get to finish something we started and that gives us a sense of achievement and accomplishment.

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3 Simple Ways to Invest in Real Estate

Small Business CEO

Real estate investing stands for buying, owning, managing, renting or selling any kind of real estate for profit. In other words, any property that is owned for the sole purpose of creating profit, whether through market value or rental income is a real estate that is invested in. It is an asset form with limited liquidity when compared to other investments.

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According to the National Labor Relations Board, Uber Drivers are Contractors

Small Business Labs

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled this week that Uber drivers are contractors. The major impact of this ruling is gig workers are unlikely to be able to form or join unions. This follows a ruling by the U.S. Department of Labor finding that gig workers are independent contractors and not entitled to minimum wages and overtime pay under federal law.

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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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Five tips on team management

Practically Perfect PA

Managing a team isn’t easy. In fact management, in general, is pretty tough – that is why so many people are bad at it! It can be hard for Assistants to juggle managing a team of other Assistants or Administrators (which is often the case) and support their Executive. It’s not an easy role. If […].

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Episode 244: Living a Conscious Life with Bob Rosen

Productivityist

On today’s episode, I spent time with Bob Rosen. Bob is the founder and CEO of Healthy Companies and is a trusted global CEO advisor, organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of eight books. His latest book entitled CONSCIOUS: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life was published by Wiley in July 2018.

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10 Best E-commerce Marketing Strategies to Shape Your Business

Small Business CEO

If you’re running an eCommerce business, there are a few eCommerce marketing strategies you need to implement so that you can gain new customers as well as entice your old clients to keep coming back to your store. There are tons of competition on the internet for eCommerce brands. Therefore, knowing how to set your business apart and get your brand name out there is crucial.

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3 Ways To Make Sure Your Sales Reps Stay Ahead Of The Game

Small Business CEO

When they’re “out in the field,” your sales team’s days can vary immensely. On some days it can be like gently floating down a stream, wowing people with demos at every turn, enjoying some great networking opportunities, and converting new leads into paying customers. On other days, they might feel like they’re swimming against the current, rushing from one meeting to another, while trying to balance time between new prospects and older ones.

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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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Empowering and Enabling MSME Businesses in India

Small Business CEO

Currently, there are more than 43 million micro, small and medium sized business enterprises (MSMEs) in India, employing about 40% of the total population. With its contribution to GDP of around 8%, these MSMEs are not only helping in financial development of the country, but also in improving the socio-economic status of the people. However, at the same time, they are also struggling to flourish owing to certain challenges such as lack of accessibility to information and knowledge, inadequate i

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How to Start a Small Delivery Business

Small Business CEO

If you wish to launch a startup that requires minimal capital investments, a small delivery company might be just the thing for you. You get to be your own boss, profits are easily made, and you have the freedom to run in any way you like, without the need to reinvent the wheel. The equipment isn’t expensive, your experience and education won’t matter, and you can have numerous potential clients as your company grows.

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Webspotter – The Lead Generation Tools We Prefer

Small Business CEO

If you ask us what is the most valuable thing today, we would say it is analytics, statistics, data. YES, they are ruling the world by helping make better decisions depending on the data available. This is changing the way we look at the world, it shows us the world as a globe of opportunities that are just lying around to be picked up. One such thing is the lead generation software.

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Trading The News: How To Do It Right

Small Business CEO

When trading forex, one of the most important items to watch at the beginning of each trading session is the news. Taking into account that forex is up and running somewhere around the world 24 hours-a-day five days-a-week , the international news reports can play an important role in prices. Traders need to not only check the news reports of both of the pairs they are trading, but they must also take into account how events around the globe can send prices suddenly soaring or plummeting without

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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 Choose a Reliable Digital Agency SEO Expert

Small Business CEO

Search engine optimization is the bread and butter of anyone who hopes to even attempt any digital marketing these days. Customers find everything they want online, they even manage their transaction online most of the time, and if you are not able to rank high in their search results, you are basically done for. But what if you are not that much of an SEO wizard?