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Tips on good minute taking

Practically Perfect PA

As we all know writing minutes is an essential skill for Assistants and this ultimate guide to effective minute-taking we will break-down everything Assistants need to know to create minutes that will be read and actioned. I had a job a few years back that provided support for twelve Committees who had four meetings [.].

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What Are Some Measurable KPIs for Executive Assistants? – Ask an Admin

Office Dynamics

Ask an Admin was created by Office Dynamics to help administrative professionals with their problems through the help of their peers. We don’t always have an answer to each individual’s problem but we know some of you might. Please read the question and comment below. Marje M asks: My boss is making me write my own Key Performance Indicators. What do you suggest for measurable ones for an Executive Assistant?

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How to Move from Administrative Assistant to Executive Assistant

Eat Your Career

As a proud, former Administrative Professional and Executive Assistant, I pride myself on providing real-world career training and advice for the admin community. A question I hear frequently is this: “How do I move from being an Administrative Assistant to becoming an Executive Assistant?” In this article, I’m going to offer my take on this. But first, if you haven’t read my article on the difference between these roles, start there: Administrative Assistant vs.

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How to Implement a Zero Waste Business Strategy

Eco-Office Gals

Zero waste is enjoying a newfound spotlight in the business community, but it’s something that should’ve been standard practice a long time ago. Pursuing zero waste means finding ways to use resources as efficiently as possible. It also means eliminating the materials sent by a company to the landfill. Discover some of the advantages — as well as tips — for achieving this vision.

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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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Effective Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Effective calendar management for Executive Assistants is a hugely important aspect of th role. Assistants spend at the very least a third of their day organising their Executive’s schedule. Juggling our Executive’s time is a complex operation. There are also a lot of tasks related to diary management, for example, ensuring the Executives get [.].

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Report: Tech in 2020: Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

Small Business Labs

Benedict Evans , who is a well-known VC and tech industry pundit, recently released Tech in 2020: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.  Similar in style to Mary Meeker's well known annual Internet Trends Report , Evans' report covers similar ground and is full of charts and data.  And like Meeker's report, it's long at 128 pages.

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How to Stop Email From Running Your Life

On The Job

Well, here's a depressing statistic: people on average spend more than five hours a day checking their email, according to an Adobe survey. When you think of what you could get done in five hours a day if you weren't checking email -- well, it boggles the mind. You might get to leave work on time every day. You might not be forced to work nights or weekends just to catch up on your work.

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How to Conduct a SWOT Analysis For Your Business

Small Business CEO

A SWOT analysis is something you may or may not have heard of in the business world, but it’s become quite popular over the years for analyzing a business’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (hence the acronym). Whether you’re planning to move into new territory or simply want to take a closer look at what makes your business tick, a SWOT analysis can offer some valuable insight and give you a greater sense of clarity about your company moving forward.

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Podcast 138: Interview with Elaine Birchall

Clutter Coach

by Listen or subscribe here: iTunes ? Stitcher ?. Soundcloud ? YouTube ? Google Play ? iHeartRadio You can leave a review here! ?. This is podcast 138 and, as promised, it’s my interview with Canadian social worker Elaine Birchall, who’s worked for 18 years helping hoarders. She has a book out called Conquer the Clutter. We talk about the three criteria of hoarding, the TV show Hoarders and the paths to becoming a hoarder.

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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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The Dramatic Growth of the Internet's Share of Ad Spending

Small Business Labs

OK, it's well known that Internet advertising has been growing rapidly.  But even knowing that, the chart below (click to enlarge) is still stunning.   The chart is from Adage's Marketing Fact Pack 2020 and shows that the internet's share of U.S. ad spending has increased from just 6.4% in 2006 to over 50% in 2020 and is forecast to reach 60% in 2022.

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Buddhism For Geeks – Path To Enlightenment Is Like Continuous Integration

Brilliantly Better

If you’re defining yourself as a geek, then the term “continuous integration” may sound familiar to you. But for all the others, let me clarify some things. According to Wikipedia: In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developers’ working copies to a shared mainline several times a day.

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Episode 284: How to Be a Successful Speaker with Grant Baldwin

Productivityist

On this episode of the program I’m joined by Grant Baldwin. Grant is the founder of The Speaker Lab, a training company that helps public speakers learn how to find and book speaking gigs. He’s also the author of the book The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. This episode is brought to you by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education.

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3 Tips For Better Security On Your Business Website

Small Business CEO

When running your business online, it’s crucial that you’re able to protect both your business information and any information from your customers or clients that you collect for business purposes. To best do this, you’ve got to know how to beef up your online security in order to make your business website as secure as possible. To show you how this can be done, here are three tips for better security on your business website.

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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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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

I am so excited to have Vanessa Nieman, my dear friend, and fellow EA Advocate, join us as a guest blogger! When I met Vanessa in 2019 we immediately clicked and I have had the pleasure of watching her grow and expand in her career. She has so much to say to the Administrative community and I am over the moon that I can share her first article with you.

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To Be or Not to Be: How to find yourself a Genuine Resume Writer

Who's the Real Boss?

Giving my business a very different focus these last two years, I have been exploring the professional side of Resume Writing and professionalising of other people’s brands, putting my years of experience and qualifications in both writing and recruitment training, to good use. Whilst it’s been a privilege and honour to be able to help so many people in obtaining the role of their dreams and rectifying their brand and ‘branded’ documents respectively to get there, it has

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Episode 284: How to Be a Successful Speaker with Grant Baldwin

Productivityist

On this episode of the program I’m joined by Grant Baldwin. Grant is the founder of The Speaker Lab, a training company that helps public speakers learn how to find and book speaking gigs. He’s also the author of the book The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. This episode is brought to you by the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education.

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How to Create a Unique Business That Differentiates From Competitors

Small Business CEO

Now is the perfect time to start a new business. You want to make sure that it is a successful business for many years to come. There’s more competition and customers have more choices than ever before. The average person is exposed to thousands of marketing messages every day. It’s too easy to make your business blend in with every other business. How can you make your business a unique business that stands out from the crowd?

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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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8 Archetypes of Difficult Employees and How Leaders Deal With Them

INSIGHTS: The Guthrie-Jensen Blog

Got difficult employees in your team? Identify their archetypes to understand their psyche and figure out how to deal with them effectively.

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Top 10 Site Peruse for Graphic Design Inspiration

Small Business CEO

As the focus of the world around us tips in favour of the digital space, illustrations have become an integral part of business dynamics. In this visual-driven milieu, you need to use graphic design in some form or the other for adding that polished professional edge to your work. To be able to do that, you don’t necessarily have to go back to school for a full-time course.

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Get Familiar with EXPO 2020 in Dubai

Small Business CEO

As we all know very well, it is the greatest show in the World organized by Dubai one year to go. In simple words, the celebration of human brilliance, as well as achievements, is shown by Expo 2020 Dubai. photo credit: Expo 2020. What is EXPO 2020? It is the event with the help of which people can connect with the various corners across the globe to get an amazing experience with wide array of culture, science, technology, innovation, art, geography and invention and get into hundreds of motion

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5 Benefits of Using Tenant Screening Services

Small Business CEO

A landlord dreams of finding the perfect tenant for his property. Unfortunately, finding a good tenant is never easy. The applicant may seem honest, respectful, well-groomed, and responsible. But you never know if they are hiding skeletons in the closet until something happens to the rental or lease. Tenancy problems are real, and they happen to even the best landlords and property managers.

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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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Email Like a Boss: The Ultimate CEO Email Guide

Small Business CEO

How can you manage your time well and keep your communications efficient as a CEO? Learn tips and tricks in this guide to CEO email management. Are you guilty of letting your email inbox go for days and seeing your email count climb off the charts? If you wait until you see the little plus symbol next to the number of emails to finally start combing through and want to change this habit, you are in the right place!

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Save on Energy Costs with These 4 Simple Tips

Small Business CEO

For any business owner, finding ways to save money is important. With gas and electricity costs on the rise, companies now need to find ways to reduce energy expenditure. Quite often, businesses end up paying a fortune in energy bills each year. However, there are ways you can reduce these costs by following these 4 simple tips. 1. Switch energy supplier.

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Why do Companies Outsource Software Development?

Small Business CEO

Software outsourcing is generally an arrangement made by a company to hire a data contractor from a third party to do the work related to software that could have been performed in-house. Nevertheless, the in-house creation of a full software application needs both money and time. And frankly, not all have a large IT department. Enterprises switch to technology outsourcing companies in such cases.

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7 Tips to Invest in The Right Property

Small Business CEO

Investing in property can be quite lucrative. An investment in this area of the market can pay off with an increased rate of return on any capital. While this kind of investment often makes sense, it is imperative that any investor take the time to think about what they are doing before they begin. These easy tips are an essential part of the process of buying property.

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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