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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: Question and Answer with Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

We’ve been having a holly, jolly, super fun and festive time with our 12 Days of Christmas Webinar Series event. In this Day 3 webinar we wore our ugly sweaters and took questions from our live audience about the administrative profession. There were far more questions than we had time for but we’re happy to continue answering them here on our blog as well as on Facebook in our Live Broadcasts.

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What is Hygge?

Small Business Labs

Hygge is a   Danish word that roughly translates to a feeling of comfort and coziness.  It's also becoming a word used to help sell a wide variety of products and services.  According to multiple sources, hygge (pronounced "hoo-gah")  is the biggest Danish cultural export since Legos.  Key quote from the Guardian article The Hygge Conspiracy : This year’s most overhyped trend is a wholesome Danish concept of cosiness, used to sell everything from fluffy

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Want to work for a startup? What you need to know

Practically Perfect PA

With the end of the year hurtling towards us, many of you will be thinking about next year and potentially looking for a new job. Many of you will want to try something different and that may well be in the form of a new and exciting organisation – or startup, as trendy people like to call new businesses these days! There are many pros and cons when it comes to working for any new organisation, particularly when you are part of the initial setup.

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How to Get Others to Embrace New Ideas

On The Job

For leaders who want to persuade teams to accept new processes , the answer may be in the kitchen. In a study last year of 200 kitchens, Cornell University researchers found that those who left snack food and soft drinks out in the open were an average of 20 pounds heavier than their neighbors who kept only fresh food openly available. This what-you-see-is-what-you-eat diet shows that by changing circumstances, you can change behavior, which is key for getting teams to accept changes such as pro

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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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3 Ways to Manage Stress During the Holidays

Office Dynamics

Christmas is only 3 weeks away. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I’m sure you are busy with year-end activities and preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve. If you’re like most of us, you’re feeling the “squeeze” to get it all done. (I’ll let you in on a little secret you already know: Some things will probably not get done.

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7 great organizing gifts for Christmas!

Clutter Coach

by. Here’s my gift round up for the year. All items are available through my Amazon store. Click on the photo of each to learn more and purchase. 1. I love drawer organizers! They are particularly helpful in the bathroom to keep small items contained and separated. If a tube comes open, you’ll only have to clean the icky stuff out of one organizer.

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How to Stop a Mooching Co-Worker

On The Job

As the holiday season approaches, it can be much more fun around the office. People are wearing goofy sweaters and goodies are being brought to share. It seems everyone is in a much more giving mood. But then you think of Brad. Brad is the guy in the office who never seems to have even a dollar on him to contribute to a colleague's birthday gift. So he asks if you can contribute a dollar for him, and he'll pay you back tomorrow.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: The Accelerated Assistant

Office Dynamics

In our program today we talked about seven ways to become an accelerated assistant. Below you will find our replay link, program notes, certificate download and access to our deal of the day. If you haven’t already registered for our 12 Days of Christmas Webinar Series, you can register here. Links to the programs will be sent daily. Watch the Replay for The Accelerated Assistant.

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Video Marketing in 2017 – 10 Critical Truths Brand Builders Need to Know for Maximum ROI

Andrea Kalli

Video Marketing in 2017 – 10 Critical Truths Brand Builders Need to Know for Maximum ROI. According to 2016 data from Statista Research , the global penetration for online video viewing ranged from 81-93% for Internet users aged 16-54 years old. Let those numbers sink in for a moment. Over 80% of Internet users are watching online video. That’s a heck of a lot of eyeballs you could be attracting to your business if you were using video.

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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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3 great solutions for overwhelm

Clutter Coach

by How do you get organized when you’re too overwhelmed to deal with it at all? Try one of these three ideas, or all of them. These techniques are described in Stephanie Winston’s book Getting Out From Under. The key is that making lots of small changes will really add up and help you significantly. . The 10% Solution. Take the problem of getting out of the house in the morning.

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Positive Career Affirmation #2

Eat Your Career

“My self-worth does not rely on anyone else.” . To learn more about affirmations and how to leverage them for career success, check out this article. The post Positive Career Affirmation #2 appeared first on Eat Your Career.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: Riding the Wave of Change

Office Dynamics

In this program we continue the festivities of the 12 Days of Christmas Webinar Series with our topic, Riding the Wave of Change. Joan shares ten great tips to help you with change. Today we answered some of your fun questions from previous webinars and we even held a challenge to name Joan’s festive reindeer that we use to decorate the front lobby of our offices.

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Santa at the Beach for Christmas – holiday video e-card

Andrea Kalli

Christmas video for a client in New Zealand. Santa at the beach, complete with beach sounds and a seagull. Andrea Kalli – Video Editing & Marketing Services – in cold and snowy Colorado. The post Santa at the Beach for Christmas – holiday video e-card appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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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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Podcast 034: Make a “not to do” list

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about how to make your to do list more effective by taking some of the items off and putting them onto a “not to do” list. Here are some highlights: But I need to do all of this! Isn’t that cheating?

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The Proactive Professional: TV Interview!

Eat Your Career

Earlier this week, I was honored to visit Good Day Colorado (our awesome morning show here in Denver) to talk about my new book, The Proactive Professional. I hope you enjoy it! The post The Proactive Professional: TV Interview! appeared first on Eat Your Career.

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: Live Your BIG Life in 2017

Office Dynamics

Are you ready to live your BIG life in 2017? This free webinar is a great place to get started with your plan. Joan asked, have you heard of “ Live a BIG Life ” and 76% of our live audience had never heard of it. It’s about courage, faith, risk-taking, overcoming obstacles, becoming who you were meant to be and more! In this webinar Joan talks about gratitude, Red Lipstick ON!

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Q&A with Darren Cassidy, President of Xerox USCG, on Digitization Trends for 2017

Small Business CEO

Digitization is unavoidable. Small business owners need to respond to the trend – or die. However, not many are ready for the changes due to one reason or another. To help you in your decision making process for determining whether digitization is the way to go for your company or not, we have a great Q&A session with Darren Cassidy, the President of United States Channels Group (USCG) at Xerox, on Xerox’ latest research on the evolution of document workflow processes and busin

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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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How to Be in Two Places at Once

Productivityist

The first movie my wife and I ever watched from the comfort of a living room couch was A Walk to Remember. (I still “might” tear up when watching it.). There’s a scene in the film where Landon (the boy) fulfills Jamie’s (the girl) wish about being in two places at once when they straddle a state line. I thought it was cute – and I actually did it myself when I straddled the line from British Columbia to Alaska a couple of years ago.

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Career Success A to Z: C is for Confidence

Eat Your Career

I debated this one for a while. I never realized there were so many good c-words related to career success: communication, collaboration, courage…. Ultimately, I settled on confidence because it’s the one quality that can make all of these things easier. With confidence, you’ll be a better communicator and more effective collaborator. Confidence will help you meet fear with courage.

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4 Ways Smartphones Can Increase Workplace Safety

Office Dynamics

As a manager, you might be concerned that the smartphones that employees seem to have attached to their hips might tempt them to spend time on Facebook or Twitter rather than tend to their job duties. As it turns out, these small technological devices can actually help to keep your workers safe while on the job. Whether your employees bring their own phones to work or you have issued smartphones to everyone on your team to help stay in touch, check out the following ways that smartphones can hel

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Top 10 Places To Shop In The UK

Small Business CEO

The Christmas shopping season is upon us and that means everyone is scrambling to get their gift list completed. The bad news is – you don’t have much time left! The good news is – you have plenty of time to get it done, if you know where to shop! We’ve comprised a list of the top ten places to shop in the UK – and yes, you can even order online!

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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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The Fight

Productivityist

The following is a guest post by Shawn Blanc, creator of The Focus Course and the host of the Creative Focus Online Summit. Shawn is a writer, small-business owner, productivity coach, and creative entrepreneur. For more than a decade, Shawn has been teaching and learning about creativity, diligence, and focus. Every now and then an idea hits you like a ton of bricks.

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & ViewsDec. 9, 2016

Eat Your Career

In honor of national pastry day (which apparently is today). 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 Ivy Exec over the past week. If you missed them, take a peek here: What to Do When You’re Overwhelmed at Work.

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Revolutionary Ways Assistants Can Get Information from Their Managers

Office Dynamics

The theme for our 23rd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence was The Revolutionary Assistant. Our conference was held in October 2016 in Las Vegas. We had 450 assistants from 11 countries attend. Our team-building activity for 2016 was called Compression Planning®: From Idea to Action and Results Faster. Annette Brown who is a certified McNellis Compression Planning Instructor hosted the session with my assistance.

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The Importance of Worker Engagement

Small Business CEO

No doubt, you are sitting there right now scratching your head wondering what we mean by worker engagement. Do not worry because you are not alone. The term is one that has gradually fallen out of use over the years. Simply put worker engagement is the way in which firms interface with their workforce. How they manage their relationship with their employees.

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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