Sat.Jun 04, 2016 - Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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A day in the life: Frances Hornsley, PA and Office Manager, The Corner London

Practically Perfect PA

What are the main aspects of your role? I am PA to the Four Founding Partners of The Corner and Office Manager. The Corner is an independent Advertising agency based in the heart of Soho it is where people meet and things happen. I look after the diaries and travel for the 4 partners then all office management duties for the 45 staff here. What is your morning routine before you get in to the office?

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How To Practice Good Business Card Etiquette

Office Dynamics

I’m preparing to attend and present at the Admin Pro Forum event in Orlando, Florida next week. It reminded me that when we attend a major conference we have the opportunity to meet so many great people. We will be exchanging quite a few business cards at this upcoming event. Did you know there are etiquette rules for giving and receiving cards?

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Strong Job Market Pulling Independent Workers Back to Traditional Jobs

Small Business Labs

The MBO Partners 2016 State of Independence in America report was released this week. This is the 6th annual edition of this study (Emergent Research works with MBO Partners on this study). One of this year's most interesting findings is the total number of independent workers who work 15 or more hours as independents in a regular workweek declined versus 2015.

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The First Thing to Tackle After a Vacation

On The Job

In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of spending some time thinking (while on vacation) about whether you're in the right job or right career. Maybe after some soul-searching you've decided you like the job or the career is just fine -- but you do wish you could make some minor adjustments. Perhaps you realize that you hate working late almost every day so that you miss playing ball with your kids in the yard or having a nice dinner out with friends.

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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: Doodle.com

Practically Perfect PA

What is Doodle? Doodle.com is a website and an app that takes the pain out of finding the right date and time for a group of people to meet. What does it do? Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events by using a voting process. Whether you want to arrange board or team meetings, dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips or any other kind event, finding the perfect time is easy.

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Encouraging U.S. Commerce Report on "Digital Matching Firms"

Small Business Labs

The U.S. Commerce's department report  Digital Matching Firms: A New Definition in the “Sharing Economy” Space  is, in our opinion, a pretty balanced view of sharing/digital matching firms and their growing economic role. The report attempts to accomplish two goals.  First, it tries to provide a new name and definition for the sharing/on-demand/gig economy, or at least part of it.

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Why I ‘Cheated’ on Headway and What I Learned

Tips From T. Marie

Sometimes even though you are totally sold on a product or service and use it exclusively you start to wonder if something new has come along in the interim and you’re missing out. What if the next great thing has been discovered and you’re so stuck in your ways that you’re missing out. This was kind of how I was feeling about the Headway theme framework for WordPress.

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Finding the perfect private dining venue

Practically Perfect PA

Finding a space for private dining events is a pretty common task given to assistants these days. We are asked pretty regularly to find something different, quiet or impressive. Usually at the drop of a hat and when our organisations have really important clients in town. Private dining spaces are popular and can be booked up month’s in advance so it is always worthwhile having a few tricks up your sleeve when it comes to finding the perfect private dining venue.

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Salary Negotiation 101

Job Advice Blog

Yesterday, my managing partner/mom Tara LeFevre and I went on a trip about an hour and a half down the road to visit two of our clients. As you can see in the picture below, we had to put on this awesome getup in order to tour a 450,000 square foot manufacturing facility, and what […]. The post Salary Negotiation 101 appeared first on JTL Services Inc.

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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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Book Review: The Sharing Economy by Arun Sundararajan

Small Business Labs

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism is written by NYU professor Arun Sundararajan. We follow Sundararajan's work closely and consider him one the top experts in this field, so were excited to get a copy of his new book. We weren't disappointed. The Sharing Economy  provides a clear and concise description of crowd-based capitalism, the term the author prefers to call this growing segment of the economy.

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Is Profanity In The Office Tolerable or Terror?

Office Dynamics

This month our question from our friends at Business Management Daily. Question: “I am an administrative assistant at a very large company and my cubicle is right outside the door of one of the directors. He happens to loudly use a particular common curse word whenever he’s frustrated. I cringe every time I sense it coming. In most cases I try to scurry away from my desk so I don’t have to hear it, but sometimes I do get caught off guard.

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Client Logo Intro – Adaptix Solutions Group

Andrea Kalli

Client Logo Intro – Adaptix Solutions Group. The perfect logo intro for this client’s logo design, right? Classy and professional. by Andrea Kalli [link]. Video Editing Services. Video Virtual Assistant. The post Client Logo Intro – Adaptix Solutions Group appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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The Work You Absolutely Must Do While on Vacation

On The Job

Vacation season is upon us, and for many people that means heading to the beach for a week or just taking a few days to sit around home and try to chill. The problem is that many of us have forgotten the point of a vacation. It's to relax. Say it with me now: RELAX. But as long as we have our phones or laptops with us, that's not likely to happen. We're going to check email (even though we posted an "on vacation" auto response) and we're likely to keep up with happenings in the office.

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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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Salary Negotiation 101

Job Advice Blog

Yesterday, my managing partner/mom Tara LeFevre and I went on a trip about an hour and a half down the road to visit two of our clients.

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The Real Cost Of Learning

Brilliantly Better

It’s pitch dark, my soles are hurting like s**t, the air that I breathe is scorching hot and I’m running somewhere in the middle of f **g nowhere. It’s not a nightmare. It’s my real life. I’m running the Ultrabalaton for… The post The Real Cost Of Learning appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Business Promotion video demo

Andrea Kalli

Business Promotion video demo – change color background. Need to promote your business, product, service, or solution? With or without a voiceover, this 1 minute and 20 second video will do what you need to get the word out. Not loving the yellow? No problem. The background can be any color you want to fit your brand. Four places for images or video footage to increase visual interest and support your message.

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Own Your Time (or Be Owned By It)

Productivityist

This piece originally appeared in The Productivityist Weekly newsletter. If you’d like to receive first-run and exclusive content delivered to your email inbox every week (and receive additional bonus offers and a free copy of my manifesto The Way of The Productivityist), sign up here. I spent the better part of my lunch hour yesterday going over old footage and stories of Prince.

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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 Promotional Products Can Help Your Business

Small Business CEO

When it comes to promoting your business you can only do so many things online. Plus, your words can only say so much when you are telling people about your business. Having some promotional items for your business can make a huge difference in sales and in the amount of people that recognize your business name. photo credit: Flickr. You probably want to start out with some logo creation, so you have something somewhat simple to display on items, along with your business name, and possibly conta

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How To Get The Most Of Your Mirror Neurons

Brilliantly Better

It’s 9PM, you’re sitting on your couch, watching a romantic comedy while secretly digging through a bowl of popcorn. The plot thickens, the two characters are separated, but, through their power of their will, a gentle struck of luck and… The post How To Get The Most Of Your Mirror Neurons appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Rolodex vs. Network

Audacious Admin

Recently, I posted a blog without following my normal procedure of sitting on it for 24 hours and re-reading what I’ve wrote, or sending it to one of my friends to proofread. Because I skipped these steps, I made a faux pas which made it seem as if I don’t value the role of receptionist, or don’t view receptionists as valued members of the admin profession.

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How to spot an ineffective org. values statement - easy - no conflict!

BioTeams

Organisational Values Statements are very popular these days as a way of lining up the people of the organisation behind a set of values which the organisation wishes to aspire to and be known for. However, in many of these statements the one thing which gives them real power has been left on the cutting room floor - conflict! When you are constructing your values statement it always pays to remember the French national tripartite motto Liberté, égalité, fraternité meaning, of course, liberty, e

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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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What is Deal Registration – and Why Does it Matter to You?

Small Business CEO

Anyone who has ever worked in a sales environment knows the frustration and disappointment that comes when a big sale falls through — especially when a competitor swoops in and seemingly snatches the customer right out from under your nose. Despite your anger, though, there’s usually not a whole lot that you can do about it. Unless, of course, you registered the deal that you were working on.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Strategic Storytelling with Jordan Bower

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast, I speak with Jordan Bower. We talk about the power of story, his approach to storytelling, and much more (including a mention of one of my favourite storytellers, Steven Pressfield). Jordan is a strategic storyteller now based in my hometown of Victoria. We had a chance to meet up for the first time at Social Media Camp and had a great face to face conversation and I was excited to carry that over to the podcast.

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Generative Design: A Transformation in How Products Are Made

Small Business CEO

In modern manufacturing, an innovative new process sees the designer create a system and that system actually generate the product. The process is known as generative design and it represents over a paradigm shift in product design. photo credit: Behance. Here is a look at how generative design works and the revolution underway in modern product design.

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6 Elements of a Perfect Work Environment

Small Business CEO

Happy people are better workers. According to one study, happy people are 12% more productive at work. Happiness is a key to your well-being at work as it affects your working performance, and you start working better not harder. Here’s the kicker: It is more important for people to work in a good work environment than love what they do. A perfect work environment is not just about getting salary on time.

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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