Sat.Feb 09, 2013 - Fri.Feb 15, 2013

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Using LinkedIn effectively

Practically Perfect PA

LinkedIn is the Facebook of the business world. I know a lot of assistants are on the website I’m just not sure how many of them are using LinkedIn to its full potential. As I’ve said many times over the last few weeks I really do think assistants should be using social media to enhance all aspects of their career and LinkedIn is a great place to start if you are new to the world of social networking.

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5 Best Email Management Practices

Office Organization Success

With all the different rules and regulations governing list management, it’s getting harder and harder to not only get your emails delivered to the recipient’s inbox – think all those spam filters – but to actually get your recipient to open and read your email. Just think about your own inbox for a second … how many emails do you get bombarded with each day?

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Top 5 Tips for Running a Business in Severe Weather

The Small Business Blog

Top 5 Tips posts from the SME Blog are always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Plan for the bad weather and expect it. For small businesses in Britain, this is the fifth year running that they will have experienced disruption from snow and there is not really any excuse for not having an action plan in place for employees. 2.

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The Use of Sustainable Materials in Promotional Products

Eco-Office Gals

Running a business not only requires a lot of hard work and dedication, but also a responsibility to take care of an organization’s employees and the planet. Although prosperity and growth are usually the main focal points of any company, it’s also vital to ensure business practices adhere to basic moral principles, such as caring for the environment and doing as much as possible to avoid adding excess amounts of waste into the fragile ecosystem.

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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 to Launch a New Career After 50

On The Job

It’s estimated that more than one in four Americans are tapping into their retirement savings accounts such as 401(k)s to meet non-retirement needs, but such a strategy can mean it may require people to work longer, especially since company-provided pensions are now provided to only one-in-five workers. That could explain why twice as many people in their late 50s and early 60s are starting a business or becoming freelancers compared to a year ago, finds a PeoplePerHour survey.

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Battling cash flow issues

The Small Business Blog

Cash flow is crucial. It is the lifeblood of any company and directly affects the scale of operations that the business can manage at any point. There can be several causes of your income stalling beyond bad planning and it’s not always something you can control. Writing from an insurance company’s point of view, we’re all for forward planning and mitigating risk, but there are some things you just can’t insure.

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5 Tips for Launching a Successful Green Business

Eco-Office Gals

With environmental concerns like global warming and resource depletion reaching critical mass, more and more consumers are clamoring for everyday alternatives that help them to reduce their carbon footprint and do their part to create a greener tomorrow for all mankind. This could include obvious solutions in sustainability like solar panels or other clean energy sources (wind turbines have certainly grown in popularity over the last few years, while geo-exchange systems are currently gaining re

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Moxie Tip: 315: Let Your Life Tell Your Story

Virtual Moxie

What I mean is that, generally speaking, people think marketing is about crafting, then telling, a story (usually elaborate and made up) about what clients are going to find in working with you. Figuring out how to make that different from the stories that others are telling is a hard row to hoe, sometimes. Ok—usually. There are only so many ways to talk about what you do.

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Corporate Training Exploding and Changing

Small Business Labs

Interesting article on Bersin by Deloitte's site on corporate training.  As the chart below (from the article) shows, after a steep decline during the recession U.S. spending on corporate training has strongly rebounded.   The reasons given by Bersin for this shift towards investing in training are: The need for specialized skills is increasing.  Workforce education and skills have atrophied.

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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 Importance of Data Destruction for Businesses

The Small Business Blog

When starting up your very own small business, it is important to do thorough research into legal areas in relation to your type of business. There will also be legislation that applies to all businesses including laws relating to the privacy and confidentiality of your clients and their information. Taking this information into consideration will help to secure the long term future of your company and safeguard its reputation.

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Will Reduced Work Hours Really Slow Climate Change?

Eco-Office Gals

Here’s a question that you may not have been asked in a while: When’s the last time that you took out a moment or two (or even a day or two) to just sit back and relax? You know, just put your feet up on a couch with your favorite magazine or the remote (so that you can watch your favorite movie) while doing absolutely nothing? If you’re someone who feels somewhat guilty on those rare occasions that you do, the truth is that it can be really beneficial for your health to make i

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Promotion: Share the Love

Office Dynamics

It's February and we're all about loving your career! This week only we have a very special offer called Share the Love. What does that mean? That means during this week when you purchase a Joan Burge authored book, CD, or DVD at regular price you get a 2nd copy of that same item for FREE! We'll ship you an extra copy so that you can Share the Love with a friend, colleague, teammate, your local IAAP chapter - whatever your heart desires.

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Moxie Tip 318: Be Vulnerable

Virtual Moxie

When you're sick, it's ok to be sick. When you're grieving a loss and need some time, it's ok to grieve and take time. When the baby kept you up all night and you don't have two brain cells to put toward thoughtful work, it's ok to rest. News flash: no matter how fantastically good you are at what you do, your clients don't actually believe you're Wonder Woman.

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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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Video: 5 Steps to Setting Up Your Online Systems Quickly and Easily

Office Organization Success

So many times I’m asked, “where do I start” when it comes to setting up your initial marketing systems. So I thought I’d share my quick and dirty guide to getting started with online marketing. Enjoy!

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Green Manufacturing Helps Create More With Less Energy

Eco-Office Gals

One of the major complaints of the green movement is that common manufacturing processes produce so much waste and pollution. In addition, many businesses use natural resources in their operations, some of which are finite or otherwise less than sustainable, and they create products that are neither reusable nor biodegradable, meaning they will head for the landfill all too soon and languish there for who-knows how long.

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Love Your Career: Fully Utilize Your Talents - Optimization

Office Dynamics

This month, I will be writing around the theme: Love Your Career. Last week I discussed the difference between a career and a job and asked some thought-provoking questions on your view of your role. This week, I'll highlight an article I originally wrote for Adminology titled Fully Utilize Your Talents - Optimization. As you read this article, I would like you to think about how you might be able to optimize your talents so that you can love your career even more than ever before!

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Moxie Tip 317: Handling Life's Natural Dramas

Virtual Moxie

We all get sick and have emergencies. We even all sometimes get in over our heads. The issue isn't that it happens, it's that we don't communicate with clients about it when it happens, hoping it will just blow over, or that we'll be able to get all our work done and no one will ever have to know. It won’t. It’ll just get worse.

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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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Do Buy Local Programs Work?

Small Business Labs

Interesting study done by the Institute for Self-Reliance shows that buy local programs are effective, or at least that's what the local businesses who responded think.   As the chart below, from the study, shows 75% of respondents think the programs have a positive impact with 42% saying the impact is moderate or significant.     Also interesting is the view of the local businesses that their customers think buying from local businesses matters.

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Project Partnering with JTL Services, Inc.

Job Advice Blog

How finding top talent should be and is with JTL Services, Inc. Project Partnering is what we believe to be the future of job search for companies. Why pay the high cost of contingency recruiting when you can have a team of search consultants who are specialized in finding top “A” talent. The best part [.].

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Bring Success to Your Business by Respecting Your Money— Practically and Spiritually

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. As a successful business owner, you should have systems in place for tracking and measuring the various aspects of your business. Without these measurement tools, there’s no accurate way to tell if you’re on the right track to meet your goals. If you don’t have such systems in place, you need to get on that immediately (once you finish reading this article)!

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Moxie Tip 316: Show Up

Virtual Moxie

If you want to be a person your clients can count on, show up where and when you say you will, OR communicate about not being able to. Sounds simple, but you'd really be surprised how many people blow it off.

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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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Showrooming Taking a Bite Out of Local Businesses

Small Business Labs

The Institute for Self-Reliance recently released a survey of local businesses. One topic they covered was showrooming and as the chart below shows, it's having an impact on local retailers.     As we pointed out last year , showrooming is just starting to reach a tipping point and its impact on retailers will substantially increase over the next couple of years.

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How Umpqua Bank Keeps Workers Engaged, Motivated

On The Job

I once spent a summer working as a bank teller and I hated it. Not because the management was terrible (it wasn't) or my co-workers were mean (they weren't). It was because it was a hard job. I spent long hours on my feet, dealing with customers who gave me money covered in sugar (because it was hidden in the sugar bowl). I had to deal with guys reeking after working 14 hours in the blazing Oklahoma summer sun who came to my window to cash their checks for some Friday night fun.

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What are the benefits of a time managed life?

Productivity Bits

One trending topic in the last years is time management. How to get better at it, what to do in order to be more efficient and what it really means. Few people take a minute to ask themselves a simple question: why should I manage my time better? Thank you for subscribing! Please grab my free productivity ebook!

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This Can Make All the Difference

Office Organization Success

Having an effective market research system in place could make all the difference in your business. From: Having a product launch that is a flop, to one that is a success. Having a group program with one or two registrants, to having one that is full. Having just a few clients, to having a full practice of clients. And the reason it makes a difference is because you’ve taken the time to find out exactly what your clients biggest issues are, what they want, and how best they like to learn.

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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