Sat.Dec 08, 2012 - Fri.Dec 14, 2012

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Together We’ll Level The Playing Field

The Small Business Blog

Proud to be Micro Some of you know that I’m the co-founder of the Enterprise Rockers movement – a massive free-to-join-in, global, self help community to make life better and fairer for micro (0-9 employees) enterprise owners. We launched in January so we’re coming up to our first anniversary.

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How to organise your office and keep it that way!

Practically Perfect PA

Pin It. A few years ago I worked in a department with a dozen or so Project Managers who were all highly qualified Six Sigma professionals. They were a great bunch to be a round and during my time there I did learn a lot about the dark art of project management! Many of the department’s projects aimed to improve the business and eliminate wasted time, effort and general errors.

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Quiz: Are You a Workplace Bully?

Eat Your Career

Sometimes, the office can feel like high school. There are all kinds of cliques and gossip. Occasionally, you even run into a workplace bully—someone who constantly criticizes, aggressively points out mistakes, and refuses to be part of your team. Of course, dealing with a bully in the office can be a real challenge. But what if you’re the one doing the bullying?

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You Don't Need to Brag to Talk About Your Biz (But You Can if You Want!)

Virtual Moxie

So many women I work with struggle to share themselves and their businesses with others. They say things to me like, “But Anastacia, it’s so hard to brag about myself!”. I think talking about oneself is difficult for many people, especially those who were taught as kids to be “seen and not heard,” or that “nobody likes a braggart,” or that it’s simply not polite to brag, or that bragging is prideful—which is a sin, and a deadly one at that!

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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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Top 5 Tips for Surviving the Next 12 Months

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. Take a close look at your current relationship with suppliers. Is there anything that can be done to sweeten the deal for both of you?

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How to Handle (and Relieve) Boredom at Work

Eat Your Career

For some of you, the title of this article may cause a double take. “Boredom?! Are you kidding? I have way too much to do and not enough time to do it.”. If that’s you, cool. Head on over and read, “ How to Manage an Overwhelming Workload ” instead. But not everyone can be so lucky (if you want to call it that). If you experience boredom at work, keep reading.

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12 Days of Christmas Sale Day 8

Office Dynamics

On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me eight maids a milking and a great offer on the new book, Who Took My Pen … Again? This book was written by assistants for assistants! The content in this book is rich and you’ll enjoy every bit of it. Get your copy of Who Took My Pen … Again? along with extra copies for your friends at $15 today only!

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Fund-raising and brand awareness – the basics

The Small Business Blog

Fundraising is a fun and excellent way to invest some of your success back into the community that supports you. Company giving is also a superb approach to growing your business and raising its profile through partnerships, sponsorship, donations, and employee fundraising initiatives. Employee-driven efforts are often great motivation and team-building exercises for staff, too.

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Moxie Tip 290: Preparing Yourself for a Storm

Virtual Moxie

I believe it’s better to have and not need than to need and not have. And I don’t believe in screwing around with my life. I’m 48 now and know I’m not invincible. My point for telling you all this (and there was a happy ending, btw… we were fine, here in the Brice household, when all was said and done, although more than a million people in Maryland didn't fare nearly as well) is that while it was smart for me to do what I did while others thought it was ok to not do it, it's the same in busines

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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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Happiness is an Empty Inbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have mentioned it a few times that when my desk is cluttered then I feel cluttered. I like to put everything in its place so I will find it easily. Is it any wonder if my Outlook is messy and cluttered that I feel the same way? I was at a recent IAAP Chapter meeting and we were discussing best practices for organizing our Inboxes and there were a lot of good ideas.

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Europe's Young, Contingent, "Floating Generation"

Small Business Labs

We spend a lot time studying jobs and workforce data. But even though I'm familiar with the labor situation in Europe, I was still stunned by the data in the New York Times article Young, Educated and Jobless in France.   The key quote is on France's current labor market: 82 percent of people hired today are on temporary contracts, said Michel Sapin, the labor minister.

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Drop the adjectives and the froth

The Small Business Blog

Marketing, telling the story, decking out your online shop window for Christmas or any season, is essential and can be a real buzz for your business and your feelgood factor. Be sure to do it, to keep it alive and interesting, but keep your feet on the ground.

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Moxie Tip 293: "Affording" Time Away is All In the Numbers

Virtual Moxie

To be profitable means that the business pays you, pays expenses not passed through to clients for their own work, and has a little left over. It’s the cost of the things that you can’t see—or, maybe better—that you don’t see all the time, that seem to get people all ajumble. Things like time off. Or making a contribution to a retirement account. When you were an employee, back in the day when such things were provided, you had paid time off, and possibly a match of funds into your retirement ac

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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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How do I move from administrative assistant to executive assistant?

Office Dynamics

Today, Joan and I sat down to discuss a question we received from Susan of California. Susan's issue is one that plagues many assistants and we wanted to respond in this format so that we are able to reach a broader audience. Susan feels stuck in the administrative assistant title and can't seem to graduate onto executive assistant in her organization.

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Ford's 2013 Consumer Trends Forecast

Small Business Labs

Ford (yes, that Ford) released their first ever trends report.  It's called Looking Further with Ford; 13 Trends for 2013. According to their press release , it reveals "predictions about consumer habits and behaviors expected to shape 2013 and beyond." The report is very glossy and nicely written. The 13 trends are solid if not surprising.

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4 simple ways to promote yourself as a contractor

The Small Business Blog

One of the issues many independent contractors struggle with is self-promotion. If you’re one of those, the time for being shy is over. Here we share four business-boosting ways to promote yourself and your services. 1.

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Moxie Tip 292: Return on Investment vs Return on Intention

Virtual Moxie

And while money is a very important thing to all of us, I think that looking at investments in that singular light is shortsighted. So I also like to think about the “I” as meaning “intention.”. Not all intention is focused toward the buck. For many people, money comes after other things, as a result of other things rather than before other things or as the fundamental cause of other things.

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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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Get Some Skin In The Game!

Office Dynamics

Today in our (sneak peak) huddle we are talking about failure and listening to a track from Robin Sharma's audio book, The Greatness Guide. How do you personally feel about failure? Do you play poor me? Are you a victim? Do you agonize over your failures? Or do you look at your failures as another step toward your success? Failure is an essential ingredient of high achievement.

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Support Shareable

Small Business Labs

Shareable i s an online magazine reporting on the sharing economy. They cover the people and projects bringing a shareable world to life. And the companies making it happen. They also share how-tos so you can make sharing real in your life.  It's definitely our favorite site on this very important topic and trend.  They are in fund raising mode  and need our support.  Please join Emergent Research (that's us) and many others in donating to this important sou

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Balancing the unwritten needs of employees with the needs of the company make good business sense.

The Small Business Blog

The factors that contribute to the ultimate success of a business are well known to most entrepreneurs and Business Advisors. However Psychology introduces the importance of the need to balance the the unwritten needs of employees with the needs of the company.

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Moxie Tip 291: Are you prepared?

Virtual Moxie

Be smart and plan for how you’ll take care of yourself and your biz in the event of something happening to you—regardless of the cause. Truly, it’s not as unlikely as you might think. And, as people learn when suddenly faced with something like a natural disaster, trouble can be on you before you even have time to blink--much less have time to figure out what you're going to do.

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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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12 Days of Christmas Sale Day 10

Office Dynamics

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ten lords-a-leaping. These lords were leaping for joy because they just heard about our FREE Shipping Friday offer! Now is the time to stock up on all you need for holiday gifting and pay zilch for shipping! What kind of things might you consider ordering today to take advantage of this offer? How about several cases of the book, Become an Inner Circle Assistant?

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Tips for Setting Up an Eco Friendly Business Online

Eco-Office Gals

Do you have an idea for a great eco-friendly business? If so, as you’re starting out, why not consider doing it online? Not only will it help to keep your overhead costs way down, but via cyberspace, you’ll be able to meet a lot more people than you would by just having a local office. If this concept is something that piques your interest, you might be wondering what you need to do to make your “green business dream” a reality.

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How Print Media is helping to Drive Mobile Commerce

The Small Business Blog

Much has been written in the press and by bloggers about the impending death of print advertising but is this really the case or is it simply an evolving format?

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Get Your New Client System In Place In Just 30 Days

Office Organization Success

This week I have been busy, busy, busy creating content and mapping out my 2013 private client programs! I also launched a new module for the Business Planning Success program: How To Get 3 (Or More) New Clients In 30 Days. You can get all the details here. And I’m really excited to be working with a new client over the next 12 months. The focus of our work together is going to be on creating her Signature System , and from there rolling it out into various home-study, group teaching, and

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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