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SMART Goals for Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Guest blogger Kathy Tosoian shares a blog about SMART goals. How many times have we heard someone say, "I need to lose weight," or "I'm going to start college this year," or "I want to be promoted to Office Manager sometime soon"? We set out with the best intentions, but for some reason, we often fall short. Why? Some of these goals are merely "wishes".

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Women In The Workplace

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business. Effective Small Business Planning Strategy Planning your small business is the best way to avoid costly mistakes. You ask a question, I answer! Ask me your small business questions, I will answer them ASAP. Small Business Bootstrapping How to start your own small business with no or little money.

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Preparing for the Phone Interview

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Preparing for the Phone Interview On April 22, 2010, In Uncategorized , By CareersDoneWrite.com 0 It has become commonplace for companies to conduct phone interviews before bringing candidates in for a full screen.

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Age of Conversation 3 Author Spotlights

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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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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IVAA summit – day 1 – morning tidbit – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 21 IVAA summit – day 1 – morning tidbit – #ivaa10 By An

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SMART Goals for Administrative Assistants

Office Dynamics

Guest blogger Kathy Tosoian shares a blog about SMART goals. How many times have we heard someone say, "I need to lose weight," or "I'm going to start college this year," or "I want to be promoted to Office Manager sometime soon"? We set out with the best intentions, but for some reason, we often fall short. Why? Some of these goals are merely "wishes".

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Make or Break Moments on Paper

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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Last day at IVAA summit – day 3 – tidbit audio – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 23 Last day at IVAA summit – day 3 – tidbit audio – #iv

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Top 5 Tips for Better Marketing

The Small Business Blog

E-Mail me or follow me. Starting a Small Business? On-Demand Small Business Infrastructure™ allows you to run your business online. How to be successful and eco-friendly. Making your small business carbon neutral. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. What is Small Business Infrastructure? How to be successful by focusing on your core business.

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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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Looking Forward – Skills to Learn for 2011 and Beyond?

Office Dynamics

A guest blog post by Kemetia Foley, CPS/CAP. Kemetia operates the blog superppn.blogspot.com. I am an optimist and a realist. Let’s face facts: The administrative profession is changing faster than some celebrities go through boyfriends. It doesn’t take a brain scientist to see that more and more firms are counting on employees and middle management to handle their own calls, prepare their own documents and make their own travel arrangements.

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Make or Break Moments Available on Kindle

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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AZVAs Podcast 3: Prepping to Attend Industry Events

Loosely Speaking

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast 3: Prepping to Attend Industry Events Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast Your quick link to the April 2010 AZVAs Podcast is at the bottom of this post. You can also find AZVAs the Podcast on iTunes in the podcast directory. Here’s that link: [link] April 2010 Show Notes: This episode of AZVAs the Podcast is sponsored by Versatility , Virtual Assistance for the real wor

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How to Improve Your Public Speaking

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to Improve Your Public Speaking Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 23, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! It’s been a few years since I was in high school (okay, a lot of years).

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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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Executive Travel, Where do I even begin?

Office Dynamics

Hello, Joan Burge Blog readers! I received an email a while back from Kathy. Kathy is an executive assistant who wants to know more about travel preparation for her executive and what can be included with the itinerary or on the itinerary to make the executive more comfortable during travel. I like the advice Joan gave me when I attended her World Class Assistant program, “Take the trip before your executive does.

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Building Customer Relationships Should be a No-Brainer

Make or Break Moments

SUBSCRIBE home Bio Products Speaker for Hire Speaking Calendar Testimonials Monthly e-News Blogroll AllBusiness Customer Service Articles Alltop Customer Service AllWrite Ink Articles by DCB Church of the Customer Customer Care Institute Customer Experience Crossroads Customer Service Articles Customer Service Point Marketing 4 Business Open Forum Articles Return Customers Ritz Carlton Gold Standards of Service Categories Attitude Books Boss Moments Child Moments Communication Connecting Moments

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IVAA summit – day 2 – audio tidbit – #IVAA10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 22 IVAA summit – day 2 – audio tidbit – #IVAA10 By Andr

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Blog Hopping Tour pulls into the Loosely Speaking depot

Loosely Speaking

A huge welcome and a big hug for Sharon Williams , president of 24-Hour Secretary! Sharon’s been hopping around the blogosphere answering industry questions and promoting this year’s Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC). Today, she’s hanging out on Loosely Speaking while I am winding down here in Phoenix with other VAs at the 2010 IVAA Online Summit.

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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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Executive Travel, Where do I even begin?

Office Dynamics

Hello, Joan Burge Blog readers! I received an email a while back from Kathy. Kathy is an executive assistant who wants to know more about travel preparation for her executive and what can be included with the itinerary or on the itinerary to make the executive more comfortable during travel. I like the advice Joan gave me when I attended her World Class Assistant program, “Take the trip before your executive does.

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What kind of procrastinator are you?

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap What kind of procrastinator are you? Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 21, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! This is post 8 of my series: Inside the Mind of a Procrastinator.

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IVAA summit in Phoenix – day 1 – evening tidbit – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 21 IVAA summit in Phoenix – day 1 – evening tidbit – #i

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Getting face time with peers

Loosely Speaking

This is the last full day of IVAA Live Summit 2010 in Phoenix. Whatever your industry, getting together for some face-to-face with your industry peers is more important than ever in this virtual world. Summit sounds like : inspiration, motivation, challenges, friendship, and clicking knitting needles and slurped lattes. Summit looks like : long lost friends hugging, shrieks of recognition, networking questions and answers, and glowing laptops in dimmed rooms.

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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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My Chief Executive Assistant, Jasmine, Is The 'Boss'

Office Dynamics

Who said the executive is always the 'boss'? Once an assistant really gets grounded and knows the business, his or her executive, the industry, and is fully engaged, they actually run the show! As many of you know, Jasmine has been my strategic business partner for 3 1/2 years. She runs this place! Although we have outstanding people on our team, Jasmine is the core.

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You may work for someone, but you are your own boss Everyday.

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. Lets grow together! Monday, April 19, 2010 You may work for someone, but you are your own boss Everyday millions of people throughout the country make the commute to work to spend at least 8 hours working with colleagues and one or more supervisors.

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Dinner with Strange Women, um I mean, Strangers – #ivaa10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 21 Dinner with Strange Women, um I mean, Strangers – #ivaa10 By And

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Benefits of the Group Decision-Making Process

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Benefits of the Group Decision-Making Process Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on April 19, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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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

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My Chief Executive Assistant, Jasmine, Is The 'Boss'

Office Dynamics

Who said the executive is always the 'boss'? Once an assistant really gets grounded and knows the business, his or her executive, the industry, and is fully engaged, they actually run the show! As many of you know, Jasmine has been my strategic business partner for 3 1/2 years. She runs this place! Although we have outstanding people on our team, Jasmine is the core.

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How a Two-Word Aussie Catchphrase Can Change Your Life Forever

Brilliantly Better

Dragos Roua – Brilliantly Better The Personal Development Blog Home About me Top posts Archives Downloads Audio Recommended Products Contact How a Two-Word Aussie Catchphrase Can Change Your Life Forever by dragos on April 19, 2010 · 12 comments in Personal Development Tweet This is a guest post by David Damron, @daviddarmon. When I was 21, I took a life changing excursion to the land down under, Australia.

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Phoenix views from restaurant last night (day 1) – #IVAA10

Andrea Kalli

Home Services Keyword Research, SEO, and Backlink Strategies for Link Building SharePoint Services Training Internet Marketing Assistant Microsoft Outlook Podcaster’s Corner Admin Assistance WishList Member and Wordpress Membership Sites New Client Questionnaire Info Contact Andrea Andrea’s Bio Code of Ethics Blog Testimonials Search View All Blog Posts Events Calendar Hourly Rate / Discount Bundles Contact Apr 22 Phoenix views from restaurant last night (day 1) – #IVAA10 By An