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Today’s Administrative Assistant Has Power

Office Dynamics

(Excerpt from Become an Inner Circle Assistant book, Joan Burge). For the first time in history, the administrative professional’s job description hints at the full engagement of cognitive powers. When the job description includes identifying goals for the coming year; meshing them with your executive’s goals and department and organization goals; being prepared to track progress at specific intervals; and being accountable for success or lack thereof, it’s easy to tell this is not a job for dum

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Have you missed this month’s content?

Practically Perfect PA

We don’t want you to miss out on the great Practically Perfect PA content… Here is a round up of this month’s posts and newsletters. April’s Blog Posts. 3rd April 2017: How to make a bad first impression better. 6th April 2017: Using networks to get stuff done. 11th April 2017: Day in the life: Donna Lindsay. 13th April 2017: Need a fresh start this Easter?

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Growing Direct Selling Industry Employs Over 20 Million Americans

Small Business Labs

According to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), about 20.2 million Americans are involved in direct selling the U.S. This is up from 15.8 million in 2010.  Also known as multi-level marketing, retail sales by direct selling companies increased from $28.6 billion to $36.1 billion. This makes direct selling a relatively bright sector of the retail industry.

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4 Steps for Dealing With a Hated New Job

On The Job

When you accepted the job, you were excited about the new opportunities chance to enhance your skills. But three months later, all you can think of, is “ What was I thinking?” You now believe you’ve made a mistake when you accepted a new job. Something doesn’t feel right. Maybe you don’t like the people you work with, maybe you don’t like the duties you have been given, maybe you cannot stand your boss.

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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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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

Designed by Freepik. My good friend and fellow expert in the administrative field, Julie Perrine, has a saying that goes something like this, “In admin, you can start here and go anywhere!”. Incidentally, if you don’t know Julie, you should. She’ll be at the annual Conference for Administrative Excellence this year and she is an absolute wealth of knowledge and insight.

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Manufacturing Joining the On-Demand, Collaborative Economy

Small Business Labs

Estimates are that most manufacturing equipment in the U.S. sits idle about 50% of the time. So comes as no surprise several companies are trying to become the "Uber of manufacturing" by creating online marketplaces to connect customers who need parts made with companies who have spare manufacturing capacity.  The Quartz article An Uber model for manufacturing is ready to upend the industry  covers the distributed manufacturing company MakeTime.

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5 Critical Steps to Take When You Quit a Job

On The Job

If a great opportunity comes along, you might jump at it. It could be because it offers more money, but it also might be because you feel it gives you a chance to do something you feel passionate about, or perhaps because you feel it's a more stable position. Whatever the reason, it's important that you make a stellar exit. Keep in mind that how you leave a position is often how you are remembered most by colleagues and your boss.

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Tips for the Traveling Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

Administrative professionals are the superheroes of travel planning. Admins use their telepathy to know what brands their travelers prefer, time travel to get days of work done in mere hours, and teleportation to support their travelers, even when they are halfway around the world. Their only kryptonite? Themselves. Admins spend their days prioritizing other’s needs and often forget to think of themselves.

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Who am I?

Practically Perfect PA

Who am I? When you work for a private individual it can be complicated defining your role in their life. As well as dealing with all the usual challenges, much depends on their personal situation, and how that reflects on what is required. Working the way I do, I am usually in a client’s home, so the relationship is very different to being office based.

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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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Podcast 053: Tidying up is a meditation

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. You can leave a review here! In this episode, I’ll talk about how doing any regular task, such as your daily tidy up, focusing on the movements and releasing thinking, is like doing a meditation. Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play.

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & Views (April 2017)

Eat Your Career

This post is part of a series in which I share some of my recent work related to career advancement and professional development from the past month. Enjoy! From U.S. News & World Report. 3 Ways to Develop Executive Presence Regardless of Your Title. Regardless of title or status in the corporate hierarchy, everyone has the ability to develop “executive presence.” When you do, you’ll enhance your professional reputation and improve your chances for advancement.

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5 Ways To Amplify Your Personal Brand

Office Dynamics

“In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” ~ Seth Godin. It’s no secret the world has changed. You are doing more with less. Things are moving at the speed of light. And Google has become the new resume. The question is … what are you doing about it? How are you standing out?

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Have you missed this month’s content?

Practically Perfect PA

We don’t want you to miss out on the great Practically Perfect PA content… Here is a round up of this month’s posts and newsletters. April’s Blog Posts. 3rd April 2017: How to make a bad first impression better. 6th April 2017: Using networks to get stuff done. 11th April 2017: Day in the life: Donna Lindsay. 13th April 2017: Need a fresh start this Easter?

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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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Looking the Part

Laughing all the Way to Work

I attended an event today on minute taking. Our organization set it up for Admin Professionals' Week. Unfortunately, my first impression of the speaker was not very good because she was dressed down and looked rather frumpy. I don't believe in judging a book by its cover, but I was amazed at how easily my mind went there and how I equated how she looked to what she had to say.

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Career Success A to Z: U is for Utilize

Eat Your Career

This article is part of a series. Learn more about it and access links to other articles in the series here. This week’s article is all about using what you’ve got! If you want to achieve career success, it’s not enough to just show up. You have to fully utilize your talents, skills and abilities to deliver value in the workplace. Unfortunately, a lot of professionals have a hard time with this.

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In Your Writing, Know the Meaning of “Absolute”

Office Dynamics

Designed by Freepik. This is part of a series by editor Barbara McNichol to provide tips for writing like a pro. Ever heard someone say “his bucket is emptier (or more empty) than mine”? How can something be emptier than empty? The same holds true for all “absolute” words. In grammar, “absolute” means it can’t be compared. That is, you would never use “less” or “more” in front of these absolute words: perfect. final. first/last. complete. universal. destroyed. invisible. dead. unique. total. imp

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Who am I?

Practically Perfect PA

Who am I? When you work for a private individual it can be complicated defining your role in their life. As well as dealing with all the usual challenges, much depends on their personal situation, and how that reflects on what is required. Working the way I do, I am usually in a client’s home, so the relationship is very different to being office based.

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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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Filing system technique

Clutter Coach

by Using a pre-made file system can be a great idea, but only if you buy into it completely. Systems in general, filing and other, often have lots of moving parts that need to mesh together so if you leave one out because you don’t really like it, the system will eventually break. For example, if you color code your file folders, you have to continue to do it, and you have to continue to use the same colors.

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How WorkplaceDynamics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Intelligence

Energage

How We Blend Human and Machine to Deliver the Best Results to You . While our nation debates the role artificial intelligence (AI) will play in making many administrative jobs obsolete, WorkplaceDynamics is fully vested in building AI capabilities into our Engagement Platform. But the decision didn’t come without much debate over the value of human analysis vs. relying on smart algorithms to achieve a similar output.

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Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

Office Dynamics

The post Happy Administrative Professionals Day! appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel

Practically Perfect PA

Practically Perfect PA has now been up and running for 5 years. Over that time, I have seen the blog grow and grow and grow! There are now over 11,000 of you signed up to the blog posts and newsletters and we attract over 90,000 visitors each month on the website. That’s a lot of people! I still do the bulk of the work, which I absolutely bloody love, but sometimes a gal needs a little help!

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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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An Easy Way To Stay Motivated And Productive

Productivityist

This guest post is by Productivityist team member Jim Woods. He is a writer, editor, and Productivityist Coaching Practitioner. You can connect with him @jimwoodswrites on Twitter or his website jimwoodswrites.com. We all know about the to-do list. We use it everyday. Sometimes, we even obsess over it. We watch our to-do list shrink, and we watch it grow.

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Par Chadha on Techpreneurship: Interview

Small Business CEO

Are you planning to start a tech company, but not sure whether it’s the way to go, or what does it like living as a tech startup founder? The best way to go is to learn from those who have been there and done that. If you’re looking for someone who falls in that criteria, meet Par Chadha , one of L.A.’s top tech entrepreneurs. He has started more than a dozen tech startups.

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The Superintelligent Organization: create total competitive advantage?

BioTeams

I have been studying one of the most highly regarded books on the future of AI (Artificial Intelligence), "Superintelligence - paths, dangers, strategies" by Nick Bostrom. Bostrom meticulously reviews the five most likely paths to "superintelligence" which he defines "as any intellect that greatly exceeds the cognitive performance of (individual) humans in virtually all domains of interest.

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How WorkplaceDynamics Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Intelligence

Energage

How We Blend Human and Machine to Deliver the Best Results to You . While our nation debates the role artificial intelligence (AI) will play in making many administrative jobs obsolete, WorkplaceDynamics is fully vested in building AI capabilities into our Engagement Platform. But the decision didn’t come without much debate over the value of human analysis vs. relying on smart algorithms to achieve a similar output.

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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