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9 Ways to Improve Your Organization Skills

Office Dynamics

Organization skills is the one thing most successful business owners have in common. Without the ability to organize your work and your resources, you could be twisting in the wind in no time. You may have been able to muddle along back in the day, but in today’s competitive environment, you need to work any advantage to your favor. Fortunately, there are at least 9 ways to improve your organization skills without too much effort on your part.

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The Growing Role of Small Business Coaches

Small Business Labs

We recently conducted a study in partnership with the sales and marketing automation company  Infusionsoft on  how small businesses define and achieve success. We were surprised by one of the findings. This is the extent to which successful small businesses are using coaches. We didn't set out to study this topic. We didn't even have questions on the use of coaches in our interview guide.

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Practically Perfect PA Giveaway: 10 Assist Travel tickets!

Practically Perfect PA

Thanks to our wonderful partners at Travo , we have a very special giveaway for Practically Perfect PA readers this month. We are offering ten lucky readers the chance to attend Assist Travel for free. Yes, that is right – a whole day of fantastic training specifically for assistants – completely for free! The conference is taking place on Friday 9th September in London.

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2 Words to Help You Retain, Recruit the Best Workers

On The Job

It can be frustrating as a manager when your best talent walks out the door and you're forced to begin looking for someone to replace him or her. It also can be expensive -- the Society for Human Resource Management estimates the average cost-per-hire is $4,100 and it takes 42 days to fill a position. While many employers try to attract and retain workers by having beer pong on Fridays and offering everything from nap rooms to free cookies in the break room, a new study may shed some light on wh

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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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Two Things You Need for Career Success

Office Dynamics

I had the fortunate opportunity last week to be a part of an incredible graduation and celebration for 39 administrative professionals graduating from our Star Achievement Series® who embarked upon this journey that started 3 years ago. Yes, I said 3 years. I was so impressed with these individuals who took 96 hours of training consisting of 3 levels of learning over a 3 year period.

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The Practically Perfect Business Traveller’s Guide to San Francisco

Practically Perfect PA

San Francisco is a magical cosmopolitan city; known popularly as the city by the bay, it has evoked songs, poems and popular sayings. Rich in cultural attractions, it is both liberal bastion and commercial hub with tech-hot Silicon Valley reaching north and embracing the city with global headquarter giants like Twitter, Pinterest, and SalesForce. Think Napa Valley, the Golden Gate Bridge, Ghirardelli Square, North Beach, Alcatraz and it’s easy to become overwhelmed.

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Brian Tracy: How Super-Successful People Get It All Done

On The Job

When you’ve been researching how to work smarter for more than 30 years as productivity expert Brian Tracy has done, you’ve learned a thing or two about how to get the best out of others – and yourself – on the job. That’s why in his latest book, “ Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field, ” Tracy, Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, stresses that employees and leaders have more control over their productivity than they may belie

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Why a Combined Heat & Power System is the green way to go

Eco-Office Gals

A whole range of greener sources of energy have come to the surface and continue to do so as the topic of global warming continues to dominate the global conversation. There has been a much greater focus on greener initiatives, and it’s great to see people actively improving efforts to save on waste and energy. Combined heat and power is one of those systems that aims to keep waste and energy at a minimum, and is one of the greenest co-generation processes.

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Consumers Still Hungry for On-Demand Food Delivery

Small Business Labs

Earlier this year the failure of few food delivery startups led to a number of pundits and articles claiming that the on-demand economy was in trouble. Examples include TechCrunch's SpoonRocket shuts down amongst on-demand apocalypse  and Bloomberg's Food-Delivery Startups Head for Shakeout as Venture Money Slows. And to be fair, a number of food delivery startups have failed.

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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 017: Make it less boring

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. In this episode, I’ll talk about how organizing tasks can be a lot more fun when you have bright colors and cool supplies. Here are some highlights: What is up with those army green folders? Where can I get cool stuff? What are the benefits of using fun supplies?

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The Beautifully Sad Result Of Assumptions

Brilliantly Better

In Western Australia lives a species of cockroaches that can teach us, humans, a lot of stuff. What follows is a story about insects, beer bottles, assumptions and our deeply screwed ability to take proper decisions, as humans. Hence, our… The post The Beautifully Sad Result Of Assumptions appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Research Shows the Benefits of Top Workplaces Recognition

Energage

Award-Winning Companies Attract Better Job Candidates and have Lower Turnover. Companies that earn recognition as top workplaces attract more highly qualified job applicants and experience reduced employee turnover, new research shows. The findings , published in the Academy of Management Journal , support the benefits of third-party verification programs such as Top Workplaces , which has ranked quality companies across the United States since 2006.

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9 Signs You Are On The Verge of Burnout (And What To Do About It)

Productivityist

Today’s guest post is from Johan D’Haeseleer. He’s a writer, speaker and the founder of Extra Time. Johan’s passion is helping others make the most of their time and also helping others reduce their stress levels. . Let’s face it, you’re really busy. Your calendar is packed, yet you are constantly adding more tasks to your to it, right?

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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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4 Fun Office Activities to Help Bring Your Team Together

Small Business CEO

Team building activities are extremely rare in businesses outside corporations. It seems like the rich corporate giants of the world, like Walmart for instance, are more successful than small businesses for a reason. The main reason is that despite the fact that many don’t pay their lower-level employees really well; they do know how to increase employee’s sense of morale and togetherness rather effectively. photo credit: Flickr.

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The Industry Snapshot 2016

Practically Perfect PA

It’s that time of year again! Practically Perfect PA is nearly 5 years old (and yet I haven’t aged a day!) and every year I ask you lovely lot to give me feedback on the industry, the blog and other activities we have been working on – from our events to our new launched eBook. Your feedback is always welcome, but this year it will be particularly helpful as I am working on lots of new projects for the rest of 2016 and into 2017.

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CEOs: Here is How to Set goals – And Stick to Them

Small Business CEO

Goals: everyone does it, but how many people are actually accomplishing anything? Most likely, you’re doing it all wrong. It’s important to set goals in both your business and personal life. It doesn’t have to be New Year’s Eve for you to need to make a change or to want to do better; this should be happening everyday. In fact, 92% of New Year’s goals fail by January 15th , which warrants the question: what goes wrong?

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The Productivityist Podcast: The One Year No Beer Challenge

Productivityist

In this episode of the podcast, I not only talk with Andy Ramage and Ruari Fairbairns of One Year No Beer but I also take on one of their challenges. That’s right. As of recording this episode I went alcohol-free for 90 days. I dive into that challenge a bit more in an upcoming bonus episode (exclusive to Patreon supporters ) but also a little bit in this one.

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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.