Eat Your Career

JANUARY 9, 2011

The idea of career reinvention is nothing new. It’s an annual tradition for some people. I used to make a New Year’s resolution every year to “figure out what I want to be when I grow up.” Luckily, I got to cross that one off the list a few years ago! But, truth be told, career reinvention is a continuous process for most people. We’re all constantly growing and changing, so our professional goals have to be regularly re-evaluated and tweaked to keep up.

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On The Job

JANUARY 10, 2011

Do you think other people in the workplace are rude? If you have a pulse, the answer is probably "yes," or "hell, yes." I've yet to talk to someone in the last 20 years who doesn't think workplace manners could be improved. A recent story said that some concerned parents -- and even embarrassed employers -- are paying up to $400 an hour because young workers are committing so many social blunders in professional settings.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 10, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show | Main | Stephanie Hosts Jill Hively: What’s for Dinner? 5 Steps to Meal Planning Success » My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action Do you have a theme for 2011?

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Virtual Moxie

JANUARY 11, 2011

Virtual Moxie - The Cure For The Common Virtual Assistance Practice I Want Moxie! And you can also join in the conversation about Moxie posts happening over on my Facebook page Recent Comments Stephanie on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Anastacia on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Renee on Speed is the enemy of many good things. Pam Ryan on Speed is the enemy of many good things.

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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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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 11, 2011

As a career coach , I often work with people when they’re in the process of a major career transition. They’re moving slowly towards something great and new, taking serious action towards achieving what they once considered an impossible dream. And at some point, usually right when they realize that they’re making progress and that the fantasy they’ve been harboring for so long might actually become a reality, they kind of freak out.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 8, 2011

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization | Main | My Theme for 2011: Decisive Productive Action » Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show You are invited!

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On The Job

JANUARY 14, 2011

I can't tell you the number of people in the last two years who recommended to me that workers should just "hunker down" or "keep their heads down" while the job market was in such turmoil. The thousands of people who were left shaking in their cubicles -- wondering if they'd receive the next pink slip -- reminded me of the old saying that there are no atheists in foxholes.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 12, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. Thanks to technology, work is not confined to the office. Laptops and phones are powerful enough that we can complete most types of tasks while travelling; any location can be a workstation. This can be a major productivity boon if you’re traveling on business. But should you? Is it safe to be filing reports from airports or coffee shops?

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The Small Business Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

Small businesses often complain that they cannot really compete with larger firms. Economy of scale is usually cited as the main reason for this. Large firms are able to purchase raw materials and stock on a scale that a small business could never afford. However, small business owners often overlook some of the benefits that a smaller scale provides them.

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Andrea Kalli

JANUARY 11, 2011

We all have them. Favorite WordPress Plugins. Our list of go-to plugins we install on most every single WordPress site we set up for clients. While many of them have stayed on our list from the beginning, some come and go. New shiny plugins make their appearance in the web-o-sphere and we just have to have them. You know what I’m talking about… don’t you.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 11, 2011

If like us you're worried about health care spending, there's some good news and some bad news.  The good news is U.S. health spending grew just 4% in 2009 , the lowest growth rate in the 50 years the government has tracked this data.  The bad news is, due to the recession, health spending hit an all time record of 17.6% of 2009 U.S.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 10, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. When you write a farewell speech , it is usually consists of thoughts and feelings about past associations and future possibilities. Like any other speech, there are a few basic steps you need to prepare. Analyze The Audience. Before you decide what to say in a farewell speech, you need to know who your listeners will be. Is is an employment situation?

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 11, 2011

Okay – that title requires some explanation. Imagine a world in which your customer is so convinced that you’ll be there for them, when they need you, with the answers they need in a easy to use fashion – every time that they just assume it as fact. They assume you’ll meet their needs. So much [.].

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Complete Organizing Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2011

I safely returned from Haiti and I can’t wait to tell you all about it! It was certainly a life changing experience for me in so many ways! I certainly left a piece of my heart there. I came home to snow and closed schools so I have been enjoying time with my kids. I will be writing all about the trip in the coming days but for now as I gather my thoughts I wanted to say thank you for all of the comments you left while I was away.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 10, 2011

National Geographic is doing a yearlong series focused on population growth past and future.  The first article, 7 Billion , covers the history of population growth and the major concepts of demography.  The title refers to the planet's current population, which is expected to grow to 9 billion by 2050.  The series will explore the implications of this growth.  I highly recommend the article and I'm looking forward to the entire series.  There is also a grea

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 11, 2011

Each January 1 my wife and I head for a quiet table at a local coffee shop and set some goals for the upcoming year. We begin the process by reviewing what we set out to accomplish in the year past: to look at our successes and failures. It would be easy for us to spend the time focusing on the things we didn’t get done. It’s human nature to want to live in the past: all the more so when wallowing in defeat.

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Loosely Speaking

JANUARY 12, 2011

Brenna, my dear friend Christy’s little girl, uses this word for what you do on a backyard trampoline. You just go “boingy-boingy&# for awhile and then you’re happy and life is good. These days we could all use a little more boingy-boingy. Or, in adult terms, a little more faith and optimism.

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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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Step It Up VA Coaching

JANUARY 13, 2011

by Donna Toothaker. Are you a creature of habit? Do you avoid doing new things, or taking new approaches, in favor of the same, old “same-old?&# Perhaps your routine is comfortable and predictable, and you feel quite in control of your work and personal life. You may say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.&# Sure, it ain’t broke, but is your business growing?

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 10, 2011

Tweet You know those apocalyptic strategy games, where a huge catastrophe strikes Earth? And everything is dark and sad, you don’t have any resources left and you gotta make it by yourself? Well, let’s imagine that for a second. But instead of all the Earth being hit, let’s pretend that only two major things are hit: Twitter and Facebook.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 14, 2011

As I let go of my feelings of guilt, I can get in touch with my Inner Sociopath. I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else’s fault. I honour my personality flaws, for without them I would have no personality at all. I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 9, 2011

Ever realize some people don’t want your help? It’s true. Some people don’t want to solve their problems, no matter how easy, fast, cheap or effective the solution might be. You might have the perfect advice for them but… No. They won’t take it. In fact, those people are kind of comfy in their misery. Really. You know the type, those people who sigh that if they just had more money, more time, more support, or more skills, more this, more that… THEN they’

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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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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 11, 2011

As if running a business in today’s economy is not tough enough, we also have to deal with fraud on top of it all. Fraud can cause a small business to experience financial effects as well as damage to your hard earned reputation. Every year the BBB receives thousands of complaints from small business owners who fell for an invoicing scam or were misled into paying for products and services they didn’t want.

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 14, 2011

Tweet A few weeks ago I met a fellow blogger for a live interview. We knew each other from the Internet for quite some time and we both thought it could be an interesting idea to meet each other in real life too. I always try to balance my online relationships with real life encounters. I won’t talk about the interview though, in this post, but rather about something that came up during the interview.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JANUARY 14, 2011

As I let go of my feelings of guilt, I can get in touch with my Inner Sociopath. I assume full responsibility for my actions, except the ones that are someone else’s fault. I honour my personality flaws, for without them I would have no personality at all. I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me.

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Make or Break Moments

JANUARY 11, 2011

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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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Men With Pens

JANUARY 13, 2011

You gotta love Aslan. I mean, come on – there’s nothing more impressive than the kingly Narnian to capture attention. Which is exactly how Marcus Sheridan caught mine. He caught it twice when he sent me this guest post. At first, I was too busy for the video… but then I watched. Then I read the post. And now I’m sharing it with you. Although there are certainly many metaphors that could describe the life of a blogger, I personally would relate it to the most famous test of human endu

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Service Untitled

JANUARY 10, 2011

With the current economic condition, many organizations have been forced to cut costs and reduce staffing levels. These kinds of business decisions can affect the remaining employee’s ability to stay positive and not focus on the negative. Employees need to be actively engaged so they can add value to the organization. The customer experience can be significantly affected when employees are not engaged.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 12, 2011

My career, in the form that it’s in right now, really began the moment an entrepreneurial business owner walked into my psychotherapy practice for his second session and uttered the following words: “That psychological stuff we talked about last week? It really made a difference in my business!” I didn’t know it at the time, but my experience working with this person was going to define the direction of my career for years to come.

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