Sat.Oct 13, 2012 - Fri.Oct 19, 2012

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How to Deal With Credit Thieves in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

What do you do when someone else takes credit for your work? It’s a common problem—one often exaggerated and made light of in sitcoms—and yet, in the real world, it can lead to some pretty serious career damage if not handled properly. The situation is ugly and unfair, and it usually goes something like this: You get the blame when things go wrong and they get the credit when things go right.

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Email Newsletter: 3 Alternatives to an Ezine

Office Organization Success

This article was inspired by a conversation I had today with a client; in fact this isn’t the first time I’ve had a similar conversation with clients, so I thought I’d share my response to them with you. This client basically said to me, “Tracey, please tell me I don’t have to send a weekly ezine!”. Note: An ezine is another name for a newsletter or electronic newsletter.

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What Does Your Facebook Photo Say About You?

On The Job

I'm always amazed by the truly stupid photos people post of themselves online. The reason I'm surprised is that we're so quick to judge a celebrity with a hair out of place, that sometimes we fail to consider the image we're projecting to the world. This latest story I did for Gannett/USAToday may have your reconsidering. It’s often said that people make a judgment about you within seconds of meeting you, and now new research shows the same may be true even when they’re viewing your photo on Fac

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Pros and Cons of virtual meetings

Practically Perfect PA

Pin It. Long gone are the days our executive managers fly all over the world attending an hour’s meeting here or there. Don’t get me wrong they still travel for Board meetings and client engagement but they don’t get on a flight simply because there are no alternatives to getting everyone together. With the introduction of virtual meetings and teleconferencing people can communicate with each other in different time zones and locations very easily and a great deal cheaper than the c

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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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Is Your Job Getting You Down? Job Happiness Quiz

Eat Your Career

I once read an interesting statistic about how work effects overall life happiness. It basically said that a good job won’t make you happy, but a bad job will make you unhappy. I think this says a lot about how we view jobs. If we hate our work, that frustration and annoyance rules our lives. If we like it, it sometimes goes unnoticed. Think about all the people who quit their jobs thinking that it’s just work that’s bringing them down – only to find that they’re just as unhappy in another job.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Blogging

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. Don’t be afraid to display your credentials prominently.

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Pros and Cons of virtual meetings

Practically Perfect PA

Pin It. Long gone are the days our executive managers fly all over the world attending an hour’s meeting here or there. Don’t get me wrong they still travel for Board meetings and client engagement but they don’t get on a flight simply because there are no alternatives to getting everyone together. With the introduction of virtual meetings and teleconferencing people can communicate with each other in different time zones and locations very easily and a great deal cheaper than the c

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Halloween Going to the Dogs

Small Business Labs

Regular readers know we love pet trends, especially when they relate to the humanization of pets. According to an article in Time Magazine "American consumers are expected to collectively spend $370 million on pet costumes this Halloween. That’s $70 million more than last year, and a 40% increase compared to 2010. The article goes on to point out that 62% of American homes have pets.  Only about 34% of American households have children.

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Upcycle Your Way to An Eco Friendly Office Wardrobe

Eco-Office Gals

All of us have had moments when we’ve looked into our closets and said, “I have nothing to wear” and we weren’t being dramatic. Sometimes, the reality is that while we do have things hanging up, we don’t always have just what we need. Take an office wardrobe, for instance. If you’ve recently landed a new job, or you’ve lost some weight or you’re looking to do a bit of “upgrading” for the upcoming season, and if you’re someone who

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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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A little bit of take and give

The Small Business Blog

As financial tightrope artists, with occasional cameo performances on the high trapeze, small businesses and one-man/one-woman bands can ill afford to be generous. Or can they? I budget for giving, for two reasons.

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It Doesn't Have to Be That Hard!

Stephanie LH Calahan

One of my family values growing up was that we were "hard workers."  The work ethic in my family is very strong and we can "push through" anything.  That work ethic has allowed many in my family, myself included, to advance in our chosen careers and win a number of industry and community awards.  I come from two long lines of people that worked hard and made big impacts in the communities they served.

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How You Can Help Your Career Even When You're Not at Work

On The Job

After putting in your hours at work with the colleague who eats pork rinds all day long and the boss who constantly hums off-key show tunes, the last thing you may want to do is spend your after-work hours with such people. So when you’re given advice to sign up for the company’s community 5k run or Saturday morning at the local food bank, you may respond with something that cannot be printed here.

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What Makes for a Healthy Green Office?

Eco-Office Gals

As you’ve been doing more and more research about making your world a more eco-friendly place, you’ve probably come across some articles on how to make your office “green”—no, not (necessarily) green in color, but things that you can do to improve the air quality and energy efficiency of your workplace environment. Some of the information that you’ve come across may have seemed a bit overwhelming, though.

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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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The Power of We = Enterprise Rocks!

The Small Business Blog

Today is Blog Action Day and at the Small Business Blog we wanted to use this opportunity to highlight a cause that is very important to us: Micro Business survival. Micro enterprises are defined as any business from any sector with less than ten employees.

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The Gala Dinner & Cocktail Event

Office Dynamics

After experiencing the Gala Event of 2011, it seemed impossible that anything could top that spectacular night. However, I’m here to say I can attest that the 2012 Gala Dinner & Cocktail Event was incredible, and it outshone and outperformed the prior year. This year’s conference theme was “Be BOLD!” and the Gala Event and attendees were definitely bold in every way.

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Moxie Tip 261: Connecting

Virtual Moxie

When we have a safe place to speak what is rambling around inside us, we can, as poet David Whyte says, "overhear ourselves saying the most astonishing things we never knew we knew.". The trusted souls around us can help us "remember faster" who we are, what we know, and what lights our souls on fire. -- from a generous guest post by Trish Bruxvoort-Colligan.

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Incorporating Sustainability into Urban and Regional Planning

Eco-Office Gals

Urban planning–the notion of sculpting the layout of cities and managing their development–is a fairly old discipline at this point, but it has been revolutionized in recent decades by an emerging emphasis on sustainability. This trend reflects pressing realities of the modern era of globalization, population growth, and land use. Ballooning human populations in general and influxes of people into similarly ballooning cities, even in regions until recently significantly, even predomi

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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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Learn How to Manage Your Boss

Ian's Messy Desk

No matter where you work, you report to someone – maybe even to two or three bosses. And whether you think your boss is brilliant or a bore, the fact is that you have to manage the relationship with your boss if you want to advance your career. Many of us give little thought to managing our supervisors. We do so at our own peril. Supervisors can have a lot of influence over our success in a job and our long-term career plans.

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Foundation Attributes of the Five Pillars

Office Dynamics

Dear Monday Motivators, Last week’s Monday Motivators was the first of a series of 4 issues that I am writing around the theme Be BOLD: Mastering Exceptional Leadership One BOLD Step at a Time. Last week I talked about 5 Pillars of life where we need to take the lead: Career, Family, Financial, Spiritual and Wellness. This week I would like to focus on the foundation of the 5 Pillars.

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Ezines — There’s No Excuse Not To Do Them

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. I was recently doing some research for a coaching client that took me to several virtual assistant websites. I was amazed at the number of sites I visited that did not include an ezine or newsletter for visitors to register to receive. At first I thought “Why on Earth are they not doing an ezine? It’s the simplest thing in the world to do!

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Here and Now - Transforming Your Business with Traction

Stephanie LH Calahan

Yesterday I talked about how some entrepreneurs are stuck in a pattern of running their business that does not give them everything that they really desire.  I compared it to being in "hampster wheels" of various sizes. If you found that you relate to that story, your business is not giving you the freedom that you really desire, stick around because today I'll share the steps for you to move out of that wheel here and now!

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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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Moxie Tip 259: Difficult Conversations

Virtual Moxie

I'm working on handling my own issues with communication and disagreement. It's hard. I'm nowhere near perfect at it, and I still avoid confrontation if at all possible. But I'm learning (when I have to, I even send an incorrect order back to the restaurant kitchen), and practicing, and noticing. One of the most important things I'm practicing is the art of acknowledging my own pain first.

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Are Traditional Jobs Going to Disappear?

Small Business Labs

The Forbes article In the Future, Nobody Will Have Jobs  summarizes the growing view that traditional jobs are going the way of the dinosaurs, replaced by an array of contract workers and automation. Regular readers know we believe the number of independent workers (freelancers, temps, etc.) is going to continue to grow. We also agree that the number of businesses that choose to use independent workers over traditional employees is also going to increase.

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This Isn’t What I Asked For!– How to Handle Bad Results from your Virtual Services Provider

Tips From T. Marie

Your virtual assistant sends over the latest project you’ve been working on together. Excited to have it complete your heart sinks when you look at it. “This isn’t what I asked for” you grumble, getting ready to blast your VA for the lousy work. But hold on a minute, before you rip them a new one, there are a few things you need to know.

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Check Your Posture - It Could Improve Your Performance [Infographic]

Stephanie LH Calahan

Aches and pains, troubles focusing, chronic fatigue, and many other not so fun outcomes happen as a result of bad posture.  Today's infographic shares what creates bad posture and also lays out some great tips on how to. help improve it and alleviate pain. [ via ] Did you find a tip in here that you can use to improve your posture?  I'd love to hear what you think.

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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