Workplace Insight

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a recent research report, we surveyed 500 employers to discover what they believe causes their staff the most stress. Surprisingly, an overwhelming 96 percent did not believe that employee salaries are a major stress factor for staff during the cost-of-living crisis. These factors are undoubtedly stressful.

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Success

JULY 21, 2023

After giving birth, Frost passed on some of her responsibilities to her assistant, which included helping with emails, invoicing and research projects. However, she said it is important to make sure you can cover your expenses. This would help you to take that maternity leave without stress.”

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Success

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Self-care can get a bad rap as a fluffy, self-indulgent kind of behavior-excusing activity used to market anything from expensive spa days to junk food and Netflix binges. Good self-care also means keeping a variety of long-term goals in mind, especially since common ones like improving finances or physical health may be stressful themselves.

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2024

For some, a series of email surprises, expensive and time-consuming. For those projects where we have shorter timelines or updating a current fit-out, we see the rise of multi-purpose spaces that support informal meetings, working and gatherings in the form of coworking lounges.

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Office Organization Success

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

But first, let’s start with what is a Cashflow projection? One important area of your Financial Management System is that of a Cashflow projection. Create a column that lists all of your expenses, i.e. office supplies, legal & professional fees, membership, advertising etc. This is very easy to do using a spreadsheet.

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Success

JUNE 6, 2024

With living expenses soaring post-COVID, coupled with these questions of school, we began exploring the possibility of enrolling her in a school abroad,” Weiland says. Weiland’s family found themselves at a crossroads when her 4-year-old daughter Ashlan was just a few weeks shy of the kindergarten cutoff at the school she attended.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. So, I oversaw about 20 projects, 20 customer engagements at the same time. And this busy work, which really does kill productivity, this creates stress, for one thing.

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Success

APRIL 5, 2023

In Vivvi’s “ Beyond Parental Leave ” report, conducted alongside Werklabs and The Mom Project, they found more parents “took a career pause” during toddler and preschool years (37%) than at any other time in parenting. In true prepandemic fashion, he apologizes several times, clearly mortified at the interruption.

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Success

DECEMBER 27, 2021

What if you let your weight be your weight and didn’t obsess with myriad complicated, expensive and ultimately ineffective ways to control it? I can’t stress enough that becoming overweight is a normal, natural response to the abnormal, unnatural ubiquity of calorie-dense, sugary and fatty foods,” writes Michael Greger in How Not to Diet.

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Allwork

MAY 27, 2022

Companies that may have been on the come up have suddenly found themselves tied to an expensive long-term office lease that they are contractually bound to. PwC’s 2021 Employee Financial Wellness Survey found that 63% of employees feel their financial stress has grown since the beginning of the pandemic. .

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 14, 2011

But we can work through these issues with less stress by learning to be flexible. But, you can also avoid a lot of stress by leaving wiggle room in your schedules so when issues arise, it’s not the end of the world. Here are a few suggestions to handle situations you might encounter: Accept reality, and go with the flow.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

How much of the $100k does the business owner actually get to keep once expenses are paid — that’s the profit! Profits are basically what’s left over (pre-tax or gross) after a business’ expenses have been deducted from its revenues – and this is one area of business that you need to keep a close eye on.

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Success

JULY 22, 2021

It’s easy for a young company to get bogged down under financial stress and pressure. Unexpected expenses and emergencies pop up. Write your cash-flow projections and come up with a business financial plan. Knowing what you can reasonably predict in terms of expenses and income will help you plan and spot problems sooner.

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Workplace Insight

JUNE 1, 2023

There was a significant level of stress associated with furlough, with over 61% of furloughed employees revealing fears over job security. 1 in 5 of those who remained at work claimed they has to take on extra work and responsibilities and suffered undue stress as a direct result of those individuals on furlough.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 21, 2017

In a study done by the University of California Los Angeles, women who described their houses as cluttered, disorganized, disordered, or haphazard had daily patterns of the stress hormone cortisol that are normally associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue, and early mortality. Declutter Your Digital Past.

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Office Organization Success

MAY 4, 2016

merchant fees, shopping cart account, membership fees, advertising, website expenses etc. Cash Flow Report: Now that you have Income Analysis and Expenditure Analysis all in place you are all set to create your Cash Flow projection. Your Expenditure Analysis will contain things like your monthly list management service (e.g.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

While they do work together to save you time, effort, and stress, they are not the same. Procedures show you, step-by-step, how to perform a specific task – for example, completing an expense report or submitting a check request. They save you time and unnecessary stress. Project management. Systems have many benefits.

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Office Organization Success

AUGUST 4, 2014

Also this week I’ve been helping a couple of my clients with some of their projects: Setting up an affiliate program in Infusionsoft. This bring me on to this week’s article … being able to automate as much of your business as possible helps to eliminate a lot of stress and overwhelm.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 3, 2016

The Atlantic's The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans  is written by one of the 47% percent of all Americans who couldn't come up with $400 to cover an emergency expense without borrowing or selling something. This is not new news. Key quote from their response: In the U.S.

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 9, 2024

Work-life balance is the delicate art of juggling professional responsibilities and personal well-being in a manner that ensures neither takes priority at the expense of the other. Personal tasks might include meeting a vendor at your home, managing a home renovation project, or booking vacations for you and your family.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We know there’s a better way to do things and the idea of bringing in some help is more stressful than we could have imagined. Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Expenses, Accounting, Taxes. But then it happens. We start to grow. We have more than we can handle and we start drowning. Client Management. Supports all things money. Get started here.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We know there’s a better way to do things and the idea of bringing in some help is more stressful than we could have imagined. Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Expenses, Accounting, Taxes. But then it happens. We start to grow. We have more than we can handle and we start drowning. Client Management. Supports all things money. Get started here.

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Ideas.Ted

JUNE 11, 2021

The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Akufo-Addo in 2018. It’s expensive, complicated, technical, and much easier just to burn it. In 2018, the company completed a 100-foot pilot project in Zwolle, billed as the world’s first recycled plastic bike path.

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Job Advice Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Are you getting paid as a 1099 Contractor? Most employees don’t realize the added expenses that a company has simply to pay an employee.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 2, 2015

As well as being an inefficient way to run a business, it’s also very stressful. On the expenses side , I can easily budget for expenses. Having the right systems in place leads to consistent revenues, more clients, and less stress and overwhelm. FREE Online Business & Marketing Systems Checklist.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 24, 2015

the narrowest part) of your funnel, which is usually your most expensive one-on-one services, but you won’t have anything in-between. Having the right systems in place leads to consistent revenues, more clients, and less stress and overwhelm. If you’re like most solo service professionals you’ll have something at the top (i.e.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Your business project may take time to get moving. Many people make the move to self-employment to get away from the dissatisfaction and stress of their current job. You ideally need to make sure you have enough running costs of the business to run for 6 months as well as making sure you have enough to pay for living expenses.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

This is the best advice you will ever receive on how to build a strategic partnership with your executive, manage their day, and stay on top of the volumes of tasks and projects you have to handle. Provide your executive with updates on projects, meetings, items you are working on, and any other pertinent information. Special Projects.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

One way to alleviate some of the stress is to work with an executive assistant. Project management skills are also highly desirable and, depending on the start up, a background in technology and/or social media may be needed.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 31, 2010

But it can also be a bit stressful if you don't plan ahead. If I know I've got an urgent project with a lot of demands, it wouldn't be fair — to my family or the business — to take my family," he says. If it does, pick up that extra expense yourself and clearly show you footed the bill. You just have to realistic.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 15, 2016

Just think of all of the tasks and interesting projects you could be working on if you could reduce the amount of time you spent on business travel. Every PA will know the feeling when a Visa application doesn’t work out – it’s probably one of the most stressful elements of booking travel. Increasing their expenses.

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On The Job

MAY 29, 2013

I tackle projects as soon as they cross my radar, and I go after my to-do list like a woman possessed. Everyone has tasks they hate and put off for as long as they can, whether it''s cleaning out the garage or tackling expense reports at work. Don''t hate me because I''m not a procrastinator. I know lots of procrastinators.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

One of the challenges of creating administrative procedures is that many people feel overwhelmed by the project. However, thinking of procedures as one big project isn’t the right approach. If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 5, 2015

I manage his schedule and monitor his emails, as well as help organise some of his travel, company events, and client dinners, occasional research, expenses and ad hoc tasks – all the general PA duties. I have a dual role: my primary responsibility is being the PA to the managing director.

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Office Organization Success

APRIL 21, 2014

I’ve had many conversations with clients over the years who have invested in expensive, high-end coaching programs … yet are not prepared to make the relatively inexpensive investment of having the right ecommerce system in place to grow their business. Manage before you market.

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Office Organization Success

JUNE 24, 2013

With Infusionsoft even though there are options, it is a lot more expensive, and you dive right in from the get-go. Having the right systems in place leads to consistent revenues, more clients, and less stress and overwhelm. And then finally, there’s the investment.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

Systems are ordered and proven processes that save you time, effort, and stress. Project management. Follow up after the trip regarding what went well or didn’t so you can update your notes and templates, submit expense reports, etc. Systems helps you find, do, and complete things consistently. Filing (paper and digital).

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