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How Do You Train And Retain Tech Talent? Use Podcasts, Says CEO Jen Grogono

Allwork

Grogono works with Dell, Salesforce, Facebook and others to change their meetings, blogs, and internal newsletters into engaging, streamable podcast episodes only available to employees. . Gallup’s annual workforce engagement survey confirms that companies with highly engaged employees are simply more profitable than others. .

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Why Human Connections Are A Business Advantage In A Remote World

Allwork

In its Great Attrition survey, McKinsey identified that 51% of employees who left their job in the last six months did so because they lacked a sense of belonging. These are shared with the team on our staff call in a PowerPoint presentation. Instead, they are leaving when they feel excluded.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

A Linkedin survey reported that 89% of talent professionals attribute lack of soft skills as the reason for a bad hire and 92% feel that soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills when hiring. On the other hand, is the ability to create PowerPoint presentations critical or is it only necessary to be able to “edit” them.

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Productivity Boost: Do It Before Lunch!

Professional Assistant Blog

A survey conducted in Britain states that solving your problems and being most productive happens before noon. Trying to tackle a task at 4:30 pm usually isnt a good option for most of us, since you are ready to call it quits at 5:00 pm, especially on a Friday, since your mind is already in weekend mode.

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

I understand a company would be interested in knowing why people unsubscribe so they can improve their business, but a quick voluntary survey back would have been more appropriate. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared? ► February (5) We did it Canada! 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Master the Art of Re-purposing Your Work and You'll Save Multiple Hours - 50 Ideas To Get You Started

Stephanie LH Calahan

Marketing material is stripped of sales language, and the info becomes a blog post, which becomes a podcast, which becomes the soundtrack to a video made from PowerPoint slides which becomes a YouTube video which becomes content for the website. Content and copy are the driving force of many internal and external client campaigns.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

A few months ago I asked the Practically Perfect PA readers if they could complete a survey for me. The survey asked if assistants feel that having or not having a university degree has made a difference to their career path. Also attended general Excel/Word/Powerpoint courses. I have taken several courses and classes.

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