Practically Perfect PA
APRIL 23, 2024
How Assistants Can Help Get Stuff Done in Their Organisations In any organisation, one of the most valuable skills is the ability to get things done. Assistants, in particular, play a crucial role in driving projects forward, maintaining momentum, and ensuring that tasks are completed. In [.
Eat Your Career
APRIL 22, 2024
As a passionate writer, a naturally forgetful person, and a self-confessed control freak, I have always believed in the power of documentation, especially in the workplace. Documentation is a vital tool for enhancing productivity, accountability, transparency, and (most importantly) peace of mind. Whether paper-based or electronic, effective documentation practices can have a profound impact on your professional life.
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Allwork
APRIL 21, 2024
IWG recently identified four main trends dominating current workplace fashion; however, six broader movements are predicted to influence workwear fashion over the coming years and decades. The trends in workwear fashion for the future are influenced by factors such as technological advances , evolving workplace norms, and societal shifts towards sustainability and individual expression.
BMT Office Administration
APRIL 22, 2024
How do you keep track of your employees’ work hours? If you’re like most organizations, your employees record the number of hours they worked on a timesheet. In the old days, this involved ‘punching’ a physical time card. In fact, this is why human resources professionals still refer to clock-in times as ‘punches.’ Employee timesheets are almost entirely digital today, with some using advanced features like biometrics.
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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Jennie Lyon
APRIL 23, 2024
You know you should be marketing your business. Still, as a small business owner, you’re most likely already wearing many different hats, and adding marketing to your never-ending list of to-do items can feel overwhelming. And if you don’t have experience in marketing, it can not only feel overwhelming; it can be a rabbit hole… The post How to Start Working With A Digital Marketing Virtual Assistant To Grow Your Business appeared first on Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing and Virtu
Administrative Professionals Pulse brings together the best content for administrative professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Allwork
APRIL 22, 2024
Aggregators who resell your space at different prices encourage cross-channel shopping, leading clients straight to your competitors. By standardizing your pricing, you’ll keep more clients connected to your brand and reduce the risk of price erosion. Mike Sullivan explores how to ensure price consistency and compliance through a pricing policy, such as a MAP policy.
Practically Perfect PA
APRIL 25, 2024
Strategically Managing Your Executive's Time As an Assistant, one of your primary responsibilities is to help your Executive manage their time strategically. This is a crucial part of the role and can be quite time-consuming. However, when done effectively, it adds an incredible amount of value. [.
Workplace Insight
APRIL 22, 2024
A £100 million program designed to help disabled people find work in England and Wales has been quietly cancelled, raising concerns as the government pursues plans to reduce disability benefits. The Work and Health Programme (WHP), launched in 2017, will cease operation this autumn. This news comes amidst Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s proposed benefit cuts for 420,000 sick and disabled individuals, aiming to push them into employment.
Success
APRIL 20, 2024
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 77 million Americans—or one in every three adults—carries a criminal record, whether that’s an arrest, a charge or a conviction. Some 650,000 people are released from prison each year. That’s a weighty portion of the population attempting to reenter society and facing challenges due to their judicial record, including a lack of employment and housing and difficulty accessing higher education and voting rights.
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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.
Allwork
APRIL 22, 2024
IT expert Jeremy Fennema joined the Allwork.Space Future of Work Podcast to explain the increasing impact of AI, IoT, and AR on remote work, corporate structure, and productivity. Such technologies also bolster remote work capabilities and necessitate stronger AI-driven cybersecurity strategies to protect against sophisticated threats. AR technology is blurring the lines between physical and virtual workspaces, making location less relevant and supporting a shift toward digital interaction and c
Productivityist
APRIL 24, 2024
In this episode, originally broadcast in April 2020, I’m joined by Thomas Frank , a prominent content creator who has significantly influenced the YouTube and productivity community. Thomas opens up about his journey into video creation, sharing the nuances of his creative process and how he has successfully integrated his personal interests with productivity content.
Workplace Insight
APRIL 22, 2024
Zurich tops the 2024 Smart City Index , with European and Asian cities dominating the rankings. The report, released by the IMD World Competitiveness Center’s Smart City Observatory and the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO), analyses data and resident surveys from 142 cities globally. Seven of the top 10 smartest cities hail from Europe.
Success
APRIL 22, 2024
Some Americans move into a peak earning decade during their 50s. However, greater earnings don’t necessarily translate to financial security. People in their 50s are facing financial headwinds that include higher costs of living, rising debt, the disappearance of pension funds and an increased reliance on Social Security. A 2019 study from the Center for Financial Services Innovation, funded by the AARP Foundation, indicated that just 17% of adults 50 and older in the low-to-moderate income rang
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Allwork
APRIL 22, 2024
In an era where the lines between work and personal life are increasingly intertwined, California’s proposed “Right to Disconnect” legislation has emerged as a potential game-changer for employees’ well-being in the state. More professionals across the U.S. have become aware of California lawmakers promoting the bill after last week’s vote to move the bill forward to a committee hearing.
Denise Aday
APRIL 23, 2024
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Workplace Insight
APRIL 24, 2024
While we often view personality as a fixed entity, a new study suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have left a subtle but enduring mark on some aspects of our personalities. Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , the research suggests that while significant personality changes weren’t widespread, conscientiousness levels generally increased throughout the pandemic, while extraversion dipped slightly.
Success
APRIL 24, 2024
Self-promotion doesn’t come naturally to all of us—especially if you’re an introvert or have had the virtue of modesty drummed into you since childhood. Yet making the most of casual connections is crucial to networking and success. New research published in Scientific American expands upon one of the most cited research papers about the power of acquaintances,“The Strength of Weak Ties” by sociologist Mark Granovetter.
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.
Allwork
APRIL 23, 2024
WeWork is facing increasing pressure from its unsecured creditors to consider a buyout offer from Flow — a real estate venture led by WeWork’s controversial co-founder and ex-CEO Adam Neumann. WeWork, which entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 2023 after enduring persistent financial difficulties for several years, is attempting to raise at least $400 million in fresh capital to support its exit from the bankruptcy process.
LEADERASSISTANT.COM
APRIL 21, 2024
Liliya Susong is a Senior Administrative Assistant at Nestlé North America. An immigrant to the US, she has 11+ years of experience as an EA with international companies and counting – now on the US side! In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Liliya shares her journey navigating culture gaps as an immigrant to the US, communication, networking, and working with an assistant team.
Workplace Insight
APRIL 25, 2024
This week, the Government Property Agency brought together Civil Service leaders to exchange ideas, debate trends and inform how the GPA delivers its property services. The GPA is leading one of the country’s biggest and most ambitious workplace renewal programmes for its clients – delivering a smaller, better connected, better quality, and greener property estate to support the work of Civil Service teams and bring them closer to the communities they serve.
Success
APRIL 24, 2024
Each professional journey will look a little different, but today, we’ll discuss an integral part of any professional journey—giving and receiving employee and leader feedback. Feedback, when delivered correctly, can be one of the most powerful tools for growth. It helps us understand our strengths, highlights areas for improvement, and guides us toward our professional goals.
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.
Allwork
APRIL 22, 2024
WeWork is gearing up to sell its 27% stake in WeWork India, its Indian subsidiary, for a substantial sum of Rs 1,200 crore (or nearly $144.58 million), according to a report published by The Economic Times. It’s suggested by unnamed sources that this secondary deal involves prominent investors such as the Enam group’s family office, A91 Partners, and CaratLane’s founder Mithun Sacheti.
Allwork
APRIL 22, 2024
Hybrid work arrangements are becoming a more common work environment in Japan’s post-pandemic workforce. According to a report published by The Japan Times , a recent survey conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has revealed that while fully remote work has slightly declined since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work models have solidified its place in the workforce.
Allwork
APRIL 23, 2024
A recent survey conducted by IWG Canada suggests that younger generations of Canadians (Generation Z and Millennials) are generally in favor of hybrid work environments. The study surveyed 1,027 Canadians over the age of 18 who work in a flexible, hybrid environment, and found that 95% of Gen Z employees and 84% of millennials would expect a salary increase if required to commute to the office five days a week.
Allwork
APRIL 23, 2024
Work is a mixture of routines, rituals, and interpersonal drama. Radically altering the daily routines of workers represents a major form of loss. The pandemic marked a form of separation that has been wildly disorienting for many workers, and especially for managers. An anthropological approach to change management can never be a system or a program that is uniformly applied to every organization.
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
Allwork
APRIL 23, 2024
Despite urgent signs a month ago, the Pittsburgh office market is reported to be showing healthier in the first quarter of 2024. More specifically, in March a report published by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette , revealed that nearly 50% of the office spaces downtown could be sitting empty by 2028. The data cited in the report reveals that over two dozen buildings are at risk of foreclosure — further compounding the economic challenges faced by the city.
Allwork
APRIL 24, 2024
The majority of respondents in a recent study identified the workplace as the primary source of stress in their personal lives. According to the 2024 Workforce State of Mind Report, published by Headspace , “[W]e surveyed more than 2,000 employees, business leaders, and benefits leaders to access the latest trends in workplace mental health. The results showed how work stress is seeping into the personal lives of employees and how their relationships — with co-workers, managers, and leaders —
Allwork
APRIL 24, 2024
According to a report published by FedWeek , the Public Buildings Reform Board submitted a report to Congress last month revealing that the median occupancy rate of many federal headquarters has plummeted to a mere 30% of pre-pandemic levels. This dramatic decline in office space utilization is rocking commercial real estate markets in major metros and is largely attributed to the widespread adoption of telework (remote work/hybrid-related) policies in the post-pandemic economy.
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