Mon.Dec 05, 2016

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: Question and Answer with Joan Burge

Office Dynamics

We’ve been having a holly, jolly, super fun and festive time with our 12 Days of Christmas Webinar Series event. In this Day 3 webinar we wore our ugly sweaters and took questions from our live audience about the administrative profession. There were far more questions than we had time for but we’re happy to continue answering them here on our blog as well as on Facebook in our Live Broadcasts.

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What is Hygge?

Small Business Labs

Hygge is a   Danish word that roughly translates to a feeling of comfort and coziness.  It's also becoming a word used to help sell a wide variety of products and services.  According to multiple sources, hygge (pronounced "hoo-gah")  is the biggest Danish cultural export since Legos.  Key quote from the Guardian article The Hygge Conspiracy : This year’s most overhyped trend is a wholesome Danish concept of cosiness, used to sell everything from fluffy

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3 Ways to Manage Stress During the Holidays

Office Dynamics

Christmas is only 3 weeks away. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I’m sure you are busy with year-end activities and preparing to celebrate New Year’s Eve. If you’re like most of us, you’re feeling the “squeeze” to get it all done. (I’ll let you in on a little secret you already know: Some things will probably not get done.

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How to Stop a Mooching Co-Worker

On The Job

As the holiday season approaches, it can be much more fun around the office. People are wearing goofy sweaters and goodies are being brought to share. It seems everyone is in a much more giving mood. But then you think of Brad. Brad is the guy in the office who never seems to have even a dollar on him to contribute to a colleague's birthday gift. So he asks if you can contribute a dollar for him, and he'll pay you back tomorrow.

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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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Career Success A to Z: C is for Confidence

Eat Your Career

I debated this one for a while. I never realized there were so many good c-words related to career success: communication, collaboration, courage…. Ultimately, I settled on confidence because it’s the one quality that can make all of these things easier. With confidence, you’ll be a better communicator and more effective collaborator. Confidence will help you meet fear with courage.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Fostering Creative Focus with Shawn Blanc

Productivityist

Shawn Blanc is back on The Productivityist Podcast and on this episode we dive into the subject of creative focus. A father of three, Shawn has a passion for creative focus and productivity, regularly writing about these topics on his blog since 2007. In this episode, Shawn and I talk about his upcoming summit, the systems and tools he’s employed in both work and life, his core values, and books that he’s bought but might not have necessarily read.

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Blog Marketing Tricks You Should Try

Small Business CEO

Do you have a blog? How many people are viewing it on a regular basis? That number will greatly depend on how much work you are putting into marketing that blog. If you want to get people to check out what you have to say you need to show them that you actually have something to say. Even if your blog is more of a personal thing and you don’t need it to convert readers into buyers you still want to have people looking at it.

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5 Tips for Choosing the Right Phone Answering Service

Small Business CEO

Choosing the right phone answering service to take your customer calls and/or take calls from clients and associates when you’re not available is critical to growing a business successfully. It is very easy to get into bed with a company who isn’t best suited to service both yours and your caller’s needs. This is why it’s so important to come up with a plan of attack that will help you match your unique needs with the abilities of the call center or private answering serv

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