Tue.Apr 12, 2016

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7 Strategies to Speak Up to Get Results

Office Dynamics

The following post was originally published at ColetteCarlson.com and is shared with permission from the author. “I’ve lost my mojo and fear speaking up when I should,” confessed Janet who recently stepped into a new position. She’s not alone – I hear this theme often whether delivering programs to attorneys or administrators. Too many individuals avoid necessary, yet uncomfortable conversations.

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Quick, Practical and Dirty – How to Assess Your PA Brand

Practically Perfect PA

Imagine the scene, 100 highly professional assistants at Nicky’s Assist Conference 2016. All eager, hungry and demanding top notch speakers – ‘Give me knowledge!’ ‘ Give me practical tips!’ My job was to talk about What is your value? – so no pressure then! Thirty minutes to cover such an incredible and vital subject isn’t long so I just got stuck in.

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Etsy Makes it Easy for Sellers to Move Off Etsy

Small Business Labs

One of the challenges online marketplaces face is sellers often do their best to move their customers off the marketplace to their own ecommerce site. They do this for two main reasons. First, they want to avoid the fees associated with selling through a 3rd party marketplace. They also want to have a direct relationship with customers.  Most marketplaces try to discourage this.  Etsy has decided to embrace it.

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Sharing your Skills

Laughing all the Way to Work

Do you want to get better at what you do? Share it!! You wouldn't believe how much I learn each time I give a minute-taking or travel webinar. Because I am giving the webinar I have to review the material and make sure I know my stuff. The audience will certainly know it if I don't. The same can apply in your workplace. If there is sharing of information among the admins, then we can learn from each other and we all grow.

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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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Movin' On Up!

Virtual Moxie

Today, a happy note. We're heading toward the end of a long rebrand, including the creation of not one, but two new sites! Included in the site for VAs, a new blog--well, a different version of this blog, really. Virtual Moxie will live on there, I'm happy to report. We just need to stop adding content here and focus on what has to happen to finish the new sites.

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12 Tips to Boost Employee Retention

Energage

How Top Workplaces Organizations Retain Top Talent. How do organizations keep good employees? Just listen to folks who know. We gathered tips from several Atlanta-area Top Workplaces that rated among the highest for employee retention for 2016. Take, for example, Virtual Properties Realty. The company has 1,800 employees who sell real estate throughout metro Atlanta and Savannah, and almost all of them are independent contractors.

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How good a team leader are you? Try my Team Leadership Assessment!

BioTeams

As a team leader you have two distinct leadership responsibilities – Managing the Individuals and Managing the Team. Leaders who fixate on managing the individuals tend to have happy teams which unfortunately under-perform in terms of deadlines, quality, customer satisfaction and budgets! Leaders who obsess on managing the team may hit most of these targets but at the expense of team member Alienation, Burnout, Compliance, Disinterest and eventually Exiting (easy to remember – ABCDE!

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Three Great Workplace Culture Takeaways

Energage

Top Workplace TMNA Shares Perspectives on Success. As we examine what creates great workplace culture in Top Workplaces , so much comes down to attitude that is cultivated, learned, and practiced. That’s certainly true at TMNA Services, LLC , an insurance services provider based in suburban Philadelphia. Here are just three great perspec tives on workplace culture from TMNA worth considering, as shared by Sarah Naraghi, its director of human resources: Treat the workplace like a garden : It need

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How good a team leader are you? Try my Team Leadership Assessment!

BioTeams

As a team leader you have two distinct leadership responsibilities - Managing the Individuals and Managing the Team. Leaders who fixate on managing the individuals tend to have happy teams which unfortunately under-perform in terms of deadlines, quality, customer satisfaction and budgets! Leaders who obsess on managing the team may hit most of these targets but at the expense of team member Alienation, Burnout, Compliance, Disinterest and eventually Exiting (easy to remember - ABCDE!).

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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 Brief Guide to Commodities Trading

Small Business CEO

Commodities are the raw materials that we use for sustaining lives. Some of the examples are energy and fuel, agricultural products, and metals. Metals, agricultural products, and energy are three classes of market commodities. These are the essential pillars of the global economy. Criteria that commodities need to fulfill. Commodities need to fulfill these three criteria: Tradability: Tradable commodities needs to have values that can be used as production materials of other goods or servicers.

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A Checklist for Organizational Change

Energage

The Sustainability of Results: Part III. Take me back to Part I. I had hoped I could boil down all the best global practices for organizational change sustainability into eight (or so) pithy points that would fit on a small laminated card. But after extensive research, input from the 95 contributing authors, and personal experiences, it’s just not possible.