Practically Perfect PA

JULY 17, 2017

For those of you who don’t know the World Administrators Summit is taking place on 24th and 25th October 2018 in Hamburg. The summit brings together leaders from the various PA Associations around the globe to discuss issues facing the industry as a whole. Last week, I was reading through the newly updated World Action plan for the Administrative / Office Professional Associations , and I thought I would share it with you guys today.

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On The Job

JULY 17, 2017

Recently the New York Times staff protested cuts to the copy editor staff, saying in a letter to management that they believed such a move would damage the quality of the product. One senior reporter described the copy editors as " the immune system of this newspaper, the group that protects the institution from profoundly embarrassing errors, not to mention potentially actionable ones.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 17, 2017

As a career coach , I hear a lot of the same questions. While human beings are endlessly unique, they’re also surprisingly similar. Many people struggle with the same career and workplace challenges. One of the most common questions I hear is this: “How do I know when it’s time to quit?”. It’s a hard question to answer because there are so many considerations.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 17, 2017

According to the Direct Selling Association (DSA), 20.5 million Americans were involved in direct selling in 2016. Of those, 5.3 million are what the DSA calls "business builders" These are people actively managing and selling products to a customer base (think Avon, Mary Kay, etc.). While the other 15.2 million may do some selling, they are mostly involved to get the product discounts that come with signing up as a seller.  The 2016 Intuit On-Demand Workforce study found that abou

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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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Clutter Coach

JULY 17, 2017

by Should you use your email as a to do list? There are pros and cons, as there are to most other organizing issues. . The cons: . It gets too crowded in your in box to find things effectively, unless you’re a champ at deleting emails (forest for the trees syndrome), even if you use clearly labeled folders, you can have too many places to look to find your to do’s (a GTD no-no), you have to rely on the way the email is phrased by its writer, which won’t be consistent with the w

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Productivityist

JULY 17, 2017

On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Eliot Wagonheim, a lawyer and the author of Fire, Aim…Ready: Management. We talk about partnerships, setting boundaries, and even touch on how improvisation can help you in your business. Some of the takeaways from our conversation include: The four key questions you need to ask before entering into a partnership or agreement.

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