Office Dynamics

MARCH 7, 2016

I spend a lot of my time in the training room with administrative professionals all over the country, I am often taken by the words of wisdom that are shared by the savvy assistants in my classes. In fact, I was struck by the words of one particular assistant who seemed savvy beyond her years. She was a reminder to me – and to us all – that wisdom in the best companies and organizations resides in the support staff as much as, if not more than, members of the management team !

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Administrative Professionals Stress Training Health 144

Small Business Labs

MARCH 7, 2016

Regular readers know we like new buzzwords here at Small Business Labs and "fractional availability" is a new one to us. We found it in the GigaOm article The Game Changing Economics of Fractional Availability. The article covers the on-demand customer care company Directly. They provide on-demand apps that allow companies to recruit and pay power users to answer customer support questions.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

I have recently taken up a part time catering course at my local adult college. I love cooking and preparing meals for my kids. I even encourage them to help me in preparing the vegetables and making the family stews. Now that they are that little bit older, I have a little extra time to myself and so therefore I thought that enrolling in a cookery course would be a fabulous idea to learn more recipes and how to prepare food correctly.

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Purchasing Learning UPS 100

Clutter Coach

MARCH 7, 2016

by I love lists. I have a poor memory so I make lots of lists to help myself get things done that I'd forget otherwise. One list I consult before I do laundry. It's a list of items that don't get washed very often and that I want to keep using until the next washing, such as kitchen potholders and the bathmat. Another list is for things I've loaned to people.

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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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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2016

I often see entrepreneurs pivoting just after a few months from starting their product. Pivoting means drastically changing your business model, as a startup. Most of the time, pivoting is seen as a positive thing. I met some entrepreneurs who… The post When Enough Is Enough? appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Productivityist

MARCH 7, 2016

This episode features a conversation with Aaron Mahnke, accomplished author and the man behind the award-winning podcast Lore. The road to Lore wasn’t a straight one for Aaron, so we talk about the journey he had to overnight success and how he used to work versus how he works today. Relevant Links. Lore. Why I Created Lore | Aaron Mahnke. Frictionless.

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Productivityist

MARCH 7, 2016

This episode features a conversation with Aaron Mahnke, accomplished author and the man behind the award-winning podcast Lore. The road to Lore wasn’t a straight one for Aaron, so we talk about the journey he had to overnight success and how he used to work versus how he works today. Relevant Links. Lore. Why I Created Lore | Aaron Mahnke. Frictionless.

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