Sat.May 14, 2011 - Fri.May 20, 2011

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How to Ask for What You Want, Need and Deserve at Work

Eat Your Career

Here’s a hard truth that some of you will hate to hear: If you don’t stand up for yourself and specifically ASK for what you want, need and deserve in the workplace, you probably won’t get it. Most people (your managers, coworkers, clients, etc.) aren’t looking out for anyone but themselves. This shouldn’t surprise or anger you. Yet every day, I meet professionals who are unwilling to take responsibility for their own needs and desires because they’re afraid or embarrassed.

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Uncover the Source of Your Information Overload with Xerox’s Business of Your Brain App

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Guest Post. This is a guest post by Christa Carone, Chief Marketing Officer at Xerox. I was originally asked by Xerox’s PR to try and review this Microsoft Outlook plugin called “Business Of Your Brain App&# from Xerox. For security reason, I couldn’t use this plugin because it is not an approved app for use in my work’s email (I use Gmail / Yahoo for my personal email).

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How to Impress a Powerful Person

On The Job

In my early days at USA Today, I was looking up some obscure information in the newspaper's library (this was before online) on election night when I had quite the shock. Let me back up for a second and explain that election nights are notoriously one of the craziest times to work at a newspaper. Information is coming in fast and furious and editors are screaming at people to meet deadlines and the bad pizza they ordered is starting to ferment in your gut.

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How to Praise Good Performance

Ian's Messy Desk

You should remember that, as a supervisor, you’ll always get what you reward. if you ignore good behaviour, you may lose it and perhaps a good employee as well. While this may appear to be common sense, it is far from common practice. We like to be recognized for doing good work. We crave praise , but do not always like to give praise. One of your jobs as manager is to make sure you give out praise as often as possible.

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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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How Your Weaknesses Can Make You Strong

Eat Your Career

Let’s talk about your weaknesses, shall we? Yes, I’m looking at you. Take a seat. Get comfortable. I know it hurts to hear, but you’re not perfect. Don’t worry. No one expects you to be. We all have weaknesses because (surprise!) we’re human. Knowing them—and effectively addressing them—can be a powerful tool in the professional world. Pretending like they don’t exist, on the other hand, can have tragic consequences.

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How to Create an Eco- Friendly Funky T-Shirt

Eco-Office Gals

Nowadays, it is very fashionable to be “green” or what others call “environmentally friendly”. A lot of people do it for the sake of mother earth and for the future of the next generation. It is a very noble thing to do and so we must all do our part to be green, even in little ways. One fashionable green thing that I can share is a t shirt printing technology called Rehance.

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Top 5 Tips for Tackling Workplace Lethargy

The Small Business Blog

The weekly top 5 tips post is always full of helpful hints and advice for small, home and micro business owners. 1. Planning your eating carefully throughout the day is important. Don’t skip breakfast before work as it will put you at a disadvantage for the rest of the day. 2.

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Don't Like Your To Do List? Try this Instead!

Stephanie LH Calahan

Today's post is short because I'm hoping you will help give me some feedback.  I am diving deeper into creating videos for my various video accounts and have started a set called "practical productivity." I only have 2 created so far and I'd like to hear from you if you think I'm on a good track.  My goal is to keep them around 5 minutes and no longer than 10 minutes, so that you can get quick hits that you can apply right away.

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Tips for Dealing With a Micromanager -- and Other Workplace Pains

On The Job

I've read Jodi Glickman's stuff over at Harvard Business Review online for a long time, so it was great to get to finally connect with her for this column I did for Gannett/USAToday.com: Some of the stickiest workplace situations include a micromanaging boss, delegating unwanted tasks and stopping constant interruptions. The result? Workers who are stressed, overworked and resentful.Dealing with those scenarios are so difficult that some workers avoid them completely and just put up with the ann

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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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Collecting Client Testimonials Using the Before/After Template

Office Organization Success

Getting feedback is so crucial to your long-term business success as you need to know that you are providing the information/services that your clients and customers want, when they want it, and in the way that they want it. There are several different ways and different types of testimonials that you’ll be wanting to get: Feedback from your one-on-one clients about working with you.

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Provide Training Without Losing Productivity

Small Business Labs

Wouldn't it be great if everyone you hired could just sit down in front of a computer and start working immediately, with no training at all?  Sure, if you hire someone with experience, they can do that to a certain extent. But even people who've done the same job somewhere else before need to learn how your business runs.  Maybe you use different tools, or you have different procedures.  In order to fit in and be productive, a new employee will have to learn those thin

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Failure-schmailure! Be Willing to "Screw Up" and it Could Bring Great Rewards. It did for 3M

Stephanie LH Calahan

I bet that when you think of Post-it notes, you don't think of someone screwing up do you?  You might think of all of your to-dos (are post-its plastered all over your desk?) or you might think of a can't-do-without office supply. But, did you know that the Post-it we know and love today that comes in slews of shapes, sizes and colors started out as a mistake?

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Persistence Makes Perfect

Professional Assistant Blog

Have you ever had a problem at work that you couldn't solve right away? Did you keep asking your manager on the status of the ordeal? This recently happened to me. My department merged with two others and moved to a different floor. I sat at the same desk for just over 5 years, so the change was a little scary at first. Everything seemed fine, as I got a brand new cubicle with windows behind.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Is Staples Making it Easy?

Make or Break Moments

I have been buying my office supplies and equipment at Staples since I opened my business in 2005. I love flashing my rewards card and knowing that soon I will receive a check in the mail. In this age when most of the mail is junk or bills, it is nice to know that occasionally you’ll [.].

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The U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

Small Business Labs

The strategy consulting firm The Boston Consulting Group released a study predicting that over the next 5 years the U.S. will see manufacturing boom.  The reasons?  Higher costs in China, more expensive supply chains and growing U.S. productivity.  Key quote from their study press release : "Products that require less labor and are churned out in modest volumes, such as household appliances and construction equipment, are most likely to shift to U.S. produ

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Speak for Yourself!

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. There are many ways to market your business – article submissions, social media, press releases, attending networking events. But to really “kick it up a notch,&# you have to put yourself out there, in person, in front of people. The very thought of standing behind a podium may be terrifying for some, or just uncomfortable enough for others to have avoided it up until now.

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Building Links by Participating in Q&A Sites

Andrea Kalli

Building Links by Participating in Q&A Sites. . The first content-driven websites were educational. Giants like HowThingsWork, eHow, and Wiki-How once ruled the search pages, drawing in visitors due to their prominent search placements and earning sizable amounts of income through targeted advertising. They offered two-way value; read the pages and you would learn, while advertisers profited from your desire for information. .

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Is Training the Right Solution?

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.

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Changes in Latitude

Loosely Speaking

Or, “Live from the ‘Land of Lincoln.’ Here the lawns are already lush and green, you can hear a cardinal (the bird!) singing while sipping your morning coffee, and mold grows like it has been lovingly cultivated. The sun is a huge red ball at dawn as seen through the permanent scrim of humidity. The people here are kind and generous, and I am the one with the accent.

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Small Businesses as Community Catalyts

Small Business Labs

For his senior college thesis at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Rudy Arnold created a series of videos documenting 5 small businesses located in the same neighborhood.  The theme of the series is how the relationship between small businesses and their customers nurture local communities.  The movies do a nice of job of capturing that relationship, and the day to day concerns and issues small business owners face.  I particularly like the story about Groundswell C

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The mental disease that destroys businesses and lives

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Today I want to shed light on an incredibly prevalent mental phenomena that, to some extent, is present in every human being’s behavior. It’s a cancer of thinking that rots logic and chokes common sense. This psychological tendency has been skewing the effectiveness of your decision making and, chances are, you’ve been completely unaware of it. For entrepreneurs, good decision making is synonymous with success – so this post is an important one.

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4 Ways to Beat Entrepreneurial Fatigue

Small Business CEO

Every person on the planet is prone to experience fatigue. As an entrepreneur, you are no exception. Some might say that running your own business would make you your own boss and that it would give you more freedom to do what you want, when you want to do it. This of course is a myth. Running your own business does not mean that you have lesser things to do or a shorter to-do list than you had when you were employed.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

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.

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How Writers Evolve

Men With Pens

A friend of mine once told me, “If who we are today is who we will be tomorrow, then our lives are already wasted.&#. Every day, as writers and as people, we can choose to grow and evolve or we can choose to remain the same. And evolution goes both ways: it can improve you or it can drag you backwards. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, evolution is “the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form.&# What does that mean?

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Acqui- Hires Shows It's 1999 Again in Silicon Valley

Small Business Labs

During the Internet bubble in the late 1990s, the demand for engineers was so strong that the valuation of early stage startups was based on the number of engineers they had on staff. In an example of history repeating itself, the New York Times article For Buyers of Web Start-Ups, Quest to Corral Young Talent covers the growing trend of larger tech companies "buying start-ups to get their founders and engineers — and then jettisoning their products." Both Business Insider an

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My New Ebook: The Definite Collection of Effing Limericks

Eventualism

Today I’m eventually releasing my new FREE ebook, The Definite Collection of Effing Limericks You can grab this poetic 39 page-turner by clicking the Add To Cart button below. (You know you should ‘cos the poems are good.) It’s in PDF form, with a Kindle and ePub version eventually forthcoming. For those of you that [.].

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Why SMBs Should Outsource Their ERP

Small Business CEO

Outsourcing an ERP system ( enterprise resource planning) was once thought of something that only large, corporate businesses would venture in but the benefits of outsourcing ERP systems have now caught the attention of smaller companies. Smaller companies are finding that the improved efficiencies in implementing an ERP system are more than covering the cost of outsourcing their ERP.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

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