Sat.Oct 02, 2010 - Fri.Oct 08, 2010

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How Your Handwriting May Impact Your Job

On The Job

What does your handwriting say to your boss? You might be surprised to learn just how much. A story in today's Wall Street Journal discusses how forming letters is key to developing the brain. It quotes an education professor noting that messy handwriting can have "ramifications." For example, good handwriting "can take a generic classroom test score from the 50th percentile to the 84th percentile, while bad penmanship could tank it to the 16th," the story notes.

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part II

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. [ Author's Note: This is the last part of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" and a quick Review of Field Notes Notebook ]. In the first part of this series, we’ve discussed about an effective method of setting your task priorities.

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5 Sure-Fire Ways to End Up With a Career You Hate

Eat Your Career

I spend a lot of time sharing information on how to love your career. I talk about making thoughtful decisions , establishing a path and actively managing your goals. But, equally important, is avoiding those roads that will lead to inevitable career unhappiness. Sometimes, they’re hard to spot. But I’ve found five that are clear, unmistakable danger zones.

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5 Different Ways to Reduce Waste in an Average Office

Eco-Office Gals

The easiest way to reduce office waste is to avoid creating it in the first place. Of course, the advent of electronic communication has helped businesses decrease waste substantially, but there’s always room for improvement. Stay Up-to-Date. Mailing bulk materials to the wrong address or sending newsletters to people who are no longer customers is a major source of paper waste.

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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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Social Media Revolution for the Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

Hello! Jasmine Freeman here with today's post. How about a fun Friday video? This is a YouTube video so if you aren't able to view it, there may be a Firewall issue. At our Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence we showed a video before our Social Networking segment to show you the true power of social networks today and the importance of being involved.

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Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Can You Define Social Media Clutter? | Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 years or so.  As many of you know, I have had a few different

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Winning Strategies for Employment: Reference Preparation

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Winning Strategies for Employment: Reference Preparation On October 6, 2010, In Resume Writing by Debra Wheatman , By CareersDoneWrite.com 2 You’ve been through a series of grueling interviews and made it to the final cut.

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How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities – Part I

Productivity Bits

Copyright © 2011 Marlon Ribunal. Visit the original article at [link]. Post written by Marlon Ribunal. Follow me on t witte r. [ Author's Note: This is the Part I of a two-part series on "How To Effectively Manage Your Priorities" ]. If you are familiar with productive systems like GTD, Pomodoro, Zen to Done , and many others, chances are you know that one of the hardest aspects of such systems is how to effectively set priorities so you can maximize your effort and resources.

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Lifestyle Business and Success

The Small Business Blog

We often speak about how to grow you business, how to be more successful, how to expand your business, increase sales and drive your business forward. This obsession with growth, however, is not every business owner’s primary aim, and nor should it be. The measurement of business success is often cloudy; people quote a massive turnover but make marginal profit, have a large number of employees but make little after their wages are accounted for.

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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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What’s In Your Trash? A Review

Eco-Office Gals

Over a year ago I posted about starting a compost pile in my back yard. I started out with several biodegradable lawn bags full of leaves and added kitchen scraps as I went along. Eventually, we made an area for the pile and put it all together. I used an old coffee can to collect the kitchen scraps and dumped it when it was full (or started stinking).

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Newsweek Sold for $1

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again)

Stephanie LH Calahan

Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O! Archive Network with Steph Is This You? Work With Stephanie « Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds | Main | There is an App for That -- Productivity Apps for iPhone and Android » Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) A few weeks ago I posted Increase Productivity: Focus on What You CAN Control - Free Yourself from Feeling Overwhelmed/Stressed.  Today is a continuation on that theme.

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Plan your personal development with a “To Be” list

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Plan your personal development with a “To Be&# list Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 4, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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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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paralyzed by the need to be perfect?

Job Advice Blog

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection paralyzed by the need to be perfect? On October 6, 2010, In Career Coaching by Judi Perkins , By The How-To Career Coach 1 Perfection is an overrated concept. Even those who know it’s unattainable try for it when they interview.

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The Administrative EFX by Debbie Gross

Office Dynamics

Guest Blog entry provided by Debbie Gross, Chief Executive Assistant to John Chamber, Cisco Systems. Debbie was a speaker at the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence and shared more insight on the topic below. We hope that you enjoy her guest post. Am I passionate about this profession? Absolutely! Can this be a career of choice? Absolutely!

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The Latest at Customers Rock!

Customers Rock!

There has been a lot going on lately here at Customers Rock! October is going to be a busy month. BlogWorld. I will be moderating a panel again this year at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, October 14-16. My session this year is a special one. It looks back at the first panel I was ever involved in at BlogWorld 2 years ago , with some very special people.

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Getting Clients-Price isn’t your Problem

Tips From T. Marie

Since my post on virtual assistant rates continues to be discovered and enjoyed almost two months after I first published it, I thought perhaps it was time for another post on pricing for service related businesses. Yes, that includes virtual assistants. And since we already tackled the issue of not charging enough, let’s move on to the first major complaint I get when I tell people they need to raise prices.

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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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How to be of More Value to Your Boss

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap How to be of More Value to Your Boss Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 6, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting! While there have been improvements in the economic climatic, we still face challenging times in every industry, serious effect on job security.

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Should You Discuss Politics at Work?

On The Job

A few years ago, it became a very big deal in my neighborhood when some of my neighbors discovered that the rules under our homeowner's association contract stated that no political signs could be placed in a front yard. That led to some standoffs as neighbors proudly staked their political signs, claiming free speech and daring anyone to say something to them.

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A Teaching Moment

Make or Break Moments

We can’t always provide the perfect product or experience to our customers. Often the way we handle challenging situations with our customers is the way we solidify our relationship with them. Yesterday, I was disappointed. I have used the same service company in my home for a few years and they always provide wonderful service. In fact, [.]. Tags: Connecting Moments Missed Moments Training customer mistakes handle customer complaints mistakes teaching moment training moment.

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Top 5 Social Responsibility Basics

The Small Business Blog

The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. 1. Try to do things that will have a positive impact on the local community. If you can’t afford to contribute financially, give up some of your free time instead. 2. It is possible to lower your levels of energy consumption with surprisingly little investment.

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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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3 C's To Help Simplify Instructions

Ian's Messy Desk

Ian’s Messy Desk Helping you get the most out of the 24 hours in your day. Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap 3 C’s To Help Simplify Instructions Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on October 8, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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PWC's 2040 Industry Cluster Forecast

Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business Welcome to Small Business Labs Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Follow us on Twitter Emergent Research EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

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Cool Find of the Week – Carbonite iPhone App for Remote File Access

Andrea Kalli

Wowzers! I just discovered a very cool find for my iPhone. It’s the Carbonite iPhone app which allows me to access the online files that Carbonite has backed up from my desktop. If you’re anything like me, your iPhone is a constant companion and never more than an arms length away. The good: it allows users to browse, view and share backed up files on the move at anytime.

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RARE Business – A New Book By Adrian Swinscoe

The Small Business Blog

A fellow blogger who has previously written here on the SME-Blog, Adrian Swinscoe , has released a book entitled RARE Business. In RARE Business, Adrian speaks about how businesses both large and small can build better relationships with their people and customers enabling them to drive sustainable growth. Business and customer relationships are something I feel passionately about, and I look forward to reading Adrian’s book and reviewing it here. win web.com - Software and business servic

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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