Sat.Aug 13, 2016 - Fri.Aug 19, 2016

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Are You Suffering From The Impostor Syndrome

Office Dynamics

I am so excited it is my birthday this week. I have always loved celebrating my birthday. This year it is extra special because last year, at this time, I was in the hospital having open heart surgery for a mitral valve repair. I am elated I will be spending this birthday with my entire family and not laying in a hospital bed. I am very grateful that I am well and even doing better than ever.

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The Rise of Employee Free Businesses

Small Business Labs

It used to be hiring employees was the goal of almost all small business owners. This is no longer true.  As the Your Story article Running an employee-free business without compromising on scale and quality  points out, you no longer need traditional employees to start and scale a small business.  Key quote: With the emergence of workflow automation, machine learning (or artificial intelligence), talent marketplaces, collaboration tools, and a curated network of independent op

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How important is office culture?

Practically Perfect PA

Our lovely friends over at Career Moves recently conducted a survey to find out how important salary is when looking for a new role. You will be surprised by the results. Here is Sarah with more details… Do we just want a good salary? The Career Moves Office Support team recently sent out a Salary and Insights Survey, which produced some surprising results.

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Study: Workplace Incivility is Contagious

On The Job

Every workplace has at least one -- that snarky employee who is rude and has a ready put-down for any colleague unlucky enough to interact with him or her. But a new study shows that such an employee may be much more than just an annoyance -- he or she can become like a bad flu virus and begin infecting others with incivility. The result can be a work environment that saps the energy of workers and affects their productivity.

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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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Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile

Job Advice Blog

When you sit back and think about the short lifespan of the Internet and how much it has grown it’s mind blowing. Remember when social media had just come into [.]. The post Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile appeared first on Free Job Advice Blog.

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Effective communication tools

Practically Perfect PA

After nearly 5 years of blogging about assistants it now goes without saying that I think communication is the most important aspect of an effective relationship between assistants and their Executives. I may have mentioned it once or twice…! Next year’s Assist Conference will focus on the Assistant toolkit, in other words the skills and competencies that every assistant needs to succeed in the role.

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"Action Without Traction" Exhausts Managers

On The Job

If you spent $15 million at work and had nothing to show for it, would your company be OK with it? Probably not. No company would put up with that kind of cash outflow and not expect something in return, whether it was a new product, idea or service. Yet, that’s what is happening as managers struggle to solve a complex problem, and end up spending millions of dollars that bring no solution.

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Pretty Planning

Tips From T. Marie

The Following is a Guest Post By: Sydnee Yates is a content writer for PDF Supply. She studied Literature (with a specialization in creative writing) in undergraduate school. She received her Bachelor’s degree at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Since graduating in 2015, she has been working on finishing her memoir, which she hopes to publish soon and has now found a passion in blog writing.

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Ageism Means More Self-Employed

Small Business Labs

The Washington Post's Baby boomers are taking on ageism — and losing  covers something we hear about often in our research - age discrimination. We hear about it mostly from baby boomers who tell us it's one of the reasons they became self-employed.  The reality is companies on average prefer younger workers over older ones. Because of this, age discrimination has become a major challenge for baby boomers.

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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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Smash your mid year review

Practically Perfect PA

With September being half way through the financial year for organisations it is most likely that at some point soon you will have a mid-year review with your manager. If you don’ have anything in the diary or your Executive hasn’t mentioned getting together for a review I would highly recommend you do something about it. Mid year reviews are an important element of your career development.

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Podcast 018: Your home office doesn’t have to be an “office”

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. In this episode, I’ll talk about how everyone needs an office of some kind to stay organized, but it doesn’t have to be what you think. Here are some highlights: I have an office that I never use. What do I need for my office? Why is having an office important?

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Surprise! Your Customer Service Ain’t All That.

Tips From T. Marie

A recent article on Small Business Trends explains that although you may believe you and your business are providing excellent customer service, chances are your customers/clients aren’t exactly on the same page. In fact, when GetFiveStars.com founder Mike Blumenthal conducted a survey, although business owners themselves believed that 75% of customers were experiencing excellent customer service, the customers themselves had something else to say.

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Top 6 Sources to Draw Motivation From

Productivity Bits

O btaining motivation to work on projects can be very difficult to achieve. Additionally, it can be quite difficult to organize your schedule in a way that promotes success. When trying to approach projects both in life and at home, it is important to draw your motivation from many sources in order to complete your projects effectively and punctually.

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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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Using Instagram for business

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve been using Instagram for a few years now and I love it! Although since I’ve had kids, I don’t feel the urge to Instagram my life as much as I used to (who needs to see me covered in milk, pureed vegetables and goodness knows what else!) Anyhoo… I’ve been looking into how I can use Instagram for the blog and have found a few really good tips that I thought I would share with you today.

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Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile

Job Advice Blog

When you sit back and think about the short lifespan of the Internet and how much it has grown it’s mind blowing. Remember when social media had just come into […] The post Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile appeared first on JTL Services Inc.

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How to Use Real-Time Video to Grow Your Business – 7 Top Tips for Livestreaming Virgins

Andrea Kalli

You keep hearing about the potential of livestreaming video to reach new audiences, but have yet to jump into real-time video broadcasting. You know your business needs to up your social media marketing game, but you’re afraid of looking foolish or having nothing to say to a live audience. Before you let fear of the unknown stop you from trying a potentially powerful brand-building tool, familiarize yourself with a few livestreaming tips to build your confidence.

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The Best Choice for Pots and Pans

Professional Assistant Blog

High-quality cookware has always been the heart of all serious cooks. You require a variety of pans and pots to make time in the kitchen easy and enjoyable. Expensive does not always mean the best as some companies sell their brand rather than quality. This does not tend to mean that cheap cookware have better quality compared to the expensive ones.

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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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Practically Perfect PA giveaway: The Roomex winner is…

Practically Perfect PA

Thank you to everyone who entered the Roomex and Practically Perfect PA giveaway! I can now announce the winner… drum roll please… is: Yvonne Reay Scott. Congratulations Yvonne! We will contact you to get your details! Thanks again to Roomex for hosting such a fantastic giveaway. If you do book business travel to Berlin remember to download their city guide for business travellers.

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Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile

Job Advice Blog

When you sit back and think about the short lifespan of the Internet and how much it has grown it’s mind blowing. Remember when social media had just come into its own with Myspace and sites like it? Those sites created the “stranger danger” line of thinking. In those days, you had to keep anything […]. The post Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile appeared first on JTL Services Inc.

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I'll be speaking at Executive Secretary LIVE London 2017

Audacious Admin

I am excited and thrilled to announce I will be one of the speakers at Executive Secretary LIVE in London!!!!! Executive Secretary LIVE is the world's leading international event for senior and aspiring Administrative Professionals & Executive Assistants! If you missed my RECAP from earlier this year, take a moment to read about this amazing conference!

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3 Tips for Young Millennial Leaders Managing Older Employees

Small Business CEO

The latest available Pew research showed that millennials make up over a third of the current workforce in the United States. Considering that data will soon be nearing two years old, it’s safe to say that millennials are currently the largest demographic in the workforce, and growing by the day. Even the youngest in this group are very much at an age where they’re competent and qualified enough to work as managers.

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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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The Productivityist Podcast: Brian Scudamore

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast I speak with Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of O2E Brands. O2E Brands is the banner company for 1–800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, You Move Me, and Shack Shine. Starting with one truck and a great idea, Brian grew 1–800-GOT-JUNK? into one of North America’s most successful companies and he’s poised to do the same with his three newest ventures.

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Tech of the week: Seat Guru

Practically Perfect PA

What is Seat Guru. In October 2001, frequent flyer Matthew Daimler launched SeatGuru.com with a single colour-coded interactive airplane seating chart. Having experienced firsthand the vast differences between airline seats, he was determined to collect this useful information and share it with other travellers. In 2007, SeatGuru was purchased by TripAdvisor , and they now have seating charts for practically every airline.

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Is Mobile Tech Making You Uneasy At Work And Home?

Office Dynamics

Does work seep into your life, after hours and on the weekends? For many people under age 44, unfortunately, that is the case. And with this blurring of lines can come an unease at both the office and home. There are a lot of reasons for this anxiety. Many of us feel an urgency to emails—that we can’t wait or put it off, that we must respond immediately.

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Business Tips for Doctors in Private Practice

Small Business CEO

Of all the complaints coming from med students just finishing up their degrees and getting ready to make their mark on the world of medicine, the one thing you hear over and over again is the fact that they learned little or nothing about medicine as a business. In fact, medicine is one of the leading industries in this country as well as in most other developed nations and that’s why it is imperative to teach our doctors how to run a business efficiently so as to realize a bigger profit without

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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