Sat.Jun 11, 2011 - Fri.Jun 17, 2011

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Tracking How to Get It All Done & Avoid Information Overload-Interview With @Springpad CEO @jeffjaner

Stephanie LH Calahan

Information Overload is a topic that comes up frequently when I talk with people about what holds their productivity back. Many people have become "information junkies" collecting all kinds of information but not having it in a format that makes it usable.  Jeff Janer and his team at Spring Partners saw that coming a few years ago and developed a great tool called Springpad.  Today I talk with Jeff and he shares some great insight on how Springpad could be one of your Product

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4 Ways to Ramp Down the Conflict at Work

On The Job

There's the guy who clips his fingernails at his desk. The woman who talks in a "kitty whitty" voice when she asks for a favor. Or the manager who takes his shoes off in a meeting and props his feet on the table. All people I have worked alongside. All people I wished would be transferred to a faraway rain forest. But then I remember how much I like animals, especially those cute little monkeys, and know I can't inflict these people on any other living being.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Business Exporting

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. For full-scale exporting of a product, extensive market research is essential before even considering it.

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How to Be Persuasive in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

Recently, while hosting a free group coaching call , I had a few questions from professionals who wanted assistance in the art of persuasion. Whether you’re looking to convince your boss that you need some additional training or you’re hoping to show an interviewer that you’re the best candidate for a job, persuasion is an essential tool for professional success.

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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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Project Management: Four Problems to Avoid

Ian's Messy Desk

By Brian Tracy , Author of Full Engagement!: Inspire, Motivate , And Bring Out the Best In Your People. It is important that you never trust to luck when you plan a project. Hope is not a strategy. Remember the words of Napoleon, when he was asked if he believed in luck. He said, “Yes, I believe in luck. I believe in bad luck. And I believe that I will always have it, so I plan accordingly.&#.

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Micro Business vs Job

The Small Business Blog

Job security is a thing of the past, no ifs & buts, it is. Why then are still so many hell bend on getting a job in a company? Here are a couple of things to consider when considering your future: ? Income Security: You lose your job, you lost it all.

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Twitter the Customer Connector

Make or Break Moments

If you aren’t using Twitter to connect with your customers – you are missing out on a great, real time venue. This weekend I discovered an article by Jeff Bullas about how the Fortune 100 companies are using (or not, as is the case) Twitter to be connected with their customers. It turns out that [.].

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Make the Most of Your Business Downtime This Summer

Step It Up VA Coaching

by Donna Toothaker. It is not uncommon for the summer season to be a slow period for many Virtual Assistants and business owners. This shouldn’t be a time to sit back and ride it out. Take advantage of this time to do those things that oftentimes get put on the back burner or at the bottom of the priority list. There can be a happy medium. Using this time efficiently can help things to run more smoothly during busy times, and can even allow for an increase in sales and service requests jus

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Keeping it all together

Laughing all the Way to Work

As admins we have different projects going on all the time, meetings scheduled with our bosses and other things that need reminders set or items brought forward. I have found to be efficient and professional you really do need to keep all these things together. For instance when I meet with my boss I have things I need to ask him so I put it in a folder and bring it with me, then we go through it item by item.

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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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Just Don’t Quit!

The Small Business Blog

I ran one of the largest ISPs in the 90′s and it was not always easy (the understatement of my life), we were growing so fast, that we never had any money, our cash-flow was catastrophic, always. During those years my CFO and I had a saying, “It’s going to be another interesting day!

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University of Miami's Innovative Launch Pad Entrepreneurship Program

Small Business Labs

In 2008 the University of Miami started a student entrepreneurship program called Launch Pad.  Unlike most academic entrepreneurship programs, it's not a major or set of courses.  Instead, it's mostly an individual study program using outside advisers to teach aspiring student entrepreneurs what they need to know about starting a business.  Miami's Launch Pad is housed in their career center and positions entrepreneurship as an alternative to a tradition

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Tips for Getting that First Job

Ian's Messy Desk

It’s one of the most common Catch-22s of the employment world: you’re out of school and looking for a job, but you need experience to get one. But, if you don’t have a job, how do you gain experience? It’s a vicious circle, but there are ways to market yourself without much employment history. Get to know yourself : The more you know about what you value, what you’re interested in and what you’re good at, the more likely you’ll be to make effective choices about your career.

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Self doubt is useful (and other counter intuitive psychological truths)

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

“Just believe in yourself!”. “You can do it!&#. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it!”. These are all cliched axioms of the self development industry that you’ll never hear from me, except in a sarcastic sense. New’s flash: Self doubt, uncertainty and all forms of entrepreneurial stomach butterflies are incredible useful. In fact, I’d go so far as to say they’re crucial to business success.

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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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Summer Safety: Mosquito Repellents – What to Use & What to AVOID

Denise Aday

Not only are mosquitos bites itchy and annoying, they can spread diseases that can be debilitating or fatal. So it’s important to control them in our environment and protect ourselves. But the solution shouldn’t be as bad as the problem itself. Let’s talk about protecting our bodies and start with what to avoid. There are.

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Canada's Small Manufacturing Renaissance

Small Business Labs

The Globe and Mail has a great special section on Canadian manufacturing.  Much like what is going on the U.S., smaller niche manufacturing companies are starting to thrive. They are doing this by finding defensible niches where they can compete using innovation, speed and intellectual capital.  Key quote on the lessons learned by the owner of a specialty motor maker: One of the lessons he has learned is that trying to compete with motor makers in China and elsewhere that can mass pr

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Do You Have a Business or a Hobby?

Men With Pens

Many people ask me if I think their business idea is a good idea to pursue. That idea is usually based on what they love to do in their free time. Their passion. Their hobby. And in most cases, the answer to, “Do you think I could make money from this?&# is… No. Sorry. See, here’s the thing: You may have the most creative, amazing, fulfilling idea in the world, but if you have to dig deep to think of ways to turn that idea into cold, hard cash, you don’t have a business brewing.

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Self doubt is useful (and other counter intuitive psychological truths)

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

“Just believe in yourself!”. “You can do it!&#. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it!”. These are all cliched axioms of the self development industry that you’ll never hear from me, except in a sarcastic sense. New’s flash: Self doubt, uncertainty and all forms of entrepreneurial stomach butterflies are incredible useful. In fact, I’d go so far as to say they’re crucial to business success.

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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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Social Networking Risks and Challenges for Small Business Owners

Small Business CEO

Everyone knows the benefits of being active members in social networking sites. The huge opportunities brought forth by social media blasts for promotion is almost too good to be true for small business owners. The temptation of free publicity it seems is too much to not give in. While there are various articles on how good social networking is, there are regrettably, some negative sides to it as well.

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Winning customer loyalty

Service Untitled

Entrepreneur magazine writer Micah Solomon stated there are several important elements retailers need to concentrate on in order to gain customer loyalty. A successful organization must anticipate customer wishes, provide fast service, and dedicate themselves to acknowledging each returning customer. Solomon also contends businesses need to perfect the ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ for customers, develop the customer service vocabulary, and work very diligently to hire the best p

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Why hiring a writing coach can help you build your business

Men With Pens

When I set up my copywriting business, one of the first things I did was hire a writing coach. Now, for someone who had been working as a journalist for the past 15 years, this might seem like a waste of money. Hello, haven’t I proven time and again that I can write well? Shouldn’t I use the money to pay for a social media marketing consultant and web designer instead?

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This Journey We Call Life.

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

(This piece was actually written in mid-May when I decided to buckle down. I’ve also updated it at the end.) I realize the last time I posted was 6 months ago. Since then, I’ve been regrouping. I’ve been enjoying the process, maybe too much, that I decided I should probably blog again. If you haven’t noticed yet, I alternate each posting between a professional and personal topic.

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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 To Combat And Learn From Negative Feedback

Small Business CEO

Negative reviews and feedback for a small business can have a greater impact today than ever before due to the increased use and accessibility of the Internet. Unfortunately, one negative review can turn consumers away, but with the right proactive approach, negative reviews don’t need to have a huge impact on your business and can even be viewed in a positive light by incorporating the following into your reputation management campaign.

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The customer is enraged

Service Untitled

The July issue of Consumer Reports stated there were 1.1 million complaints against North American businesses last year; up 10 percent from 2009. So why are so many people so dissatisfied with customer service ? Jack Abelson, a retail industry consultant called customer service “abominable.&# He contends that American business has lost focus on the appreciation and the value of the customer, and excellent customer service is “a profit producer.&# Abelson says that organizations cutt

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Running Update (Taming Monkey Number 6)

Brilliantly Better

Tweet It’s the middle of the month today and it looks like a fine time to make a short recap of my taming monkey number 5 progress. If you don’t know what this taming monkey thing is, just go and read the first post. Basically, it’s like a monthly challenge which replaced my new year resolutions. The measurable part is that I decided to run at least 15 days in June.

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Interview Attire Dilemmas (Again)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

A long time ago I blogged about what to wear since I was interviewing for non-corporate roles or companies. As of late, I’ve been headhunted a lot and am running across the same dilemma. All my interviews are at companies that either never existed until recently, aren’t traditional companies, or are cutting-edge leaders that are forging new paths they don’t “obey the rules,” and thus, corporate culture is highly specific to that industry.

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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