Allwork

JUNE 29, 2022

The ‘double duty’ workspace can be easily switched from an office to a meeting space, to accommodate hybrid teams (Image: Knoll). For example, private offices were presented in a way that showed an easy flex to meeting room space. Many featured an open top to capture writing utensils, cell phones, notepads and other essentials. .

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2024

As collaboration happens best face-to-face, provide opportunities such as a booking app to support employees in planning their weeks and set realistic policies on office time by designing for team days. Curate an Experience Worth Commuting For Is your workspace truly supporting your team? Do you have enough room for growth?

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I have shared my unforgettable conference experience & excitement about the material presented and the speakers with coworkers and via blog posts. There is an entire team that works hard to coordinate this conference and they have shared their answers to a few candid questions and provided a glimpse behind the scenes! And they do!

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Allwork

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Reduced face-to-face time with coworkers can affect team building and possibly innovation. Coming together as a team helps strengthen trust, builds relationships, and allows leaders to share big-picture business goals. It has become more of a way to connect with colleagues, making in-person team collaboration a top priority.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You might think that emotional intelligence is an inherent quality, present due to genetics or personal history. Emotional intelligence in leadership also helps create the context for modeling the behavior you seek to develop in your team. If you’re actively listening, you’re not distracted with your phone or other tasks.

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Success

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ease into your day You open your eyes, silence your phone alarm, press your mail app and start thumbing through your emails. Set boundaries (not answering emails on the weekends, for example), communicate them with your team and then stick to them. Here are a few tips to build good mental health in the workplace.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In this episode of SUCCESS Stories , Kindra and Madison talk about being open to learning life lessons in unexpected places, welcoming opportunities however they present themselves, and how storytelling can change your mind and your life. The one you’re presented with may not be exactly what you’re looking for.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe it was a college kid home for the summer who gave you the worst lifeguard shifts at the pool, or a team lead who made you stay late on Christmas Eve, then took the credit for your work. We share war stories over happy hours, at backyard barbecues and sometimes via an international phone call if need be. Everyone’s had one.

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Success

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

So even if ChatGPT is the equivalent of a not-smart flip phone in a few years, an innovative and progressive AI consultant will be there to help with that transition into the future. Statista reports the global artificial intelligence market is expected to reach a value of $208 billion USD in 2023 and $1.8 trillion USD by 2030.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As assistants most of us will interact with our organisation’s Executive team on a daily if not hourly basis. Your manager may well be part of the Executive team. If that is the case you will have even more phone calls, meetings and general engagement with other Directors and top-level members of staff.

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Job Advice Blog

APRIL 22, 2010

Many of my clients have asked me to help them prep for a phone interview. What do you do on the phone? Despite the limitations associated with a phone screen you can still make a powerful impression – powerful enough to get the real deal – an invite to the office. This is probably going to be your home and cell phone.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Whether you’re meeting by phone, video conference or in person, don’t arrive late. If you have a phone call on the schedule, block an additional 15 minutes before the start time so you can be sure you’re at your desk and prepared. Refine Your Self-Presentation. Be Punctual. We know you’re busy; we all are.

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Allwork

AUGUST 10, 2023

Working from home presents a unique set of challenges that can make it difficult to maintain focus and productivity. Set yourself up with a project management platform Keeping an online team of workers on the same page is difficult, which is why task management softwares exist. This article contains links from our trusted partners.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 7, 2011

Effective teamwork is critical for organizational success, and the key to effective teams is effective communication. Think about teams you have participated in. Compare the communication in the high performing teams to those teams that didn’t work well? Your team sees you from a different position.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 18, 2019

What about time for my leader to work on: projects return phone calls respond to e-mails delegate work on presentation? Can anyone else on his/her team attend in their place? Level of meetings: high-level meeting with high-level prep; low-level meetings with minor preparation time?

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 17, 2024

“Red flags should go up when there are too many pep talks, slogans, special lingo, podcasts, YouTube clips, motivational team-building activities, and sing-songs. Today, Apple’s products violate all the fundamental rules of design for understanding and usability Take the screen design for Apple’s phones.

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Allwork

OCTOBER 28, 2022

That’s based on Musk’s belief that remote workers are “phoning it in” and only “ pretend to work.” . They’ll do so even when presented with new evidence about higher productivity among remote workers. . Then, at the one-on-one meeting, the leader and team member discuss the report and determine goals for next week.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nowadays, many stores collaborate with couriers or have their own in-house shipping teams to ensure that your gifts make it to the intended recipients. If you want to send out presents that are equally useful and unique, a customized Bluetooth speaker would be a great idea. Surprise the heck out of them with a personal phone call.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Saturday morning you visit a coffee shop to work on that presentation for your day job. Looking at your phone you find three texts that say, “Hey is this meeting happening?”. You missed your virtual team meeting for your side hustle, so you reschedule—that product launch will have to wait. It’s due Monday.

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On The Job

AUGUST 3, 2020

That's because even if someone has great technical skills, for example, an inability to talk to someone else, to be empathetic or be a team player can have a real adverse impact on that team's effectiveness or even on a company's drive to be more innovative. You can send a compliment via text or Slack or Google Hangouts.

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Ideas.Ted

JULY 27, 2021

Considering a perhaps permanent transition to digital communications, an increased amount of remote work, smaller, flatter teams and an accelerated pace of change, it’s never been more critical to show the people we work with that we respect and appreciate them. To address this, Lisa has created a process following every monthly team call.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You might be using a new phone system or dealing with new project management software. When you integrate sharing – and creating – procedures into your onboarding process, it helps ensure a smooth transition for your new team members. Incorporate them into all relevant team calls, setting clear expectations for participation.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The shift to remote work has complicated layoffs in several ways, presenting new challenges for companies. Martin Luther King Jr., ” Such off-tone messaging reveals the serious lack of personal care and empathy of email layoffs, which are particularly damaging to remote employees. .”

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All Things Admin

MARCH 20, 2024

Do you remember asking people in your household to hang up the phone so you could send an email? Or being tied to bulky, desktop computers that couldn’t function more than five feet away from a phone jack? Now, we wonder how we ever managed to get anything done with it. Now, business operates 24/7 globally.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 10, 2024

The personal computer and modem connected to a phone socket allowed some of us to do that in the 90s (a few, even before that). Ideally it provides a framework in which individuals and teams can make choices about the most appropriate times and places for work, and as far as possible balance individual preferences into the mix.

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Allwork

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Coworking Cafés : Tables are often first-come, first-served, and accommodating a team can be challenging. Specific Challenges at Coworking Cafés While coworking cafés bring a unique blend of coffee shop charm and workspace functionality, they also present specific challenges. Here are strategies to overcome them: 1.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Convince them you are results-oriented Answer these three questions in your resume to ensure you are showing that having you on their team will mean results, Downs says: 1. Her recommendation is to make your phone number, email address and resume are easily accessible, and hyperlink as many details as possible.

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Workplace Insight

MAY 11, 2022

Businesses are now presented with the unique opportunity to find balance between in-person and remote work, and create workplaces that thrive within the hybrid workplace model. When in the office, we don’t see ourselves speaking during our conversations, presentations, or meetings. Pick up your phone and call them.

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Tips From T. Marie

MARCH 17, 2020

Email, Skype, Zoom and Phones. You have choices when it comes to communication with clients or team members. My second choice would be a phone call. On par with a phone call is Skype or Zoom. Again, any actual call, whether via phone, Skype or Zoom are scheduled. Elimination of background distractions.

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Allwork

JUNE 29, 2023

The onboarding process presents a valuable opportunity to create a lasting impression while preventing any potential friction or frustration that could drive new members into the arms of competitors. This approach not only enhances convenience for members but also presents an opportunity for your business to earn additional income.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 15, 2022

When you physically hand your resume to a potential employer, the understanding is that they (and their hiring team) are the only ones who will see it. I highly suggest that not include things like your addresses, phone numbers, or other identifiable information. Once something is on the internet, it’s there for good.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

I have written 5 books for assistants, educated 300,000+ assistants, have worked with 70+ Fortune 500 companies, and coached 300+ executive/assistant teams. And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. Yes and no.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Do I want to finally settle on getting a phone for US travel only? So when the Explora team reached out to me and informed me of their new service, I was intrigued. Considering what pricing would look like for the average mobile phone user, Explora saves foreign travellers to the US a ton of money. Not so much these days.).

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BioTeams

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Thanks to mollfrey for posting my presentation on VENs at Connecting Innovation in Brighton (UK) on myplick.com. Ken writes the highly popular bioteams blog which has over 500 articles on all aspects of bioteams (aka organizational biomimicry) - in other words how human groups can learn from nature's best teams. About Ken Thompson.

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Once we finalize the job description, we brief our team and we reach deep into our database and networking groups for candidates and referrals. We sift through resumes, we conduct initial phone interviews, we narrow the field to the best candidates and then we conduct additional video and/or in-person interviews. #3

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Success

MARCH 9, 2022

Proof comes from testimonials, not sales presentations,” says Jeffrey Gitomer, president of Buy Gitomer and author of The Sales Bible and The Little Red Book of Selling. One simple process Ziglar’s team uses in its corporate sales training programs is T-R-U-S-T, which stands for think, relate, uncover needs, sell solutions and take action.

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On The Job

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

That doesn't make sense since no one is Wichita is really going to care that you forgot the charts for a presentation at your company in Seattle. That only causes resentment, and can impact a team's ability to function. Act as quickly as possible, and always make your apology in person or via phone if possible.

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