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How Do You Train And Retain Tech Talent? Use Podcasts, Says CEO Jen Grogono

Allwork

By serving employees podcasts over PowerPoints, employees can listen anytime they want, using a familiar application that doesn’t require any ramp-up or training. Gallup’s annual workforce engagement survey confirms that companies with highly engaged employees are simply more profitable than others. . to be more engaging? .

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Why Human Connections Are A Business Advantage In A Remote World

Allwork

In its Great Attrition survey, McKinsey identified that 51% of employees who left their job in the last six months did so because they lacked a sense of belonging. These are shared with the team on our staff call in a PowerPoint presentation. Instead, they are leaving when they feel excluded.

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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

A Linkedin survey reported that 89% of talent professionals attribute lack of soft skills as the reason for a bad hire and 92% feel that soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills when hiring. On the other hand, is the ability to create PowerPoint presentations critical or is it only necessary to be able to “edit” them.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

For example, a recent OfficeTeam survey of the administrative profession found that employers pay up to 8% more on average (in the U.S.) Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Sometimes, yes, but not necessarily.

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Productivity Boost: Do It Before Lunch!

Professional Assistant Blog

A survey conducted in Britain states that solving your problems and being most productive happens before noon. Trying to tackle a task at 4:30 pm usually isnt a good option for most of us, since you are ready to call it quits at 5:00 pm, especially on a Friday, since your mind is already in weekend mode.

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

I understand a company would be interested in knowing why people unsubscribe so they can improve their business, but a quick voluntary survey back would have been more appropriate. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared? ► February (5) We did it Canada!

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Technology of the week: Piktochart

Practically Perfect PA

Not all assistants will be asked to produced infographics but PiktoChart is great for creating really cool charts, marketing materials and powerpoint presentations. I’ve used Piktochart to showcase the results of the Practically Perfect PA Survey. The charts do look much cooler than the typical Powerpoint SmartArt.