October, 2016

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Take Time to Say Thank You

Office Dynamics

Today, I want to talk about taking time to express your gratitude to others, whether you personally know them or not. This has come to light for me because, in the past 2 weeks, Jasmine and I have received personal handwritten notes, little gifts, cards, letters and emails of gratitude from people whose lives we have touched and didn’t even know it.

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Peak Stuff and the Luxury of Less

Small Business Labs

J Walter Thompson Intelligence's The Luxury of Less suggests that "pared-down lifestyles" with less stuff are becoming aspirational for the well-off. Key quote: This idea of “less but better”—a phrase coined by the German industrial designer Dieter Rams—has been picking up steam in the wider retail world over the past year, and gained traction when Ikea’s chief sustainability officer Steve Howard argued during The Guardian’s Sustainable Business Debates in January that “i

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13 Ideas for How to use Halloween in Marketing

Andrea Kalli

Using holidays as inspiration for marketing campaigns is a great idea. For Halloween, there is no shortage of marketing concepts that can be conjured up (see what I did there?) that play off of each other quite well. Here are 13 Marketing Concept Starter Ideas – How to use Halloween in your business content marketing: — Don’t be scared by xxx. — Cleaning out cobwebs. — It’s frightening how xxx. — Ghouls disrupting your xxx. — Don’t Look Behin

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Starting a workday with easy tasks? Top reasons why it kills your productivity

Productivity Bits

Let’s be honest – we’ve all done it once or twice. We came to work early in the morning, especially on Monday and then decided to settle down a little bit by doing some easy tasks first. Seems pretty normal. However, if you are starting off your day with the easiest tasks on your list, you could be killing your productivity levels for the rest of the day.

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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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To Be More Likeable, Learn to Listen

On The Job

Dave Kerpen says it’s “understandable” that a lot of people don’t think much about how to make themselves more likeable at work. After all, there is a tendency to put yourself first when trying to do your job and just take care of yourself every day, so trying to make others like you often isn’t a top priority. That’s why companies often face an uphill battle when it comes to improving the customer experience.

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7 Reasons to Free Your Business from File Cabinets & 5 Tips to Help You Do It

Tips From T. Marie

One of the most popular excuses many businesses give for needing ‘in office’ personnel is access to files. Some businesses have whole rooms full of metal filing cabinets. Within those metal behemoths are file folders stuffed with paperwork that may or may not be needed in the daily running of the business. I say may not because I’ve worked in offices where at least two-thirds of the file cabinets in the office were never opened.

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Facebook Releases Marketplace to Compete with Craigslist

Small Business Labs

Less than a month ago we wrote about the startup OfferUp raising $119 million to compete with Craigslist.  Today Facebook released their Craigslist competitor, called Marketplace. Like OfferUp, it's a mobile first app designed to let you to discover, buy and sell new and used items - mostly with people in your local area. Marketplace is purely a matching service.  The buyer send the seller a direct message from Marketplace to make an offer.

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Breast Cancer Awareness video #2

Andrea Kalli

Here’s another great video for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. #fightlikeagirl. Stop by my video Showcase page to see what else I’ve been creating lately! Andrea Kalli. Video Virtual Assistant, Video Editing Services. The post Breast Cancer Awareness video #2 appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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Podcast 025: Knock that task out quick

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. In this episode, I’ll talk about how to get tasks off your list faster and how to choose which tasks to speed up. Here are some highlights: Should I write it on my list or not? What’s the surprising benefit of knocking out a task quickly? What’s the important skill that will help with this?

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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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How a Messy Lunch Table Reveals Poor Leadership

On The Job

New research shows that leadership integrity matters the most to workers, but that quality may be difficult for some leaders as power can corrupt them. A Robert Half Management Resources survey finds that three-fourths of workers say integrity is the top attribute of corporate leaders, while just 10% say competitiveness a primary virtue. (Workers 55 and over placed a greater emphasis on fairness, while workers 18 to 34 were more likely to look for a strategic mindset.

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More presentations from Assist Travel 2016

Practically Perfect PA

As promised, for those of you that couldn’t make Assist Travel this year, here are the rest of the slides from our wonderful speakers. You can find the morning slides here. . How to avoid visa disasters. Assist travel Avoiding Visa Disasters for Practically Perfect PA from Practically Perfect PA. Travel Apps and Technology. Apps and technology at Assist Travel for Practically Perfect PA from Practically Perfect PA.

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Smart Waste Management: The Future is Here

Eco-Office Gals

Perhaps nothing is so routine as garbage day. At least once a week in neighborhoods around the world, garbage trucks hit the streets to empty waste and recycling bins at homes and businesses. Although these routes are carefully scheduled based on time and geographic location, they are not always the most efficient. The trucks come whether the bins are empty or full.

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Gartner's Top Trends for 2017

Small Business Labs

It's that time of year again. We're not referring to the holidays. It's trend forecast season, when everyone releases their top trends lists and predictions for the next year.  Gartner, the large technology analyst firm, has already released multiple 2017 trends lists.  Below is their list of the top technology trends for 2017.

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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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Breast Cancer Awareness video

Andrea Kalli

Breast Cancer Awareness video – a simple way to show your support. You can use this in your campaigns. Order yours today – special deal – $25. By Andrea Kalli. The post Breast Cancer Awareness video appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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Webinar Replay Helping Your Executive Maintain a Competitive Edge

Office Dynamics

Our webinar replay for Helping Your Executive Maintain a Competitive Edge is now available for viewing. Leverage your skills and help your Executive achieve his or her goals by creating a positive reputation both inside and outside the organization. Learning Highlights. As an attendee, you will learn…. What “being competitive” really means (for you and your Executive) and why it’s so important to long-term professional success.

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The Biggest Distraction in the Office May Be You

On The Job

If you're tempted to yell "Shut the $#% up!" to a colleague in a nearby cubicle, you're not alone. As it turns out, loud-talking co-workers are so annoying it has prompted researchers to study it. Specifically, 74% of workers in a Cornell University study say they have to put up with lots of noisy disturbances and distractions, but the most annoying of the annoying is -- drum roll, please -- loud human beings.

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Annual List Building Plan – Explained In 3 Simple Steps

Office Organization Success

As I’m sure you already know, there are a ton of different list building strategies, and equally as many differing opinions on which one(s) work best. So when I first started purposefully list building (back in 2004), I would try all of these different list building strategies … and none of them really worked! Well, they didn’t work consistently, anyway.

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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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Podcast 028: The to do list that gets done

Clutter Coach

by Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube ⋅ Google Play. In this episode, I’ll talk about how you can reclaim your to do list. There are some specific guidelines to follow to make it really work. Here are some highlights: How can I actually get through my list? Why just six items? What if I don’t get to everything?

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Stride Health's Study on Gig Workers and Health Insurance

Small Business Labs

Stride Health's Stride Study: Health Coverage in the Gig Economy  covers how gig workers access and use health insurance.  The study's key findings are: Gig workers are uninsured at three times the rate of average Americans : 35% of those surveyed were uninsured while only 10.5% of all Americans remained uninsured. The majority of workers plan to get coverage: 55% of workers who are currently uninsured plan to shop for a new plan or get coverage from another source.

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Halloween Video – Graveyard Zombies

Andrea Kalli

Halloween Video – Graveyard Zombies. I just love how this super major creepy Halloween video turned out! This is just one of the Halloween videos available this year. Be sure to check them out. Andrea Kalli. Video Virtual Assistant, Video Editing Services. The post Halloween Video – Graveyard Zombies appeared first on Video Editing Service & Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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Revelations from the Revolution at the Conference for Administrative Excellence

Office Dynamics

Just over a week ago, I had the honor of attending the Office Dynamics Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence. I was there both as a participant and a speaker, and the experience was, indeed, nothing short of revolutionary. As a proud former administrative professional, I consider myself intimately familiar with the unique challenges—and unique rewards—of the field.

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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 Launch of PA Insiders – for PA to PA Recommendations

Practically Perfect PA

Hi, I’m Merryl Futerman and I am one of the founders of PA Insiders. Having worked as a celebrity PA for nearly 20 years, one of the things I love most about the job i[link] never knowing what task is coming my way next. One of these unusual requests formed what would become the seed of PA Insiders. Let me explain. My boss bought an antique grand piano at auction for his country house.

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Why Trust Matters

On The Job

About a month ago I visited a favorite local deli. It reminded me of that scene from "Animal House" when John Belushi yelled "food fight!" While food wasn't flying across the room, it certainly looked like the aftermath. Food was on the floor, tables were overflowing with trash and employees looked harried. After observing the chaos for a bit -- several tables of patrons were complaining that they had been waiting "forever" for their food -- I turned to my dining companion and said: "She's not h

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Then or Than?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have always had trouble knowing when to use the words 'then' or 'than'. Sometimes it is easy to figure out, but other times I struggle to figure it out. Well, today I came across a sentence where the person used 'then' and I was pretty sure it should have been 'than', but wasn't positive. Rhymes like '30 days have September', 'i' before 'e' except after 'c' (but there are exceptions), or what a school teacher I worked with taught me about when to use 'I' or 'me' in a sentence (if you can chang

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Intuit Future of Small Business Report

Small Business Labs

Last week Intuit released the Slideshare presentation  The Future of Small Business. It covers 5 broad trends that are driving the growth of the small business sector of the economy. These are: World-class business infrastructure: Small businesses have the ability to build upon technology infrastructure that was once the sole domain of large organizations, such as cloud computing, manufacturing and distribution.  Insightful data: With 90 percent of the world’s data generated in the l

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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