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Simple Ways to Create a Work/Life Balance

The Assistant Room

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it so many changes, many of which occurred almost overnight. One of the largest that has impacted almost all of us has been remote working. For some, this was temporary, but for many of us, this is the new normal and with offices unlikely to return to 100% capacity in the future, embracing a remote working style is crucial for us all.

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Grant Cardone: Embracing the Learned Habits of Successful Entrepreneurs

Success

Are you ready for entrepreneurship ? Even if you think you know the answer, there are ways to be 100% certain. You can either dive headfirst into a new business and see what happens, or you can learn the traits of successful entrepreneurs. The second option will save you time, money and misplaced energy. Once and for all, you can ask yourself, Am I willing to do what successful entrepreneurs have done?

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How to Deal with Employment Gaps in Your Resume

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live Q&A session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video is available in the Career Success Library. A participant in our recent Q&A session asked: “CVs (or resumes) are often rejected by recruiters for having career gaps. Can you suggest a way of avoiding rejection for this reason?”.

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How to Handle Things When You’ve Said Yes But Should Have Said No

Virtual Moxie

Rose scheduled an on-the-spot coaching session with me. When she called, she immediately shared that she was overwhelmed. As I listened to her, it became clear that she was overextended; she’d simply agreed to do to much for too many (her VA clients, friends, and groups she belonged to). I asked her why she thought she did that; she hesitated a minute and then said, “I don’t know.

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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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Starting a Work From Home Micro-Business has Different Rules & Requirements

Tips From T. Marie

On September 7 th , 2021 I will have run a work from home business for 14 years successfully. Over that time, I’ve discovered that although my little one-woman show gets categorized as a small business, that moniker doesn’t always fit or benefit my home office operation. Instead, my business is better categorized as a micro-business as are a large number of home-based businesses.

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Air Taxi Company Joby Went Public

Small Business Labs

The urban air mobility (buzzword alert) company Joby made its public markets debut last week.  As with many new public offerings, it was done via a SPAC. The company is developing a five-seat electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, pictured below in-flight (click to enlarge). Their primary target market is urban air taxi services and they claim they're going to build and operate a commercial fleet of air taxis by 2024.

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15 Tips for Assistants on Staying Power

Office Dynamics

I am writing this blog on the eve of my 69th birthday! I wasn’t going to tell the hundreds of assistants who follow me that I was turning 69 (that sounds old). But then I decided, why not?

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3 Ways to Tailor Your Resume for an Employer

On The Job

If you're not tailoring your resume to a specific job, it could be why you're not getting any responses to your application. It's long been said that hiring managers don't spend more than seconds looking at a resume, and if they don't see details that match their needs, they move on. But how do you tailor a resume for a specific job? Here are some things to consider: 1.

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A Manager’s Guide to Dismantling a Fear-Based Company Culture from the Inside Out

Success

If you’re someone who works in a fear-based environment , you know the symptoms. Maybe your office has an anonymous suggestion box or 1-800 number for gathering feedback. You might witness high turnover, “in” and “out” groups, and even childish grudge-holding from senior leaders. The tense, anxious feeling in the air is almost palpable—it’s clear your colleagues aren’t happy but are afraid to speak up.

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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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Most Musicians Earn Little on the Music Streaming Site Spotify

Small Business Labs

The Rolling Stone article The Rosy ‘Creator Economy’ Is Music’s Biggest Lie discusses the dramatic lack of revenue for many artists involved in the creator economy.  Regarding the streaming platform Spotify, a key finding from the article states: “Spotify's site informs us that just 13,400 artists (0.2 percent) generated $50,000 or above on the streaming platform last year.

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6 Ways to Encourage More User-Generated Content

Small Business CEO

Instagram and other social media platforms can be powerful tools to promote your small business. But that power lies not so much in what you post, but in what you can encourage others to post about you as part of these social communities. To grow your Instagram audience , you need strategies to encourage this brand-sharing behavior. User-generated content is what you want.

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Ep 128: Ask Me Anything – Imposter Syndrome, Feeling Unfulfilled, Non-Profit vs For-Profit, and High Pressure Situations

Go Burrows

In this Ask Me Anything episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast , I do my best to answer the following questions from assistants all over the world: Do you ever suffer from imposter syndrome? Have you ever reached a place when you want to leave a company or are feeling unfulfilled and how have you dealt with that? What conversations have you had? What was the transition like from working within a church (non-profit) environment and then transitioning to the corporate (for-profit) world?

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11 Ways to Achieve True Work-Life Integration

Success

Balancing work and life is never easy—you may find yourself struggling to know when or how to dedicate your attention to sometimes conflicting priorities. Maybe you end up giving too much time to your personal life, causing your job to suffer, or maybe you spend so much time focused on work that you miss opportunities to connect with family and friends , work on hobbies or simply de-stress.

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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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Small Business Mobile Banking Use Varies by Generation

Small Business Labs

Barlow Research Associates A Generational Shift in Business Banking Behaviors Is Upon Us, and It's Not Just Among Your Millennial Customers covers the banking transaction channels used by small businesses by the age cohort of the owner. As the Barlow chart below shows (click to enlarge), there's a big difference in the use of mobile banking applications. 64% of Gen X and Millennial SMB owners (those younger than 57) regularly use mobile apps for their banking transactions.  Only 41

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How to Avoid Inefficiencies When Returning to Office Life

Small Business CEO

Many employees resist going back to work when there are talks of inefficiencies in the workplace. Problems with inefficiency at work lead to poor productivity, low morale, and forms part of a vicious cycle that can really affect performance. When employees are unhappy and frustrated due to things not operating optimally it can put a major strain on the business internally which, in turn, will be felt by your customers.

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7 Tips to Flip Your Perspective and Improve All Your Relationships

IAAP

Are you listening to your emotions? When we use our emotional intelligence we see and choose more clearly.

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22 Ways to Practice Stillness Within Your Mind, Spirit and Body

Success

This world is a hectic one. Technology only exacerbates the feeling that no matter how quickly we move, how much we accomplish, it’s never enough. To combat that, Ryan Holiday turned to the ancient Stoics. In his recent book, Stillness Is the Key , he analyzes how stillness—physical, spiritual and mental—can save us from the chaos. What is stillness?

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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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How to Get Started Exploring All Your Career Options

Noelle's Career Content

If you are like most people, you are fairly content in your career. You’re probably also really good at what you do. After all, you’ve probably been doing it for … The post How to Get Started Exploring All Your Career Options appeared first on NG Career Strategy.

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Bitcoin and Global Warming: Who is Responsible?

Small Business CEO

Bitcoins have made considerable progress from their generally dark beginnings. While the conventional monetary world once detested cryptocurrency as paraphernalia for crooks and critics, the market has gained significant promotion in building up itself as an authoritative and (conceivably) world-evolving scope. photo credit: Alesia Kozik / Pexels. Bitcoin has witnessed stupendous growth in cost and consumers, yet there remain questions about the consequences of large-scale digital currency prefe

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You’re NGMI

Brilliantly Better

If you’re a Gen Z, you probably knew exactly what the title is about, in the first millisecond after reading it. If you’re a millenial, you probably Googled it instantly, and in about 2 seconds you knew exactly what it means. If you’re a Gen X, you probably asked around on social media, and, in. Read more. The post You’re NGMI appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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6 Books on Failure to Build Your Resilience

Success

You can react one of two ways when confronted by failure. You may give up, or you can try again. Everyone will tell you, “Keep trying.”. But that advice rings hollow after defeat. If you have given something your all, maybe that’s all you’ve got. That is where resilience comes in. Resilience means more than repeating past mistakes. It means having fortitude to keep moving forward with the knowledge gained from defeat.

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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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Episode 384: Yvonne Heimann talks about ClickUp, Project Management and Patience

Productivityist

It’s personal building the right process for your business. ClickUp expert and business coach Yvonne Heimann shares how choosing the right tool will shift your business. This episode is sponsored by Canva Pro. It’s the easy-to-use design platform that has everything you need to design like a pro. It has all you need in one place, including a collection of over 75 million premium photos, videos, audio and graphics.

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Taking a Manufacturing Business Global

Small Business CEO

Even with national success, it is still very challenging to take a manufacturing business international. As with any other business looking to go global, winning over the thrust of a new target market is difficult but with some work, it can be done. Royalty-free image. There are a lot of challenges that come with scaling up a manufacturing business and below, we will look at how you can overcome the most common challenges when taking a manufacturing business global.

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How To Talk To A Hypnotized Person – The Short, But Very Useful Guide

Brilliantly Better

Hypnosis is a very interesting state. You may already have a certain image of it in your mind, the one in which an illusionist is manipulating someone on a scene, for the entertainment of viewers. After the illusionist works his magic, the person enters into what appears to be a submissive state, and does all. Read more. The post How To Talk To A Hypnotized Person – The Short, But Very Useful Guide appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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3 Secrets to Selling with Social Media

Success

This week’s guest on SUCCESS Line came in with a simple but persistent question: “How do I get people to buy my stuff?”. I talk to Mason, an entrepreneur who spent close to 20 years working in the music business, guiding artists through tours, contracts and sales. Recently, he left that world to pursue a new passion as a boutique cattle rancher—yes, really.

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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