Sat.Apr 11, 2015 - Fri.Apr 17, 2015

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Who Is Office Dynamics International?

Office Dynamics

'At Office Dynamics International we are celebrating 25 years of serving the administrative profession. Perhaps you’ve known us for a long time or you’re new around here. Either way, we want you to know who we are and what we believe. We Passionately Believe. The administrative role is a noble calling. In a “Career of Choice” mentality. “Falling into a job” will never compare to “falling in love with your career.” A sophisticated, modern executive

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Ten tips for managing multiple Executives

Practically Perfect PA

'Speaking to assistants at the Assist Conference back in February I was surprised at how many of the delegates worked for multiple Executives. I would say the majority worked for two or more bosses. I knew the traditional one on one assistant position was on the decline in most organisations but I thought that the majority of board level Directors still had a dedicated assistants – this just isn’t the case anymore.

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Coworking and the Blending of Work and Life

Small Business Labs

'We quit using the term "work/life balance" many years ago. It simply doesn't fit the world most of us live in. Instead, we started using "work/life flexibility" This term fit what we were hearing in our interviews and seeing in our survey results. People consistently tell us they want to be able have some control over where, when and how they work.

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Professionalism Without The Price Tag

The Small Business Blog

'When embarking upon a new small enterprise or startup money tends to be on the tight side. But a lean budget doesn’t have to mean unprofessional looking. Clients don’t need to know if you’re operating out of your basement or not – you can still maintain a very high quality front without wasting too much… Read the full article here: Professionalism Without The Price Tag on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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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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A Smart Way to Think About Your Spare Time

Virtual Moxie

'In my office, I have many things that inspire me. One of them is a perpetual wall calendar (I admit I don''t use it, but it''s beautiful, so I keep it). It''s done in mixed media, and across the top in fabric, paper, blocks, and marbles, is a sentence: . Although paraphrased from a longer Emerson quote, I prefer this one! For me, it has one meaning—for you, possibly something very different.

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5 Ways to Thank the Assistants Who Help You Succeed

Office Dynamics

'Did you know Administrative Professionals Week is April 20 – 24? This happens to be one of my favorite weeks of the year – and not just because I was once an assistant myself before I founded my training company, Office Dynamics, back in 1990. I love celebrating Administrative Professionals Week because it gives me a chance to thank my own assistant for everything she does to help me be even more successful.

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The Myths About Working in Retirement

Small Business Labs

'A good study from Merrill Lynch on working in retirement is nicely covered in the Fast Company article The Real Reasons More People are Working in Retirement.   The study covers in detail what they call the 4 Myths of working in retirement. According to the study summary, these are: Myth 1: Retirement means the end of work. Reality: Over seven in 10 pre-retirees say they want to work in retirement.

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Emotion Can Spur Greater Team Performance

On The Job

'In a recent survey , 46% of employees report they’d prefer to do anything else than sit in a team meeting, with 17% reporting they would be willing to watch paint dry and 8% saying they’d be willing to endure a root canal. That level of dislike is a wake-up call for managers who need teams to be engaged and positive when they’re together – not grumpy, bored and frustrated.

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20 questions to ask a new boss

Practically Perfect PA

'For assistants to be successful in their career they must must must have a good working relationship with their boss. The role is ultimately making the boss a success so the assistant has to ensure that the relationship is strong from the outset. The first meeting an assistant has with their new boss is so important and must be used wisely. During this meeting an assistant can lay the foundations for the relationship going forward, gain an insight into how their boss operates and understand wha

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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 To Do More With Less Effort by Adam Timm

Office Dynamics

'<Guest Post by Adam Timm > Ever feel like when you get to the end of the day, you’ve worked really hard but don’t have much to show for it? To prevent these moments, we can choose to work smarter, instead of harder. The energy of springtime (even for us in the land of eternal summer) is ripe for planting new seeds, starting new projects, and getting in the creative flow.

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Dogs Helped Humans Outcompete Neanderthals

Small Business Labs

'Really interesting review of the book  The Invaders  in the Wall Street Journal. The book argues that humans and their dogs outcompeted Neanderthals, leading to their demise.  Homo sapiens arrived in Europe about 40,000 years ago. It appears they quickly domesticated wolves, who helped them hunt and defend their camp sites.    According to the book, this partnership turned humans into "super predators" that drove the dog-less Neanderthals to extinction.

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Tell Your Boss Not to be Afraid of Failure

On The Job

'Success today often depends on being innovative and testing boundaries, but with that comes the risk of failure. While failure can certainly be an important part of the learning process, it also can bog down projects or processes. But what if there was a roadmap that used best practices and research to show how to embrace failure better and faster?

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Technology of the week: iFly.com

Practically Perfect PA

'What is ifly.com? iFly.com provides airport information on hundreds of airports, including flight status & tracking, airport amenities, terminal maps, parking, layover ideas, security information, and a wealth of information aimed at easing the burden of air travel. What does it do? iFly.com has absolutely loads of information for travellers going through and between commercial airports.

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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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Put A Lid On It: Venting Is Bad For You

Office Dynamics

'<Guest Post by Courtney Clark> Don’t you hate that feeling when stress starts to build up, until you reach your boiling point and you feel like you just can’t take it any more? When most of us get to that point, there’s a solution: venting. You vent to your friends, your family, or other administrative professional colleagues, who understand the pressure of your job.

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Cool Bubble Wrap Calendar

Clutter Coach

'by Originally posted 2008-07-11 10:33:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Yes, a calendar where you get to pop a bubble each day! If you’ve been on vacation, a whole row at once! According to the website, this calendar is great for that special designer / obsessive / compulsive in your life. If you’re really obsessive, you could find a way to write on the bubbles… Found on Guy Kawasaki’s blog.

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Reward Your Toil

Loosely Speaking

All I can say is, Prescott gives Chicago a run for the money in the moniker “The Windy City.” It’s dry, on top of windy, meaning we are rapidly approaching the day when we are on high alert for wildfires.

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Is WixStores the Best Ecommerce Platform for Small Business Owners?

Small Business CEO

'The answer to that question is a resounding yes! In fact, there is a recently-launched platform with the small business owner’s needs totally in mind, WixStores. WixStores is Wix’ new online ecommerce store builder. If you haven’t heard of Wix – the company have long been known for having the most feature-rich, hosted site building platform online, allowing for much more design and interface-tweaking flexibility for “non-coder” types who don’t like the

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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 Well Do You Communicate? by Judi Moreo

Office Dynamics

'<Guest Post by Judi Moreo> Administrative Professionals are the key to good communication in an organization. It is imperative that we are able to communicate clearly and precisely in order to avoid misinterpretation and misunderstandings that can be extremely costly to the organization. When communication is not good, it can cause serious damage to our organization, our executive, and even ourselves.

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The Story Of My First 100 Kilometers Race

Brilliantly Better

'At the end of May I will run in a 220 kilometers race around Lake Balaton, in Hungary, called Ultrabalaton. As part of the training … The post The Story Of My First 100 Kilometers Race appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Should you pursue your Bright, Shiny Idea?

Men With Pens

'Click here to read the full article → Another rocking post from Men With Pens! Should you pursue your Bright, Shiny Idea? first appeared on Men With Pens Copyright 2006 — 2015, All Rights Reserved.

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How the Right ERP Tools Can Help Scale your Business

Small Business CEO

'The idea of deploying an enterprise resource planning solution might be daunting for small businesses, especially given cost considerations. For one, the more popular ERP vendors such as SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, among many others, are often perceived to have a focus on enterprise clients. And even if the SME were to get enough funding to subscribe to an ERP license, it can be expensive to customize these solutions according to their needs.

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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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Book Review: Zero to One

Productivityist

'There are two qualities to good advice, but good advice rarely satisfies both. It should either be so specific, it’s only relevant to a handful of people in a handful of situations (“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning”). Or, it can be so general that it applies to everyone all the time (“Guests and fish both stink after three days”).

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For Beginners: Keyboarding

Administrative Arts

'I will be writing some posts especially for beginners in the clerical field. Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. These will be posted to the category For Beginners and will include For Beginners in the title. For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress enough working on your keyboarding skills.

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What Makes You Proud?

Office Dynamics

'<What Makes You Proud? Guest Post by Kemetia Foley> Seems like each year that Administrative Professionals Day rolls around that there is a frenetic discussion about what sort of recognition is appropriate for Administrative Professionals and it ranges from ‘Why recognize?’ to the overkills of obligatory ‘flowers and lunch with the team’, and everything in between.

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6 Ways to Select the Best Employees

Small Business CEO

'An article appearing in Harvard Business Review showed that of 2,700 employers surveyed in a recent study, 41 percent reported a poor hiring choice cost the company as much as $25,000. The costs of an unsuitable hire come as the result of problems like poor productivity, the individual’s negative impact on morale and expenses of training a new hire.

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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