Sat.Feb 27, 2016 - Fri.Mar 04, 2016

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Tips on Staying Focused and Disciplined When Working From Home

Office Dynamics

For many people, working at home is a dream come true. In addition to saying farewell to long commutes in bumper-to-bumper traffic, remote workers can pretty much wear whatever they want and often schedule projects around their families. Come tax time, they may be able to deduct a lot of their home office-related expenses. Of course, there is a flip side to the often glorious world of telecommuting.

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Why Double Denim Could Affect Your Performance

Practically Perfect PA

After Jonathan’s fantastic motivational keynote at the Assist Conference I was keen for him to share his knowledge and experience. Here is his take on how unconscious bias can mean you miss out on the best personal and professional relationships. As a PA you are constantly meeting new people and how you connect with them is fundamental to your professional role.

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Why You're Not Getting Hired -- and How to Fix It

On The Job

In the days leading up to the Oscars, many movie critics ran articles about "who should win" and "who will win," which is sort of an attempt to hedge their bets and say, "Who knows what Hollywood will do?" That's sort of the same case with employers when it comes to hiring new workers. You can predict who should be hired, but that doesn't often jibe with who will be hired.

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Relaxing a Standard to Help With a Problem? Maybe.

Virtual Moxie

Yvonne wrote a follow-up question to last week’s post. "Thanks, Anastacia. I too love the front seat. And in that particular instance, there wasn't a question or a problem. But what if there had been? Who navigates the bus while we're off duty? Will there be instances when we do need to break our standards to respond to a true problem?" Great question!

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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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Leap Into Action

Office Dynamics

This is the perfect time to leap into action… Winter will be coming to an end and spring will be in the air. Last February I hosted a webinar entitled Get Things Done & Control Your Day. So I thought it would be fun and useful to share some of those great tips and add a few more. Are you ready? Empower yourself to take control. Early in the day, clarify the most important priorities.

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If You Don't Understand Your Company's Strategy, You're Not Alone

On The Job

Two-thirds of executives say that their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategies, with 80% admitting that their overall strategy is not well understood, even within their own organization. The first question, of course, is why is this is happening? The second obvious question is: How to fix it? That’s at the heart of a new book, “ Strategy: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap ” by Paul Leinwand , Cesare Mainardi and Art Kleiner.

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The Good and Bad of Freelancing

Small Business Labs

Every so often we need to remind ourselves that freelancing is neither just good or bad. We need to do this because most media coverage present freelancing and independent work as either really good or really bad. Only a few articles point out that freelancing has a good side, a bad side and many shades of grey between the good and the bad. The Huffington Post's Freelance - The Double Edged Sword  is one of the few.

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What’s the best time management tip you’ve ever heard?

Office Dynamics

Question: “Our admin team is compiling one list each month of 10 tips to get better at a certain skill. We simply post these on our walls at work to always keep us in learning mode. This month’s list is about time management. For the first time, we’re not filling up a list very quickly—we keep rejecting ideas because so many of them haven’t really helped us that much in the past.

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ITA* Presented Miniopoly: Wow what a showcase!

Practically Perfect PA

In February our sponsors, ITA* hosted a wonderful venue showcase with a slight twist! I know that some of the Practically Perfect PA readers went along to the showcase and had a smashing time. For those that couldn’t make it this time around I thought I would let the ITA* team tell you a little more about the showcase and some of the awesome venues that took part.

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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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The Influence of Technological Advancements on Employees’ Productivity

Productivity Bits

How to increase employee’s productivity? The world of modern business is a cold and unforgiving place where the big fish eats the small one. Unfortunately, as a startup or a small business, you will most probably be at the bottom of the food chain. Still, this is the way it goes and this lack in size can be compensated for quite easily. All you have to do is find some cost-effective ways to utilize your productivity and that of your employees.

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Landlords Rolling out the Red Carpet for Dogs

Small Business Labs

Regular readers know we love pet trends here at Small Business Labs. The New York Times article Pet Amenities for New York's Lucky Dogs covers how NY landlords and developers are adding pet friendly amenities "to entice renters and buyers devoted to the four-legged members of their families." One of the leaders in dog friendly housing is Related , which has rolled out a concept they call Dog City to several of their housing developments.  Key quote on Dog City from a Rela

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Clutter is Tiring

Clutter Coach

by It’s exhausting, actually. It’s hard on the eyes. It hems you in. Sometimes it feels like it’s just in the background, just there in case you need it. But then you remember how relieved and calm you felt last time you cleared out that clutter, as if a weight had been lifted. Clutter niggles at you, subtly draining your energy. Old magazines whisper “read me!

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Flint Water Crisis – Business Impact and Mitigation

Eco-Office Gals

To many, the water crisis that is currently afflicting the residents of Flint, Michigan is nothing short of shocking. Surely such disasters are few and far between in the western world, where the resources and the technical expertise to prevent the collapse of a life-giving systems are in reassuringly abundant supply. While one could never refute the fact that those feeling the brunt of this disaster are the residents of Flint themselves , it’s nonetheless interesting to consider the impact that

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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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How To Be On Time – The Only 5 Tips You Will Ever Need

Brilliantly Better

Punctuality is heavily underrated these days. Getting on time to your meeting became a bit obsolete. Ironically, the thing that is supposed to make our lives easier, technology, is the same thing that creates time boundaries between us. We’re surrounded… The post How To Be On Time – The Only 5 Tips You Will Ever Need appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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The Continued Shift to Renting

Small Business Labs

The real estate company and website Trulia recently released the report From Own to Rent: Who Lost the American Dream?   It covers the ongoing growth in the percentage of Americans who rent instead of owning their home. The key finding, which is shown in the report chart below, is the share of U.S. households that rent increased from 36.1 percent in 2006 to 41.1 percent in 2014.

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Seven Myths about Organized People

Clutter Coach

by. Won't being organized make me dull and boring? No! Many people have an instinctive aversion to being organized. When they think “organized,” they think of an accountant with a pocket protector sitting at a bare desk in a room full of filing cabinets. Or they think of gleaming supermarket shelves, with rows upon rows of evenly spaced, carefully lined up items.

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How to Beat Task Paralysis

Productivityist

At some point, each of us faces a wall that stops us from moving forward. You don’t know why the wall is there, and you’re not sure to get around it. It’s frustrating. You stare at your list of tasks and find yourself frozen in place. You’re stuck in what I call “task paralysis” – and it’s not a fun place to be. Task paralysis is often brought on by one of three things: You have a list of tasks is so long that it is overwhelming.

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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 Create A Personal Brand: Offline and Online Techniques

Brilliantly Better

That’s the exact title of my one hour segment in the Authority Supper Summit. Oh, what’s the Authority Supper Summit, you asked? Good question. As a matter of fact, I thought about the same question a few weeks ago when two… The post How To Create A Personal Brand: Offline and Online Techniques appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Why Inbox Zero works and Tim Ferriss is wrong about email

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Unshackling us from the idea that answering email equals “winning” is the best thing Tim Ferris ever did for the entrepreneurial community. However, it’s essential to remember that Tim Ferris is an author, which is a type of artist. For artists, email is an obstacle. It’s a distraction between you and what Steve Pressfield calls “doing the work”. I couldn’t agree more.

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Make Time for Your Mail

Clutter Coach

by Last week, I wrote about setting up a way to sort your incoming mail. That’s step one of handling the mail. It paves the way for the more important step of doing something with all that mail. This means getting it to its final destination rather than letting it stack up on the counter or in lovely labeled file folders. The biggest mistake I see people make with mail is that they open it, glance at the contents, then set it down again “for later.” Sometimes they’re eve

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When Are You REALLY Most Productive?

Productivityist

Not all hours in the day are created equal. When you first wake up—especially if you’re a night owl—you’re probably a bit groggy (and desperately in need of coffee). Or maybe you’re an early riser, so for you it’s the hour or two you spend watching TV before bed. You just know your brain is tired, so it’s not a good time to make any difficult decisions or to dive into any important work.

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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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Information Overload? Stop Moving

Clutter Coach

by I had the pleasure of hearing the charming and witty Karen Salmansohn speak the other night at the Ladies Who Launch monthly meeting. She's promoting her new book, The Bounce Back Book , about "how to thrive in the face of adversity, setbacks, losses, failures, illness, rejection – you name it." Karen has a clever way with words.

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When Are You REALLY Most Productive?

Productivityist

Not all hours in the day are created equal. When you first wake up—especially if you’re a night owl—you’re probably a bit groggy (and desperately in need of coffee). Or maybe you’re an early riser, so for you it’s the hour or two you spend watching TV before bed. You just know your brain is tired, so it’s not a good time to make any difficult decisions or to dive into any important work.

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How to Beat Task Paralysis

Productivityist

At some point, each of us faces a wall that stops us from moving forward. You don’t know why the wall is there, and you’re not sure to get around it. It’s frustrating. You stare at your list of tasks and find yourself frozen in place. You’re stuck in what I call “task paralysis” – and it’s not a fun place to be. Task paralysis is often brought on by one of three things: You have a list of tasks is so long that it is overwhelming.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Getting Reading Done with Mike Dariano

Productivityist

On this episode of the show, I’m joined by Productivityist’s resident book reviewer and fellow avid reader Mike Dariano. We talk about how we go about reading and what we do differently to keep our reading workflow…flowing. The goal of this episode is to inspire you to find a way to read more without overwhelming you in the process. I hope it does the trick!

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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