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The future of recruitment for Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

At the recent Assist Conference we held a great panel session about the future of the assistant role. We asked Claire Grant, Head of London Talent at the new recruitment firm, specifically for assistants, Sidekicks onto the panel and she provided a great insight into the future of the role from a recruitment perspective. For those that couldn’t attend the conference, here are the thoughts of Jessica Williams, Founder (and former assistant) at Sidekicks… .

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Work-life Integration vs Separation: How to Find the Perfect Middle Ground

Office Dynamics

Many aspects of modern life and the hustle and bustle that is 21st century life have all led to a more fast-paced work life for many. Today, it is often thought that the person who can work the hardest, fastest, and the longest hours is the most successful one. This is not necessarily the case, though, and too much focus on work for any individual can actually be detrimental.

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Coworking's Continued Boom

Small Business Labs

We've written several times over the past couple of weeks on coworking's continuing growth. But news of interesting new spaces - and major investments in coworking - just keep coming. Crain's  Level Office plans one of Midwest's largest co-working facilities  jumped out at us for several reasons. First, it's going be a big space with Level Office expecting to have over 1,000 coworkers at this location.  Second, the article says Level Office paid $4.3 million

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3 Things to Avoid as a New Employee

On The Job

By now, many recent graduates have hung up their bedazzled mortar boards and have begun their first days as new employees in a brand spanking new career. When you're a new employee, you may be excited and scared, or a little or both. That's perfectly natural, and most of the other more experienced employees will understand and cut you a break. Until they don't.

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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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What to look for in a training room

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve written this “What to look for in a training room” post for a couple of reasons. The first is that I was thoroughly depressed when I read through the search results for “What to look for in a training room”. I assumed this would be a pretty common search for those new to event organising and I had hoped to see that Google was pointing our new event organisers to some recent, useful and dynamic content.

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Media Bias and Pew's On-Demand Economy Survey

Small Business Labs

Most of the media is not positive about the on-demand economy. A good example is the coverage of Pew Internet's Shared, Collaborative and On Demand: The New Digital Economy report.   The study findings show the on-demand economy has extensively penetrated the U.S. economy in a relatively short time. As the study chart below shows, 72% of Americans have used some sort of on-demand/sharing economy service, 15% have used a rideshare (meaning Uber, Lyft, etc.) and 11% a home sharing servic

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How to Work with Colleagues You Don't Understand

On The Job

What happens when you ask a bunch of left-brain thinkers to work with a bunch of right-brain thinkers? If you answered chaos, mayhem and a whole lot of frustration, you might be right. But as more companies begin to merge the creative thinkers in a company with the technical side, they’re finding that if done correctly, such a working relationship doesn’t have to be frustrating or chaotic.

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Cooking Hacks – Hack It!

Professional Assistant Blog

Rebecca Tan shows you how to cut onions with no tears, defrost meat in minutes, and more! The post Cooking Hacks – Hack It! appeared first on The Professional Assistant.

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Moxie's moving day

Virtual Moxie

Hello, friends! You'll notice there's really nothing here, anymore.all signs of the move. . Moxie will be in its new home, and there will be a new post there next Tuesday! Our URL will remain the same. you will always be able to find us at VirtualMoxie.com. Until next week! A.

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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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Questioning The Interviewer!

Job Advice Blog

Picture yourself getting ready for your first ever grown-up job interview. You’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve got some college experience under your belt, and you’re wearing the best formal-wear a college student can afford. You hear your mother’s voice echo in your head from a few weeks ago when you called […]. The post Questioning The Interviewer!

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The Story Of My First DNF

Brilliantly Better

Last weekend I attended the 220km Ultrabalaton, probably the longest point to point continuous running event in Europe (except for Spartathlon, of course). It was my second participation in this event, if you want to read more about my first… The post The Story Of My First DNF appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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The Power Of Quarterly Goals

Productivityist

Recently I had to start a small decorating job in our house that involved clearing a room. I had to take all of the waste that was created to the local rubbish dump. There was a metal cabinet that needed to be disposed of in it’s own recycling container that was for scrap metal only. When I reached the container, I was quite surprised at what I saw inside.

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What Works (and What Doesn’t) When it Comes to Organizational Change

Energage

10 High-Leverage Principles for Sustainable Organizational Change. With today’s scarcity of time, leverage is the name of the game. That is, yielding a substantial benefit from a moderate amount of effort. In my organizational change journey across a wide variety of industries, communities spanning five continents, and three decades of experience, I’ve come to know what works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to sustainable change.

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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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Questioning The Interviewer!

Job Advice Blog

Picture yourself getting ready for your first ever grown-up job interview. You’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve got some college experience under your belt, and you’re wearing the best formal-wear a college student can afford. You hear your mother’s voice echo in your head from a few weeks ago when you called … Continue reading Questioning The Interviewer!

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How to Ensure Your Business is Effective at Time Management

Small Business CEO

Time management can seem like the simplest organisational skill in the world to some people, yet others struggle with it. For businesses as a whole it is incredibly important that their time management is on point, in order for it to run as efficiently and effectively as possible. Good time management within a business comes from the top. If you run a start-up, small company or big business, then you’ll want to review and improve the time management of it.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Good to Greatist with Derek Flanzraich

Productivityist

In this episode I speak with Derek Flanzraich, the founder/CEO of Greatist. We talk about the idea of planning, time chunking, and many other things that allow us to push our intentions forward (and allow him to embody the term “greatist”). This is definitely more of a conversation than an interview, as Derek and I exchange ideas and thoughts on making choices, being productive, and how we make sure we allocate attention to push our intentions forward.

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How to make your Executive happy

Practically Perfect PA

This is a pretty fundamental question for assistants, isn’t it? How do you make your Executive happy? Some of them can be quite grumpy, can’t they! Aside from a lobotomy, there are a few other options that will ensure your Executive is happy with your performance and I thought I would share a few with you today. Under-promise and over-deliver.

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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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Why I Ditched My Newsletter … And What I Do Instead

Office Organization Success

About 18 months ago I decided to ditch my weekly newsletter (a.k.a. ezine). I’d been publishing it for about 10 years and realized it really was no longer an effective marketing tool. There were several reasons why I made this decision: Time consuming for content — each week I had to come up content for each of the different sections; the personal note, Tracey Recommends, article (and it’s okay to re-purpose an old article too).

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Lessons in Car Finance: Key Benefits of Taking Out a Chattel Mortgage Over a Car Loan

Small Business CEO

For business owners or managers that need to purchase vehicles to operate their business, paying for the asset upfront can have a huge impact on their financial resources. With second hand vehicle prices starting from $3000 and brand new vehicles starting from $14,000, the cost to purchase the vehicle (or several outright) might require the business to part with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds.

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Customer Knowledge Leads to Targeted Marketing

Small Business CEO

The basics of marketing include having a memorable and distinctive brand, including your logo, colors, slogan, and so forth. But a successful marketing campaign requires more than just a great image or even a great product. photo credit: Emilio Kuffer / Flickr. The best that Madison Avenue can dream up for you is worthless if it doesn’t reach the people who are most likely to buy your product.

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Can You Do Business From A Phablet? 4 Reasons To Choose A Mid-Size Device

Small Business CEO

A few years ago, we couldn’t have imagined the phablet as a device format. The device, which is somewhere between a smart phone and a tablet in size – hence the moniker – developed in response to the expanding functionality of the smartphone. Smartphones could do a lot, but the screens weren’t quite big enough. At the same time, tablets were larger than many people wanted to drag around.

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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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Content Marketing – Optimise your Article for Search Engines

Small Business CEO

Writing articles and posting them to your website can be extremely valuable to your business. Some of the benefits of content marketing include: It keeps your network and current customers informed of what’s happening. It engages new customers as news about your company is shared and liked on social channels. It creates an active and busy website which can lead to higher engagement and conversions from your visitors. it can improve your rankings on Google when done correctly.

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First Impressions Matter: The Importance of Effective Signage

Small Business CEO

When we first look at another person, commonly we will look at their face first. A person’s face is where emotion, mood and feeling is communicated, and can tell us a lot about a particular person. Signage is the face of your business. It’s where customers gain their initial impression, and decide if they want to buy your goods and/or services. To break it down, we’ve put together the top 5 reasons that indicate the importance of effective signage.

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3 Tips for Opening Your First Store Location to Accompany an Online Business

Small Business CEO

Many businesses who started out as purely online business are now branching out and trying their hand at opening physical locations to accompany their already successful online business. However, just because you’ve found success online doesn’t mean that opening your first brick and mortar store is going to be a walk in the park for you. photo credit: Yahoo!

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The Importance of Access Point Management of Tech for Small Business

Small Business CEO

If you own or run a small business, then you know just how important your ability to leverage technology is to the success of that business. As the business world continues to see the development of communication technology improve in leaps and bounds, the use of it has become a critical component of the smaller business CEO. We all know how the advent of email has increased the pace of business.

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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