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Why Failure Is Good for Success

Success

The sweetest victory is the one that’s most difficult. The one that requires you to reach down deep inside, to fight with everything you’ve got, to be willing to leave everything out there on the battlefield—without knowing, until that do-or-die moment, if your heroic effort will be enough. Society doesn’t reward defeat, and you won’t find many failures documented in history books.

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A Client’s Take on How to Best Approach Your Prospective Clients

Virtual Moxie

I was reading some reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally old posts and articles I’d written; many of them more than a decade old. I was surprised by how evergreen many of them are, and especially this one, so although it’s more than a decade old, I wanted to share it. I’ll share it as originally written, and share new thoughts at the end. February 9, 2010.

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Retirees and the Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

According to the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) The age re-retirement: Retirees and the Gig Economy , 20% of retired Americans also work in the gig economy. The article lists the usual financial reasons for working in retirement.   But more interesting is their description of some of the non-financial reasons.  Key quote: Ninety-six percent of over-65 workers reported that an enjoyable job is essential or important to living a fulfilling life.

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3 Ways to Deal with an Overwhelming Workload

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Overcoming an Overwhelming Workload”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. So, you have an overwhelming workload, you have too much on your plate, not enough time to handle it all.

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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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How to Grow As a Leader: The 5 P’s of Building a Legacy of Influence

Success

Do you think of yourself as a leader? The fact is that you’re leading and influencing others even if you don’t realize it. Your attitudes and behaviors affect the people around you in ways seen and unseen. Some actions or philosophies cast a bigger net than others, but you’re leading nonetheless. We are social creatures, and we can’t help but impact the people we live, work and interact with.

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Tips for Preparing for a Job Interview

On The Job

The worst mistake you can make in a job interview is trying to "wing it." Whatever you do, don't walk into the room unprepared. No matter your level of experience or the skills you possess, interviewing well requires preparation and practice, and those who are willing to do the work are much more likely to receive a job offer.

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The EU is giving citizens the “right to repair” electronics — here’s what that could mean for the world

Ideas.Ted

Roman Hottgenroth is surrounded by lamps, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. Computers, smartphones and TV receivers are piled high on tin shelves behind him. A group of washing machines rattles loudly in test mode, only somewhat drowned out by the bass thumping from a hi-fi system an employee is checking. None of these products work properly, and that’s the point. .

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How to Create an Exercise Routine That Doesn’t Suck

Success

I couldn’t keep up. I was embedded with Army National Guard soldiers as they hiked across hilly terrain in Arkansas, and they were going so fast I had to stop and go back to the start/finish line to wait for them to return. It was the first and, so far, last time I bailed on an assignment because I was physically incapable of completing it. It was a long assignment, and the hike was only a small part of it, so I still got the story.

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Moxie Tip #6: Discretion

Virtual Moxie

A client has the right to expect discretion at all times. Be smart…talk to your clients specifically about what they think it’s ok for you to share with others about your work with them. Then, be sure to never cross that line. The post Moxie Tip #6: Discretion appeared first on AssistU.

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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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Social Media Marketing: Tips On How To Grow Instagram Audience

Small Business CEO

Gaining more followers and expanding the influence are some of the primary concerns for businesses and nonprofits on Instagram. And as the mechanisms of ranking are changing, entrepreneurs have to come up with fresh ideas for increasing their fanbases. In this article, we shall discover the most effective tips for growing an Instagram audience and strengthen your position on this platform.

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Feeling stuck? Guilty? Overwhelmed? Try clearing these feelings out of your home

Ideas.Ted

This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. True confession: Next to my bed I have a little bit of guilt. It comes in the form of a notebook I purchased to capture my baby’s first months. I had grand plans of logging notes about every “first” as a way to capture those moments which slip by so quickly.

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Gigi Gorgeous: How to Stay Grounded When Social Media Is Your Full-Time Job

Success

Staying grounded in social media is a constant challenge. There’s so much happening online, which means there are countless ways to lose yourself in the madness. You might cross paths with bullies, fall victim to the comparison trap or struggle to log off. Working on social media (professionally) takes everything up a notch. You can make lots of money on YouTube or TikTok, but scrolling for hours on end—a research requirement if you want to be great— negatively impacts your mental health.

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Want to Attract Ideal Clients? Raise Your Standards.

Virtual Moxie

I’ve said before that I’ve yet to meet the VA who couldn’t stand to hike up her business standards. This isn’t because everyone has lousy standards, but because as soon as standards are created, and person starts living and working within them, she changes for the better. And when she changes, her standards naturally can be higher. It’s a never-ending process, but a really fun-and-exciting one, because as a person goes through the cycle of setting standards, living them, raising them, living the

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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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Why Connectivity Is the Future for Small Business

Small Business CEO

With hybrid and remote working being touted as the future of small businesses around the world, it is important to understand what this may mean for your business. There are changes afoot, and to keep ahead of the pack, you need to be technologically aware and connected. Research has shown that productivity remains high when employees work from home and that remote working has many advantages such as cost-cutting and even innovation.

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The new IPCC climate report is hugely important — and here are 6 main takeaways

Ideas.Ted

Earth has warmed 1.09? since pre-industrial times and many changes such as sea-level rise and glacier melt are now virtually irreversible, according to the most sobering report yet by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report also found that escape from human-caused climate change is no longer possible. Climate change is now affecting every continent, region and ocean on Earth and every facet of the weather.

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The New Normal: Finding Routine and Perspective in Coffee Shops

Success

Terrible breakfast sandwiches. Over-caffeinated jitters. Genial small talk. Awkward exploratory Tinder dates happening across the room. Put together, these things might constitute an array of distractions, and they don’t sound like the ideal work environment. But they make up the sights and sounds of coffee shops all around America, from the shiny, generic corporate chains to the most pretentious hipster paradise.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low Kramen

Olympia Dukakis & Personal Asst. Bonnie Low-Kramen on the set of “Over the Hill” in Australia, 1991. By Bonnie Low-Kramen for Executive Support Magazine | August 2021. Note: Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis passed away on May 1, 2021. She was 89 years old. “I just want to be a good plumber.” This is how Olympia Dukakis approached her craft of acting.

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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 Draft Your New Company’s Marketing Plans

Small Business CEO

The first thing you should think about after launching your business is how to market your products. You want people to know what you offer. It doesn’t matter even if you have excellent products to sell if no one knows about them. photo credit: Campaign Creators / Unsplash. Consider these tips when working on the marketing plan. Form a strong marketing team.

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The fountain of youth hasn’t been found — but swimming may come close

Ideas.Ted

It’s no secret that aerobic exercise can help stave off some of the ravages of aging. But a growing body of research suggests that swimming might provide a unique boost to brain health. Regular swimming has been shown to improve memory , cognitive function , immune response and mood. Swimming may also help repair damage from stress and forge new neural connections in the brain.

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6 Ways to Build Emotional Resilience

Success

Do you know someone who easily bounces back from stress? Someone who can deal with sticky situations and carries on as though nothing happened? That is emotional resilience. Yet even the most emotionally resilient people break down. We’ve all had “one of those days” where everything went wrong. Then, even the tiniest issue sets us either into panic or collapses us emotionally.

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Phoebe Stowe-Forbes

Recruit CRM

Phoebe Stowe-Forbes , award-winning Recruitment Specialist and Founder of Dot Recruit has built an extensive network in the last 9 years of experience in the market. Partnering extensively with numerous Lancashire businesses, her business supports them with the attracting, recruitment and retention of Accounts and Finance professionals. Born and brought up in Lancashire, Phoebe never really planned her career in recruitment.

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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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5 Business-Related Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make with Your Startup

Small Business CEO

If you have a business you’re just trying to get off the ground, this might be an exhilarating time for you. Maybe you’ve thought about this startup idea for years, and you finally found the funds and means to get to work on it. Doubtless, you want it to succeed, and you’re going to dedicate lots of your time and resources to make that happen. During these early stages, though, it’s easy to make a mistake.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

Ideas.Ted

Remember these? Severe heat waves in the US Pacific Northwest and in British Columbia and Siberia. And this? Historic flooding in Germany and other parts of Western Europe. These too? Oregon, California, Montana and other parts of the West experiencing searing wildfires. And this? New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC and other parts of the Eastern seaboard shrouded in western wildfire smoke.

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What Makes Good Customer Service?

Success

Good customer service is vital to success. Research from Qualtrics XM Institute indicates that 76% of customers will trust a company with strong customer service. Compare that with only 40% of customers trusting a company with poor service. Entrepreneurs and business leaders naturally respond with attempts to improve performance. Yet these initiatives are often top-down and heavy-handed.

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Recruit CRM Brings You 13+ Cool Recruitment Trivia

Recruit CRM

There's no one in this entire world who doesn't enjoy some good old trivia. So, we at Recruit CRM decided to make it fun for recruiters. Our entire team worked hard in gathering some interesting recruitment facts and fundamentals just for you to make your job much easier. Come on, who doesn't want everything served on a silver platter? Let's take a look below!

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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