Tue.Oct 05, 2021

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How to Work With (and For) Difficult People

Eat Your Career

Let’s be honest: The workplace is full of difficult people! You aren’t going to “love” everyone you work with or for, but you still have to find a way to create productive working relationships with them. Otherwise, work can quickly turn into a stressful—even traumatic—situation, which can ultimately damage your performance, reputation, and long-term career opportunities.

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Daring to Dream: Finding the Courage to Follow Your Own Path

Success

Balancing your parents’ plans for your life with your own dreams can be hard—often something the children of immigrants know well. Parents who move across the world want to give their children a more secure life than they had. Which is honorable—but doesn’t necessarily allow for the kind of risk that comes with bold goals. Judy Joo started out following her parents’ plans—spending five stressful years working in finance—before changing course: Judy was the first female Iron Chef to appear on Iro

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The Global Survey on Platform Based Freelancers

Small Business Labs

The recently released Global Survey on Freelancing covers data gleaned from over 1900 freelancers from across the globe.  To gather this data, the survey team - a collaboration between the Agile Talent Collaborative And the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto - worked with 75 freelance platforms, agencies and communities from various countries who helped them collect the data.

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3 Steps to Move from a Fixed to a Growth Money Mindset

Success

Our relationship with money is formed at a young age. And contrary to popular belief, it’s not our management of our money, but rather our relationship with money that keeps us from truly breaking through and achieving financial independence. This is great news to the 73% of Americans who recently ranked their finances in a Creditwise survey as the most significant source of stress in their life. .

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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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Moxie Tip #14: Respect Resource Limits

Virtual Moxie

Among the things a client has the right to expect from you is that you’re respect the value and limits of his/her resources. It’s easy to understand that you should be careful about spending the clients money (one of the resources), right? But be as careful with a client’s time, energy, emotions, community, and intellectual capital because they all have limits.

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Are you suffering from collaboration overload? 9 beliefs and fears that help drive it

Ideas.Ted

We are collaborating too much. That’s what Rob Cross has realized after studying high (and low) performers at effective organizations for more than 20 years. “We’re too eager to jump into, or be dragged into, active collaborations that might run better without us and that burn up our valuable time and energy,” he writes in his new book Beyond Collaboration Overload.

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A Non-Clinical Healthcare Career: From Economics to Administration

Small Business CEO

When people think of the healthcare sector, an image of a doctor or nurse likely springs to mind. Yet, there are many more occupations that support patient care, efficiency, and department operations. If you don’t have a desire to enter a clinical field, many other paths provide exceptional salaries, a rewarding working life, and many career opportunities.

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What is List Fatigue? 5 Ways to Overcome it!

Jennie Lyon

Do you find yourself scrolling past articles with titles like “7 Ways to Increase Your Email Subscribers by 20%” or “How to Gain More Followers on Social Media” because they all say the same thing? You’re not alone. It’s called list fatigue and it’ll ruin most of your marketing efforts if left unchecked. List fatigue… The post What is List Fatigue?

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Square Credit Card Processing

Small Business CEO

Square Credit Card Processing is the preferred method for many business owners and consumers. If you are a business owner or want to make purchases online or offline, you need Square Credit. photo credit: Alan Levine / Flickr. There are many benefits that Square Credit offers that its competitors cannot match, and Square Credit is easy to use. Most people do not even realize that it is an application – instead, they think of it as a Square logo on a payment card or receipt.

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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.