February, 2022

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Understanding the Productivity Cycle

Eat Your Career

In today’s ultra-busy workplace, many professionals harbor the unhealthy and unrealistic belief that they’re supposed to be ultra-productive 100% of the time. I hate to break it to you, but it’s just not possible. Believe me, I’ve tried! Unfortunately, I still fall victim to this self-deception regularly. When it happens, I have to consciously remind myself that it’s futile.

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4 Ways to Better Communicate Complex Information

On The Job

If you're an expert in your field and are called upon to communicate some complex ideas to an audience that may only understand the basics, it can be a challenge. If you speak the way you usually do -- say to a teammate or your boss -- you're likely to lose your listeners. Or, if you just throw a lot of statistics at them in an effort to emphasize the importance of your topic, you're likely to lose your listeners.

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Simplify Your Filing System and Retire Your To-File Pile

All Things Admin

When was the last time you made an effort to catch up on your filing? Last month? Last summer? Many times, we struggle with filing because it feels overwhelming, we’re not sure where to begin, or we don’t have an easy system in place. Filing can be inconvenient and time consuming. However, this is often because you don’t have the right tools or supplies to quickly grab a folder and create a label.

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How to Build Your Confidence According to 5 Assistants

The Assistant Room

So if you're looking to build your confidence, where should you focus your time, effort and energy for the best outcome? We spoke to 5 members of the business support community to understand how they have developed and how they maintain their confidence and their top tips for you to begin your own journey into being a more confident version of yourself.

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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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4 New Books to Help You Deepen Connections, Battle Burnout and Embrace Growth

Success

Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership. By Janet Foutty, Lynn Wooten, and Susan Mackenty Brady. Women face unique challenges as leaders, with systematic barriers making achieving success more complicated. Arrive and Thrive outlines seven actionable practices that will help women overcome obstacles in business in order to thrive, not just survive, when they get to the top of their professions.

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The Value of Planning When Plans Go Awry

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“The Basics of Flexible Planning”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. “ Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.” This is a quote from Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th president here in the United States.

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The full scoop on remote executive assistants - an interview with Ben Albert of Balbert Marketing

ProAssisting Blog

I had the pleasure of a great conversation with Ben Albert of Balbert Marketing. We discussed the power of finding the right remote executive assistant.

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6 Pro Tips for Working From Home

Worxbee

The surveys are in, and it looks like, for most, remote work is here to stay. The global pandemic pushed many businesses into remote work, but recent data shows that the idea of remaining remote or hybrid is growing on them. Plans to return to the office have been shelved in favor of keeping remote work , and now, the percentage of remote positions advertised has more than tripled compared to pre-Covid.

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The Importance of Patience While Growing a Business

Small Business CEO

When you start and grow a business, it is critical that you’re patient throughout the process. I started a company called CRAVEBOX in 2014 and growing the company from an idea to what it is now, required a great deal of patience and persistence. It’s important to realize that actual, tangible results take very long to materialize. Usually, you will need to work hard for several years before the results become obvious.

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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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Inclusive Leadership Starts with Creating a Culture of Psychological Safety

Success

Whether you’ve been leading a remote workforce for decades, recently ventured into this space, are dabbling with hybrid models or are fully returning your staff to in-house status, one thing is certain: The concept of the “workplace” has changed forever. The pandemic effectively recast it, and the hard, sacred work of nurturing company culture has gotten even more dynamic in the process.

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10 Ways to Make Remote Hiring a Cake Walk!

Recruit CRM

Great talent is not just limited to a certain geographical area—it's scattered all around the globe. Fortunately, remote hiring allows recruiters to source talent from every corner of the world without worrying about physical barriers. The extensive possibilities of remote hiring have been served on a silver platter since the beginning of the pandemic.

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How to Develop a Growth Mindset

Eat Your Career

Psychologists distinguish between people who have a fixed mindset and those who have a growth mindset. The latter is considered important for resilience, adaptability, and overall success in life and work. For modern professionals, a growth mindset is especially essential. Without it, you will likely struggle to deal with many aspects of life, including change and adversity—two common characteristics of today’s working world.

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6 everyday comments and questions that are actually racist

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. Racism does not occur exclusively in flashpoint moments of violence; it is also like a poisonous mist that slowly kills us. This reality of interpersonal racism is often described as “everyday racism” or “casual racism.

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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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What’s the Difference Between an Executive Assistant and Senior Executive Assistant?

Worxbee

What sort of executive assistant do you need (or want to be)? One of the FAQs in the executive assistant market is, what’s the difference between an executive assistant and a senior executive assistant? Are they just titles, or do essential responsibilities differ, as well? Before delving into the differences, it’s important to note that there isn’t one “right” distinction between the two titles.

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Best Twitter Practices for Building Brand Awareness

Small Business CEO

Twitter is being used by businesses to promote themselves, and it works no matter how big or small that business may be. The platform provides valuable customer insights. By looking into trending topics and conversations, businesses can easily gain knowledge of what their market wants and cares about. Chiming into conversations where they are mentioned gives their brand visibility and a human touch.

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In a Sales Slump? How to Be Unstoppable Again

Success

You were selling well, making deals, and all was right in the world. Then, without warning, your sales took a breathtaking, stomach-turning plummet, and you find yourself in the dreaded sales slump. Your results are awful. You feel terrible. Worse still, you feel powerless to change anything. But you aren’t powerless. You can turn the sales slump around with this plan. 1.

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The DOL makes 401(K) cybersecurity recommendations

BMT Office Administration

Last year, the Department of Labor released a trio of documents advising employers with 401(k) plans about cybersecurity. The DOL is backing up the advice in those documents during plan audits by scrutinizing employers’ and third parties’ cybersecurity efforts. Perhaps the DOL should secure its own computer systems first. A newly released report by the DOL Inspector General concludes the agency’s cybersecurity efforts have improved, but not enough.

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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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Are Productivity Tools & Tech Wasting Your Time?

Eat Your Career

This video is an excerpt from a live training session with Chrissy Scivicque, Career Coach & Corporate Trainer. The full video (“Exploring Time Management Tools and Tech”) is available in the Career Success Library. The article below summarizes the video content. We have to invest our time, energy and attention into using tools and technology to support our time management.

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Feeling unfulfilled or stuck at work? 3 ways to help you get unstuck

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. Today, so many of us are wishing to safeguard ourselves — and our careers — against uncertainty. But how do we do this in a world where the waves of change keep coming and it can take all our energy just to stay afloat?

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The Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

Worxbee

Every executive assistant needs a robust set of tools. You might not need to wield a wrench (or maybe you do!), but you do need a great set of resources to help you do your job well. Over the years, we’ve learned what tools you need to reach the top of your game. What goes into the ultimate executive assistant toolbox? Read on. A Wide Network We’re leading with this because so much of what top executive assistants accomplish often comes down to their connections.

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Why Behavioral Triggers Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy (+ Best Behavioral Marketing Tools)

Small Business CEO

Everything you need to know about behavioral triggers to elevate your marketing strategy this year. Image courtesy of Pexels. Behavioral triggers are one of many factors that drive successful marketing strategies. They allow businesses to connect with customers on a personal level without requiring someone to be watching every digital interaction. With the right tools, you can easily understand your customers on a deeper level and use real-time data to create behavioral trigger messages.

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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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7 Cybersecurity Tips for Remote Workers

Success

In 2020, searches for “ password strength test ” increased by 300%, a search query that represents a growing and necessary public awareness of cybersecurity. Although the word cybersecurity covers a variety of things, it’s generally about protecting your data from digital attacks of all kinds. . Understanding and implementing cybersecurity best practices are important for the general public, but they’re essential if you’re a solopreneur or freelancing digital nomad.

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Episode 408: Thomas Anderson talks about Vulnerability

Productivityist

Who is Thomas Anderson? Better still, who is he to write a book on vulnerability? I ask this question during my conversation with him on this episode of the podcast. He’s just a normal person, by his own admission. But when Thomas realized that his own openness and sharing of vulnerability helped others to do the same, it took him to a place to sharing his story of vulnerability.

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The Problem with Employer Created Professional Development Plans

Eat Your Career

Throughout the course of my work as a career coach and professional development trainer, I’ve helped hundreds (if not thousands) of people to create their own PDP (or professional development plan). If you’re not already familiar, you can learn more about what a PDP is here. I am a big believer in taking ownership of your career. That’s why I recommend that everyone create their own PDP, even if your manager or employer has created one for you.

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Want to have better, deeper conversations? Try this

Ideas.Ted

It’s happened to all of us: You’re sitting down for dinner with an old friend to catch up. You’re in the middle of sharing an anecdote when their phone dings. Their eyes shift to the screen, and they slide their device into their lap to send a reply. . Most of us have been on both sides of this scenario, and while it may seem harmless, these kinds of distractions during our everyday interactions can make people feel unheard or unimportant, fragment our attention, and hurt our relationships.

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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