Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2025

Master the Executive Assistant interview with top questions, answers, and preparation tips to showcase your skills and land the role.

Interviewing

Success

JANUARY 22, 2025

The art of conversation can be a valuable skill. You talk to your spouse, mentor, child, business partner, coworkersand typically anyone else you meet. When you learn the art of conversing, your life might benefit in many areas. Strong conversation skills can help you build more meaningful connections in your life. These skills can help you do things like expand your social circles, improve relationships, start a business or advance your career.

Skills

The Leader Assistant Podcast

JANUARY 19, 2025

Maggie Olson is the Founder of Nova Chief of Staff, the premier destination for Chief of Staff education and development. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Maggie dives into the fact that change management is all about the people. She discusses how to approach change, message change, plan for change, and execute change, from the top. CONNECT WITH MAGGIE Maggie on LinkedIn Nova’s Resource Library Nova Chief of Staff Certification Course ABOUT MAGGIE Maggie Olson is the Founde

Management

Tips From T. Marie

JANUARY 21, 2025

Lets settle an age-old debate: Is it better to work hard or work smart? Efficiency vs. hard work has always been a contested topic, but in todays fast-paced world, its clear that working smarter is the key to success. Im sure youve heard the phrase, Hard work pays off. And while thats true to an extent, its time to ask a critical question: Does putting in long hours and endless effort automatically guarantee better results?

Project Management

Speaker: Chester Santos

Forgetfulness is costing you time, money, and a ton of missed opportunities. In the age of automation, it’s easy to underestimate the power of a well-trained human mind. But memory isn’t just a parlor trick, it's a strategic edge. Human memory is one of the most underrated business skills. Whether you’re managing people, leading sessions, or having high-stakes conversations, remembering names, details, and concepts can be transformative in building trust, absorbing knowledge, and driving perform

Skills

Eat Your Career

JANUARY 20, 2025

As a certified career coach, I often remind my clients that no job is perfect. However, there are almost always a number of things you can do to make an imperfect job a little closer to perfect. This process is commonly referred to as career crafting or job shaping. Career crafting is the process of redesigning and renegotiating the elements of your role to better suit your individual wants and needs.

Negotiating

Allwork

JANUARY 21, 2025

Immigrant farmworkers are preparing for incoming U.S. president Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations, including by assigning guardians for their children if they are detained, according to groups providing them legal support. Rising demand for such legal services reflects anxiety that Trump will follow through on a campaign vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants once he is sworn in to office Jan. 20, something that could have an outsized impact on the country’s agri

Legal

TED Talks

JANUARY 24, 2025

AI researcher Youssef Nader and digital archaeologist Julian Schilliger share how they used AI to virtually "unroll" and decode the Herculaneum scrolls, burnt and buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago. Learn how AI could help decipher a range of artifacts, revealing clues about the mysteries and achievements of the ancient world.

Learning

Office Dynamics

JANUARY 22, 2025

Discover how an accidental start turned into a passionate career as an Executive Assistant, overcoming challenges and achieving success.

Allwork

JANUARY 21, 2025

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said on Friday the coffee giant will cut jobs to optimize its support teams as part of the company’s ongoing turnaround efforts. The details of the job cuts, to be announced by early March, will not affect the company’s in-store teams or the investments it makes in store hours, he added. Niccol, the former Chipotle Mexican Grill head, who is four months into his new role at Starbucks has set forth a raft of measures to improve the coffee chain’s busin

Retirement

The Assistant Room

JANUARY 24, 2025

Ah, the life of a Personal or Executive Assistants: part diplomat, part professional lifeline, part therapist (but sadly, without the couch). Youre the gatekeeper, the […] The post The Art of Saying No: How to Set Boundaries as Personal and Executive Assistants first appeared on The Assistant Room.

Speaker: Victor C. Barnes, CPA, MBA

In the climb from contributor to leader, the rules quietly change. If you’re aiming for the summit, the air gets thinner—and what got you here won’t be enough to get you to the top (a concept first popularized by Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There ). What made you successful early in your finance career—technical accuracy, sharp analysis, flawless execution—won’t be what carries you to the next level.

Finance

TED Talks

JANUARY 23, 2025

What if businesses were designed to maximize impact — not just profits? Alex Amouyel, president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, details the organization’s commitment to donate all of the profits from the food company it owns — and shows what the “100% for purpose” movement can teach us about doing business, philanthropy and capitalism differently.

Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2025

Master the Executive Assistant interview with top questions, answers, and preparation tips to showcase your skills and land the role.

Interviewing

Allwork

JANUARY 22, 2025

Japan’s retailers, typically among the most tight-fisted of employers, are offering big pay increases for a second year in a row, meaning squeezed profits for companies, more spending money for workers, and a green light for more central bank rate hikes. Japan’s labour-intensive service sector had long managed to avoid making big or sustained pay raises, by tapping a vast pool of part-time, lower-paid retirees and housewives.

2025

Success

JANUARY 24, 2025

The modern era has ushered in profound changes to how we approach and perceive our work lives. With the rise of remote careers , beyond shifts in where and how people can now choose to work, were also rethinking the time we dedicate to our professions. Leading the way, Gen Z and millennials are driving a global movement that places work-life balance at the heart of well-being and happiness.

Environment

Speaker: Kim Beynon, CPA, CGMA, PMP

The most overlooked, yet most critical, element of transformation is preparing people for change. Automation and AI aren't just technical upgrades, they’re cultural shifts which can challenge identities. That’s why change management isn’t a side project—it’s the foundation. In finance, where precision and process rule, navigating change can feel especially disruptive.

Finance

TED Talks

JANUARY 24, 2025

Networking expert Margaux Miller offers a fresh playbook for making meaningful connections online, presenting six tips for building online relationships that emphasize quality over quantity and the importance of genuine, personalized interactions. Learn how to be more thoughtful in your approach to making new connections with practical suggestions that can fuel both personal and professional growth.

Networking

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 20, 2025

Almost 60 percent of CEOs around the world expect global economic growth to increase over the next 12 months, according to PwCs 28th Annual Global CEO Survey, launched during today’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. The report, which surveyed 4,701 CEOs across 109 countries and territories, also finds that 42 percent of businesses expect to increase headcount by 5 percent or more in the next 12 months more than double the proportion who expect headcount decreases (17 percent), and up

2024

Allwork

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teamsters said on Sunday its members at U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale voted in favor of a nationwide strike, as they entered a final round of talks to reach a new contract ahead of a Jan. 31 deadline. The union, which represents more than 18,000 workers at Costco, said 85% of its members voted to authorize a strike. “The vote is a direct result of the companys continued failure to bargain constructively,” the union said in a post on X, adding that the master agreement between the tw

Negotiating

Success

JANUARY 21, 2025

In 2020, as COVID-19 raged on and the world ground to a halt, Erin McGoff sat in her 400-square-foot Brooklyn apartment and fretted. Her flourishing career in the film industrythe very thing that brought her to New York City in the first placesuddenly seemed in jeopardy. Editing and directing work all but dried up once the pandemic hit; it was like the entire industry was at a standstill.

Resume

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

Confidence

TED Talks

JANUARY 22, 2025

Fighting climate change is much like long-distance running: a complex journey filled with obstacles, fast-changing conditions and the need for constant adaptation. Drawing on his own experience as an ultramarathon runner, energy expert Greg de Temmerman charts a path for climate action that balances difficult choices and imperfect solutions with the need for urgent progress.

Sprint

Workplace Insight

JANUARY 21, 2025

A new poll conducted by the London conference and events venue, The QEII Centre, claims that the economic value of distraction during meetings has risen to an estimated 20.7 billion per year, partly as a result of the shift to online meetings. Based on a survey of over 1,000 UK desk-based workers, the research set out in the new report builds on findings from The QEII Centres inaugural 2023 Distracted Economy report.

2023

Allwork

JANUARY 22, 2025

China is set to impose a 1 million yuan ($137,309) cap on the annual income of staff at central government-owned financial institutions, three sources said, expanding a campaign against excess against a backdrop of economic slowdown. Those whose income already exceeds 1 million yuan will have their payout cut, such as middle and senior managers whose income will as much as halve in an overhaul of the compensation structure at 27 financial giants including the “Big Five” banks, six le

Salary

Success

JANUARY 21, 2025

In todays fast-paced digital age, distractions are everywhere. Technology, notifications, multitasking and environmental noise all compete for our attention, making it harder than ever to stay focused. These distractions not only impact our ability to concentrate, but they can reduce our productivity and overall well-being. As we move from task to task, the mind can become fragmented.

Stress

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

2025

TED Talks

JANUARY 21, 2025

Internet filmmaker Baron Ryan talks to himself, but he doesn't always like what he has to say. In a funny, existential play (where Ryan plays both himself and his mind), he contemplates the paradox of being a people pleaser, the efficacy of melatonin gummies and the squirming questions that keep many of us up at night. Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward?

UPS

BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 23, 2025

Decision-making skills: From simple to complex Decision-making involves choosing an answer to a question or problem. We all make many decisions daily in our professional and personal lives. Decisions, though, vary in how “tough” they are to make. Some have various factors to consider and potential outcomes to evaluate. Others affect people beyond the decision-maker.

Skills

Allwork

JANUARY 22, 2025

President Donald Trump’s escalating pressure on the private sector to ditch diversity programs has left some in Davos searching for new words to describe workplace practices they say are essential to their businesses. Trump has issued a series of executive orders cutting federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, which attempt to promote opportunities for women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people and other traditionally underrepresented groups.

Agenda

Success

JANUARY 18, 2025

From time to time, we all fall into the trap of doomscrolling.One amusing clip can snowball into hours of aimless browsing, leaving behind a sense of guilt wed rather avoid. Chasing the next big thing is in our nature, and social media takes full advantage of it. These platforms have mastered predicting exactly what will keep us glued to the screen.

Social Media

Speaker: Cheryl J. Muldrew-McMurtry

Remote finance teams are rewriting how the back-office runs—and attackers are taking notes. Disconnected workflows, process blind spots, and rising cyber threats have become more than just “growing pains”. They’re now liabilities. The challenge isn’t just team distribution, but building resilient systems that protect accuracy, control, and speed across every transaction and touchpoint.

Finance

TED Talks

JANUARY 19, 2025

Environmental challenges aren't for just one political party to deal with — everyone must work together to solve them, says conservation champion Danielle Butcher Franz. Drawing on her work with young conservatives mobilizing environmental action, she shares how bridging divides and embracing shared values is the only way to tackle one of the world's biggest problems.

Jennie Lyon

JANUARY 21, 2025

If youve ever felt like losing touch with potential customers after that first interaction, you’re not alone. It happens to so many small business owners! You work to attract people, but somehow, they slip away before becoming paying customers. Heres the good news: with a simple automated follow-up formula, you can stay connected and guide… The post The Automated Follow-Up Formula for Small Business Owners appeared first on Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing and Virtual Assistant Services

UPS

Allwork

JANUARY 21, 2025

President Donald Trump signed an order within hours of taking office on Monday to make it easier to fire thousands of federal agency employees and replace them with political loyalists. The order, which is largely identical to one Trump issued late in his first term, is already facing a lawsuit by a major union and is likely to trigger more legal challenges.

UPS

Success

JANUARY 23, 2025

Understanding and adapting to different personality types is crucial for effective communication, especially in professional environments. The DISC personality assessment is a widely used behavioral model that categorizes individuals into four primary types: Dominance (D), Influence (I), Steadiness (S) and Conscientiousness (C). This article focuses on the Steadiness personality type and provides workable strategies for good communication with these individuals.

Collaborate

Speaker: Melissa Hurrington

What’s holding finance teams back isn’t just process inefficiency. It’s culture gaps, reactive mindsets, and missed opportunities to lead real change. In an era of disruption, finance leaders can no longer afford to operate on autopilot and the most resilient teams aren’t just efficient—they’re connected, talent driven, and culture-focused. Join Melissa Hurrington for an exploration into how finance leaders can evolve beyond process and numbers to create adaptive, people-powered teams that thriv

Finance