Sat.May 07, 2016 - Fri.May 13, 2016

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A day in the life: Kitty Reigate, EA at Pizza Express

Practically Perfect PA

What are the main aspects of your role? I am the Executive Assistant to Richard Hodgson, the CEO and Andy Pellington, CFO of PizzaExpress Ltd. I’ve been working with Richard and Andy for a short period of time, however since joining and working with them both I’ve learnt a lot about the business and our investors. This helps me understand how Richard and Andy are planning to grow the business and how I can deliver the right support in order to help them and their teams.

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Top 10 Signs Coworking is Entering the Mainstream

Small Business Labs

The annual U.S.  Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC)  was held last week in Los Angeles. Based on what we saw, heard and learned, coworking is entering the mainstream. Our top 10 reasons why are: 1. The continued exponential growth of global coworking spaces and members : Karsten's Foertsch's excellent presentation on the coworking industry  made it very clear our forecast at the 2014 GCUC that there would be 1 million coworking members by 2018 is woef

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How Your Sock Choice Determines First Impressions on an Interview

Job Advice Blog

We’ve recently seen an increasing trend in today’s popular media: the rise of the so-called “crazy socks.” With the tech giants in Silicon Valley taking a more laid back approach to formal-wear (looking at you, Zuckerberg), people seem to think that there’s no better way to round off a well-fitting suit than a pair of. Read more.

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When “Start” Begins to Creep into Your Writing

Office Dynamics

This is part of a series by editor Barbara McNichol to provide tips that help you write like a pro. Do you have a habit of frequently starting a sentence with the word “start” or “begin”? Recently, in a 5,000-word document I edited, those two words appeared 14 times, while only five were deemed necessary. To be more direct with your writing, skip the “start” part and remember the phrase Nike made famous: Just do it!

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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 Your Company Must Do to Succeed Digitally

On The Job

A recent survey of 2,000 business and technology executives by PwC finds that that there is a direct link between digital investment and corporate performance. Specifically, the report finds that digital leaders are twice as likely to achieve more rapid revenue and profit growth as the “laggards” in the study. These digital leaders are “more deliberate” in their digital strategy, the report finds, and also show a greater CEO commitment, a strategic clarity and a broad view when it comes to apply

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ProFinder - LinkedIn's Freelance Talent Marketplace Targets Upwork

Small Business Labs

LinkedIn has quietly launched ProFinder , it's online talent marketplace.  It was first released in last fall , but at the time it was a bit unclear how serious LinkedIn was about ProFinder. That's no longer the case. ProFinder, not surprisingly, is targeting the same market as Upwork, Freelancer.com and the other online talent marketplaces that connect freelance talent with businesses.  Linkedin's post The Gig Economy is Seeing Double makes this very clear.

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How to Build Consensus in Place of Conflict

Office Dynamics

As more companies embrace the spirit of teamwork, you must learn to work with other people and truly become a team player to get the work done and help your organization be more competitive. In fact, if you are like most employees across the country, your organization has right-sized or may intend to merge or downsize, thereby creating more work to be done by fewer people.

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5 Ways to Communicate Like a Visionary Leader

On The Job

Is good communication an art or a science? While most people have considered it an art, Wharton People Analytics Initiative Co-Director Cade Massey says that Big Data may provide the most important clues about what makes a leader a great communicator. Looking at verbal, voice and visual clues, researchers looked into what visionary communicators (people like Elon Musk, Franklin Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart) do differently than average communicators.

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Useful Tips That Will Help You Get to Inbox Zero

Productivity Bits

Email – possibly one of the greatest inventions of recent times and also possibly the bane of many people’s existence. Can you remember that lovely feeling when you first set-up your email account and there was only a couple of welcome messages? Akin to the sense of satisfaction that comes with a tidy house, that feeling fades as your inbox loses its shine and winds up crammed with a glut of superfluous mail.

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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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New Coworking Video; GCUC Conference Presentations

Small Business Labs

A new coworking video was released last week at the GCUC coworking conference.  It's short (2:30), to the point and nicely covers the reasons coworking has become so popular. It features the results of our coworking member survey.   The conference presentations are also available (registration required). Lots of good stuff, including presentations on the changing nature of the economy and work, the important role community plays and lots of cool information on the leading edge of

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3 Things To Help You Get Your Focus Back When You’ve Lost It

Productivityist

“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.” – Daniel Goleman. It took me a long time to write this piece. I found myself researching quotes (finally settling on the very appropriate Daniel Goleman one above), which led me to other websites that had nothing to do with what I was really writing about.

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Top Workplaces Winner Loves from the Inside Out

Energage

2016 Top Workplaces: Achieva’s Workplace Culture Creates Engaged Employees Dedicated to Community Service. . When companies earn Top Workplace status, celebrations often ensue. Achieva Credit Union in Florida takes it a bit further. It loves to make videos. Lots of videos. Don’t be surprised to see its leadership team spoofing car commercials. Or busting a move to the latest dance hit.

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Testing

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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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4 Reasons Print is Still Valuable to Small Businesses

Small Business CEO

There is much debate over whether print marketing is dead or not as some argue that because we have entered the age of the digital, it has made print obsolete. However, there is plenty to suggest print is still extremely important and valuable in today’s business market. Mark Ritson, professor of marketing at Melbourne Business School says marketers are rejecting traditional media ‘at their peril’, and points out that 60 per cent of people still trust print advertisements.

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The Productivityist Podcast: Finding Your Signature Strengths with Scott Barlow

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast I speak with the founder of Happen To Your Career, Scott Barlow. We dive into how you can go about finding you strengths – specifically your “signature strengths” and how tapping into those strengths can be a real boon to your productivity. Relevant Links. About Scott Barlow. Happen to Your Career. Strengths Finder 2.0 – What is this Witchcraft?

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Your business travel tips

Practically Perfect PA

A few weeks ago I asked you to send in your best travel tips – and well loads of you did! Thank you, thank you! I knew you had some great tricks up your sleeves! Here are your business travel tips… Travel Apps . Sign yourself and your boss up for “Tripit Pro” travel App. It is an invaluable tool – I introduced it to my boss and several other colleagues too when I started in my new role here recently and they love it – so much so that our company are rolling it

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Why People Work in Coffee Shops and Why This Means Coworking Will Continue to Grow

Small Business Labs

I ran across a really interesting post in Medium titled What are People Working on in Coffee Shops ? The title is a bit misleading. It's really about what people are working on in a single coffee shop in Venice Beach, a hip and trendy L.A. beach community just north of Santa Monica.  The article's authors briefly interviewed everyone who working in the Deus Ex Machina  coffee shop (pictured above) on a Tuesday at 12:30 PM.

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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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Limit Expenses as an SME – 5 Actionable Points

Small Business CEO

As an SME it’s easy to rack up more expenses than what you are generating in revenue. Spending on suppliers, vendors, employee perks and taxes can get out of hand in the blink of an eye unless carefully planned. But there are several ways to limit expenditures that, by focusing on improving efficiency, can even make a company more profitable. Palletise large shipments.

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How To Learn Something New Every Day (And Actually Do Something With It)

Productivityist

This is a guest post by Niklas Goeke. Nik is a freelance writer and habit coach, sharing his best lessons as step-by-step guides on niklasgoeke.com. He previously taught you how to become an essentialist on Productivityist , and now he’s back to show you what to do with the extra time you saved there. Do you know how much information you consume every day?

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CEOs: How to Pick your Second Passport?

Small Business CEO

The number of countries offering citizenship by investment programmes has been growing at a fast pace in the past few years. This has to do with many nations looking at foreign investors to help them recover from the recession, but also with the demand for second citizenship coming from said investors. If you are looking to acquire a second citizenship, you’ll know this can help expand your business by allowing you to travel visa-free to many countries, or to benefit from their financial policie

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Handling Tech Issues with Online Conferencing

Small Business CEO

The way modern business is conducted is changing quickly, and it is important not to be left behind. Rapidly evolving technology is giving us the chance to do more than we ever thought possible, both in and out of the office. With greater convenience and ease of communication, expectations rise on behalf of both clients and colleagues. Everyone is expected to be connected at all times, and when something goes wrong, it can feel like the sky is falling.

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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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Three Tips For Protecting Your Business Online

Small Business CEO

When it comes to doing business online, there are plenty of areas where you business could face danger. From hackers crashing your website and stealing information from you and your customers, to adware and spyware making use of your computer a pain, and costing you a good deal of money. For every way there is to protect your computer a hacker seems to come up with some new attack.

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PPI Refunds: Claiming What Is Rightfully Yours with A Little Assistance

Small Business CEO

Money matter needs careful consideration whenever it is about any kind of loan or insurance. People who are taking loans for any purpose are bound to repay it later. Unfortunately, the insurance that you take is not really exactly what you need (read: Claiming would be a problem.). There is always a chance that while securing payment protection insurance ( PPI ) you have been mis-sold.

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