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How to Deal With Success Guilt

Success

Unpacking guilt can be complex and time-consuming. It makes sense that we’d feel guilty for actions in the past before we knew better or when we were different people. Sometimes, though, we have guilt for something we haven’t done or things that should be positives in our lives, like earning more money or getting a promotion. Being successful comes with many benefits, but one downside is that many people feel guilty for achieving financial success when others haven’t. .

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How to Make a Great Career Choice

Small Business CEO

Recent graduates and career changers ask themselves, “What type of career should I choose?” Although excited about choosing a meaningful direction in life, they also feel uncertain about the right path to take. If you’re unsure what you want to do for a living, overwhelmed by your options, get creative. Explore novel options. Today, it’s easy to research any career.

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How to Dominate Your Local Market: A Guide for Small Businesses

Small Business CEO

Businesses took a major hit during the pandemic, with small businesses being affected the most. In fact, a whopping 34% of small businesses are still closed, and many may never reopen. As a small business owner, you likely rely on your local market to stay afloat. And this means competing with local competitors, chain stores, and online retailers to capture the attention of your customers.

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3 Keys to Developing a Successful Career

On The Job

In an ideal world, a boss recognizes your talents and helps you develop them so that your career blossoms. But in the real world, bosses are stressed and overworked and may not have a lot of time to look out for your career. To be honest, some of them are jerks and could care less if you're reaching your goals. That's why it's always a good idea to have a plan when it comes to developing your own career.

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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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Do These 3 Things to Get Everything You Want

Success

When most people envision real estate agents, they see a successful person with a healthy salary. But sometimes, that image doesn’t align with reality. In Tyler Whitman’s case, he made $20,000-$30,000 per year listing apartment rentals in New York City. That was in 2006, right before the Great Recession. You would never guess then that 12 years later, Whitman would earn $1.6 million with his real estate team and join the cast of Million Dollar Listing New York.

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The Rise of the Solopreneur Travel Agent

Small Business Labs

Fora is a new platform that provides full and part-time independent travel agents with the tools needed to run their travel business.  They recently raised $5  million in seed funding.  Fora joins a growing list of vertical market platforms providing solopreneurs with infrastructure tools for operating their own business.   The VC firm leading Fora's round, Forerunner Ventures, refers to independent workers as "the entrepreneur next door"   Key quo

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How to Write a Thank You Note

Ian's Messy Desk

The post How to Write a Thank You Note appeared first on Ian's Messy Desk. As we head into the holiday, gift-giving season, it doesn’t hurt to think about the thank-you note. Writing a thank-you note does not have to be a complex process. However, the time you put into writing the note is appreciated … Continue reading → You just finished reading How to Write a Thank You Note !

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Begin with Gratitude and Watch the Miracles Flow Your Way

Success

Is thankfulness a survival skill? Maybe most of you would respond with, “No, thankfulness is not key to survival,” and I would tend to agree with you. Most of us have probably already solved the necessary problems of survival, gone beyond that and are now working to achieve our desires. But let me give you this key phrase, “Learn to be thankful for what you already have while you pursue all that you want.” I believe one of the greatest and perhaps one of the simplest lessons in

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5 Ways to Minimise Error in Your Business

Small Business CEO

If you’re running your own business, understandably, you want to do everything possible to ensure its success. However, mistakes are inevitable, and occasionally they can cause chaos within your company. While you may not be able to eliminate them completely, there are ways to keep them to a minimum. You just need to plan ahead and follow a few different strategies.

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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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Tips for Vetting Virtual Executive Assistant Services

Worxbee

If you’re at the point where you’re ready to hire a virtual executive assistant, your next task is to decide how you’re going to find one. Virtual executive assistant services are increasingly popular as an option for sourcing your next EA. Broadly speaking, these are agencies or companies that have set up to find EAs and match them up with the businesses that are looking to hire.

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Ep 142: Planning Events in a Post-Covid World with Lacretia Adamski and Meagan Strout

Go Burrows

My friend Meagan Strout (CEO of Tack Advisors – the leading provider of management consulting and recruitment for administrative professionals) agreed to share the recording of this recent webinar she hosted with Lacretia Adamski about planning events in a post-covid world. Meagan and Lacretia (senior executive assistant at Salesforce) discuss the new paradigm for event planning, including pre-event communication, onsite testing, and creating a hybrid virtual experience.

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Face the Spreadsheets: Lisa Gilmore on Learning to Love the Financial Side of Her Creative Business

Success

If you could talk about the creative side of your business forever but get tongue-tied when faced with profit and loss statements (P&Ls), you’re not alone—and you’re not doomed. Lisa Gilmore founded her interior design business Lisa Gilmore Design 10 years ago, when she was just 25. Her love of hot pink walls and tropical themes took off in the era of magnolia and minimalism.

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Do You Need Expert Advice on Marketing Analytics?

Small Business CEO

Today’s workplace is the age of the expert. Businesses can employ experts on every topic under the sun, from legal experts to HR experts and yes, even marketing analytics experts. With so many experts in the office, you may be wondering if you really need an expert consultant on your marketing analytics project. Short Answer: Yes. This is where you are wrong.

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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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Sample Job Rejection Email Templates Recruiters Can Use

Recruit CRM

Think about it this way. You are the candidate. You have applied for a job and after 15 days you receive an automated email that mentions you’re not selected for the role. According to you, how helpful was that? (Also, does it do anything in terms of candidate experience ?) No, right? As per research, all candidates want is more and more communication.

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Have Better Political Conversations Online

The Marq

I'm an active member and volunteer with Braver Angels , an organization with a mission to help people with diametrically opposed political views find common ground and learn to communicate better with one another. I just went through their "Online Skills for Social Media" training and found it very useful. It focuses on empathic listening, finding common ground and having a healthy conversation, especially when you disagree with someone.

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Entrepreneur Lindsay Teague Moreno on Finding Fulfillment and Building Lasting Habits

Success

Ever feel like you’re just trying to get through the day? You wake up, you work, you take care of the kids, you go to sleep, and you repeat it all again the next day? And the next, and the next… Lindsay Teague Moreno was 30 when she realized she wasn’t happy, citing career-related ennui and the demands of raising three kids. “I was one of those people that was just ‘living-to-survive’ kind of thing,” she says.

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Discover Tools to Make Your Business Grow in 2022

Small Business CEO

If you own, manage, or invest in a business, it’s important to keep up with the ever-changing business world. Not only does business change each year, but tactics and tools that can help your business grow are being made each day. Keeping up with these can help your investments skyrocket and your company grow. How can you know what tools are the best to help your business?

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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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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. David Bizer

Recruit CRM

David Bizer is the Founder and CEO of Talent Fountain , a boutique consulting firm focused on talent acquisition, talent management and startup culture. Originally from the United States, Bizer moved to Paris at the age of 27. His experience originates at the very epicentre of web technology, starting his career at Netscape working with Marc Andreessen and the team which essentially launched the internet to the masses.

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Create Rules for Out of Office Replies in Microsoft Outlook

Melissa Peoples

[link] Did you know that you can create rules for your out of office replies in Outlook? This is a fantastic way to keep control of your inbox while you are disconnected and on vacation. Click on file | click on automatic replies | create your out of office message | select rules in the bottom left of the box | click on add rule | edit rule Edit the rules for your incoming messages.

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The BossBabe Community of More Than 4 Million Is Strengthened by the Bond Its Founders Share

Success

Danielle Canty and Natalie Ellis hit it off instantly. The women met in September 2017 at a personal development seminar in San Diego, connecting not only for their shared United Kingdom ties, but also for their mutual desire to make the most of the experience. At the end of the first day, when many attendees hit the city streets in pursuit of cocktails and revelry, Canty and Ellis stayed behind to prepare for Day 2 of the conference.

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6 Common Not to Forget Industrial Safety Tips

Small Business CEO

Almost 9.7% of workers working in a construction site suffer one or another type of injury. It can happen due to various reasons. While some are really unpredictable others can be avoided by keeping a few things in check. Here are some common not to forget industrial safety tips: 1. Wearing Protective Equipment. One of the most basic things to always keep in mind is wearing protective equipment without fail.

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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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How Can Recruiters Help Candidates Nail Their Job Interviews?

Recruit CRM

The recruitment industry is indeed competitive, and anybody can snatch your leads at any minute, especially when hiring talent is the number one concern for most companies. It's important to remember that candidates are just as important as the companies you are recruiting them for. More candidates will want to be recruited by your agency depending on how you have treated your candidates in the past.

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Episode 398: Juliet Funt talks about a Minute to Think

Productivityist

Juliet Funt shares how to reclaim time for thinking and make room for what truly matters. It’s time to interlace our days with more white space. Juliet Funt is a renowned keynote speaker and tough-love advisor to the Fortune 500 who is regularly featured in top global media outlets, including Forbes and Fast Company. She is a white-space warrior as the founder and CEO of The Juliet Funt Group, helping business leaders and organizations to unleash their full potential by unburdening talent from b

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7 Holiday Marketing Tips to Increase Revenue + Workbook

Jennie Lyon

Is your business ready for the holiday season? It’s here! Whether your business is large or small, you need to be prepared for one day (hello, Black Friday!) or the entire holiday season. It’s not enough to have a “great product” or even a great price.” You must also be prepared to offer exceptional customer… The post 7 Holiday Marketing Tips to Increase Revenue + Workbook appeared first on Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing & Virtual Assistant Services.

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Transforming a Small Business into a Medium-Sized One

Small Business CEO

Is your small business ready to make the transition to the next level? For many owners, this is the most crucial phase in the history of their organizations. Often, the size increase is a make-or-break moment in time, one that separates the long-term survivors from the rest of the pack. But, because every entity is unique, it’s often difficult to use a template approach for growing a startup organization into a medium-sized one.

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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

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When You’re Seduced by Potential, Let It Be Your Own

Virtual Moxie

We are pure potential. I’ve often said that seeing The Matrix was a spiritual event for me, because it was in that movie that I got super-clear that anything is probably possible (including jumping across buildings, bending spoons with our minds, and flying), but what holds us back is the belief(s) we hold about being able to do those things. For instance, if we believe in the law of gravity more than we believe we can fly, we will never be able to fly.

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The 2021 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

Productivityist

Last year, I made a video for my YouTube channel recommending 10 gift ideas for the (aspiring) productive person in your life. But that was last year. It’s 2020 and it’s time for a new holiday gift guide. This year, I’ve got 20 other ideas for you – some ideas that you may want to steal and buy for yourself this holiday season! Books.

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The Riches Are in the Micro-Niches: How to Grow Your Business by Narrowing Your Focus

Success

This week on the SUCCESS Line I talk to Jake, an entrepreneur and coach I have watched with admiration for years. For the last five years, Jake has been building a business that has experienced remarkable growth. However, he feels as though he is hitting his head against the ceiling in terms of scaling. He wants to grow and reach more people, but he has no idea how. .

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