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How CEOs and Admin Assistants Work Better Together: Why You Need an Action Plan 

Worxbee

Whether you are a solopreneur or a CEO, think back to the last time there was upheaval in your personal life: were you able to totally walk away from the job, and assume everyone else knew what needed to get done? We’re guessing the answer is “no.” Email Address Subscribe Thank you! “ We often don't allow true leaders to be human—we just expect them to keep going and meet our needs all the time, ” reveals Kenzie Biggins, Founder and CEO of Worxbee. “ In the same way, we don't always allow our Ad

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Your April Action Plan: 10 Ways to Get Serious About Your Future

Success

Your Action Plan is a monthly to-do list of tips straight from SUCCESS magazine—10 things you can do right now to improve yourself and your life. This month, it’s all about how to be more serious about your future. This month, feed your mind what it needs to take on life’s challenges. Learn what it means to be mentally tough, and then step outside of your comfort zone for a total transformation. 1.

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Are You Underutilized at Work? This Will Help!

Eat Your Career

Do you ever feel that you’re not being truly leveraged at work? Like your talents and skills are going to waste? Like you have more to offer and more to contribute, but you’re limited by your job description? If so, congratulations! You are totally normal! Feeling underutilized at work is probably the most common complaint I hear from professionals across all industries and all fields.

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IF AI can replace what you do without anybody noticing, the problem isn’t with the technology

Workplace Insight

Perhaps the least surprising news from the current AI media frenzy is that Buzzfeed has already been using the tech to publish a lot of its stories. There’s an obvious response to this and it’s not about how amazing the AI is. If an artificial intelligence can write vast quantities of formulaic clickbait stories on your website without anybody noticing, then the problem is with your original approach to ‘content’ and how it’s consumed.

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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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Using IoT Tech Is Crucial For Office Planning And Employee Health

Allwork

“The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects — things — that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the internet,” according to Oracle. Allwork.Space recently caught up with Erin McDannald, CEO and Co-Owner of Environments to talk about some of the technologies her business is using to gain a deeper insight into how the built environment is utilized by employees.

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How to Conquer the Day

Productivityist

Years ago, I scribbled this quote down on a sticky note and I’ve shared it multiple times: “Cope with what you can’t control. Command what you can control. That’s how you conquer the day.” This simple yet profound idea invites us to reflect on the nature of control, how it affects our well-being, and how we can better manage our emotions and decisions in a world filled with uncertainties.

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Flexible working is the new “work-life currency”, claims new report

Workplace Insight

A new report, Future of Work Life , from Ericsson Consumer & IndustryLab explores the ways in which employees and employers navigate the current work environment and their views on the future of work shaped by the pandemic, digitalisation and the fluctuating labour market. Almost half (48 percent) of the employees in the study say that they enjoy increased flexibility at work. 52 percent consider flexible work hours or locations as key requirements, and 25 percent say that flexibility is the

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Free Time: Strategies for More Freedom and Joy with Jenny Blake

Success

Jenny Blake was experiencing burnout and imposter syndrome. Before starting her business , she felt like she had no right to speak to anyone about her passion in business because she came from a startup background and didn’t have a “successful” company under her belt. When Blake finally gave herself permission to speak about business publicly, she discovered she had a unique view on systems and operational efficiency.

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Your Top Job Candidate Is Probably A Liar

Allwork

On average, 72% of a job applicant’s resume is accurate while the remaining 28% is embellished. Identifying resume embellishment is simple when employers effectively interview applicants and follow through on background checks. Hawaii is one of the top 10 states with the least accurate resumes, with an average of only 35% of a candidate’s resume being accurate.

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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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Ted Lasso and I Agree: Never Sell Yourself Short!

Virtual Moxie

You know how you’re sitting there watching TV and something is said that makes you sit straight upright? Yeah. this was it for me watching an episode of Ted Lasso (it’s in the episode called 4-5-1 in season three, in case you’re curious!). It landed so strongly for me that I grabbed paper and wrote it down. Now, it’s taped to my monitor where I can see it every day.

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Maximize Your Potential! How to Leverage Your Skills FULLY in the Workplace

Eat Your Career

If you feel underutilized in the workplace, you’re not alone! This is such a common complaint, and it’s easy to see why. Most people have a wide array of talents and interests, but most jobs have only a limited set of duties and responsibilities. Even if you’re overworked, you may still be underleveraged! The good news is that you can change the situation using your voice and your influence.

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Why Leaders Need to Make Time for Self-Care

Success

Work without play is a recipe for burnout. We typically praise the person who is last to leave the office and works during weekends and holidays. Often, however, that person is the first to fall in the war of workplace attrition. Leadership demands long hours and great effort, but rest and relaxation are just as essential as hard work. Go-getters often feel that every minute of every day must be filled with work, but that is just not a healthy way to live.

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Emotionally Intelligent Leaders Create The Safest Work Environments

Allwork

Today’s challenging economic climate and the increase in levels of work-related stress mean that psychological safety at work has never been more important. A psychologically safe work environment enables individuals to take interpersonal risks and organizations to become more innovative and creative. Organizational leaders with high levels of emotional intelligence can help to foster psychological safety, which can help teams thrive.

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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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Digital nomads are starting to price out local communities around the world

Workplace Insight

For eight years I have studied digital nomadism , the millennial trend for working remotely from anywhere around the world. I am often asked if digital nomads are driving gentrification. Before COVID upended the way we work, I would usually tell journalists that the numbers were too small for a definitive answer. Most digital nomads were travelling and working illegally on tourist visas.

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Episode 469 – Erik Qualman talks about The Focus Project

Productivityist

On this episode of A Productive Conversation, we had the pleasure of speaking with Erik Qualman , a best-selling author and keynote speaker who has reached over 50 million people in over 55 countries! We dive into his latest book, The Focus Project , and explore the topic of focus and how it can impact your life. We discuss the importance of focus, what you can do if you lose focus, and how fear and focus are interconnected.

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2 Entrepreneurs Share the Decisions that Helped Their Businesses Take Off

Success

Sam Sidney and Anna Baglaneas Eves are two entrepreneurs who started businesses by following their passions. Here, they share their business stories and offer advice for other new entrepreneurs. Sam Sidney Sam Sidney began making portraits out of felt scraps with her four kids during the pandemic. After receiving her first commission—”a high school friend who asked [her] to make nine famous musicians,” according to an interview with Charleston magazine —she is now pulling in anywhere from $125 t

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Ireland Passes Remote Working Law

Allwork

What’s going on: Amid much excitement and expectation last year, plans for legislation allowing employees to request remote working were revealed, and last week the “Work Life Balance Bill” passed through both Houses of the Oireachtas in Ireland in relative silence. Ibec, a prominent business group, contested the necessity of this legislation and said that many companies were already providing either remote or hybrid working, according to RTE.

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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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The need for reimagination in an age of uncertainty

Workplace Insight

Since we are now very much in the age of uncertainty being the new certainty, with all the old playbooks out the window and no cookie cutter approach in the ways we work, since one size doesn’t fit all – what the hell do we do? Curl up in a ball and die? Go into panic mode and go around shouting ‘We’re doomed! We’re doomed’ manically? Or just ostrich the problem and hope it all goes away or at least reverts back to how it was before?

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Ep 213: Camryn Pickworth on Setting Boundaries, Team Building, and Launching a VA Business

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Camryn Pickworth is the founder of The First Pick VA Group, a successful virtual assistant business. In this episode, Camryn shares her story of launching her virtual assistant business in the middle of a pandemic – and at the age of 21. She also talks about setting boundaries, ethical “freelanceship,” team building, and overcoming childhood trauma and shaping it into a successful future.

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

Success

Sunny Cash has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). When she found herself working at her dream job in sales for a professional sports team, she was conflicted — she enjoyed her work but knew she wasn’t in an “inclusive space” that would allow her to thrive as a neurodiverse employee. It required many monotonous tasks , such as cold calling around 60 people each day.

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Is Flexibility Going Away?

Allwork

According to recent surveys, the vast majority of companies have no plans to reduce hybrid or remote work options for employees. A survey of 1,100 companies worldwide by The Conference Board found that only 3% of U.S. CEOs intended to decrease remote work availability. By contrast, 5% planned to increase it. The sunk cost fallacy can lead leaders to continue an unsuccessful hybrid workplace policy rather than getting needed advice and training to improve their approach.

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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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Zürich named as world’s leading smart city in list dominated by Asia and Europe

Workplace Insight

Zürich has been named as the world’s leading smart city according to the latest annual Smart City Index published by IMD business school. Asian and European cities dominate this year’s top twenty. Among them, IMD names six “super champions” because they have been continuously improving their performance since 2019: Zürich, Oslo, Singapore, Beijing, Seoul and Hong Kong.

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Steps to take ahead of possible DOL change in exempt salary qualifications

BMT Office Administration

The Department of Labor may soon release proposed regulations raising the salary employees must earn to remain exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act. The current weekly salary is $684 a week or $35,568 a year. Highly compensated employees may be paid at least $107,432 a year, including $684 a week. It’s likely the increase won’t be prohibitive. Why: Final regulations issued in 2016 almost doubled the salary threshold and were thrown out by a federal court.

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How to Build a Library Worth Having

Success

We all need to build a good library. My mentor, Earl Shoaff, got me started on mine. Here’s one of the books he recommended: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. Shoaff asked me, “Doesn’t that title intrigue you? Think and Grow Rich. Who wouldn’t need that book?” I found it in a used bookstore and paid less than 50 cents for it. It’s one of my most valued treasures.

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US Job Openings Fall Below 10 Million

Allwork

What’s going on: Job vacancies in the United States cooled in February, sinking to their lowest level since May 2021 — indicating a lull in labor demand for some industries — yet still maintaining a job market that is far too robust for the Federal Reserve’s liking, according to Bloomberg. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Labor Department on Tuesday revealed that the number of available positions dropped from 10.6 million (a downwardly revised figure) to

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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