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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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8 Questions to Ask An Executive Assistant Before Hiring

Worxbee

What questions should you ask an executive assistant before you hire them? If you’re ready to hire a new executive assistant, asking the right things is vital. Their role is to work closely with you and be privy to information that is often sensitive. You need someone who has the discretion, experience, and work style to operate well with you. In addition to asking the right questions, it’s invaluable to do an exercise to assess exactly what you need in an EA.

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Yes, Going Back to the Office Means Talking to Humans

On The Job

As more people head back into the office this year, there will be adjustments. Some may be a bit silly of course (no more wearing pajama bottoms with a button-down shirt like you did for Zoom calls) while others will require more serious focus, such as learning to interact in person with more people all day long. In fact, I'll bet more people than are willing to admit are a bit intimidated by the thought of those casual conversations that used to be a regular part of our day before the pandemic

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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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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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Managing Interruptions and Dealing with Distractions

Eat Your Career

Whether you’re working at the office, or virtually, or in a hybrid capacity, interruptions and distractions surround you! In many ways, this is simply the nature of today’s working world, and for some roles, it’s an unavoidable part of the job. But that doesn’t mean you have to simply allow these things (and people) to run your day. In fact, actively managing them is also part of the job!

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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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4 Ways to Incorporate Microbreaks into Your Work-from-Home Routine

Success

The work we produce hasn’t changed radically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet where and how we work has been transformed—and the results haven’t always been favorable to our mental health. A Gallup poll from fall 2021 revealed that nearly half of American full-time employees worked remotely either some of the time or entirely. Additionally, the majority of remote workers— 60%, in fact —reported feeling more productive than they thought they’d be.

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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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How to Manage a Remote Team: Tips and Tricks in 2022

Small Business CEO

Running a business and being a manager of a remote team can be really challenging. While managing an office team requires time for coaching and supervising, managing remote teams often requires leaders to act as facilitators more than supervisors. Fortunately, there are many tools that can help you become better at leading your remote workers. Check our tips to make the workflow of your team more efficient and comfortable.

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A Recruiter’s Etiquette Guide for Remote Hiring

Recruit CRM

Remote hiring has taken over as the “new normal”. With remote work on the rise, remote hiring practices have become an integral part of recruitment for many organisations worldwide. Although remote hiring offers various benefits, it is not a smooth ride for agency recruiters always. Recruiters must deal with constant curveballs that get thrown at them.

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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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Ask the Coach: I’m Overwhelmed by the Ever-Changing Nature of Digital Marketing—How Do I Keep Up?

Success

Q: Competition in my field has gotten tight over the past few years. Digital marketing has leveled the playing field. At my age, it’s all really overwhelming, and I don’t know if I can keep up. But I can’t afford to retire yet, either. What do you think? A: I think you are feeling something that many others have wrestled with as well. Technology has been changing industries since the wheel was invented.

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Ep 74. Bonnie’s TEDx talk and other resources on Heads Together with Bonnie Low-Kramen – 2/2/22

Bonnie Low Kramen

TEDx week is here! Listen in to find out about Bonnie’s TEDx talk on Feb 5th and lots more valuable resources for the Admin community. Related links: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents [link]. 9to 5 Documentary on Netflix. Clive Davis The Soundtrack of Our Lives Documentary on Netflix. The post Ep 74. Bonnie’s TEDx talk and other resources on Heads Together with Bonnie Low-Kramen – 2/2/22 appeared first on Bonnie Low-Kramen.

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How to Enjoy Business Ownership

Small Business CEO

Too often, small business owners scramble through their careers, always looking for ways to save money, build the business, and keep up with each new challenge as it arrives. However, you may find that when you get to the end of your career, you wonder what the point of all of that hard work was if you didn’t take time to enjoy being a CEO. Here are some tips to help you slow down and make the most of owning your own business, no matter how big or small it is.

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Launch Failure? 6 Things To Do When Things Don’t Go According to Plan

Jennie Lyon

Launches certainly feel like a rollercoaster ride, don’t they? Not only is an entire team involved (and invested) leading up to launch day, but the emotions are overwhelming! Whether you’re anxious, stressed, exhausted, or excited, it’s more than just a buzzkill when the launch doesn’t go exactly as planned. It’s a major setback, and even… The post Launch Failure?

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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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On Core Values, Self-Honesty and Having Fun with Jairek Robbins, the New President of SUCCESS

Success

“You gotta answer your DMs, man,” says Jairek Robbins, half laughing, in his latest Brilliant Thoughts interview with Tristan Ahumada. Robbins, who is an acclaimed business coach, best-selling author and motivational speaker, is also the new president of SUCCESS—a position he says started with an Instagram message. “ Opportunity is always knocking ,” he adds, an idea he’s been reflecting on a lot lately.

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The Power of Bit by Bit Productivity

Productivityist

I want to share with you the concept of bit by bit productivity in this piece. But first I’d like to tell you about the time I discovered that someone who I didn’t think followed the concept actually did – and does so in a big way to this day. When people think about Gary Vaynerchuk, they tend to think about this one word: hustle. And rightly so.

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Analyzing the Growing Role of Quality Management Systems in the Business World

Small Business CEO

It is not exactly a secret that the business world has seen a lot of changes during the past couple of years. If you want your business to remain relevant in the current environment, you need to think about these changes as well. One of the biggest changes involves the growing role of quality management systems. Even though quality has always been important to companies, a lot of people are implementing specific changes that make their companies more maneuverable.

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How Can Data Optimise Your Small Recruitment Budget?

Recruit CRM

Hiring new employees is something every business owner will have to deal with at one time or another. On average, a business owner will spend nearly 42 days trying to fill an open position. Finding a way to shorten and optimise the hiring process should be one of your main concerns. Abiding by a strict recruiting budget is essential when trying to avoid financial hardships.

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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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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

Success

One of the most painful experiences in life is moving toward a goal or dream, only to face those whom you love most, rejecting your ideas and even you. If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. Your relationship might require extra care and patience.

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Should You Encourage Your Team to Pursue Side Hustles?

Success

Side hustles have become an increasingly common strategy for people to supplement income from their full-time job or create multiple sources of income by pairing multiple side hustles. Outside of the financial benefits, side hustles can help workers learn new skills, make extra money or pursue a dream outside working hours. No longer a fringe activity but a permanent part of the modern workplace, side hustling brings troubling questions to leaders about their role in allowing or even encouraging

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This Canadian Real Estate Agent Helped His Daughter Break an Unusual Guinness World Record and Found a Breakthrough of His Own

Success

Tom Everitt has a strange claim to fame. He helped his daughter set an unusual world record : most national anthems sung in their home countries in a calendar year. “The logistics are nuts. Insane. And could you imagine doing it now?” Everitt says with a laugh. “I mean, it’s impossible.”. From 2015 to 2016, Canadian real estate professionals Tom and Kerri Everitt accompanied daughter Capri (then 11) and her brother (then 9) as the former set out to sing national anthems in as many different coun

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25 Quotes to Celebrate Black History Month

Success

Officially recognized as Black History Month in 1976, the month of February offers a chance to recognize the accomplishments of black Americans in every aspect and era of history. At SUCCESS, we want to honor those who paved the way toward equality and those who still actively challenge injustice today. We want to share our appreciation for the people who changed history and who continue to empower everyone around them.

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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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An NFL Career-Ending Injury Led Anthony Trucks on a Winding Path to the Person He Was Always Meant to Be

Success

After bouncing between foster homes early in life, a young Black boy is adopted by a white family. Soon he learns to play football. Surrounded by love and support, he thrives, goes on to play in college and gets the opportunity to live his National Football League dream. It’s a made-for-Hollywood story. Unlike the happily-ever-after ending of The Blind Side , however, Anthony Trucks most decidedly did not go on to a long and prosperous career in the NFL.

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Use Mindfulness to Transform Your Financial Well-Being

Success

We’ve talked before about setting and achieving goals , and one of the simplest (though not easy) techniques to accomplish your financial dreams is developing the habit of mindfulness. Although it’s become a secular buzzword, mindfulness practice is thousands of years old and originated in the Buddhist tradition, combining Zen, Vipassana, and Tibetan meditation techniques.

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Do Mutual Funds Pay Dividends or Interest?

Small Business CEO

If mutual funds were only of one type, things would be much easier, wouldn’t they? We wouldn’t be thinking too much about which fund to invest in and which fund to leave because we would be dealing with funds of the same features. But, that isn’t always the case. photo credit: Pixabay. We deal with different kinds of mutual funds, different characteristics, different rewards, and different risks.

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Why Outsourced CFO Services Matter for Your Small Business

Small Business CEO

Does your small business need the services of an outsourced CFO? The answer is probably yes. Let’s consider what an outsourced CFO can do for your business and why they will help you succeed. What Is an Outsourced CFO? Also known as a fractional or virtual CFO, an outsourced CFO is an executive-level employee who acts as the financial expert for a business on a part- or full-time basis.

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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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5 Upgrades Your Warehouse Should Make to Improve Productivity

Small Business CEO

You probably know how important efficiency is if you currently own and operate a warehouse. To keep profit at its highest, you need to manage every aspect, from storage to shipments and delivery. This can be challenging, and at times, you’re going to have to make some changes. Otherwise, you won’t be able to grow and push your business to the next level.

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Kim Bartmann’s The Bartmann Group Using Local, Fresh, And Organic Produce

Small Business CEO

Organic produce has been around for a while, but only in the last few years has it caught on. Many people are looking for grocery stores and restaurants that use organic produce that is local and fresh. Companies that provide fresh organic products tend to have the upper hand over those that don’t. Simply put, people want to feel better about the food they consume and where it comes from, so organic options stand out.

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Compass Real Estate: A Company Profile

Small Business CEO

Real estate is an industry that’s never going to slow down. Houses and apartments are constantly being built all over the world, and demand is constant. We will always need a place for us to eat, sleep, and relax at the end of the day. The property industry truly is booming and one company that is shaking it up is Compass Real Estate. What is Compass Real Estate?

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IRAs And Investment Companies Or Custodians Go Hand-In-Hand

Small Business CEO

Investors have many options for saving funds to carry them into a successful retirement. The ideal strategy will involve investments with long-term returns, but only certain assets have that capacity. It takes self-education and thorough research to discern which ones will take what starts as a nest egg and turn it into a lucrative future. A prime example of a longer-term choice is an individual retirement account or IRA.

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The Science of Self-Reflection: How Looking Inward Can Affect Every Area of Your Life

Success

When you’re doing yoga , taking a walk in nature , meditating or doing controlled breathing , what are you really doing? Perhaps you’re getting some exercise or just answering the call of the daily routine. But what’s happening inside your mind when you’re doing these activities? . As it turns out, you may be engaging in self-reflection. And if you’re able to self-reflect , you’re already on the right path to potential improvements in well-being, health and even career success. .

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