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How to expand your role when there is no room for growth

Practically Perfect PA

How to expand your role when there is no room for growth It can be challenging to break through the glass ceiling as an Assistant when your organisation has no room for growth. I've heard it repeatedly from Assistants, they are often stuck in a pay scale or band that [.

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Balancing Commitments: The Secret to Prioritizing Internal Goals over External Demands

Productivityist

Every week I have a daily theme where I give my overarching focus to planning. The key to planning isn’t just making sure you have your external commitments locked down and taken care of in the days ahead. It’s also to make sure that you’ve got your internal commitments locked down. You need to make sure you’re balancing commitments.

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How To Strengthen Your Workforce: Cultivate Growth Opportunities For Women

Allwork

Working women face barriers and exclusion from career growth opportunities, negatively impacting the future of work. According to McKinsey & Company, 100 women were promoted to manager for every 130 men in 2021. Christina Gialleli , director of people operations at Epignosis, identified the source of these issues and shared how to better cultivate lateral career movement for women.

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The 4-Day Workweek Massive Pilot Results Are in—It Was a “Resounding Success.”

Success

Several years ago, it sounded like a dream: working four days per week , yet somehow achieving the same or increased level of success as you would with five or even six days. But now, with workplace wellness and burnout prevention at the top of both employer and employees’ minds , a four-day workweek not only a reality, but a well-researched recommendation.

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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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The Art of Peacemaking: Dealing with Conflict in the Workplace

Office Dynamics

Master the art of peacemaking with our top 7 strategies for handling workplace conflict effectively. Create a positive, productive environment today.

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Establish An Effective Hybrid Work Environment In 6 Steps

Allwork

Andrew Filev, founder of Wrike — a leading collaborative work management platform — recently joined the Allwork.Space Future of Work podcast. Andrew explained how he overcame the challenges of creating a productive, trust-based, and visible hybrid work environment. Certain tools can be used to support hybrid work environments to increase productivity, trust, and visibility.

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Episode 470 – Mike Rucker talks about The Fun Habit

Productivityist

Welcome to another episode of A Productive Conversation with Mike Vardy! I’m excited to have Mike Rucker joining me today, who’s a fellow World Domination Summit attendee. It’s funny how we haven’t met in person yet, but that’s just how life goes sometimes. Mike is a behavioral scientist, organizational psychologist, and a charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association.

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Ep 214: Hallie Warner – Co-Author of The Founder & The Force Multiplier: How Entrepreneurs and Executive Assistants Achieve More Together

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Hallie Warner was my guest on episode 17 and I’m super excited to have her back on the show! Hallie serves as Chief of Staff to the Founder and CEO of Adam Hergenrother Companies. She is also the co-author of The Founder & The Force Multiplier: How Entrepreneurs and Executive Assistants Achieve More Together. In this episode, Hallie talks about the importance of personal growth to career success, how she uses chatGPT in her work, being a strong strategic business partner, and finding the rig

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More Men Are Taking Parental Leave

Allwork

What’s going on: According to The Wall Street Journal , the number of working parents taking parental leave is increasing annually; the 12-month period ending in February saw an average of 406,000 workers on paid or unpaid parental leave, which is a 13.5% hike from 2021. Why it matters: In the U.S., a workplace culture shift is beginning to take root, and fathers seem to be taking more of a lead.

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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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Using a Financial Planning Checklist Can Help You Meet Your Goals

Success

Using a financial planning checklist can make it easier to monitor your money and do some financial housekeeping. Although there are multiple ways to ‘tidy up’ your money , a list that you return to monthly or quarterly allows you to keep track of specific areas each time, giving you better data. The more often you use it, the more data you have to compare your past and present situations.

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How long do employers keep employee records?

BMT Office Administration

Recordkeeping is a core part of any human resources department, and it also happens to be one of the most confusing and complex. Why is that? It has to do with the myriad of recordkeeping requirements & employment record retention laws that vary from state to state. Not only that, but the IRS, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) each have unique record retention requirements that you must follow.

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Matchmaker Consultant for ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Shares Top Relationship Red Flags

Success

Bonnie Winston began her career as a matchmaker at the age of 16. While dancing with her friends at a New York City club in 1979, she set up one of her friends with a guy Winston had met. Six years later, the matched couple got married. Winston unofficially continued the practice for the next 30 years—successfully matching hundreds of couples. In 2013, she made it official by creating a business , aptly named Bonnie Winston Matchmaker.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

Success

Every great business starts with an idea , but actually growing that idea into a viable company has its challenges —such as getting the financial support you need. No matter what kind of business you want to scale , access to advisers and experienced business owners can be a valuable tool. When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, r

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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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Science Fiction To Reality: How Anti-aging Drugs Will Upend The Future Of Work

Allwork

Medical professionals and researchers have a suspicion that a medicine called metformin could be the key to combating aging. If healthy older people remain in the workforce longer, they could continue to make money, thus relieving pressure on health care and entitlement programs, or they could drain social security benefits. The concept of prolonging life has been one of the age-old questions; with new anti-aging meds, extremely robust AI, and digital currencies, we just might be on the cu

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Hiking with Joy: The Power of Intergenerational Connections with Brad Ryan

Success

Seven years ago, Brad Ryan was struggling to finish his veterinary program at Ohio State University. For the first time in his life, he began feeling suicidal, and not long after, one of his classmates took their own life. This sent Ryan into a tailspin, and he knew he needed a break. He recalled a moment a few years earlier when he was chatting with his grandmother, Joy, and she admitted to never seeing a mountain in her life.

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How To Design Impactful Offices? Prioritize ESG Goals

Allwork

Increasingly, building/office owners are considering how their design projects and their workplaces reflect their ESG goals. Designing spaces that promote the well-being of people and the planet can be challenging. HOK designers Christine Vandover and Komal Kotwal share how a disciplined approach to design can lead to sustainable, equitable and healthy new workplaces.

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Spain Offers To Pay Companies Trying Out A 4-Day Work Week

Allwork

What’s going on: Spanish businesses with fewer than 250 employees have one month to apply for an ambitious government pilot program: cutting their work week to four days while still earning full pay. The €9.6 million scheme aims to support small and medium-sized industrial firms, with around 25-30% of workers having reduced hours with full salary, and employers being partially compensated up to €200,000 and the consulting costs of designing new work schemes.

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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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Meta And Google Adjust Their Performance Reviews

Allwork

What’s going on: In a bid to save time, tech giants Google and Meta adjusted their performance review processes, yet it ended up backfiring. Google changed to a quarterly model instead of twice-yearly formal reviews; however, some managers gave short, unsuccessful summaries, according to The Information , and others didn’t use the allotted time to review performance.

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The World Economy Is Being Impacted By High Inflation

Allwork

What’s going on: The International Monetary Fund’s latest outlook on the global economy is bleak, as they have downgraded their growth projection to 2.8% this year. This dismal news comes in light of chronically high inflation, rising interest rates, and the collapse of two prominent American banks, according to the Associated Press. Compared to the 3.4% growth estimate in 2022, and the 2.9% estimate made in January, the IMF’s revised forecast is a stark reality.

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13 Healthy Cookbooks and Books About Food to Improve Your Brain and Body

Success

Do you want to eat healthier? Live longer? Spend less time on cooking and cleaning and more time with your family? All that and more is possible with these 13 best healthy cookbooks and books about food. They cover everything from tips for beginner chefs to improving your brain and body health through food. Best healthy cookbooks 1. Dinner in One: Exceptional & Easy One-Pan Meals: A Cookbook By Melissa Clark A healthy, delicious home-cooked meal is wonderful—until you remember all the clean

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JPMorgan tells employees to come back into the office

Allwork

What’s going on: JPMorgan Chase told its managing directors that they had to be in the office for five days a week, according to a memo. JPMorgan staff with hybrid schedules were also reminded that they are required to come into the office for at least three days a week, according to Reuters. “There are a number of employees who aren’t meeting their in-office attendance expectations, and that must change,” the bank said.

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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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Valencia Will Temporarily Implement A Four-Day Work Week

Allwork

What’s going on: Starting today, the city of Valencia in Spain will be implementing a four-day work week pilot program to analyze the effects of the shortened work week. The core areas of focus will be health, welfare, climate, and economics. Issues such as time management, work-life balance, well-being, environmental impact, energy consumption and more will be taken into account.

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NYC Office Vacancies Are At Record High

Allwork

What’s going on: As the demand for office space dropped due to the switch to remote working, New York City office vacancy rates surged to an all-time high of 16.1% in the first quarter of 2023 — leading the way in a nationwide trend that saw vacancy rates sitting at 16.4%. As a result, New York has been attempting to repurpose office spaces into residential buildings.

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Mexico’s Bold Move: Rethinking the Workweek to Revolutionize Latin American Work Culture

Allwork

What is happening? Mexico’s Senate Labor Commission will hold a forum on April 20th to discuss the feasibility of reducing the workweek in the country. Various proposals are being considered, such as working from Monday to Thursday or reducing the daily work schedule from 8 to 6 hours. Why does it matter? Mexico has the highest number of annual work hours among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries, with an average of 2,137 hours per year.

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Offices In The US Are Half-Empty, Which May Impact Banks

Allwork

What’s going on: Investors and regulators, on high alert due to recent bank failures, are now taking a closer look at the slumping US commercial real estate market, which is worth $20 trillion. The commercial real estate market has taken a huge hit in the past few months, with US prices plummeting by a staggering 15% from their previous high in March.

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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