2022

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Why You Need a Work Journal

Eat Your Career

I’m a big fan of documentation, especially in the workplace. I firmly believe that, when we put thoughts into words and commit them to “paper” (whether physical or digital), we make them more real. Whether journaling for personal development or professional, the act of writing is an important tool for self-discovery, growth and much more. It’s no surprise then that I recommend everyone keep a work journal.

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Top Skills Every Assistant Needs to Succeed

Practically Perfect PA

Top skills every Assistant needs to succeed How do you stay on top of the many and different responsibilities that an Assistant must perform, as well as the required abilities? This article will go through the essential skills that an Assistant typically possesses, including effective calendar management, problem-solving skills, communication [.].

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10 Happiness Practices from Around the World

Success

Life isn’t easy, but over thousands of years of human civilization, people across the world have developed philosophies and strategies to cope with the stressful times and to navigate the trials of daily life. Although most countries can boast a big-name philosopher or literary figure to turn to when a bit of life wisdom is needed, some of the most intuitive and effective daily happiness rituals have emerged from the cultures and people themselves.

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How To Master The Literal Art Of Workspace Design

Allwork

After long stints of working from home, people have come to expect both functionality and comfort from their office environments. . Office art curation is becoming a more inclusive, collaborative experience that brings more creativity into office environments — in turn creating a positive workplace culture. Allwork.Space caught up with art studio Acrylicize’s Managing Director Paul Arad to learn how employers can use art to attract talent and ultimately make their employees happy. .

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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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Considering a job change or other life change? 7 questions to ask yourself first

Ideas.Ted

“How can I be the best ‘me’ possible?” . It’s a question you’ve probably asked yourself, at some time or another. Well, for nearly 20 years, Whitney Johnson has been exploring that question — studying writing, advising and coaching about human potential. She works with individuals, teams and organizations to help them reach their limits (in a good way!

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

BMT Office Administration

A little bit of procrastination at the office is surprisingly common, with 88% of workers reporting that they put off important work tasks for at least one hour each day. Yet, procrastination at work is a much more severe problem for some workers. 15 – 20% of workers say they avoid important tasks regularly, which qualifies as chronic procrastination.

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Why (And How) Executive Assistants Should Develop Business Acumen

Worxbee

One of the primary roles of an executive assistant is to add value to the business. Executives look to their assistants as strategic business partners. They want you to understand the ins and outs of the business and channel the executive or CEO when necessary. To be more effective in this role, it’s essential to develop strong business acumen. This will help you to be proactive and to be a valuable contributor to the business.

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Making Visual Presentations

Small Business CEO

Visuals play a role in any presentation , from PowerPoint slides to the latest data visualization. Most companies must utilize some form of visuals to convey information to their employees, customers, and other stakeholders. However, the design elements that influence visual communications are often overlooked. When making a presentation, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

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Ep 176: Sona Movsesian – Assistant to Conan O’Brien and Author of The World’s Worst Assistant

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Sona Movsesian is an executive assistant, author and media personality. She has been the personal and executive assistant of talk show host Conan O’Brien since 2009 and was featured in many of the show’s segments. She currently cohosts the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast , Sona shares the story of how she got the job working as Conan O’Brien’s assistant, what she enjoys about being an assistant, the importance of

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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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What I Learned from Keeping a Gratitude Journal

Success

Confession: Before this assignment, I’d never even considered keeping a gratitude journal. I imagined parchment, elf-crystals, perfumed writing chambers where the air is 75% mulberry incense and purple-haired millennials talking an awful lot about chakras. Gratitude is also an example of what humans call feelings, and I have spent an awful lot of energy trying to avoid those.

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5 Reasons to Question Everything

Success

We all know that kids ask a lot of questions. But here’s the real mystery: Why don’t adults ask more questions? Blame it on a grown-up world that tends to put more value on having answers than asking for them. Many of us think of a “questioner” as someone who’s more a thinker than a doer, whereas the successful go-getter is supposed to be confident, decisive and certain.

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10 Things the Gym Taught Me About Life

Success

For the past month, I have been posting raw and fairly unflattering gym selfies of me in the process of transformation at the gym to Facebook. Sorry “friends,” but I needed a place to be accountable and also to give myself some external recognition. My photo array, a visual depiction of change in progress, was intended to become the stuff of this essay.

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10 Favors You Can Do for Yourself Every Day

Success

“If you didn’t have a great experience in high school, it’s your fault.” I recently attended a high school graduation where the valedictorian shared this message with the graduating class. Did I hear that correctly? There was a murmur in the crowd. Let’s just say her message didn’t resonate with all of the high school seniors ready for the next chapter.

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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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Here Are 5 Benefits Virtual Reality Brings To Soft Skills Training

Allwork

More and more organizations are implementing or planning to implement a VR training program for soft skills. . While traditional training methods allow learners to put their knowledge to the test through in-person activities, logistical hurdles come into play when learners are remote or uncomfortable building their soft skills with others. . According to Patrick Manglano of Roundtable Learning, there are five top 5 benefits that VR brings to soft skill learning. .

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Hostile Work Environments Are Pushing 52% Of Black Women Out Of The UK’s Workforce

Allwork

Coqual, a global equity-championing think tank, has released a report into the experiences of Black British people. The report has revealed that 52% of Black women in the U.K. plan to leave the workforce. . 68% of Black employees in the U.K. have experienced racial prejudice at work. The report suggests that these hostile work environments are essentially driving Black women out of the workplace. .

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How to Speak Well… and Listen Better

Success

There are two sides to every conversation, and both are essential to the art of communication. So, how are your conversation skills? Think about it: Are you a smooth talker, or do you ramble? Are you an attentive listener , or do you tend to interrupt? Here’s how to master the art of conversation— both sides of it: When it’s your turn to talk …. 1. Get your thinking straight.

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Boo! The Scary, Frustrating Reality of Candidate Ghosting

Allwork

Ghosting used to be a complaint of job searchers, but now it seems candidates are ghosting prospective employers, too. . According to a survey by Indeed, 28% of job seekers have ghosted an employer — up from only 18% in 2019. . Renae Murphy, SVP Employee Experience at Xplor Technologies, explained to Allwork.Space just how employers can avoid being ghosted by potential employees to remain strong in the future of work.

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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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10 Tips for Setting Your Greatest Goals

Success

I’ve told people countless times that they’ve just got to ask for what they want. The problem is, most people don’t know what they want. You can’t ask for what you want unless you know what it is. So I’m going to start you on the wonderful path of painting your dreams into reality. I’m going to teach you the secrets behind setting—and achieving—your greatest ambitions.

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5 Tips for Using Your Time Wisely

Success

Let me give you some thoughts on time management. Here is a list of things you should consider to make the most of your time : 1. Run the day or it will run you. Part of the key to time management is just staying in charge. Here’s what usually happens: We start something and we’re in control, but as the day starts to unfold, we start losing it. It’s like running a business.

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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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Identifying Your Dream Is Only the First Step in Pursuing Your Passion

Success

Once you decide what you want to do or build or join or create, you’ve taken the first step in becoming a hero on a mission: you’ve invited yourself into a story. After you step into that story, you’ll exit what Viktor Frankl called “ the existential vacuum.” Life is now asking you a question that requires action to answer. Will you decide to work remotely and take your family on a yearlong trip around the world?

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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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Are Productivity Paranoia And Lack Of Trust The Real Obstacles To Hybrid And Remote Work?

Allwork

Half of all business leaders believe that when employees are working “out of sight,” they don’t work as hard. . Stanford University researchers doing a longitudinal study comparing productivity at different time periods found that remote workers were 5% more efficient than office-based ones in the summer of 2020. But this number improved to 9% by summer 2022. .

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Discover 5 Tips To Mitigate Workplace Harassment And Avoid Toxic Organizations

Allwork

81% of women and 43% of men have reported sexual harassment and/or assault in the workplace. . As an employee, it’s important to feel safe and secure in all workplace environments. . In a Q&A with Allwork.Space, Dr. Laura McGuire, a trauma-informed workplace training expert, shared her knowledge about how workers can advocate for themselves when experiencing discrimination or harassment in the workplace — and how to avoid companies that won’t address it. .

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4 Questions That Will Change Your Life

Success

Nothing stands still. Things either get better or they get worse— you are ?getting better or worse. It’s a universal principle starting with the universe itself: that which doesn’t expand, contracts. You are either going forward or backward. Stephen Covey referred to this kind of thinking as sharpening the saw. Just coasting along creates backward momentum and we end up using more effort to accomplish less.

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Online Friends With Benefits: Build A Remote Buddy System To Boost Productivity, Creativity, and Happiness

Allwork

Loneliness, unwanted distractions and a lack of motivation are some of the main issues facing people who continue to work remotely. . An online buddy system could be one solution to these challenges, but the onus is on company leaders to ensure that they support these systems by integrating them into the work culture. . Based on an online survey conducted by the virtual coworking service Focusmate , 93% of their remote coworking software users reported an increase in productivity.

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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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Your Boss Is Watching You. Will Bossware Change How And Where You Work?

Allwork

With bossware, data from keystrokes, communication with colleagues, logins, and more are monitored by a software system accessible to managers. . Workers are getting fired due to being monitored; 88% of employers terminated workers after implementing monitoring software. . The employee monitoring software market is forecasted to rapidly grow and reach $4.5 billion by 2026. .

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3 Things I’m Doing to Find My Own Definition of Success

Success

For as long as I can remember, I have been a fairly ambitious person. As a young child, I kept journals filled with ideas about what my future should look like. From dream jobs to where I would live, I’ve always had a good idea about what I wanted to accomplish in the years that followed. As I’ve grown older and started both a family and a career, I’ve experienced something I didn’t expect—I’m tired of chasing success.

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3 Signs That You’re About To Lose Your Job

Allwork

With a steep inflation and a potential recession looming, many industries should expect to face substantial layoffs in the coming months. . It’s crucial to know if you need to be looking for a new job because searches while employed are typically more successful and much less stressful than job hunting while unemployed. . Some major red flags indicating layoffs are coming include news of industry-wide layoffs, office/store closures, hiring freezes, freezes on bonuses or pay raises, co-worker

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