Virtual Moxie

JUNE 14, 2019

In any interaction with a client, there’s your space, her space, and the space between you that’s available to be shared. Many times, we tend to stay in our own spaces—coming from our own perspectives, caring mostly about our own agendas, and it often gets us what we need in the interaction, but it can be a bit shallow. You can go so much deeper, and have a more rich and connected interaction if you step out of your own space into the center you share with your clients.

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Small Business Labs

APRIL 9, 2019

According to MetLife's 2019 U.S. Employee Benefits Study, 23% of Americans with full-time traditional jobs intend to switch to gig work over the next 5 years. Another 14% say they are considering it.  As the study chart below shows, younger workers more likely to say they're intending to leave their job for gig work than older workers.    The reasons those with full-time jobs say they are interested in gig work are increased schedule flexibility, the ability to work whe

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 14, 2019

As a proud former administrative professional , I’ve always enjoyed being a part of the admin community. In fact, from the moment I got involved in the field, I wanted to be an admin leader. I felt called to it from day 1. I loved the work and the people, and (even as a total novice) I thought I had something valuable to offer. So, back in 2006, I started a blog for admins called The Executive Assistant’s Toolbox, where I shared tips and tricks for success in the field.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 19, 2019

Office Dynamics has put together a list of books for administrative assistants and executive assistants that will help you with your professional development and personal life. Because we had so many great choices we decided to make it a little easier for you to find what you are looking for by breaking the blog into two sections. The first half of the blog contains titles that are dedicated towards the administrative assistant and executive assistant while the second half of the blog contains t

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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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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How do you feel when someone gives you feedback at work? Are you open to feedback, or do you feel defensive? What happens when you have challenges at work? Do you face them head-on, or do you avoid the situation? As Assistants, we often come up against misconceptions about the role. How do you feel […].

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On The Job

JANUARY 30, 2019

One day when I was on deadline frantically trying to complete a story, my instant messaging app popped up with something like: "Anita didn't check the database and now I'm having to recreate this work. *sigh*" The IM was from my direct editor to another editor. I really didn't give it much thought, other than to instantly reply: "What? Is this message to me?

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 19, 2019

The largest financial market in the world is the foreign exchange market. It enables currency conversion for investments and trades worldwide with its massive trading volume. People are able to exchange, speculate, buy, and sell on currencies through the foreign exchange market and they are able to optimize their profits by investing in the forex market.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, a banana duct-taped on a wall, named the “Comedian”, was sold as an art piece for $120.000. The ripples of this event were instant, viral and, for what it looks like, persistent, with no sign of slowing down. Most of the comments on the internet were pointing at the absurdity. Read more On Art And Bananas. The post On Art And Bananas appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

You might already have an ATS that you’re looking to replace or maybe you’re looking to buy your first system. It’s 2021 and if you’re reading this, you’re probably looking for a new applicant tracking system. With dozens of systems to choose from, choosing the right ATS/CRM for your business is a daunting task! Don’t worry though, You have us here.

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Creating new habits is a struggle for almost every person on the planet. Have you ever met anyone who said, “I wanted to do this…and so I did. Boom! I’m perfect.”? No? Neither have I. If you are this unicorn, I’d love to meet you! For the rest of us, habit building is a constant cycle of start, joy, frustration, stopping, and restarting.

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Virtual Moxie

AUGUST 5, 2019

I wouldn’t have been able to tell you whether I identify as an integrator or a segmenter, but I immediately saw myself as a segmenter the morning that I read this article by Melody Wilding. Managing my work and life so that there’s more living in my life hasn’t been an issue for me for a very-long time because I segment like a champ.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 9, 2019

Despite trade wars, tariffs, and the erection of other barriers to cross-border commerce, independent workers, freelancers and solopreneurs are increasingly finding customers outside U.S. borders. As the MBO Partners State of Independence study chart below shows (click to enlarge), in 2019 22% of Independent workers who work full-time as independent workers said they provided goods or services to customers outside the U.S.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 9, 2019

This is the second article in a two-part series on the topic of Professional Development Plans. In the first part of this series, you learned that a professional development plan (or PDP) is a written document used to focus, evaluate and prioritize professional development goals and activities. In this article, you’re going to learn exactly what should be included in a PDP document and the simple 10-step process I use to write a PDP.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 7, 2019

I created the above visual as an image of the ideal situation between an executive and their assistant, especially when it comes to communication. Because of all the technology today, assistants have a very hard time staying “in the loop.” When an assistant is aware of what is going on or what is on the horizon, she or he can better anticipate, be proactive, plan better, foresee barriers, look more professional, and reduce stress.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 3, 2019

Well, that is us in 2019 folks! Happy New Year. Firstly before I start this blog, I want to say a huge thank you to all of the Practically Perfect PA readers who are joining us for another year on the blog. We have been going now since 2011, and I can’t wait to see […].

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On The Job

MARCH 27, 2019

Once an employer gets around to checking your references, you may be feeling quite confident that a job offer is coming your way. Hold on. According to an Accountemps survey , one in three candidates are removed from job consideration after checking with their references. The problem is often that references don't know that they're your references because you neglected to ask them.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Photo by Marcel Hol from FreeImages. The following post is a guest contribution from Stewart Dunlop. I haven’t taken guest posts in a while but the topic of burnout has come up a lot lately and when Stewart asked if he could write something about for my blog, I jumped at the chance. Stewart is a content guy at Foundr with a passion for writing articles that you will want to read.

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Small Business CEO

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Any business with involves an online presence needs email marketing to grow. Email marketing is crucial because it improves your revenue, increases your communication, and reach significantly, is measurable, flexible, and scalable. Email marketing can do much more. Here is how email marketing for business can help you achieve your dreams. 1. People use email a lot.

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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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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 3, 2019

One of the new things I tried lately is playing CashFlow. It’s the board game created by Robert Kiyosaki, the author of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” Before diving too deep into this, let me tell you that I didn’t read… The post 5 Financial Habits Enforced By Playing CashFlow appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Ever since I discovered Chrome Extensions, I have been a fan. They are extremely useful and often come in handy. We have curated a list of 19 Chrome Extensions for recruiters, of course, you won’t be needing all of them but feel free to choose the one you like. It’s time to do some serious recruiting in 2019. 1.) Recruit CRM Sourcing Extension. Source candidates & clients from anywhere with the handy Recruit CRM extension.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Innovation happens in many places and has many faces. Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain. This requires effective team work and a supporting methodology that aims to treat your team more like an agile soccer team if you think about it so that anyone can effect

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

APRIL 10, 2019

Entrepreneurs always need to work on their self-consciousness. Your decision to be an entrepreneur comes with a big problem: Building a business is a guaranteed, never-ending exercise in pushing outside your comfort zone. Eek! When you’re doing it right, becoming an entrepreneur is the biggest commitment to personal growth a human can make. But all that growth is uncomfortable as hell.

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Small Business Labs

MAY 13, 2019

Deloitte has become, in our opinion, one of the key go-to sources of information and analysis on the future of work. Their recent article Redefining work, workforces, and workplaces is a good example. In a relatively short article, it nicely synthesizes and explains "multiple converging trends and how they are already fundamentally changing all aspects of work."   As the article chart above shows (click to enlarge), they focus on three main areas: work, workforce and workplace.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

These days, people talk a lot about adding value in the workplace. Specifically, everyone wants to know how to become a more valuable employee. After all, when you add more value at work, you should (in theory) receive more value as well. It’s only natural; contributing at greater levels should enable you to earn at greater levels too. In my newest book, The Invisibility Cure , I cover this topic in depth.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 18, 2019

Organization skills for administrative assistants are one of the most valuable skills to have as an administrative assistant. Without the ability to organize your work and your resources, you could be twisting in the wind in no time. You may have been able to muddle along back in the day, but in today’s competitive environment, you need to work any advantage in your favor.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 6, 2019

Enjoy today’s Day in the life: Hayley Lawrence, PA Regional General Manager and Administration Assistant to Founders Office – Necker & Moskito Islands, in The British Virgin Islands. I love this interview because it shows how exciting, different, challenging and incredible our profession is! Day in the life: Hayley Lawrence, PA to Regional General Manager and […].

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On The Job

JUNE 5, 2019

When you're job searching, the advice is to "clean up your social media presence." But what does that mean, exactly? For example, when you were told to clean up your room as a kid, my hunch is that your version of "clean" was a lot different than your mom's. So, what you consider offensive online today may be a whole lot different than what will raise a red flag with a hiring manager.

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Productivityist

MAY 24, 2019

For years I’ve been a champion of steering clear of email when you’re trying to manage your tasks. Every time I have witnessed someone using Outlook or Gmail as a to do list, I cringed and did my best to get them to see the light of day and start using an actual task management or to do list application for getting things done instead. But I’ve since changed my tune.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 22, 2019

Successful entrepreneur and marketing expert Luke Lazarus recommends focusing on brand messaging as a path to success. With an extraordinary record of building and selling four new businesses in Australia in only 10 years, he counsels new business owners on the proven methods that led to his success instead of continuing as a serial entrepreneur. Lazarus regards most entrepreneurs as “highly intelligent and generally talented,” but his experience as a consultant informs his opinion that they lac

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 11, 2019

I’ve been a huge fan of productivity – and by productivity I understand “the art of doing more stuff in less time”, a definition which supports the assumption that “the more you do, the better you are” In some ways,… The post Five Ways To Better Your Life By Slowing Down appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 15, 2019

Motivating your team Now you have a team and have assignments to do. One of the most important elements of building a business is the motivation of your team to achieve organizational goals. Much as enough has been spoken and written about motivational factors and hygiene factors in a work […] Source.

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BioTeams

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Many of us have heard the story about the classical race between the tortoise and hare but did you know that there is a version 2.0 of that metaphor? In essence, there was a re-match as the rabbit wanted to prove that being the fastest and ergonomically conducive animal, it would win the second race. Here, the tortoise was obviously left behind but the hare came to a major roadblock in their race track i.e. the bank of a river.

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Call it whatever you want – on some level we all experience some level of guilt around our jobs, especially if our work is particularly demanding. Today, there’s a focused emphasis on “Mom Guilt” but the reality is that dads experience it, caregivers experience it, married people experience it, single people experience it. Unfortunately, the guilt is real for most workers.

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