ProAssisting Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Connecting the Dots Between Service and Hospitality. While this post will use the creation of our business and our experience as the example, the video and understanding of the difference between service and hospitality can be beneficial to anyone looking to raise the bar of their own business, team or personal performance. Before we launched our remote executive assistant company, we had many discussions and asked many questions about how to leverage our unique experience to make us a different

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 14, 2021

Edelman released their 2021 Trust Barometer , which is an annual global study on the level of trust citizens have in institutions. The Trust Barometer focuses on trust in governments, corporations, NGOs and the media and Edelman has conducted this study for two decades. Not surprisingly, the past year was not a good one for institutional trust.  Key quote from Edelman: After a year of unprecedented disaster and turbulence – the Covid-19 pandemic and economic crisis, the global outcry over

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 29, 2021

How easy is it for you to say “no” to requests that you do not want to do? For many, it isn't easy! In today's fast-paced, activity-rich society, we are all juggling a lot of responsibilities. You believe that you are handling all of the items well, and nothing is falling yet. Then it happens: someone asks you to take on one more thing. You feel a little panic or resentment brewing in the back of your mind, but habit forces those feelings down, and you begin to say “yes”

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 22, 2021

Ways to Improve Your Organizational Skills as an Administrative Assistant It is incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to thrive in chaos. It feels disorganized, unscheduled, and without direction. If you’re unable to effectively organize your work and resources, you’ll likely find yourself twisting in the wind, unproductive, and unable to catch up.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 7, 2021

Career transitions for Executive Assistants Being an Assistant isn't for everyone. I mean, let's face it, the job has its challenges, and I think you have to love the role to succeed in it genuinely. If you think of the position as a stepping stone to something else or a job [.].

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Eat Your Career

JANUARY 4, 2021

For most career-minded professionals, goal setting is an essential part of the new year celebration. But sadly, few people know what to do once a goal is set. Consequently, they end up feeling overwhelmed, unsure of where to start or how to make real progress. Thus, many goals are quickly abandoned. If you’ve experienced this in the past and you’re ready to finally achieve your goals, you need to build a plan.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 26, 2021

The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Risk Report identifies the top risks faced by businesses and society over the next decade.   This the 16th year WEF has issued a global risk report and the results come from an extensive risk survey of a wide range of risk related professionals. As the WEF chart below shows (click to enlarge), they group the risks by likelihood and impact.

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 17, 2021

10 years ago, if you wanted to eliminate meat from your diet, you had very few options. You could obviously go with salads, nuts and crucifers, but if you wanted a more dense source of protein, you were out of luck. And I’m talking mostly about engineered protein-rich foods. Producers were just starting to understand. Read more. The post What’s Left After The Messy Beginning appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 23, 2021

If you’re going to start a business this year, you probably have come up with a plan already. Having a comprehensive plan in place is one of the most critical things you can do if you’re going to find success within your niche. However, while you might have thought about expenses such as employee salaries and what it will cost to rent a brick-and-mortar location, you might have forgotten about certain other potential expenditures.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 21, 2021

Understanding your personality and communication preferences Understanding your Executive's personality, behaviours and communication preferences are crucial to building an effective relationship and partnership. But! Before we do that you also have to do the work to understand your personality, behaviours and communication preferences! Being self-aware, understanding your personality and communication [.].

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Admin Awards

JANUARY 19, 2021

Nadine King is the Founder of Black Admin Magic and Author of The Ninja: Chronicles of an Assistant , Pastor, and a Coach. She is also a 20+ year Administrative veteran with experience supporting C-suite executives, vice presidents, executive directors, local church leaders, small business owners, and entrepreneurs as an executive assistant and virtual assistant.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 11, 2021

[link]. This ground-breaking podcast episode was recorded live, uncut, and streamed all over the world. In a workplace changed forever by the pandemic, Bonnie Low-Kramen and Vickie Sokol Evans wanted to know what HR really thinks about the Executive Assistant role and their value in the modern workplace. To address it, their expert guests are Johnny C.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 21, 2021

McKinsey's Ecosystem 2.0: Climbing to the next level summarizes ecosystem 2.0 as: In the emerging world of Ecosystem 2.0, data are the holy grail, the breakdown of sector borders is a given, and successful players try to lock in control points to expand horizontally and vertically across the grid. The article chart below, which shows the 7 largest companies in the world by market capitalization, really jumped out at us.  The reason is small businesses and independent workers are import

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 31, 2021

Today is the 31st day of my 365 days writing challenge. Since the beginning of the year I published a blog post each day, which means, so far, that the challenge is going as planned. I thought it would be useful to have some sort of a checkpoint every month (or less frequent, if there. Read more. The post 365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint One appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 22, 2021

Running a small business, even if that business is just you acting as a freelancer, isn’t easy, especially when you’re just starting out. It takes capital for initial expenditures like office space, utilities, equipment, advertising, and office supplies. Of course there are a number of business items you can get for free, like business cards, websites, and even free business phone numbers and services.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 20, 2021

Good email templates help you in providing all the information candidates need to be successful and comfortable during the process and it's vital for a recruiter to be aware of them. However, it’s easy to fall into the trap of copy-paste-send when using a template system especially in terms of tone, content & presentation. This makes your communication less noticeable as it's poorly personalized, harming the cordial relationship you might have built with your candidates early on in the recru

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Confessions of an Admin Junkie

JANUARY 27, 2021

I don’t know about you, but turning on the Conversations feature in Outlook can get me in trouble, if not just really embarrassed. After I updated a meeting invite today with last week’s agenda and materials (aack!), I knew I had to disable that Conversations feature. I was glad when Conversations came about. It let […].

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Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 13, 2021

By Bonnie Low-Kramen | January 13, 2021. Definition. Introvert: A reserved or shy person who enjoys spending time alone. In your day-to-day work life, you will likely encounter two types of people: the extroverted and the introverted. It can be easy to assume you know all there is to know about extroverts and introverts. Extroverts are more outgoing and louder than introverts, and so on.

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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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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 28, 2021

The number of people who have side hustles (also called side gigs) has been growing rapidly over the past 5 years.   The reasons for this growth - and how to start and run a side gig - are nicely explained in CNBC's extensive field guide The Ultimate Side Hustle Guide. Key quote on why more people are starting side gigs: "Starting a side business is one of the smartest financial moves you can make right now.

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 30, 2021

As time goes by, we are forced to accept the reality of a new normal. The global pandemic created by Covid-19 took with it not only millions of lives, but also deeply ingrained social structures. Among them, the modern state. As much as we still resist the obvious now, we will eventually come to terms. Read more. The post The Virus That Killed The Modern State appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 31, 2021

Every student groans when assigned to write an essay. Essays are tedious to write because you have to do so much work. In today’s day and age, there is so much to do and so many distractions that there are a ton of things that you’d rather do than completing boring schoolwork. But essay writing is an important skill to have. It pays off when you put in college applications, are pursuing higher studies, or even working in a large company. photo credit: Pixabay.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 11, 2021

Think about it this way. You are the candidate. Yes, we’re talking about recruiters. So, for a day, consider yourself to be a candidate. You have applied for a job and after 15 days you receive an automated email that mentions you’re not selected for the role. According to you, how helpful was that? (Also, does it do anything in terms of candidate experience ?

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Karen Vivarelli

JANUARY 24, 2021

How Christiana Nicole went from VA. to Website & Brand Stylist. Want to know how Christiana Nicole went from a career in the fashion industry to starting her virtual assistant business all during a global pandemic?! Well, keep on reading because she doesn’t hold anything back on what it was like for her! Christiana always knew she wanted to start her own business but she had no idea where to start.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 27, 2021

By Bonnie Low-Kramen. “The most important thing we can do before we die…is live.” Simon Sinek. We will all remember 2020 as the year that got put on “hold.” We had whiplash as assistants the world over had what felt like five minutes notice that their world was turning upside down. As we tried to catch our breath, by May we settled into working from home in the new “abnormal,” aka WFH.

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Small Business Labs

JANUARY 25, 2021

The 2021 edition of the annual Wunderman Thompson Future 100 report was released last year.  It's one of our favorite trend reports.  Here's how Wunderman Thompson, a global advertising and marketing agency, describes the report: The Future 100: Trends and Change to Watch in 2021   highlights  emerging consumer  behaviors  with 100 trend predictions from Wunderman Thompson Intelligence.

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Brilliantly Better

JANUARY 29, 2021

We’re human, so we’re flawed. By design, we go through existence by clinging to various perceptions. That’s how we make sense of the world, stacking clinging on top of clinging, forming identities and then navigating events based on those identities and values. Some of these attachments are “good”, some are “bad”, or toxic.

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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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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 4, 2021

If you don’t have good knowledge of tax laws or recently started a business you should consider hiring a professional for calculating and filing your taxes. Business taxes aren’t anything like personal taxes and require detailed reports of all business expenses & incomes. Unless you want to make any stupid mistake which might cost you in the long run, you should “ always ” hire a professional to file your taxes.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 22, 2021

Recruitment podcasts have been the talk of the staffing town since long now and last year, Recruit CRM had launched its podcast with a special series called "Recruitment Entrepreneurs" where we have been featuring amazing entrepreneurs from Human Resources, recruitment startups and even talent acquisition managers and leaders. Here we are with our 4th episode today.

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Melissa Peoples

JANUARY 15, 2021

Building a professional development plan can be a game-changer. Or at least, it was for me. My PDP allowed me to explore what I truly wanted in my career. I spent time considering what kind of role I was interested in, the type of partnerships that I was willing to invest in, and what my boundaries should be going forward. Through this process, I am continually re-assessing my goals, career objectives and prioritizing my professional growth and aspirations.

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 14, 2021

Are you looking for work you can do at home, due to the coronavirus pandemic? You may have been employed at a company that has not yet fully reopened, or you may be assisting your children with remote learning. Whatever the reason, you are not alone. By late spring, approximately 40% of Americans were working from home. A work from home administrative assistant handles highly varied tasks that every company needs to be successful.

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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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