Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

What does your career path look like? I have been working as the Senior EA at PZ Cussons for over a year now and have developed my role to become an integral part of the ExCo Team. As we have operations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, amongst others, I am already looking at ways to improve how all of the EAs spread across the globe can work more efficiently as a team, and make a more telling contribution to the ExCo and Senior Management Teams.

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Office Organization Success

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

“I don’t have time for a vacation!” “My family are sick of talking to my back as I’m constantly hunched over my desk!” “Give me five more minutes … and I’ll watch that movie with you.” Does any of this sound familiar? I hear it a lot from entrepreneurs. They start their business because they want freedom … a flexible schedule.

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The Small Business Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Devising an effective course that meets a demand in your industry is only the start of a long journey towards making your training course profitable. In order to fill your course up with attendees, you will need a multi-faceted approach to marketing. To maximise the reach of your training, and to ensure that the people… Read the full article here: 5 Ways to Promote Your Training Course through Effective Marketing on: THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I usually share tips on combating the Monday-morning “blahs,” especially after a nice, relaxing weekend. I recently met someone who says she has a different problem: “Monday, I am refreshed from the weekend and ready to tackle just about anything,” she explains. “But by Friday, I am usually struggling to finish what I started. I’m pooped!”. That’s an interesting twist on the same theme, and a challenge that some of you probably face as well.

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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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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Officing Today's Regus' Strategy to Win Over the New Generation of Workers  covers two new Regus brands designed to appeal to the many folks choosing coworking spaces over Regus' traditional office suites. The brands are ThinkKora and Spaces.  Key quote on why Regus thinks it needs other brands: Regus is well aware of the fact that young, cool, hip, and creative people may not associate their aspirations with a corporate Regus environment.

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Productivity Bits

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

If you are like most knowledge workers, chances are you spend most of the day working and sitting in front of the computer. This type of job involves repetitive tasks, a slow pace of work, and poor work postures and movements can lead to Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Observing good practices at work can prevent such work-related injuries. These are the 3 main areas that you need to maintain to remain healthy and productive at work: Body Fitness Your body is prone to injury if you are not h

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We would all like to be a little greener but being eco-friendly at work doesn’t always seem the easiest task. It doesn’t have to be difficult though. If the willingness is there, it doesn’t have to cost the earth – excuse the pun – or require drastic changes to your work environment. You don’t even have to be the boss or in charge of the office budget to start some green office initiatives with some of these easy ideas: Car share.

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Tips From T. Marie

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

After 8+ years of being the owner of a small business, there are a ton of lessons I’ve learned. Many of them have been critical in keeping my business going as long as it has. Some of the most critical lessons have been things like understanding value vs price , and the importance of knowing when to pivot and adopt new things. But perhaps the most important lesson I’ve learned as a business owner and personally is the one thing I should never do.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

At Office Dynamics International we love what we do. Part of what we do is provide tools and services to administrative professionals to enhance the quality of their work-life that promote administrative excellence. We offer high level coaching, onsite workshops, an annual conference for administrative excellence, an executive assistant boot camp and more.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

There's lots of people criticizing independent work these days as being too unpredictable, risky and all around bad for both workers and the economy. But a pattern we've noticed is almost all the criticism comes from people with traditional jobs. This got us thinking about risk profile differences between independent workers and those with traditional jobs.

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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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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

by Today’s post is about the Gem Genie , a jewelry organizer created by local gal Brody McHugh, who lives in Mill Valley. Brody’s inspiration was her own jewelry drawer. Over time, she’d collected stacks of tiny boxes, larger boxes, zippered bags, bags with little snaps, etc. Her jewelry took up a lot of space in an awkward configuration. All the containers were opaque so she often hunted for particular pieces, or forgot about them entirely.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

What is Touchjet Pond Projector? The Touchjet Pond is great piece of kit from over the pond. It is a tiny projector / tablet with built in WiFi and sound. What does it do? This nifty devise is a mixture of a projector and a tablet. It can project an image, around the same size as an 80 inch TV, and users can also download Android Apps which makes it a very big tablet.

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Almost all of the positons worked in today’s offices and cubicles around the world are worked entirely with technology. Be it computers, phones, tablets, and other digital devices, seldom will you find a position that doesn’t utilize at least a computer. But one, non-technological phenomena in today’s business world is the continued use of paper timesheets and timecards to manually add-up and calculate hours.

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Tips From T. Marie

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

If you’ve been reading my blog or following me on social media for any length of time, you know that I’m a lover of technology. From my online tech services to reading my books on a Kindle , I love tech and tech gadgets. So why did I recently purchase a paper planner to keep track of my schedule? I’ve been using calendars in Outlook, Google calendar and on my iPhone for years.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It’s no secret that our world is changing faster than anyone thought possible. As an assistant in the modern workplace, it can feel practically impossible to keep up with the ever-evolving landscape of technology, innovation, and connectivity. All too often, assistants struggle to adapt. Even those who are naturally agile still feel pulled along by forces outside their control.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

CB Insights  From DogBnBs To Subscription Dog Treats: The Tech Startups Unbundling PetSmart covers the growing number of pet focused startups.  BTW, if you're interested in what's happening with startups or venture capital you should definitely subscribe to CB Insights' newsletter  and/or follow their blog. Both are free and they do a great job covering these topics.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

by When I taught organizing skills at adult school, I devised this matrix to bust some myths about organized people. I did it because I realized that many students, although they’d paid money and were attending the class, had some negative ideas about what being organized means. I also knew that my students weren’t going to get very far if they thought that the place they were going wasn’t any fun!

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

I have worked as an EA for the last for and half years within Core One Technologies, a financial IT company based in the city. Back in April 2011 I started as a team assistant to an office of 25 people but as time went on I started to get involved in finance, human resources and marketing along with the office management. Soon my role was growing quickly and even though this was all change it was exciting and kept be busy and interested.

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving! I have so much to be thankful for, including Eco-Office Gals. I could never ask for a better gift then the ability to be my own boss and work with some of the most amazing clients. I’ve had the pleasure of working with creative entrepreneurs and small businesses, building their little piece of web real estate.

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This Thanksgiving, I wanted to take just a few minutes to discuss the gift of work. I know it’s easy for many of us (myself included) to forget that work is indeed just that: a precious gift. I’m currently in the process of doing a major home re-organization. In fact, I’m hoping to share some of what I’m doing in a video later this week, so stay tuned.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I hope you are feeling awesome today. I’m going to go out on a limb here and proclaim, even if you aren’t feeling awesome-yet, today is going to be awesome. Do you ever wake up on a work day morning and think, “Another day going to work, taking the kids to day care, cooking dinner, and going to sleep. Is that all there is to life?” There are days we feel that way and there are weeks when we feel that way.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Regular readers know we like new buzz words here at Small Business Labs. So we had to post on "Bleisure" - a term describing the blending of business and leisure travel. According to CNN , Bleisure travel is defined as: a term used to define professionals who are shunning the all-work-and-no-fun grind of business trips by mixing them with vacation time.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

by Yesterday I wrote about the value of writing it all down when. you’re trying to figure out what to do first. This technique works for other. kinds of decision making too. If you have a big decision to make that you can give. a yes or no answer to, you can make a list of the pros and cons. Examples are: Should. I take this job? Should I buy that particular car?

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

We recently worked with Gallus Events who managed our Assist Travel event in London. The event management was seamless and one of the main reasons was because they used an online event registration / management platform called Eventbrite. I’ve mentioned Eventbrite a few times on the blog and it has been my ‘event tech of the week’ So good is the system that I wanted to highlight it to you guys.

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Eco-Office Gals

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Summer: the time of long, hot, days and nights, dense green foliage and lazy barbecue-filled afternoons. But as enjoyable as the summer months can be, it’s all too easy for your home to overheat. Air conditioning is a common way to deal with this problem, but too much AC has many detriments: it can be very costly, especially during heat waves; it contributes to a lack of adaptation to the heat that can cause discomfort; and the power consumption in these days of climate change can increase your

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Eat Your Career

NOVEMBER 26, 2015

This Thanksgiving, I wanted to take just a few minutes to discuss the gift of work. I know it’s easy for many of us (myself included) to forget that work is indeed just that: a precious gift. I’m currently in the process of doing a major home re-organization. In fact, I’m hoping to share some of what I’m doing in a video later this week, so stay tuned.

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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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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Well, I have finally recuperated from our big annual conference for administrative excellence. We hosted 250 energetic administrative professionals from around the world for 4 days. We had an awesome event and amazing speakers this year who taught us how to be resilient. Each speaker took a different facet or element of resiliency and I talked about being proactively resilient.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Up until now, entrepreneurs raising money through crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter promised their backers products in exchange for funding.  But last week the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a law allowing the general public to participate in equity crowdfunding campaigns.  The new rules will allow small investors to buy shares of private companies under the provisions of the Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups (JOBS) Act.

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Clutter Coach

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

by Starting is hard. It means going from a standstill into some. useful activity that you may not feel confident about doing. Once you have. started, though, it’s much easier to. continue. That’s why I have a bunch of tricks for just getting started, any. which way. One typical problem people have is that everything they need. to do seems equally important.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Networking events are vital to the visibility of a business and present valuable opportunities to build strategic relationships. The importance of such events is no secret. £375 billion a year is spent on events worldwide with £40 billion of that being spent in the UK. Advancements in digital technology are boosting the value of business events. Assistants can organise for interactive technology to be integrated to give both hosts and attendees a richer experience.

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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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