Office Dynamics

JUNE 6, 2018

Do you have a healthy curiosity that you use in your day-to-day communications? I was inspired today to share with you 5 powerful communication strategies for administrative assistants that I often teach in my World Class Assistant Certification and Designation Program. However, I want to assure you that if you are not in the administrative profession, you will still greatly benefit from today’s topic.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 8, 2018

Today’s technology of the week: Zoom. Here are all the details… What is Zoom? Zoom is a cloud-based system which provides users with a video-conferencing and online meeting service along with webinars and file sharing functions. What does it do? Zoom has a number of features. You can use it for simple video-conferencing in your […].

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 8, 2018

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) caused quite a stir yesterday with the release of their 2017 Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangement (CWS) survey results.  Specifically, the report shows that the share of U.S. gig/contract workers in the U.S. workforce was slightly smaller than they reported the last time the survey was done, which was 13 years ago.

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 5, 2018

This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. The space where we do our work matters. Americans who are employed full time now work an average of 47 hours a week. In addition, employee expectations for their workplace experience are increasing, and many expect all the comforts of home in their office.

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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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Office Dynamics

JUNE 8, 2018

Each month we feature a question from our friends at Business Management Daily’s Admin Pro Forum. Please enjoy engaging in a conversation about this month’s question. Question: “I’ve told myself that if my boss takes a very bullying tone to me again, I’ll speak up about it. But in the heat of the moment, I tend to weaken and not defend myself from it.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 5, 2018

At this month’s Practically Perfect PA Virtual Summit we are incredibly lucky to have the Captain of BrewDog, James Watt and his First Mate, Bethany Burns. It’s certainly not every day you get to listen to the CEO of a $1 billion startup and his EA discuss their partnership! BrewDog is an inspirational success story […].

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Tips From T. Marie

JUNE 6, 2018

Look, I get it. I know that starting and running a business means a constant evaluation of what to spend money on. Maybe that’s why so many new business owners ask, “Do I need a website?” The answer is, “Yes.” Not maybe, not it depends, it’s just a simple, “Yes, you need a website.”. Period. Those same new business owners are inevitably going to follow up with a big, old, “Why?”.

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Productivityist

JUNE 4, 2018

This is a guest post by Austin L. Church. Austin is a writer and consultant who runs a branding and content agency called Balernum. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his lovely and patient wife Megan, and their two boys and one girl. He would tell you that his family and his faith are the reason he is so gung-ho about improving his focus, his business, and himself.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 4, 2018

Today, we are really excited to share our new giveaway with you. In conjuncture with Travelodge, we are giving one lucky Practically Perfect PA reader the chance to win a weekend stay at Travelodge’s new flagship hotel in the heart of London, Travelodge London City. Here are all the details: Win a weekend stay at […].

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 5, 2018

The Otis Report on the Creative Economy comes from the LA based Otis College of Art and Design.  The report covers the creative economy in California. And as their chart below shows, it's big. The study does a good job capturing self-employed creatives. This is important because independent workers comprise a large share of the creative workforce.

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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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Eco-Office Gals

JUNE 7, 2018

For decades, you could walk into any office in the country and see much the same thing — individual cubicles, shuttered windows and fluorescent lighting. People assumed this kind of office increased productivity — and for baby boomers, it’s entirely possible it did. Times are changing, though, and open-space offices are becoming the new norm. One way to improve productivity in these offices is to provide outdoor spaces.

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

JUNE 7, 2018

After a decade playing therapist to entrepreneurs in almost every industry you can name, I’m convinced that The Search for Freedom is one of the most dangerous, destructive ideologies an entrepreneur can pursue. . It will twist your brain. It will make you miserable. You’ll make bad decisions. You’ll likely screw up. And lose. . How could freedom – something so wholesome and valuable on the surface – be so paradoxically toxic?

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Productivityist

JUNE 6, 2018

On this episode of the podcast, I spoke with Craig Kulyk. Craig writes about how to customize your morning to build better habits and be more productive. We spoke about intentionality, how routines set the tone for the day, how you can shift and adapt your rituals over time and more. Here are a few highlights from the show: The power of routines. Building constraints (or you find yourself eating too many cookies).

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 7, 2018

Accounting has come a long way in the past few decades. It wasn’t all that long ago when the most reliable method in keeping track of income and expenses involved a paper ledger and pencil. With the arrival of new technology, computers have taken the work out of figuring out the numbers and bookkeeping has become much easier as a result. With the creation of accounting software, any size business can use it and features include far more than calculating the bottom line.

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Eco-Office Gals

JUNE 6, 2018

Consumers love products that in one way or another help the environment. This demand for ‘green’ products and services has not gone unnoticed by corporate America. Environmental conservation has played a major role in reshaping the corporate landscape of America since the late 1960’s onward as environmental policy reform began gaining popularity. This support for decreasing pollution and unnecessary waste has translated into a series of laws regulating the American business sector.

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Three Shots Ahead

JUNE 2, 2018

Last night The East London Federation of Suffragettes were appropriately remembered at the launch of the newly recreated Women’s Hall at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives. The lobby of the Grade II listed building, almost unrecognisable, had.

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The Marq

JUNE 5, 2018

Today's the California Primary Elections. As a first generation immigrant and US Citizen of over a decade, I highly encourage you to have your voice heard by voting. Copyright(c) 2017 TheMarq.com.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 6, 2018

One of the problems with contracted jobs is the cost. Now really, the cost isn’t the actual problem, it’s the sticker shock your customers get when they find out how much their project will cost. They simply aren’t prepared to face a $10,000 or $20,000 (or more) price tag and immediately have second thoughts. So what can you do about this? One way to help is to make it clear there are ways to finance the job available and you can help them use one of them.

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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 CEO

JUNE 4, 2018

While most business owners or people involved in business marketing know about SEO and the on-page efforts that go into it, there are actually quite a few things that happen off your actual website’s pages that can affect your SEO as well. So whether you’re doing all your own SEO work or are working with an SEO agency to do the bulk of the heavy lifting, here are three off-page tactics that you can use to help improve your overall SEO strategy and online rankings.

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Small Business CEO

JUNE 5, 2018

We have all seen CEOs walk the halls of the workplace and thought to ourselves, “man, that person has this all figured out! Smart, confident and at the pinnacle of their career”. While you may catch yourself fantasizing about being in their position, you may not understand the behaviors and thinking patterns that led to that person’s success. Even the lowest level employees can start themselves on a path that will eventually lead to them thinking and behaving like a CEO.

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