Allwork

JANUARY 26, 2023

Despite the world’s latest four-day workweek experiment resulting in higher-than-expected job satisfaction and productivity, this arrangement is still out of reach for many. The concept has, at the very least, become mainstream. So much so, that more companies have started toying with the idea of staggering shorter work weeks, particularly as the UK trial showed that 86% of participating companies called the experiment a success.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 24, 2023

Administrative assistants wear many hats. While their duties range wildly, one of the most important elements of their role is calendar management. This often overlooked and commonly minimized task is so critical that it represents one of the most frequent questions I receive. How do I help my executive maximize their time?

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

So you think you’re creative? We’re going to guess you do. In an informal poll, we asked friends, family members and neighbors the same question, and the results were unanimous: A retired accountant: yes. The barista at a favorite local coffee shop: yes. A neuroscience researcher: yes. A dog walker: yes. The across-the-hall neighbor, a photographer and a stay-at-home parent: yes.

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Tips From T. Marie

JANUARY 25, 2023

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to make their dreams come true while others can’t seem to get started? Being the start of a new year, lots of home business owners set business resolutions in hopes of achieving those dreams. The disappointment usually comes about the third week of January for most people. Luckily there is a great tool that can make a huge difference in your ability to manifest your goals.

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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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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 23, 2023

The latest Workplace Survey from the Gensler Research Institute sets out to explore how employees are spending their time as they return to the office, how offices can more successfully support them, and the strategic design interventions that will have the biggest impact on the workplace experience. As companies consider the future of their workplaces, the new data suggests that U.S. employees are looking for offices that are both highly effective and offer a desirable mix of experiences.

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Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

Goal-setting theory describes the mechanisms that best engage and motivate employees. It implies tactics you can use to increase productivity on your team or throughout your organization. These tactics include setting goals that are specific and realistic yet challenging. Best practices in goal setting also require a completion date for a project. Milestones with due dates for smaller tasks that are part of that goal also motivate your teams.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 23, 2023

Over four in five (83 percent) HR professionals across the UK say that hybrid working is essential in attracting the best talent, according to a new survey from flexible workspace operator IWG. The poll of 500 UK HR professionals suggests that benefits like hybrid working, which give employees a better work/life balance, are crucial for attracting talent.

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Success

JANUARY 24, 2023

Think before you speak. Seems obvious, doesn’t it? After all, there are some things a good leader and boss should never say to an employee. But, be real, do you actually thing before speaking? No? Then shhh! There are some things you should never be caught saying—especially if you call yourself a leader. Because you have the power to influence people , you’ve got to choose the right words.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 26, 2023

Many administrative assistants understand the layered and nuanced complexities of successfully planning a business trip for their executives. While travel planning may seem like an easy task in the modern world of online booking, it is actually a deceptively difficult one. Planning a trip takes forethought, preparation, flexibility, and empathy.

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Allwork

JANUARY 23, 2023

By creating an environment of collaboration, trust and open communication, organizations can ensure a successful transformation to a learning mindset approach in the hybrid work environment. Peter Miscovich recently sat down with Allwork.Space’s Future of Work Podcast to discuss the benefits of the hybrid workplace, as well as the leading role trust, learning and technology play in successful global collaboration.

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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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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 26, 2023

Bisley is to present its first ever showcase at the Stockholm Furniture Fair (7-11 February 2023), illustrating the multitude of innovative ways in which the brand’s collections can support and enhance home working. Organised in four zones, the stand will focus on key products which tell the story of Bisley’s wide-ranging expertise in designing and manufacturing office furniture solutions, at home and in the workplace.

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Success

JANUARY 22, 2023

Trust is valuable. It affects everything. Being a trustworthy person is one of those things which is necessary in order to go far in life and to achieve your greatest success. Before starting my own company, I worked in the security and investigations industry for 20 years, and I learned that trust isn’t something you can gain quickly. It’s something earned over a period of time, after consistently being honest, always acting with integrity and never misleading those around you.

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Jennie Lyon

JANUARY 24, 2023

Creating a strategic social media monthly content plan is essential to achieving your business objectives and engaging your target audience. With the ever-changing landscape of social media, it can be difficult to know where to start. We get that. That’s why in today’s episode, I will walk you through the steps of creating a plan… The post How to Create a Strategic Social Media Monthly Content Plan appeared first on Jennie Lyon Digital Marketing Services Inc.

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2023

Organizations tend to take a virtual-first, function-first or culture-first approach to hybrid working. Visioning workshops and ecosystem mapping can help employers figure out their approach and refine it. Office space utilization can help make or break an organization’s bottom line and its ability to retain talent. Hybrid working has become much more common for desk-based businesses, but how does a business owner know if their employees are happy with the arrangement?

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 23, 2023

As the CEO or executive of a start-up, whether pre-IPO or Series A, B, C, or Seed, the current economic market may have you concerned. In a market like this, your liquidity runway is important and hiring might seem counterintuitive. But there is one critical hire to consider: an Executive Assistant or an Executive/Personal Assistant. Founders and CEOs may be concerned that this appears fiscally extravagant or not in keeping with the lean, flat and non-traditional start-up culture.

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Success

JANUARY 27, 2023

What are the characteristics and skills of a good entrepreneur ? What’s the “it” factor that makes for a great entrepreneur? To be a basketball star, it’s likely that you would need to be extremely tall, fast, athletic and have real chops. But for someone studying entrepreneurship and business, the qualities of a great entrepreneur are more abstract and elusive.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 26, 2023

Siemens and Skyway have reached an agreement to work together to determine the electrical and digital infrastructure needed to support vertiport operations. Vertiports are hubs for vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles such as air taxis and drones. The scope of collaboration involves both companies researching energy demands of vertiports and developing sustainable electrical supply, standard charging processes, and a “system of systems” to support aircraft operations.

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Allwork

JANUARY 26, 2023

Digital nomadism is on the rise, and more countries are offering specific visas that make it easier to live, work and travel. Iceland, Barbados, Seychelles and Portugal are all coastal hotspots for nomads offering an eclectic range of lifestyles, cultures and outdoor activities for remote workers. These locations offer abundant coworking spaces , digital nomad communities, and fast internet connection to support your digital nomad journey.

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All Things Admin

JANUARY 26, 2023

​Whether you’re using it for travel planning, procedures development, project management, or just basic notetaking, OneNote is one of the most dynamic software programs out there for administrative professionals. Previously, I talked about two of my favorite OneNote features – color coding and custom tags. If you haven’t checked out that blog post, you can find it here.

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

When I was in seventh grade, I got beat up by a skinny little girl with an umbrella. To make that picture perfectly clear, I’m saying a girl about three-eighths my size took her umbrella and beat the ever-living crap out of me with it. In front of people. It was a Hello Kitty umbrella, to add insult to minor injuries. It seemed a little immature to bring a Hello Kitty umbrella to school at that age, but I was in no position to judge.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Society of Light and Lighting has launched the latest Lighting Guide 07 (LG7): Offices [paywall for non CIBSE members]. There have been considerable developments since the previous edition, published in 2015. The new guide considers hybrid working, addressing uncertainty around how office space will be used in the future. With increased hybrid working and the use of portable devices, people are spending less time at their desks and in the office.

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Allwork

JANUARY 27, 2023

The desires of workers are always evolving and the future is ever-changing, but it looks like pay transparency is going to sustain its popularity with the working class. Maggie Hulce, Indeed executive vice president & GM of enterprise, told Allwork.Space that better matches happen faster when clearer pay expectations are set upfront between a job seeker and employer.

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Admin Awards

JANUARY 25, 2023

An Interview with Alanna Disque, Executive Assistant, West Monroe and Winner of the 2022 Dallas Fort Worth Admin Awards Spirit Award What is your current job title and company? What does your company do? I am an Executive Assistant at West Monroe, a digital services firm. Our motto is ‘Don’t do digital, be digital!’ West Monroe partners with Fortune 1000 companies in multiple industries such as financial services, private equity, consumer & industrial products, energy & utilities, health

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Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

You know those people, the ones who are proficient at their job. But, if you’re being completely honest, they’re no rock stars. Yet, somehow, they always seem to get promoted—and it irks you because you know you’re better at the job than they are. They just might be more likeable. Here’s the thing. It is not that we are doing something wrong; it is simply human nature to be driven by a primal need for connection.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 27, 2023

The ThinkingWall Divider range from Logovisual is a collection of sleek, stable mobile dividing walls featuring web connected AV technology, drywipe surface and storage. The units are large enough to work alone or in pairs as a divider, but easy to move around to reconfigure space. Use ThinkingWall Dividers to split larger areas with no need for any floor or ceiling mounting.

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Allwork

JANUARY 25, 2023

Leaders are worried about the professional growth and cultural integration of junior staff in hybrid and remote workforces, in part because the future of any organization depends on developing its junior staff into future leaders. A key component of a hybrid development and integration program involves on-the-job training, which can easily be done in a small-group style on selected in-office days, with one senior staff member helping train six to eight junior employees.

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Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

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Productivityist

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this episode of A Productive Conversation, I sit down with Canadian business growth guru Cameron Herold to discuss the concept of the “second in command.” Cameron is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies’ exponential growth and has earned his reputation as the business growth guru. He is the author of six books – including The Second in Command – an international speaker, and the founder of the COO Alliance, the World’s Leading Network for Seconds in

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Success

JANUARY 21, 2023

Do you get nervous before speaking in public ? You take the stage, scan the crowd and suddenly realize that you haven’t practiced as much as you should have—but there’s nothing you can do now. And that’s when the butterflies kick into high gear. We’ve all been there. Job interviews are no different. The more insight you have into your position and the company you’re interviewing for, the more poised you’ll be during your talk with the hiring manager.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 25, 2023

The news last year that the M&S flagship Orchard House store on Oxford Street in London was to be demolished to make way for a new mixed-use development of shops, offices, restaurants and a gym sparked a very British sort of debate about the pros and cons of retrofit and refurbishment. This is M&S after all. It may not be the cultural touchstone it once was but it remains an institution.

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2023

When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed she would step down from her role , initial reactions were shock. However, when considering the tragedy the country faced during her five years as leader, it’s understandable how even the world’s most prominent leaders need to take a step back. In 2019, the country experienced one of the worst mass shootings in world history in which over 50 people were killed.

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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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