15 Grammar Goofs that make you look silly
ProAssisting Blog
MARCH 6, 2012
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MARCH 6, 2012
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On The Job
MARCH 30, 2012
I remember the first time I saw myself on Skype. Holy cow! Where did those bags under my eyes come from? And why did my hair look so hideous? Thankfully, I was just chatting to my 2-day-old niece, so she didn't seem to mind. But I sure did. I knew that I needed to step up my game and not look like something out of Twilight if I needed to use video conferencing for business.
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Virtual Moxie
MARCH 29, 2012
If you have a good relationship with a client and there's a problem with the relationship, it's a no brainer to dive in and clean things up and move forward. But if the relationship is rocky and there's a problem, you're far more likely to want to throw in the towel than work through it. In those moments, work. Work to make it right. Work to work it out.
Office Dynamics
MARCH 29, 2012
We are blogging for the administrative profession! Join our Administrative Professional Blog-a-thon. April 2-30, 2012. Hello! April is a time we cherish here at Office Dynamics. The first quarter of the has passed and soon we will be celebrating administrative professionals around the world during Administrative Professionals Week! Well, here at Office Dynamics part of our celebration of YOU is to hold an April Blog-a-thon for the Administrative Profession.
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Productivity Bits
MARCH 29, 2012
Email has been around for quite some time now. Email holds a very important role in our daily interaction with our fellow human beings. For many of us, email is a simplistic form of communication – one that wouldn’t take too much of our brain power to do. But if you are like some people, email is not as intuitive as it’s supposed to be.
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Eat Your Career
MARCH 29, 2012
So, you’re not happy at work. “But,” you wonder, “is anyone?”. Maybe you expect too much. Maybe you have some unrealistic idea of what career fulfillment looks like. Maybe this is as good as it gets. Maybe. After all, no job is perfect. But, there might be one that’s a little closer to perfect. Or a way to make your existing career MORE perfect. Here’s one way of looking at it: If you were to rate your career satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is perfectly satisfied and 1 is perfectly
Step It Up VA Coaching
MARCH 29, 2012
by Donna Toothaker. One of the principal ways I created a business so quickly and successfully was by creating an affiliate program. What is an affiliate program? It is a reward system for referrals to your business. In my case, I would offer a commission to peers, clients and others (affiliates) when people they referred to me signed on as clients.
Virtual Moxie
MARCH 29, 2012
When you first start out, it's helpful to model the language used by industry leaders or other VAs you admire. But if you’ve been in biz for more than a year, you need to find your own voice. Talk about what you do & offer in your OWN way; don't copy. You may think to yourself, "I can't say it better than this VA or that VA does," but you can. If you want to attract clients to yourself, you can't do that with other people's words.
Office Dynamics
MARCH 28, 2012
Hello! While training another wonderful group of World Class Assistants last week I learned so much as I opened my ears to what these assistants were saying. Each of them had attended my World Class Assistant Part 1 program and they were now back for Part 2. Before we get started on the material I ask them each to share a succes story on how World Class Assistant Part 1 has impacted their life.
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Eco-Office Gals
MARCH 28, 2012
With the advent of cloud computing, advancing mobile technology, and the overwhelming majority of products and services being made available through digital means, the ability to switch to a completely virtual plane of business operations has never been more possible. Needless to say, dumping a real-world office and everything that goes along with it will undoubtedly lead to greener business practices.
Practically Perfect PA
MARCH 28, 2012
As the saying goes you can choose your friends but you sure can’t choose your family the same can definitely apply for co-workers. Some colleagues you will get on with and form good solid working relationship on the other hand some you will walk up eight flights of stairs to avoid sharing the lift with, either way unless you quit your job you don’t have a choice about seeing them on a daily basis.
The Small Business Blog
MARCH 28, 2012
We don’t know what we don’t know I always chuckle to myself when big companies that sponsor awards to start up and existing small business give, as part of the prize, mentoring or advice from a senior executive in their company. Perhaps it is no laughing matter.
On The Job
MARCH 28, 2012
Do you think you live a balanced life? Check out this snapshot of our daily lives to see where you fit in: Snoozing fibs: It appears full-time working American women claim to sleep less than they actually do. When responding to a 2007 National Sleep Foundation poll, women said they clocked about six hours of sleep in an average weeknight. But that snooze time may actually be closer to eight hours on average when figuring in weekend sleep time, says an American Time Use Survey.
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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.
Virtual Moxie
MARCH 27, 2012
One of the best ways to manage client expectations and fears is by sharing, being in touch, and telling them about yourself more than you may think you need to. But there's a distinction between sharing and oversharing, and you need to understand where the line is. "My daughter is having problems in school and I'm not going to be in the office Thursday and Friday as planned," is sharing.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 28, 2012
Even if you've been living in a cave the last year or so you've probably still heard of Pinterest. As the chart below from Comscore shows, it's the fastest growing social networking site of all time. If by some chance you haven't heard of it, the site allows users to post, organize and share pictures of things they are interested in. Think of it as an online, photo-sharing pinboard of interesting pictures - hence the name.
Office Dynamics
MARCH 27, 2012
“You leave a calling card with every interaction. It is either a positive calling card or a negative calling card.” These wonderful words are from Laurie Lampman, Manager of Legal Administrative Talent & Services. Laurie is a newly-Certified Star Achievement Series® trainer and will be teaching our program in her organization. Think about your last interactions the past few days—whether with your leader, a co-worker, client or vendor.
Ian's Messy Desk
MARCH 27, 2012
At the end of your day, do you find yourself wonder where the time went and why there is still a pile of work to be done? Perhaps you’re wasting your time and don’t know it. There is a lot of busy-work that looks productive, but in the end, does little or nothing to move you towards finishing what is important. Jeff Doubek of Day-Timer has written an article at Stepcase Lifehack on four bad time-management habits you need to eliminate to stop wasting time: Stop random e-mail checks.
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The Small Business Blog
MARCH 28, 2012
At the SME Blog we are always keen to promote great ideas that help small businesses. That’s why we want to tell our readers all about this great idea from the folks at Social Bizzle.
Office Organization Success
MARCH 26, 2012
A happy Monday to you! I hope you enjoyed a nice, relaxing weekend. For me, I was busy packing as I’m headed out to Orlando tomorrow for Suzanne Evans’ Be The Change Event … and then on to a little R&R with my family. But before I head off, I just wanted to let you know about a free webinar that I have coming up soon: 3 Mistakes 80% of Business Owners Make That Keep.
Virtual Moxie
MARCH 26, 2012
I was super pleased to wake up Saturday morning to an email from Pinterest letting subscribers know that they’d changed their Terms of Service, to, among other things, remove the “right” to sell things pinned, and to “modify” things pinned, except to reformat. Other changes they made to the TOS can be read here , but the other one that's super-interesting to me is that they've taken a stand about not allowing pins that encourage self-harm or self-abuse.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 27, 2012
According to the New York Times , high-end nannies in New York City are garnering salary and benefit packages that take their total compensation to well over $200,000 per year. A related Huffington Post article points out that high-end nannies in Europe are also hansomely rewarded. Coincidently, the Wall Street Journal has a review of a new book - The Most Expensive Game in Town - that chronicles the growth of highly paid youth sports coaches and programs. These are examples of on
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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.
Office Dynamics
MARCH 26, 2012
Executive Assistants, Administrative Assistants, Secretaries and any person who is in administrative support role interacts with hundreds of people over time. There is a lot of training and information telling us how to deal with difficult people. One thing I talk about in my programs on difficult people is that sometimes because we have different views and ways of doing things we think the other person is being difficult.
Ian's Messy Desk
MARCH 26, 2012
(NC)—If your business plan has been collecting dust since you launched, it’s likely time to refresh. Updating your business plan on a regular basis is critical for any business to stay relevant and be successful in the future. Elements of a business plan change in as little as a year—for example, sales targets, competitors and cash flow. A plan should be a continually evolving roadmap to where your want your business to be in the coming months and years.
The Small Business Blog
MARCH 28, 2012
Question Time Just before I flew home to Canada I was asked by my inept agent, Tony Robinson OBE, to chair a ‘Question Time’ type debate at a large micro business conference in his home town of Scarborough. Micro businesses (0-9 employees) are, apparently, quite important to the UK. There are 4.
Job Advice Blog
MARCH 23, 2012
Starting around 2008, many organizations’ human resources departments needed to eliminate their own staffs, and thus many of the traditional human resources functions got bounced over to the respective hiring managers. Unfortunately, those discrete departments couldn’t always afford expensive job boards, so they needed to think out of the box in order to meet their [.].
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.
Virtual Moxie
MARCH 25, 2012
If you think clients really care about your techie skills, think again. What they really want (and need!) is your brain, critical thinking, creativity, knowledge, experience, expertise, and network.
Small Business Labs
MARCH 26, 2012
I guess Euromonitor decided better late than never and just released their Top 10 Consumer Trends for 2012. Their top 10 are: City Living Reigns Consumer Vigilantes Speak up! DIY Life. Emerging Market Shoppers. Green Thrift. Reality Culture and Consumers. Smartphone Universe. Tech Lifestyles Vs. Slow Living and the Best of Both. Youth - Future Imperfect.
Office Dynamics
MARCH 25, 2012
Our office has been moving at a faster pace than ever before. I am sure yours has too! We have multiple projects, new products and several programs to coordinate - all at the same time. Some days more new comes up before we've had a chance to complete the 'old' task list we set for ourselves the night before. We can't afford to be down, even one person, because of the importance on the projects we are working through right now.
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