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ProAssisting Blog
MARCH 6, 2012
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MARCH 6, 2012
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Virtual Moxie
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
An extra smackeral from me this week--about something I felt so strongly about that I didn't want to wait to share it till next week. I admit, I love Pinterest. I love how it’s been a place of pure attraction. And I have been a super-avid Pinner. But when the Boston Business Journal decided to stop using Pinterest out of fear it could be sued for infringing Copyright, I decided to take my own deeper look.
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Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Pin It. As we all know writing minutes is a basic skill for assistants and we have probably written more over the years than Stephen King has writing novels. I had a job a few years back that provided support for twelve Committees who had four meetings a year, which meant I was writing a set of minutes practically every week. As you can imagine I got quite good at bashing out minutes without much thought behind them but no matter how easy I found writing the minutes the process still took foreve
The Small Business Blog
DECEMBER 12, 2012
Proud to be Micro Some of you know that I’m the co-founder of the Enterprise Rockers movement – a massive free-to-join-in, global, self help community to make life better and fairer for micro (0-9 employees) enterprise owners. We launched in January so we’re coming up to our first anniversary.
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Stephanie LH Calahan
MARCH 14, 2012
Procrastination is the #1 reason business owners find that their business stalls. Recently, we conducted an informal poll of the 1000 participants that signed up for Fire Up Your Biz - Enrich Your Life and found that over half of our respondents had questions around procrastination, lack of motivation and generally just not getting things done! So, I asked my expert panel: Putting off critical tasks for a later date can break a business.
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On The Job
AUGUST 31, 2012
Five years ago you may have laughed if someone told you that you would not only take on twice your current workload, but be happy about it – and be willing to take a pay cut. Or, you may have thought someone was pulling your leg to tell you that your Ivy League education would net you a 20-hour-a-week temp job with no benefits and have you living at home with your parents.
Eco-Office Gals
JULY 12, 2012
With summer hitting us with record breaking heat daily, and the kids home everyday it’s been a rough time around here. The kids are in the house most of the day to stay out of the heat, eating me out of house and home, getting crumbs and grubby finders everywhere. Cleaning is a full-time job in itself! Ever since my baby girls 10 day hospital stay a few summers ago, I have a hard time sticking with greener cleaning options.
Eat Your Career
DECEMBER 4, 2012
It’s a common complaint: I’ve got too much work and not enough time to do it all. Considering the alternative (no work at all!), you’re in a decent position. That doesn’t make it any easier to handle though. So let’s talk about ways to manage this overwhelming workload without losing your cool. Note: All of these topics are explored in much greater depth in my Get Productive Now!
Office Organization Success
APRIL 30, 2012
Being consistent in your business is one of the critical factors for ensuring long-term growth, and one of the ways to ensure consistency is to create systems. Everything you do in your business, from responding to emails to working with clients, needs to be systemized and documented, so that it’s very easy to create a repeatable process in your business.
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Step It Up VA Coaching
FEBRUARY 23, 2012
by Donna Toothaker. For those who work virtually, and even some who don’t, we can easily get stuck in a comfort zone of learning and networking solely by email, phone, teleclasses, and internet and don’t always find a way to get out to a live marketing, networking, or educational event or workshop. And there’s SO much more that one can get out of a live event that you can’t get from online networking and learning.
Job Advice Blog
JULY 24, 2012
To start with, here are some statistics: Only 28% of workers 55 and older find jobs within one year versus 71% of those aged 25 to 35, reports Career Builder. 63% of workers 55 and older applied for positions at lower levels than their previous jobs. 48% of workers 55 and older found positions at [.].
Virtual Moxie
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
AssistU is 15 years old this year. And just more than a week ago, in Minneapolis at our annual Homecoming/Community Recognition Awards event (think spirited family reunion meets Academy Awards and you’ll have a sense of what it’s like), we had a small party in my suite to celebrate. Most everyone came—we had amazing Ho-Ho cake from Key’s at the Foshay , drank champagne, laughed and cried and absolutely celebrated this thing we all love—AssistU.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 23, 2012
Pin It. Here is a brief history of my career to date – After University I landed my first job as a Team Administrator at Deloitte, after a year and a half I left to join the Institute of Chartered Accountants where again I worked as an Administrator and Assistant to a department manager. Having worked in that position for a few years I was promoted to Account Manager and then a few years later made redundant.
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The Small Business Blog
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
My company WinWeb has struck a new partnership with Xenca, the fast growing providers of wellbeing products. They have chosen us as their cloud partner for the new Xenca CloudApp which is available now for all 600 of their members to access for free!
Stephanie LH Calahan
MARCH 23, 2012
One of the questions that I frequently get when I work with clients is "What is the best way to ensure that I get things done? What type of to do list should I use?" And I often answer: "It depends!" You see, managing your tasks is a personal thing. There are many fantastic systems out there for managing tasks. The best tool is one that you will actually use and trust. Often, people fail with their to do system because they simply don't tr
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 5, 2012
Below is our fifth annual Top 10 Small Business Trends list. Links to our prior lists are available here. Our overall economic outlook is for continued moderate growth with U.S. GDP increasing 2.5%-3.0%. While we expect hiring and the job market to improve, unemployment will remain high, finishing the year around 8%. Social Trends. 1. Being Human: A trend that has rippled through our research the past couple of years - and especially
On The Job
JANUARY 10, 2012
One of the most difficult things about starting a new job is trying to become friendly with your colleagues without making yourself seem like a total dweeb. Be too friendly and you come off as a bit of a stalker or maybe a motormouth. Be more reserved and you might be perceived as snooty or weird. So, how to strike the right balance and start relationships off on a friendly note?
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Eco-Office Gals
APRIL 20, 2012
I recently had the opportunity to try out the Zerowater system. Zerowater is a water filtration pitcher, with a twist. It comes with a tester for your water – called s TDS (Total Dissolved Solids) tester. The TDS meter helps put a number on what your taste buds already tell you about what’s in water. The higher the reading on the water, the more things dissolved in water.
Eat Your Career
APRIL 17, 2012
One of the most common complaints I hear has to do with something that is so fundamentally a part of the modern workplace, it’s almost impossible to avoid. Yes, I’m talking about the dreaded interruption. We all have to deal with it, though admittedly, some have it worse than others. A client of mine recently shared her very frustrating situation. You see, due to the office layout, her desk was out in the open, right by the front door, making her a sitting duck.
Office Organization Success
MARCH 2, 2012
Whenever you receive an email from me you will ALWAYS see my contact information at the bottom and know exactly how you can get in touch with me. You will see: My name. My company’s name. My telephone and fax number. My email address (with an active hyperlink). My website address (with an active hyperlink). And an active hyperlink to the signup page of my newsletter.
Ian's Messy Desk
MARCH 14, 2012
The four basic types of speeches are: to inform, to instruct, to entertain, and to persuade. These are not mutually exclusive of one another. You may have several purposes in mind when giving your presentation. For example, you may try to inform in an entertaining style. Another speaker might inform the audience and try to persuade them to act on the information.
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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.
Job Advice Blog
APRIL 22, 2012
A recent article of mine covered most people’s lack of efficacy in practicing their elevator pitches at job search networking meetings. I wanted to follow up on that and prove my tenets, so I brainstormed with a group of trusted associates—all of whom are in transition—and we came up with some “best practices.” Following are [.].
Virtual Moxie
OCTOBER 22, 2012
In a conversation I had yesterday with a group of my Ultimate VA members at AssistU , we talked about when clients decide to move on, stating money problems as their issue. There was a fairly general consensus that they (the VAs) tend to say things to themselves like, “What could I have done to prevent this for them? Could I have done something better, or differently?
Practically Perfect PA
DECEMBER 10, 2012
Pin It. A few years ago I worked in a department with a dozen or so Project Managers who were all highly qualified Six Sigma professionals. They were a great bunch to be a round and during my time there I did learn a lot about the dark art of project management! Many of the department’s projects aimed to improve the business and eliminate wasted time, effort and general errors.
The Small Business Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Do keep up. I’m sorry it has been a couple of weeks since my last effervescent erudition. I thought it best to go into hiding for a little while – two reasons.
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.
Stephanie LH Calahan
OCTOBER 31, 2012
We've known for years that our body language can communicate without. words and affect how others see us. We know that as non-verbal communication. However, did you know that your. body language may also change how you see yourself? Ever since I was a little girl, I've loved Wonder Woman. I'd dress up like her even when it wasn't Halloween.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 13, 2012
Those old enough to remember Alice Cooper will also remember his song Eighteen. Released in 1970, it's about the confusing yet hopeful period of life when you realize you're becoming an adult. If Alice wrote the song today, he would likely title it Twenty-Eight , or at least that's what the results of Clarke University's poll of emerging adults indicates.
On The Job
JUNE 7, 2012
By now, many college interns have started their summer gigs. Eager, bright-eyed and bushy tailed, they're ready to tackle the problems of the world, to impress their employers so much that job offers are tendered before the third week of their programs. Unfortunately, many interns, bored with the mundane tasks they've been assigned or disillusioned that higher-ups consider them too young and inexperienced, begin to lose that optimism around Week 2.
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