Insperity

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Talks of an impending economic recession , whether it’s forecasted to be a rain shower or a torrential downpour, can be stressful for all business leaders. No matter what actually unfolds, it’s a good idea to prepare for the road ahead in order to mitigate the worst impacts on your business. Some advice is universal and applies to any economic downturn, such as: Protect cash flow Reevaluate unnecessary expenses Solidify relationships with customers.

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The Assistant Room

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Located at the centre of Covent Garden, London’s most exciting neighbourhood and opposite the Lyceum Theatre - home of The Lion King, One Aldwych is one of the very few hotels in London that can say it is truly independent. Read our full review of the hotel here. The post A Review Of: One Aldwych first appeared on The Assistant Room.

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Jen Lawrence

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Achieving operational efficiency and effectiveness can be frustrating for new and veteran leaders alike. As business moves through environmental and resource changes, the strategy to manage workflows has to adjust as well. First, it’s important to understand the difference between operational efficiency and effectiveness. This blog post can help you with that.

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The Receptionist

OCTOBER 3, 2022

When you calculate the amount of time the average American worker will spend at work during their lifetime, it will equal approximately 90,000 hours or 10 years. That’s 10 years of work, night and day, with no breaks, holidays, or weekends off. Because employees will invest so much time at work, it’s important to have a quality work environment.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

No matter which industry your organization operates it, there’s a pretty high chance that you’re grappling with how to motivate and engage your employees in the daily work they do. This challenge has manifested itself in various ways – from the Great Resignation to more recently the notion of quiet quitting. Regardless of what we choose to call it, the underlying problem is the same – people don’t feel a strong connection to the work they do, and consequently are not as invested as leaders want

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The Office Management Group

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Have you ever noticed just how much support exists out there for Assistants and Virtual Assistants in the form of professional networks and associations? We did a little search online and found over fifteen, easily joinable associations, pretty quickly. With some more digging there were tens, if not over a hundred around the world. Whether you’re looking for support locally, nationally or internationally, the choice is out there for you.

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Jen Lawrence

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Most of us struggle to keep up with the constant influx of communication – emails, texts, chat messages, and social media. It’s a lot of conversing that can be disruptive to our productive flow and overwhelm our desire to socialize. A commonly recommended solution to controlling how much time and attention we allocate to communication is to turn off notifications.

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This week I had Robin Hills on the show to talk about resilience. He’s the author of the Authority Guide to Emotional Resilience in Business Strategies to Manage Stress and Weather Storms in the Workplace. He’s the director of EI4Change, a company specializing in training, coaching, and personal development focused on emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and neuroscience.

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Great Place to Work

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, employers can take steps to understand and support the unique barriers and challenges that this fast-growing demographic faces. Many Latinx employees have experienced or felt like they don’t belong. As a first-generation Dominican woman working in corporate America, I am familiar with this feeling. I remember moments in my career when I felt like an outsider in rooms or at tables where I was often “the only.”.

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TinyPulse

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Employees are the foundation of your company, and building strong employee relationships is the key to a successful business. The best way to build those relationships is by having more effective 1-on-1 meetings.

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Success

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A patient individual is always richer than an impatient one, even if the patient individual has less money. What do I mean by that statement? Well, riches and wealth can take other forms besides dollars and cents. So in what sense is the patient individual richer? The answer is actually very simple. A patient individual is always richer than the impatient one because the patient individual can always afford to wait.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Are you sick of the same old holiday greetings and searching for some new and creative corporate Diwali wishes? If so, you've come to the right place! Diwali, one of India's biggest and most auspicious festivals, is extremely important in terms of celebrations at the workplace. Be it the Diwali gifts , bonus, traditional dress-up, lighting up the entire workplace area, Rangoli creation, sweet buffet spread, or super fun activities- everyone has a smile on their face, as this festival b

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Great Place to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With more companies investing in well-being, leaders should use this day to commit to a year of effort. After the pandemic, mental health has become a huge focus for employers. In 2020, employees and employers spent almost $77 billion on mental health. At the beginning of 2022, 90% of employers said they were investing more in mental health programs.

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Go Burrows

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Jamie Vanek made the unexpected career leap from teaching to construction in 2007 and discovered a passion for project management and team leadership. In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast , Jamie shares her career journey and talks about dismantling the stigma around support roles, rethinking administrative structure in small businesses, and restoring respectability to the assistant role.

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Success

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These 11 entrepreneurs, all members of The Oracles, have reached the top of their game in large part by making better decisions faster than anyone else. We’ve asked each of them for their tips on how to make decisions rapidly—and stick to them. 1. Sometimes good enough is perfect. At 19 years old, my first mentor Joel Salatin said, “Tai, sometimes good enough is perfect.

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All Work

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The post Sarah Davis Director Of Strategy At Pophouse | Human Centered Design, Driven By Data appeared first on Allwork.Space.

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TinyPulse

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Employees are the foundation of your company, and building strong employee relationships is the key to a successful business. The best way to build those relationships is by having more effective 1-on-1 meetings.

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Page Personnel

OCTOBER 2, 2022

What makes a great administrative assistant? Anonymous (not verified) 24/01/2023 It’s often said that an executive is only as good as their administrative assistant. Handling day-to-day administration for one or more executives, a team or network, an admin assistant is the “eyes and ears” of a company, privy to unique and powerful insights about the company culture , performance and future direction.

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Success

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I wasn’t the best with money. So, when I was about 13, my father opened a brokerage account for me. He believed you’re never too young to understand money —particularly investing. On my 300-baud modem connected to an Apple II computer, I researched penny stocks on the Vancouver Stock Exchange via CompuServe, The Source and Dow Jones Newswires. With my $400 nest egg, I called our broker to give him buy/sell instructions.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s no secret that the workplace is stressful. But, as a professional, you can’t let it get to you. When dealing with high-pressure situations, your demeanor can have a dramatic impact on your success—for better or worse. Showing your feelings in the wrong way can undermine your credibility. If you want to get ahead professionally, you have to learn self-control, which is often easier said than done!

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Ruby

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Achieving small business success can sometimes feel like it requires a sixth sense. Spoiler alert: your business was successful the whole time. But what about our other five senses? We know what success feels like: shaking hands, typing emails, the sting of paper cuts from counting stacks of money. We know what it looks like: happy customers, charts with red arrows, neon “open” signs.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 7, 2022

If you haven't been living under a rock for the last few months, you've probably heard the term "quiet quitting" being discussed, criticized and defended all over social media. If you’re an active Tik Tok, Instagram, Twitter, or Linkedin user, you must have come across the term dozens of times. After all, the buzzword has set social media on fire and has divided the corporate world into two.

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Success

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Genuine people have a profound impact upon everyone they encounter. In this article, originally published on LinkedIn Pulse , Dr. Travis Bradberry unveils the unique habits that cause genuine individuals to radiate with energy and confidence. There is plenty of research suggesting that emotional intelligence (EQ) is critical to your performance at work.

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Great Place to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Consider these tips to avoid the pitfalls of an increasingly decentralized workplace culture. Is there a crisis of unfairness in the workplace? In a recent study from Gartner , 82% of employees said their work environment was unfair. The study went on to define the risks of unfairness: Employees in high-fairness environments perform at a level 26% higher than those who aren’t.

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Ruby

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Managing small teams is no small task. Sick days, payroll taxes, keeping track of birthdays… it can be a real handful. And it’s getting decidedly more difficult as employee burnout—or employees simply checking out—continues to be a concern for small business owners. A recent survey of US professionals by Deloitte found that 77% of respondents have experienced burnout in their current position.

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Bonnie Low-Kramen

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Bonnie Low-Kramen – a TEDx speaker, founder and CEO of curated training solutions for corporate leaders and assistants, and former personal assistant to actor Olympia Dukakis – chats with Jeffrey Smith about what causes workplace toxicity, why employees are leaving their jobs, and how organizations and leaders should respond to workplace harassment and bullying.

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Success

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“Children in Africa are starving,” goes the dinner-table proverb. It’s a saying parents invented to beguile picky children into eating their crusts or preventing too many leftovers from cluttering up the refrigerator. Reflect on this cavalier expression a bit longer, though, and you’ll find it also flings the problems of hunger and poverty across international waters to a foreign continent that may as well be imaginary to the average American mind.

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Backbone Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Every morning that an Admin’s feet hit the ground they start their impossible. So you can imagine how excited we were when Toyota Motor North America came to us with the idea for a new Admin Award, the Start Your Impossible Award. After all, Toyota executives see first-hand how their Admins achieve the impossible day every day they come to work – and make it look easy.

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Ruby

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Pop quiz: which country is home to the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world? A) Columbia B) Honduras C) Guatemala D) The United States If you answered D… you’re correct! If you answered A, B, or C… well, thanks for playing (and please stick around!). In the past, we’ve discussed some relevant statistics about Spanish speakers in the United States.

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Mind Matters from Menninger

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Have you wondered whether you or another family member had bipolar disorder? And did you go to Google to find out?

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Success

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I have hired hundreds of employees right out of school over the years as the founder and CEO of a Silicon Valley-based manufacturing company. However qualified—and they’re all highly educated and extremely talented—one of the most common mistakes I see is wardrobe choice. It’s a shame, because no matter how good you look on paper, how you present yourself makes the most impact with a potential employer or new client.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This post, are there times when you can’t ethically quit a job? , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. A reader writes: I’ve read your site for a long time, so I’m pretty sure that your advice here is going to be to do what’s best for me (and if that’s leaving, then leave), but my question is: Are there circumstances under which you really shouldn’t leave a job?

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Success

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Between 2018 and 2020, my life was hit by a series of difficult experiences. My grandmother died, I underwent an unexpectedly difficult shoulder surgery, my parents got divorced and my father-in-law had a stroke. It felt like major challenges were hitting me left and right. A few months of calm would go by, and then bam, life would smack me right back in the face.

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Success

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Mindset is everything. Let’s face it: You can rarely control everything happening around you, especially at work. However, you can control how you react to things emotionally. With an optimistic outlook, your mind will be in the right space to face the challenges of your day-to-day life. Just remember that optimism is not blind positivity. Rather, it’s about painting a hopeful picture of the future—no matter your current reality.

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Success

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Although Natasha Graziano’s rags-to-riches story may not be unique, her methodology and willingness to share it may be. At her lowest, Graziano was a homeless single mother. Now, she counts an Instagram following of more than 11 million and is a successful mindfulness and entrepreneurial coach, a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and the head of a multimillion-dollar empire.

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Success

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Sometimes, try as we might, we just can’t understand why people act the way they do or say the things they say, which can cause a huge communication pileup. It seems that whatever we do or say, we’re not getting through or getting the results we want. Because people filter the world through their own personality styles, understanding why they do what they do is of utmost importance.

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Success

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I am a spender. At 13, I roamed the aisles of Target with my best friend, Mandi, calculating the best ways to spend every penny of the $20 bill in my lime green Gap purse: One box of Nutty Bars, a pink-and-white swimsuit speckled with ice cream cones, and a two-pack of Lip Smackers. Money gave me a sense of power and control I hadn’t yet known. It opened a world of possibilities that a “you can pick out one item from the toy aisle” just couldn’t provide.

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