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1 Nov 2015

Increase Work-At-Home Employee Productivity

If you let your employees work from home you’re not alone – with more than 4m people in the UK now working flexibly, an increasing number of firms are embracing the practice. It makes sense. Today’s technology means it’s easy for people to keep in touch with the office wherever they are. We just call …

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24 Oct 2015

A Simple Perspective Shift To Maximise Your Productivity

Maximising your productivity should be simple. And in theory, it is. You have a certain number of tasks you would like to achieve in a day and a certain amount of hours to fulfil them. As you’re not a masochist, your tasks probably don’t require superhuman levels of work or more hours than one day …

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21 Oct 2015

See Why Virtual Assistants Are Indispensable

Owning and operating a scalable business takes a team to fortify the back end, the daily routines, the foundational systems and processes, let alone the everyday task of social media. After you’ve done it all yourself day after day and you’re ready for a business lifeline, take heed of our client’s advice to other business …

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20 Oct 2015

Delegate to focus on your core business strengths

How often do you just want to collapse at the end of the day; falling into the sofa like you’ve become an integral part of the fibres? Letting it absorb all the day’s hectic work, demands, challenges and headaches? It’s like a warm embrace from a heating pad. I know you’re wiped out… Oh come …

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18 Oct 2015

Organising Your Time To Be More Efficient

A recent Huffington Post survey found that most people spend 25% of their workday reading and responding to emails. That’s a full quarter of your day just spent reading emails, many of which are unimportant or, at the very least, extremely low on the priority ladder. If you’re looking for ways to organise your time …

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10 Oct 2015

7 Tools To Increase Your Productivity

We’re surrounded by thousands of choices when it comes to different tools and apps to use when going about our daily work. This article provides some insight into what we’ve found to be the most useful tools to increase our own productivity. Momentum A neat little extension for Google Chrome which prompts you to enter …

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4 Oct 2015

Be a More Confident Public Speaker

If public speaking sounds like your worst nightmare, you’re not alone. You’re one of the estimated 70 percent of the population that has an intense fear of public speaking. That’s OK. On today’s WellCast, we’ve got our Triple P method that will keep you calm during that next oral report and keep your breakfast where …

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1 Oct 2015

How Can You Deal With The Fear Of Public Speaking?

Most of us have heard about a study that claims public speaking is our number one fear. Jerry Seinfeld even made a joke out of it, noting that if fear of public speaking was number one, and death was lower down the list, it meant that people would rather die than give the eulogy at the …

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29 Sept 2015

Universal Template for Presentations and Public Speaking

Let’s cut to the chase. It’s all well and good to be encouraged to be yourself,embrace your uniqueness, and stand out, but sometimes you need something more tangible, pragmatic, and easy to follow. Like … a universal template for presentations and speeches, perhaps? Maybe I’m overselling a little, but every effective speech answers 4 questions. Some answer …

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27 Sept 2015

Interview with Naomi from Top Shelf VA

When you collaborate with an Online Business Manager/Virtual Assistant (OBM/VA), you and the OBM are making a commitment to the success of the partnership. This interview answers all the common questions about OBM/VA services, providing us more time to concentrate on your administrative needs during our conversation. As our partnership grows, my goal is to …

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24 Sept 2015

Longer Days Virtual Assistant Interview with Chad Lawie

Chad Lawie of LongerDays.com joins me to discuss their business. Longer Days is a Michigan-based virtual assistant company that may be unique among US-based VA operations in that their team works out of a dedicated office, in contrast to most other services that have their VAs working from home. We discuss their areas of specialization, …

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21 Sept 2015

Improve Your Business Networking Skills

Business networking is a key skill for jobseekers to master as an important part of their job search campaign. Barry Zweibel, a certified business and personal life coach, has written an informative article to help you improve your professional networking skills. Networking is a great way to expand the world you live in. And whether …

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