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How to Attract and Keep a Personal Assistant Many managers will often say their personal assistant is invaluable to them yet they often treat them as if they're not.Day after day, week after week the P.A. is in the office, slogging away making sure the work gets done. In many instances it is the P.A. that holds the business / department together.Many of them are so conscientious they won't take time out and will stay at their desk until the work is done. Not only are they integral to the running of any business, their income and the way they are treated may not always reflect the importance of And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following How to Squeeze More Profit and Cash Flow Out of Your Cleaning Business Do you ever feel like you’ve lost touch with the enthusiasm and passion you once felt about your career?When an entrepreneur takes the plunge and starts his or her own cleaning company, the first concern is how to get clients. Once up and running, the day-to-day tasks take over and the goal of owning a business - making a profit - is sometimes lost. But your cleaning business cannot survive and grow unless there is more money coming in than going out.Unless you are an MBA or CPA, the numbers game can get quite confusing. It is not just a matter of paying bills and balancing a checkbook. To know if your cleaning business is clearing a profit you have to look a Remember when you were just starting-out at your first job, or you were a recent graduate? You probably thought that any job would be available to you; that every employer would want to hire you. You were excited about your prospects and believed that you had something wonderful to share. But now that you’ve been in the work-world for quite a while, and have had a series of jobs with several different companies, have you become cynical or resigned in your work-attitude? Are you unsure as to which direction to turn next? As a professional Career Consultant, I have found that this loss of career passion and enthusiasm is very common – and it’s one of my most troubling observations. To address this problem, I came up with an amazingly simple three-part exercise, which I use with my clients. It helps them understand why this has happened to them, and what steps they need to take to re-discover their career passion. If you’re thinking, “It’s too late for me,” I’d like to challenge you on that assumption. Allow me to show you how, by performing an internal evaluation and re-visiting your true priorities, you really can re-discover the career of your dreams! Ready to get started? Complete the following sentences without “over thinking” your answers. You may list multiple answers for each of the items below. Be sure to keep your responses focused only on the career/work aspects of your life: 1. In my free time, the activities or hobbies I like to do best are ... 2. Whenever I go to a bookstore, the section(s) I always seem to be drawn to are ... 3. My closest friends work in the following fields/businesses or professions ... 4. The kinds of environments I feel most comfortable working in are ... 5. My friends/colleagues/family have often told me that I should be a ... 6. The things that have always motivated me most are ... 7. I have often been praised for my work in ... 8. If I were to get involved in volunteer work (unpaid), I’d like to work in the field of ... 9. I love to ... 10. I am passionate about ... 11. I am excited about ... 12. What I really like is ... 13. My greatest contribution is ... 14. I am particularly good at ... 15. I am known for ... 16. I have an exceptional ability to ... 17. Colleagues often ask for my help with ... 18. I would feel disappointed, frustrated or sad if I couldn’t do ... At this point, I suggest you go back and carefully review your answers to the questions above. Refer to those answers as you respond to the four final questions below. Be as thorough and detailed as possible with your responses: 19. What do my answers above tell me about my core values, interests, and motivational patterns? 20. Where in my work do I still find real energy and enthusiasm? 21. What implications do these answers have on my current and future career choices? 22. What is one thing I can do right now to enhance or change my current career situation? Your answers to all these questions are important for several reasons. First, they point to your natural talents, gifts and skills. Secondly, they point to areas where your own internal satisfaction will most likely match your external success – professionally, financially, and as a “whole human being” who is able to bring your complete self to the work. And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following What Is The Big Challenge With MLM? rcise, which I use with my clients. It helps them understand why this has happened to them, and what steps they need to take to re-discover their career passion.In the five and half years I have been in the networking and home based business industry, I have seen and heard a lot of hype and many polar opposite views of the network marketing industry.Some people are passionate about the industry, while others condemn it. Some claim all companies are pyramid schemes and scams. Celebrity authors such as Robert Allen, Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Kiyosaki advocate the industry.Network marketing is, in its most fundamental sense, a franchise business model. Such a model provides a duplicable system that invol If you’re thinking, “It’s too late for me,” I’d like to challenge you on that assumption. Allow me to show you how, by performing an internal evaluation and re-visiting your true priorities, you really can re-discover the career of your dreams! Ready to get started? Complete the following sentences without “over thinking” your answers. You may list multiple answers for each of the items below. Be sure to keep your responses focused only on the career/work aspects of your life: 1. In my free time, the activities or hobbies I like to do best are ... 2. Whenever I go to a bookstore, the section(s) I always seem to be drawn to are ... 3. My closest friends work in the following fields/businesses or professions ... 4. The kinds of environments I feel most comfortable working in are ... 5. My friends/colleagues/family have often told me that I should be a ... 6. The things that have always motivated me most are ... 7. I have often been praised for my work in ... 8. If I were to get involved in volunteer work (unpaid), I’d like to work in the field of ... 9. I love to ... 10. I am passionate about ... 11. I am excited about ... 12. What I really like is ... 13. My greatest contribution is ... 14. I am particularly good at ... 15. I am known for ... 16. I have an exceptional ability to ... 17. Colleagues often ask for my help with ... 18. I would feel disappointed, frustrated or sad if I couldn’t do ... At this point, I suggest you go back and carefully review your answers to the questions above. Refer to those answers as you respond to the four final questions below. Be as thorough and detailed as possible with your responses: 19. What do my answers above tell me about my core values, interests, and motivational patterns? 20. Where in my work do I still find real energy and enthusiasm? 21. What implications do these answers have on my current and future career choices? 22. What is one thing I can do right now to enhance or change my current career situation? Your answers to all these questions are important for several reasons. First, they point to your natural talents, gifts and skills. Secondly, they point to areas where your own internal satisfaction will most likely match your external success – professionally, financially, and as a “whole human being” who is able to bring your complete self to the work. And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following Finally No Wires! Guide To Using an EVDO Internet Access Card & Router for Trade Shows nesses or professions ...In February 2006 D-Link, a well known router company, and Kyocera, a well known cell phone products manufacturer, launched a product that will revolutionize how trade show exhibitors will gain access to broadband Internet access.In most cases exhibitors didn't have many options when it came to Internet access at trade shows, in fact there was really only one. You either rented it from the show production company or went without. At some shows the daily access rate was $500 or more. Now there is an option. In the past year wireless access through cellular ph 4. The kinds of environments I feel most comfortable working in are ... 5. My friends/colleagues/family have often told me that I should be a ... 6. The things that have always motivated me most are ... 7. I have often been praised for my work in ... 8. If I were to get involved in volunteer work (unpaid), I’d like to work in the field of ... 9. I love to ... 10. I am passionate about ... 11. I am excited about ... 12. What I really like is ... 13. My greatest contribution is ... 14. I am particularly good at ... 15. I am known for ... 16. I have an exceptional ability to ... 17. Colleagues often ask for my help with ... 18. I would feel disappointed, frustrated or sad if I couldn’t do ... At this point, I suggest you go back and carefully review your answers to the questions above. Refer to those answers as you respond to the four final questions below. Be as thorough and detailed as possible with your responses: 19. What do my answers above tell me about my core values, interests, and motivational patterns? 20. Where in my work do I still find real energy and enthusiasm? 21. What implications do these answers have on my current and future career choices? 22. What is one thing I can do right now to enhance or change my current career situation? Your answers to all these questions are important for several reasons. First, they point to your natural talents, gifts and skills. Secondly, they point to areas where your own internal satisfaction will most likely match your external success – professionally, financially, and as a “whole human being” who is able to bring your complete self to the work. And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following Can a Small Business Be A Big Brand? to the questions above. Refer to those answers as you respond to the four final questions below. Be as thorough and detailed as possible with your responses:Do you think of your business as a brand? Because it is one, whether you view it that way or not. Even if it's just you, a solo-professional, working out of your home. Even if yours is a small local business marketing to customers in your own hometown.It's still a brand.The question is, is it a strong brand?Does it stand for something?Does it have an image?Does it create a perception in your prospects' and clients' minds?Either way again, the answer to these questions is yes.But if you haven't taken steps to c 19. What do my answers above tell me about my core values, interests, and motivational patterns? 20. Where in my work do I still find real energy and enthusiasm? 21. What implications do these answers have on my current and future career choices? 22. What is one thing I can do right now to enhance or change my current career situation? Your answers to all these questions are important for several reasons. First, they point to your natural talents, gifts and skills. Secondly, they point to areas where your own internal satisfaction will most likely match your external success – professionally, financially, and as a “whole human being” who is able to bring your complete self to the work. And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following ISO 9000 Software Products For most companies, adhering to the strict regulations regarding document management and implementation of ISO 9000 standards can be a monotonous task. Luckily, since ISO 9000 was first developed almost 20 years ago, a variety of ISO 9000 software products are now available for purchase.ISO 9000 software is available to suit any business’ needs. Whether it is a large or small company, a software program can be selected from over 300 products to meet the specific requirements of the quality process. Prices range from a couple hundred dollars to a few thousan And, finally, your answers will highlight the critical areas on which to focus your next career move – those areas where your talents and passions intersect with market demand! Now that you’ve performed this brief internal evaluation, ask yourself this final question: Is your current career direction aligned with your true gifts, goals and passions?If not, remember: it’s never too late to correct the problem – as long as you have the right resources and support! So, if you’ve been feeling resigned or cynical in your work-attitude, I urge you to take responsibility and take action NOW. Leverage the resources that are available to you, and commit to improving your career situation. You CAN STILL re-discover your career passion! ------------------------ Permission to Reprint: This article may be reprinted, provided it appears in its entirety with the following attribution: Copyright © 2006, Ford R. Myers and Career Potential, LLC. ------------------------
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