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How To Conduct Engaging Online Workshops

How To Conduct Engaging Online Workshops

Communicating through the digital world has been a prevalent part of our society for some time now. Yet, with self-isolation, the use of video communication is more popular than ever! Platforms like Zoom have become ...
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How to Stay Busy at Home During Quarantine

Unique Ways to Stay Busy at Home

With social distancing and self-isolation becoming a normal part of our lives, do you find yourself struggling to pass the time while you're at home? Or do you feel like you're running out of ideas ...
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talk to customers when you are shy

How To Talk To Customers When You’re Shy

Do you feel uncomfortable talking to other people, or in front of groups? Are you reserved at social gatherings or self-conscious when you’re the centre of attention? If so, you are probably very aware that ...
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TAG: Business Icons: Mary Barra

Business Icons: Mary Barra

Mary Barra is the CEO of General Motors and the first female to lead a global automaker. Her education and whole career has been devoted to GM, starting with a Bachelor of Science in electrical ...
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How to Find Your Life’s Purpose

Do you know what your life’s purpose is? Many people don’t. Some go through life without one and do so quite happily. Others are driven from a young age with very specific aspirations and goals ...
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Marketing Skills Blog

The Top 3 Marketing Skills You Didn’t Know You Had

You’ve heard about marketing, right? It’s all anyone talks about these days. Advancements in technology and new platforms have expanded the possibilities and reach of marketing. And because of this, marketing skills are in demand ...
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Business Icons Mark Zuckerberg

Business Icons: Mark Zuckerberg

We’re fully in the Facebook age and Mark Zuckerberg is the one who got us here. Regarded as one of the most innovative minds of his generation, Mark Zuckerberg developed technology that successfully connects everyone ...
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Morning Routine Tips from Our Favourite Business Leaders

Morning Routine Tips from Our Favourite Business Leaders

Creating a regular morning routine can help you kickstart your day with direction and vision. Morning routines condition you to build habits to become more productive and use time efficiently. If you win with a ...
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How to Stand Out in an Interview

How to Stand Out in an Interview

Why being yourself will make you stand out in an interview The day has finally come – your job interview. You walk in and realize you’re one of many eagerly waiting. It’s crucial for you ...
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The Importance of Self-Awareness in the Workplace

The Importance of Self-Awareness in the Workplace

In the business world, how often do you hear about the value of having self-awareness skills? Or the importance to enhance your self-awareness abilities? Simply put, self-awareness is the process of having a conscious understanding ...
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Business Icons: Shelly Zalis

Business Icons: Shelley Zalis

If there is one business icon that works to make the world a better place, that would be Shelley Zalis, the CEO of the Female Quotient. Zalis and her team at the Female Quotient work ...
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Business Icons: Howard Schultz

Business Icons: Howard Schultz

Business Icons: Howard Schultz Howard Schultz stands out, not just because of his success in business but because he has always been willing to take chances. He didn’t go to an exclusive business school but got ...
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Top 10 Skills for Marketing Managers

Top 10 Skills for Marketing Managers

Looking to further your career path? Interested in marketing? At its most basic marketing is the promotion of a product, service or idea. But what type of marketing position will fit you best? If you ...
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Finding A Mentor

Finding A Mentor

You have a career path, maybe even a dream job, in mind but you’re not sure how to get there. Many of today’s business leaders talk about mentorship, how it got them where they are ...
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Getting to know someone new

Making the Most of Your Week: Getting To Know Someone New

Co-workers am I right? They can be some of the best people you’ve ever met or the ones that make you need that extra drink on a Friday night. But you’ll have plenty of them ...
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Challenge yourself

Making the Most of Your Week: Challenge Yourself

We all know it can be hard to sometimes to really engage with your work and get the most and best out of it. It’s like writer’s block, but 10 times worse! It’s ok to feel ...
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Make a Plan

Making the Most of Your Week: Make a Plan

Monday mornings can come round too fast and before you know it you’re deep into another working week. Sometimes it’s not always easy to get that motivation going. However, it’s essential for a productive and energizing ...
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Put it in your diary

Making the Most of Your Week: Put It In Your Diary

Planning. It’s all well and good until you can’t remember what you’ve got planned from one day to the next! Organization is key so it’s time to make sure everything is where it should be. Get ...
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Try Something New

Making the Most of Your Week: Try Something New

It’s important to always look for exciting and dynamic things in life and work. It’s also important to remember that it’s never too late to find them! So if your week is looking a bit stale there ...
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Business Icons: Gwyneth Paltrow

Business Icons: Gwyneth Paltrow

Say Gwyneth Paltrow and so much comes to mind; movie star, Iron Man’s wife (kinda), consciously uncoupling – we all remember that one. But it can’t be denied that old Gwynny has carved herself out ...
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Business Icons: Alan Sugar

Business Icons: Alan Sugar

Oh Lord Sugar, where do we start? Before The Apprentice, this British business mogul was already well established and incredibly successful. A businessman, a politician, a Lord, Alan Sugar has his fingers in many pies ...
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Business Icons: Arianna Huffington

Business Icons: Arianna Huffington

As her name may attest, Arianna Huffington was the co-founder and editor in chief of The Huffington Post. She has found herself on numerous influential women lists over time and as her work grows it’s ...
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Business Icons: Bill Gates

Business Icons: Bill Gates

Tech genius Bill Gates just has to make our list of Business Icons for so many reasons. Author, investor, business magnate, and philanthropist, humanitarian – the list is endless of what this man is known ...
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Business Icons: Richard Branson

Business Icons: Richard Branson

As business icons go, Richard Branson is up there with the best of them. His work ethic, business savvy and general know how of the business world have rightly set him up as the successful ...
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5 Career Tips that You Should Ignore

5 Career Tips that You Should Ignore

We’ve all heard helpful career tips: prepare for an interview, be punctual, dress professionally, take notes, etc. However, not many of us discuss the BAD advice we’ve been given throughout our professional lives. We’re here to tell you that “not all ...
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How Millennials are Positively Impacting the Workplace

How Millennials are Positively Impacting the Workplace

Millennials have been positively transforming the workplace for over a decade. They are the generation that seeks career growth and development, enhanced efficiency through processes of innovation and automation and value employers that are socially ...
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Three Proven Team Communication Strategies

Three Proven Team Communication Strategies

When communication between team members is fluid, an organization thrives. Projects get completed on time, nothing gets overlooked, and people feel confident in their roles and responsibilities. Communication really is the key to a successful ...
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How to Give and Take Constructive Feedback

How to Give and Take Constructive Feedback

When we think of feedback as something to be feared, we’re missing the point. Constructive feedback is a gift. It’s an opportunity to improve as a professional and as a well-rounded individual. It’s only a ...
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Three Tips for Balancing your Family Life and your Career

Three Tips for Balancing your Family Life and your Career

You hear it all the time. As individuals, we are busier than we have ever been before. We live in a society that values productivity and success. As a result, it can be difficult to ...
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Five Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects at Once

Five Strategies for Managing Multiple Projects at Once

These days, we all wear multiple hats at work. Whether or not you’re a project manager or in a leadership role, chances are you are juggling competing priorities. It follows that you’ve felt overwhelmed at ...
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10 Tips for Personal Development

10 Tips for Personal Development

Self-awareness, confidence and building on your strengths — personal development can help you achieve all these things. But what is the best way to tackle bettering oneself? Here are ten tips to help you on your ...
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The Importance of Personal Development

The Importance of Personal Development

Personal development has become a bit of a buzzword in the professional world. Questions like “What do you do to encourage personal development in your life?” or “What does personal development mean to you?” are not ...
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Finding Your Style of Leadership

Leadership looks different on everybody. Some lead by quiet example while others are more hands on in their guidance. There is no single style that suits everybody although there are some habits you should steer clear of! ...
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Three Tips to Help You Reach your Career Goals in 2019

Three Tips to Help You Reach your Career Goals in 2019

With the start of a new year, it’s natural to be thinking about the changes you want to make in both your personal and professional life. The tradition of setting New Year’s resolutions stems from ...
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Mentorship

Ten Inspiring Quotes on Mentorship

Mentorship is many things. For some, it’s traditional. Someone senior takes someone junior under their wing. For others, it’s a little more unconventional. Learning might come from many different sources over the years. Wisdom show up in unexpected places ...
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TAG Fun Holiday Team Building Activities

Fun Holiday Team Building Activities

At The Acquisition Group, we know that fostering happiness in the workplace is the key to great company culture, and one of our favourite ways to bring some joy to the job is by organizing team building activities! The holidays ...
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What Are the Elements of Great Company Culture

What Are the Elements of Great Company Culture

Have you ever had a job where you genuinely looked forward to going to work? Conversely, you’ve no doubt had a job where you dreaded the start of the work week. But what is it that makes ...
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TAG Friday Productivity

How to Make Friday Your Most Productive Day of the Week

On Friday, the weekend looms and staying focused can be difficult. If you ask your average employee, he or she will probably tell you that Monday is the most productive day of the week while Friday is ...
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The Acquisition Group 5 Networking Tips

5 Networking Tips to Set You Up for Success

Learning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Whether you are connected to the internet or you connect face-to-face, the key is, there needs to be connection. As social beings, it is often the latter situation from ...
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Excellence, then is not an act but a habit

5 Tips to Start Your Day Off Right

How you spend your morning sets the tone for your day. It’s a simple truth. The mornings when you make the effort to get up a little bit earlier and take your time getting ready ...
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Q&A with The Acquisition Group Founders

A Q&A with the Founders of The Acquisition Group

A wise man once said, “Be the change.” The founders of The Acquisition Group took those words to heart. In 2005, the pair struck out on their own with no assurances other than their conviction that the industry ...
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The Acquisition Group New Look

The Acquisition Group’s New Look

At The Acquisition Group, our mission is to make our mark on personal, professional and business growth. We set the bar high, holding our team members from interns and students to upper management to the highest standards. The ...
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