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The psychology of online registrations for professional development →

If you have ever had to deal with large scale registration for any continuous professional development (CPD) in-person training, seminar or workshop events, you know how easily it can get out of hand. Especially without a solid system for capturing the registrants’ data. You could try and get through it using Google’s multitude of useful tools, but hopping between forms, sheets, emails, and back again makes for a very messy registration.

Update: Looking for online teaching tools to help you provide quality online training to your professional clients? Have a look at Kotive Learn - it is an online teaching toolbox that takes care of enrollment, receiving payment for your course, providing students access to rich learning experiences, evaluating their progress, auto-issuing certificates and remarketing.

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How to fluently deal with an employee exit →

The stark reality of any business is that employees come and go. They resign for various reasons, from better job opportunities to moving because of family reasons, and sometimes the grass is just greener somewhere else. How your company handles this transition is the important part.

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How to write effective emails: a comprehensive guide with 45+ email writing tips →

Do you sometimes get the uneasy feeling that sending out emails is like "shouting into the wind"?

You have a valuable message that you need to get across and you know people might benefit from it, but how can you be sure that your message hit the mark without having the advantage of making eye contact or seeing their body language?

Not really interested in shouting more and louder just for the sake of shouting? Then this guide might interest you.

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Manual task retries →

Update: Kotive now automatically retries failed tasks in workflows.

We’re all working smarter by letting technology take care of our repetitive tasks, but sometimes things still go wrong.

The service for sending your emails might be down, there might be a problem with the template you use for generating PDFs, or perhaps you made a typo in your automated task’s setup.

If any task in your workflow failed, you’ll see a “Retry?” link instead of the usual link to “Continue” in the “Live Workflows” view.

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How easy can it be to create a new staff position? →

A busy record label is working on tight deadlines for their album releases. Daniel, the team leader in the Design Department, realizes the need for another Graphic Designer - album covers and promotional material piles are building up. He needs a new employee with the right qualifications, fast! The challenge is to get the right person for the job as soon as possible.

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29 of the best affordable tools for improving business operations →

When you’re running a business, it’s not uncommon for things to get forgotten, lost in your inbox, and eventually done late and out of order. How often have you had to apologize to a customer for delivering after the deadline? And how many times has a job been completed, only for you to realize that the deposit hasn’t even been paid yet?

These problems slow down your business operations, lowering your overall productivity and your monthly turnover.

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An easy alternative for improved preschool assessments →

As a preschool teacher you are in the fortunate position to be entrusted by parents with the wellbeing and development for their child. The time you spend with each child, accomodating individual personalities, backgrounds and different levels of development, has an impact on their future and who they are. With 10 or more children in your class it is apparent that you need resources to help you stay focussed. In this context we believe that preschool assessment should not take you away from this important focus but should rather contribute to it.

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