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8 Ways to Avoid Pointless Meetings

Success

Smith is a disciple of agile project management, a standard among software development firms. Once seen merely as a way to save money on travel, video conferencing has become key to business communication, says Proofpoint CEO Ashan Willy. This article was published in April 2014 and has been updated.

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How to Successfully Manage Remote Employees

Office Dynamics

Whether it is a few employees or your entire workforce, it is becoming more and more likely that if you have employees, you are facing the challenge of managing remote workers. In 2014, 10 percent of all employees worked remotely. Manage Remote Employees: Build a Remote Community. grew by almost 80 percent.

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VA Interview with Bec Baints

Karen Vivarelli

About Bec Hi I’m Bec and I’m based in Melbourne, Australia and have been living in this incredible city since 2014. I am a (huge) Pinot Noir lover, a bit of a book nerd, a photography novice and a travel enthusiast (aren’t we all?). I’m living here with my husband and our little fur baby Bailey (ok, so he is not so little anymore!

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15 social media and technology trends for 2015

Practically Perfect PA

For assistants we can pretty much guarantee that our managers will access all of their information via their phone (especially while travelling on business) so we have to make sure that we are also mobile ready and that we really do understand what they do with their phones, how the phone operates and who will fix them when they break!

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Inside the Edinburgh PA Network

Practically Perfect PA

Amy : I am currently an Executive Assistant at Skyscanner to the CTO, Director Engineering, Director of Project Management and the Director of HR. This then took me into the arena of public speaking and gave me the opportunity to be on the PA panel at ACES 2014. Amy : I am a OneNote advocate! I have everything in my OneNote.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. We went on the first big family trip we’ve had without extended family as we traveled to San Diego. We agreed that the 2012 was too sweet, that the 2014 was too “hot” (boozy but not mild), and that the 2013 was just right.

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My 2015 Year in Review (and How a Journal Made It Easy to Do)

Productivityist

So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. We went on the first big family trip we’ve had without extended family as we traveled to San Diego. We agreed that the 2012 was too sweet, that the 2014 was too “hot” (boozy but not mild), and that the 2013 was just right.

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