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How You Can Combat Collaboration Overload to Improve Company Performance—and Your Own

Success

While you and your fellow employees might share common goals, more collaboration doesn’t always mean the team will be successful. But teamwork isn’t going away anytime soon. If you’re stressed and stretched too thin with collaboration overload, you won’t be at your best. Don’t I have to weigh in?

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Master the Art of Hosting Engaging Virtual Meetings

Allwork

In his study on the neuroscience of goals and motivation, Elliot T. Berkman, a University of Oregon psychologist, proffers the idea that the brain’s executive functions , or psychological skills that help individuals pay attention and complete other tasks, draw upon a limited resource of mental bandwidth.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

It was a good first job but it was junior, didn’t pay much and required quite a long commute, I left quickly and went on to work as an Administrator at an Association. The Account Manager role was a little side step along my career path but required the same skills I would need in my next role as a PA and Administrative Manager.

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Ground rules for team meetings

Practically Perfect PA

The statistics don’t end there with 73% of people admit to doing unrelated work in their meetings. Every meeting must have an agenda . Make sure every meeting has an agenda, it can be very simple for example: Date, time, location. Agenda / meeting’s purpose. That’s crazy right? Supporting papers.

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Improve Your Listening Skills by W.A.I.T.ing

Ian's Messy Desk

Ask yourself, “ W hy A m I T alking?”. This includes distractions of ego, your agenda and judgements. Do you jump in and interrupt or block other’s attempts to talk? If these are habits you need to break, you have to W.A.I.T. If there’s no good answer. To be a better listener, eliminate these bad habits: Interrupting the speaker.

Skills 100
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Keeping Virtual Teams Focused In The Pandemic Era

BioTeams

I don’t want to be cliched by saying this, but we are now officially living in ‘unprecedented’ and dynamic times. The use of video, avatars and backgrounds can enhance the soft skills element and often break the ice (something that is always needed in physical face to face meetings anyway to create alignment).

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Podcast 076: Organizing challenges for couples

Clutter Coach

Even when I’m working just with an individual, there are family members lurking in the background and they have their own wants, needs, agendas, resistances and bad habits that we have to take into account. Anyone who works with people in situations where they feel vulnerable needs to have empathy and people skills to truly help them.