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10 Simple Tips to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Success

Then put them in your calendar before anything else. Even with the best intentions, you can find yourself subject to someone else’s agenda. Pick up the phone Making a call can often generate a quicker—and more accurate—response than a time-consuming email exchange. Don’t let the low-value ones hijack time and mental energy.

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Executive Assistants: Starting With a New Client? Our Tips for Success

Worxbee

The purpose is to set expectations and learn more about their key priorities and goals. To get the most from this meeting, go into it with a planned agenda. An agenda helps to ensure that nothing important is missed during your launch call. Most of week one will be spent as a learning curve. Click To Tweet.

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Working with a boss who has never had an assistant before

Practically Perfect PA

Delegation: Your new Executive will need to learn to delegate work to you, which will be new to them. Get the basics up and running straight away: Tell them you will need access to their inbox and calendar. You can not effectively assist them without being able to manage their schedule and review their emails.

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Keeping it all together

Laughing all the Way to Work

I write on each item whatever direction he gives me and then when I am back at my desk I complete the tasks, whether it is forwarding correspondence to someone to draft a reply, filing or replying on his behalf to an email. I call it the CEO folder.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

Practically Perfect PA

Sometimes it is easy to forget what we learn over the years so lets have a little reminder of the skills we have picked up at various stages of our careers: Administrator: Improving computer skills from intermediary to advanced . Learning how to use and fix a variety of office equipment. Learning as you go.

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A day in the life: Claudia Ferreres, PA to Albert Adrià

Practically Perfect PA

As the Personal Assistant to a quite renowned chef, my tasks might vary from the ones of a regular PA, like calendar and email management, to most specific tasks such as taking care of the journalists that come visit the restaurants and to interview Albert. What are the main aspects of your role?

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

- How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? What are your thoughts in this area?

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