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Upping your A(ssisting) game when you work with a Board of Trustees

Executive Leadership Support Blog

Offer to help put together the agenda for meetings, offer to tackle a project for a committee. Cultivating this relationship can relieve stress from your Chairperson and you will not only have a seat at the table, you can push your chair into the table and be ready to participate.

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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

Success

Research has shown that writing and journaling can improve cognitive function and reduce stress and anxiety. You can write whatever comes to mind without a theme or specific agenda. The Videographer Tool: phone or video camera Method: Create a video diary to talk through a problem or share your thoughts on the day.

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The rise of the pods shows how the workplace pendulum swings

Workplace Insight

Open plan officer workers and workplace professionals moaned about acoustics, stress, and more recently, germs in large open workspaces. As the legend goes, two American office employees were constantly distracted by their boss’s loud phone calls, as he paced their open office. The good news is we couldn’t find a phone cabin.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

This makes a stressful time even tenser. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Course agendas and certificates from continuing education. If you want to include a phone number, set up a free Google Voice number. Project plans.

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Working with other assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? You can put together an agenda so that the meeting isn’t just there for people to vent but actually talk about best practice, what can be improved in the office, frustrations, achievements etc etc. So how do we do this? Bond over shared experiences.

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Conquering The Open Loops Of Productivity

Productivity Bits

Our inability to control things causes us to stress out. The thing is – and I cannot stress this enough – you don’t try closing them out but must control them. The open loops can become constant source of stress if not controlled. The 2 phone clients can sync to the Windows version.

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Save An Hour A Day With IQTELL

Productivity Bits

We have a lot on our agenda, and we carry an oversized to do list that limits our ability to use strategy and plan our day to achieve our goals. Instead, prioritize tasks that you need to clear from your agenda because they are more pressing. Our reality is that most of us are really busy people. Work in patterns.

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