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How to Plan a Working Vacation

Success

Choose the right working vacation destination If it’s critical that you are available in case of emergencies during business hours in your home city, traveling more than a couple time zones away may not be wise. A location that’s too remote may not work if Wi-Fi and phone service are not up to par.

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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

Allwork

Teams spread across locations and time zones might be working from home, or might meet in the office. Individual focused work, asynchronous communication and video conferences tend to be better remotely. Dean agreed balancing remote and in-person time is key for optimizing productivity.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

Be cognizant of the time zones. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. When we entered the virtual conference room it gave us the chance to eliminate distractions and meet in one virtual room, without the hassle and expense of traveling to a central location. .

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. One of the things they recommended to executives was to use their electronic calendar to leave themselves reminders. . -- Wait a minute! I guess he thought I needed the help.

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8 Productivity Apps Every Business Owner Needs

Productivityist

Additionally, integration with existing apps is common such as integrating Calendar with Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook. Calendar – Integration with Others. It’s not uncommon to keep personal and business life separate and in separate calendar apps. Toggl – Keep Track of Time.

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

You may want to have weekly or monthly one-on-one time with some of the key executives you support. Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner.

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Great Apps for Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Meetup Time: £0.69. This is a great app for conference call planning that allows you to schedule calls and meetings from all over the world without having to check all of the various time zones. This is great if your company doesn’t have many video conference calls or only have one room with video conference kit.