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How to Plan Events Your Team Will Love (Without the Stress)

Eat Your Career

Preferred vendors and their contact information. Put dates from your timeline in your calendar and use a project management tool like Trello to keep all dates and information about your event in one place. For a more detailed event planning calendar, download The Complete Guide to Office Management from Managed by Q.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity. Keeping track all year will help you easily prepare a list of projects you are most proud of completing and/or assisted with.

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What It Means to Be a Career Executive Assistant

Worxbee

An executive assistant, on the other hand, often takes more of a project management role. An executive assistant is more likely to take a hands-on role, preparing the materials, inviting the right people, distributing information AND making sure materials get printed. Many experienced EAs are asked for their input.

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A day in the life: Laura O’Malley, Team Lead and Executive PA, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Practically Perfect PA

It could be for meeting papers, information for my Directors or data for reports, not a day goes by without having to chase numerous colleagues for various outstanding pieces of work, regardless of how many reminders you have sent in the lead up to a deadline…. What is the hardest part of your day? Chasing people!

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

There was less sharing of information and limited collaboration. Project Management – Time Management, Critical Thinking and Coordination Skills. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. This is a culture which embraces tooting your own horn and showcasing your productivity.

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4 Reasons Why She is in Love with @Asana and Her Team Has Never Been More Productive - App Review and How-To

Stephanie LH Calahan

" Then, I heard this comment: "I use Asana for task and project management, and the app is on my iPhone and iPad, so I can see all of my tasks at a glance and add to them if needed. Task/Project Management Tool: Asana. Asana is an Internet based software that is a powerful task manager.

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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. Sally : I’m a recent convert to the project management/list making tool called Trello – I use it for every job that I have and so many things at home.