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Why Small Businesses are Important in Today's Economy: Enhancing Growth with Executive Assistants' Support

ProAssisting Blog

Here are four compelling reasons why hiring an EA is a strategic investment for your small business: Increased Productivity with the Help of an Executive Assistant An executive assistant can significantly enhance productivity and streamline operations, freeing up valuable time for small business owners to focus on strategic growth.

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How to Stand Up for Yourself

Success

The director of a small but busy public library in the Midwest, Marcia Fanning (not her real name) says she was meek and didn’t really stand up for herself for many years: “I let people walk all over me, and I ended up being really unhappy a lot of [the] time.”. The stress-reducing power of assertiveness.

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45 Professional Development Books to Level Up Your Career and Your Life

Success

In a world with countless ways to level up your professional development, books are one of the most underestimated tools. Hyatt’s approach is to develop a research-based process for determining how to set your individual goals and take the steps needed to achieve them despite feeling overwhelmed by daily stress.

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

Executive Leadership Support Blog

Below are three suggestions to “up your game” when working with the board. These are just a few items from our Bylaws that have come up in meetings that I was able to give the answer to so we could continue working. As a bonus this will also alleviate emails and phone calls to you asking when something is due. Know EVERYTHING!

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Email Triage: What it is and how it can help you

ProAssisting Blog

Now I’ll detail how I use email triage with the hope that you see a use for this technique in your dealings with both work and personal emails to “maximize email success in the shortest time period&#. Then I quickly scan through for any emails from my boss as action items for the upcoming week.

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Workplace Communication Etiquette: Best Practices for Response Times and Setting Boundaries

Success

Do you have to respond to an email within a certain number of hours? And if your first communication goes unanswered, when should you follow up? The danger in not outlining communication expectations Stress. She often feels the need to immediately respond to emails. “I Try to respond to emails within 24 hours.

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Research: Twitter Reveals Workplace Stress

On The Job

Chances are, your stress level has gone up simply because it's Monday. A new study by Dr. Wei Wang at the University of Central Florida finds that tweets mentioning work stress were highest on Mondays, and start to slowly decline throughout the week. Researchers say there is a "Friday dip" for work stress and negative emotion.

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