Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 19, 2023

A significant challenge with remote work is proximity bias, where managers are more likely to seek the opinions of those physically present rather than their remote colleagues. To overcome this bias, managers need to value input from remote team members equally and recognise the unique perspectives they bring to the table.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

Guest Episode Video Transcript  Andrew Filev Founder And CEO of Wrike Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading collaborative work management platform. About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects.

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Success

APRIL 12, 2023

In addition, “39% of employees were less stressed,” and employees reported better sleep , less anxiety and improved overall physical and mental health. This is a time to pause and rethink how we can help employees think of their daily, weekly, quarterly and yearly approach to their work with respect to load management.

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Worxbee

MAY 24, 2021

Ideal” means different things to different people, but for the sake of this post, we’re defining it as your most productive, least-stressful work week. When applied to work days, this theory suggests that employees will be most productive if their basic needs are met in the work environment. Is there any such thing?

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation. Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals.

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 31, 2023

Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. While that’s great news for employees who enjoy the increased flexibility of working from home, it poses a significant challenge for managers. You likely spend quite a bit of time monitoring & managing your employees.

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Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

A key difference is that executive assistants tend to take a project management role, managing several moving parts and not necessarily doing all of the “doing,” but making sure others do. In contrast, virtual assistants are task managers. Executive assistants are process management professionals.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Furthermore, the amount of work and stress increases if you’re an entrepreneur. People who are close to burning out are under a lot of stress, which usually translates into low quality of sleep, insomnia, stomach pain, low appetite, headache, dizziness, chest pain, shortness of breath, and more. Don’t get me wrong. Health Problems.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

It’s important to recognize the difference between surviving and thriving, because the key to success is available to those who successfully manage to cross the bandwidth between the two. Single support executive assistants now juggled multiple managers. They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more.

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Eco-Office Gals

JULY 9, 2013

The idea of “going green” has now become very commonplace in the vernacular of your average individual but one area of our modern society which seems to be lacking is that of the small business environment. Suddenly your costs, environmental impact, and stress take a dive because these factors are now a fraction at where they were prior.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

A hectic day now and then is manageable. It’s not a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of good time management skills. Each complex project consists of several small components. You won’t stress out as much about finishing. The primary goal is to change your environment from workplace to anywhere else. Assignments.

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Worxbee

MARCH 22, 2021

However, employees who had high levels of autonomy but decreased levels of emotional stability were prone to becoming stressed out while working.”. Some people absolutely thrive in an environment where they can easily turn around and chat with a colleague. For others, it’s the social aspect. How you communicate is going to be huge.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

To Do Lists – Task Management. There are 5 core systems I encourage assistants to look at first: Time and Task Management. Project Management. Her system for email management is outstanding. Your systems will need to evolve to match the personalities and work environments you are in. Ideas, Time & Space.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain. Innovation happens in many places and has many faces.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. We need to see positive action that will make a real difference to getting people back in to work and supporting the UK’s economic growth.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Obtaining funds from work to complete training in the current environment is difficult. Yes – I’ve qualified since as an ISO programme manager and auditor, a Health & Safety manager and assessor, completed various MS Office and bespoke applications courses and a facilities management course. Not yet no.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

Are you stunting an opportunity for them to develop their project management skills, because as the older assistant you couldn’t be seen to have a younger assistant deliver on something that potentially should be coming from you? I have in fact identified another stereotype that many of us are guilty of also.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. And it’s not only important to state them to others, but for you yourself to live your life and to manage your career so you do 99% of the work and that 1% allows others to help you if they wish to get to you the next level.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 31, 2014

” Blogging can be as stressful as it is rewarding. The project management triangle applies very well to blogging: you’re always looking for the sweet spot between speed and quality content to provide great value to your readers. Her personal motto: “If it can be dreamed, it can be done.”

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Productivityist

JANUARY 31, 2014

Blogging can be as stressful as it is rewarding. The project management triangle applies very well to blogging: you''re always looking for the sweet spot between speed and quality content to provide great value to your readers. Writing one thousand words can be intimidating, but not if you tackle manageable chunks at once.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A few of the stupid things I tried to manage the e-mail: * Folders. Company archive – This is a special case (for your work environment) and it should really be the norm, not special. A few weeks into the job, I found myself with nearly 1,000 e-mails in my inbox. Lots of folders meant a lot of sorting. Archiving everything.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. Can you fit in a creative, free flowing environment or a structured corporate environment? 2) How manageable are you?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

  [link]   When I would get a new manager on my team, I'd encourage them to flip through the book and flag items that appealed to them.  Burnout and stress are morale killers that cost USA businesses $300 Billion per year. It makes my meditation practice much easier because peace is cumulative like stress.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Use it to manage overwhelm when your world is freakin'! " The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I learned tons of stuff about project management , programming, getting things done , negotiation, financial planning and a lot more. Although we’re not always admitting it, our behavior is hugely shaped by our environment, by the people we’re surrounding ourselves with. We’re floating from one environment to the the next one.

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On The Job

JULY 6, 2009

recently did a story for Gannett/USAToday on where job reviews may be headed: Performance evaluations have often been derided by managers and employees alike as being unfair, dysfunctional and morale-busting. Notes Robinson: “In this environment, companies are looking for the key players that can give them a winning team. Move forward.

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