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Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

Office Dynamics

Meeting planning is a cognitive task. You must think about your manager’s workload, other commitments, travel, upcoming meetings, past meetings, previous week’s schedule. What about time for my leader to work on: projects return phone calls respond to e-mails delegate work on presentation? COGNITIVE task!

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Time Is Money: Get More of Both with an Executive Assistant

Worxbee

Here’s a short list of things EAs can do: Screening or making phone calls Scheduling or moving meetings Planning a business trip to meet with clients Bookkeeping or budgeting Completing paperwork Initial brainstorming on new projects Two heads are better than one It’s easier to remember or collaborate when two heads are involved.

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Taking stock

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 9 July, 2010 Taking stock Whenever I finish a project I always ask myself, or get together with those who assisted me, and ask the question, "What went well and what could have gone better?" The meetings were stress free and I was able to depend on my checklists and templates. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have a network of assistants that I call friends, although some are just phone colleagues, but we help each other. I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I’ve been able to plan and complete a project successfully. I will have all kinds of energy to work on a project if I know it is ending at one point. (for

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Guest Blog by Alexis Bonari: 10 Easy Ways to Check and Maximize.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Dealing in real time.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If it is a big project I use a calendar and write down all my required to-dos on the dates I need to get them done to make my deadline. I’m a visual person so it really helps me to plan my way to my goal. If you find some are outdated please let me know so I can remove them from this list. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

I’ve attended numerous seminars in leadership, time management, MS Word, Excel, Outlook, meeting planning, event planning, and disaster recovery planning (Joan Eisendot and her website are fantastic resources) as well as is Tyler Davidson at Meetings Focus magazine/website, and freely shared the knowledge with my peers and anyone who asked.

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