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Reporting on confidential Assistant tasks

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Reporting on confidential Assistant tasks As an Assistant, it's not uncommon to work on personal projects for your Executive, such as travel planning for client meetings, drafting confidential reports or organising calls with direct reports, that may not be included in your team's regular reporting. However, [.]

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Chasing colleagues who do not report to you

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Imagine the scene – you’ve been asked to lead on a piece of work, for example compiling a report or managing a new project. So what can assistants do when they need to chase colleagues for work who do not report to them? The post Chasing colleagues who do not report to you appeared first on Practically Perfect PA.

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Developing confidence and inspiring trust in your career

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This encompasses the capacity to inspire confidence in your Executive, colleagues, direct reports, and external stakeholders. Developing confidence and inspiring trust in your career Achieving success in your Assistant career often pivots on an attribute known as executive presence. Executive presence is less about having all [.]

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5 Books for Executive Assistants

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If you have been reading the Practically Perfect PA blog for a while, you will know that I often tell Assistants that they have to read EVERYTHING, which includes emails, reports, the intranet, the internet, business guides, your Executive’s magazines and newspapers.

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Working with your Executive on a planned approval process

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Executives also have to accept leave requests, sickness reports, expenses, invoices, purchase orders and budget requests. In most organisations, work often needs to be formally approved or signed-off by Senior Executives before the work can begin or the next phase of the project.

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How should Assistants represent their boss at a meeting

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I didn’t do anything in the meeting except take a few notes and agree to report back to my manager later […]. It was a last-minute decision because she was running late and I didn’t have time to prepare myself properly.

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Adding some creativity to a regular meeting

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Perhaps it’s a formal board meeting with dozens of papers and reports, or maybe it’s a more informal weekly staff get together or something in between. We have all been in charge of regular meetings. Have you ever thought, I wish I could freshen this up to make sure the attendees get more from the […].

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