Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. Trust me, people start to get irritated when this happens over and over again.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Plan out an agenda of all points that will need to be discussed. The Timekeeper would make sure each topic is covered within the amount of time mentioned on the agenda. If the person isnt responsible for any of the items discussed in this meeting, dont invite them. The facilitator would hold the meeting and introduce each topic.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

This happens to everyone from time to time. In my case, I am lucky, since I only have to track calls for myself and use my daily journal or agenda (call it what you will) to make notes. Do you wish that you could be able to track calls and make sure that you have all of the details in place?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Making a List, Checking it Twice The Board meeting I am preparing for is a two-day event and I dont want to forget anything that I need to do leading up to it, or anything that I need on the day of. Im sure my assistant must think I am the Checklist and To-Do List Queen. I think I feel another checklist coming on, gotta go.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

The reality of being an EA is that while the phones, calendar, and travel are essentially the same in every office your boss and your team are always unique people with their own work styles and needs. One of my toughest assignments was when I had less than 24 hours to find a new location for an all-day recruiting event.

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