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

Executive Leadership Support Blog

This is a true gift when wanting to be a strategic partner to your CEO. Offer to help put together the agenda for meetings, offer to tackle a project for a committee. As a bonus this will also alleviate emails and phone calls to you asking when something is due. Now some of you might say LUXURY??? And I would say yes!,

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Working with other assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? You can put together an agenda so that the meeting isn’t just there for people to vent but actually talk about best practice, what can be improved in the office, frustrations, achievements etc etc. So how do we do this? Bond over shared experiences.

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A day in the life: Saba Ali, Royal Academy of Dance

Practically Perfect PA

I provide extensive diary management including global travel arrangements, compile reports, agendas and for Committee and Board meetings. I also get a lot of phone calls from an array of people about all sorts of things. I support both the Artistic Director and Director of Marketing, Communications and Membership.

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How to sign off correspondence on behalf of the boss

Practically Perfect PA

Oh and I haven’t mention what they receive through the post… brochures, leaflets, magazines and corporate gifts to name but a few. Obvious messages for an assistant to deal with are sales, dinner / event invitations; in fact anything to do with their diary, thank you notes for free gifts or corporate hospitality.

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The Manager's Workshop: How to Guide Employees to be Efficient, Effective & Extraordinary

Office Dynamics

Add this valuable webinar to your agenda today! P.S. Free Bonus Gift. You may include as many people as you wish while listening on a single phone line. Our popular Manager's Workshop will help managers get the best from their staffs—and make your entire workforce more productive. Sincerely, Pat DiDomenico. Event only: $197.

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106 Thoughts on Overcoming Overwhelm in a Freaked-Out World

Stephanie LH Calahan

Use the notebook for everything you want to keep track of: to do lists, grocery lists, client meetings, phone calls, dreams and goals. Pick a half-dozen little items that can be completed in 5 minutes each or less (an email you need to send, a phone call to make, something to look up on the internet.) a 6x9(ish) spiral notebook.

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Master the Art of Re-purposing Your Work and You'll Save Multiple Hours - 50 Ideas To Get You Started

Stephanie LH Calahan

As my business continues to grow from it's inception in 2004, I've added a lot more to my agenda, including blogging on my website, guest blogging, writing articles for e-zines and in print for local magazines, creating a monthly newsletter and doing public speaking. Thanks to Rachel Minihan of Purple Phone PR & Marketing.