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10 Tips to be a Better Executive Assistant - Part 3

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

As soon as you get an email or piece of paper, deal with it. If I flag it for later I at least say I got their email. In all emails with other assistants we started referring to our bosses by initials only. This is part 3. I hate my inbox filled up with unread messages or paper. Have a personal stash.

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Minimum Survival Kit

Brilliantly Better

For 6 months, I woke up at 5 AM each morning (except during the 6 nights of Romanian Revolution , when I didn’t sleep at all), I practiced fight techniques and learned tremendously. Told you it was rough… The Survival Exercise Part of our training involved also learning survival tactics and techniques. On the contrary.

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