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Ep 185: Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

If you look at your role through this lens, then you’ll stop viewing “calendar management” as an uninteresting part of your job. In this chapter, I cover managing your executive’s calendar before it manages you, setting up and maintaining the “ Ideal Week ” tactic, and auditing your executive’s time.

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Ep 216: Claudette Clayton on Calendar and Email Management, Delegating, and Evolving as the Assistant Role Evolves

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

In this episode, Claudette talks about her journey as an assistant, tips for calendar management, delegating, evolving as the job evolves, email management, and dealing with difficult executives. SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to The Leader Assistant Podcast so you don’t miss new episodes! Either way, I’d love to hear from you!

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

You’ll need to vet these yourself as many marketplaces don’t have set requirements for freelancers on their platform. How to interview freelance marketers It’s impossible to achieve goals you never set — so define and communicate your objective and scope of work in the first interview. What does a win look like?

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Admins Part 6

Practically Perfect PA

In my last blog I wrote about interview questions regarding career development and a few example answers. These questions can be a little scary but I actually think they are easier to answer than standard interview questions. It is also worth remembering the interviewer will ask you about competencies that are important in this role.

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Calendar "ah ha"

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. One of the things they recommended to executives was to use their electronic calendar to leave themselves reminders. . -- Wait a minute! I guess he thought I needed the help.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. On top of that, these leaders don’t do a very good job of managing their schedules because they don’t have time to look at their calendar from a holistic perspective. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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Preparing for the Phone Interview

Job Advice Blog

Many of my clients have asked me to help them prep for a phone interview. The interviewer can’t see you – there is not opportunity to gauge body language or make the same kind of connection. The Call: When you do your phone interview make sure that you are in a quiet place with good phone reception. What do you do on the phone?

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