Success

APRIL 5, 2023

In Vivvi’s “ Beyond Parental Leave ” report, conducted alongside Werklabs and The Mom Project, they found more parents “took a career pause” during toddler and preschool years (37%) than at any other time in parenting. Parents can produce high-quality at home, even after bedtime.

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Success

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, reported having attracted one million users just five days from its launch, something that took Instagram 2½ months. For example, “Create a 30-day social media calendar and captions for five posts per day. I wanted to experience that increase in efficiency, so I set some goals.

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Success

AUGUST 17, 2021

One second you were working on your report, the next you were checking on that eBay auction you’re bidding on. Let your mind wander and find a new idea, goal or dream. Think of all those meetings and reports that eat into your day but never lead to a big revelation—just more meetings and reports.

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Success

JUNE 23, 2021

In fact, rather than working less, most remote workers reported putting in more hours and becoming more productive when they ditched the office. In its fourth quarter of 2020 and first quarter of 2021 financial reports—while many other companies were experiencing layoffs and frantically downsizing—BELAY announced record-breaking numbers.

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Workplace Insight

APRIL 18, 2023

Organisations that lack explicit norms around hybrid working can increase the likelihood of an employee leaving by 12 percent, according to a new report from Gartner [paywall]. The post Employees 12 percent more likely to leave if employers don’t establish hybrid working norms appeared first on Workplace Insight.

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Success

JANUARY 8, 2024

Setting goals and tracking your progress is essential for personal development. But sometimes, keeping track of your progress can seem to take longer than achieving the goal itself. Using a goal setting app can help keep the tracking process manageable. 10 best goal setting apps 1. How much does the app cost?

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Success

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You might even have a debate with yourself, while skimming your calendar to-dos and meetings, obligations and responsibilities, about what it would be like to just miss it all and stay in bed. Yet, we still roll out of bed and show up much of the time, although 84% reported in the same Softworks survey that employees shouldn’t work when sick.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 15, 2010

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets © Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 January, 2010 Calendar "ah ha" I was participating in a Harvard sponsored webinar with my boss the other day. Lets enjoy our day together.© Another one I never use.

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All Things Admin

APRIL 17, 2024

If you’re going to implement this across calendars and digital tools that overlap with others, it’s important to discuss it and create something that makes sense to everyone on your team. In Microsoft Office, categories carry across email, tasks, and calendar. When I see a red block on my calendar, I know it’s a speaking event.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Debbie Gross (Strategy) suggested administrative assistants to work at a higher level by using their Outlook calendar like their own personal admin to help keep them on track with the many projects to be managed. If something is not positive, or doesn’t help you toward your goal, let it go.” Your Reporter in the Field.

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Success

JANUARY 7, 2023

According to a 2019 study published in Sleep Medicine , when night owls began to consistently shift their “sleep/wake timings” by two hours, they showed “significant improvements to self-reported depression and stress, as well as improved cognitive… performance measures,” among other benefits. Then on to Tuesday, and so on.

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. What about the goals you had for this year: were they met or exceeded? Were they really the right goals? By: Peg Ayers. A clean slate. A fresh start. If not, why not?

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Success

MARCH 22, 2023

To the company party, a friend’s wedding or maybe a community group outing—whatever it is, it’s on your calendar. You still accomplished your goal of going when it was easier not to, and you were there supporting a friend or coworker. You’re invited! All great chances to meet new people. You think, I won’t know anyone there.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Each organization’s priorities, goals, and skills needed to help them hit their goals will determine the qualification criteria for a company. Many senior EAs have direct reports and are involved with hiring and work allocation decisions. This criterion is, again, something that varies between organizations.

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Success

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recurring tasks, delegation, comments, calendar integration, kanban-style productivity visualizations and subtasks are some of the most notable features of Todoist. A handy reporting feature and integrations with more than 100 workflow apps make Toggl a versatile productivity tool for busy professionals.

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Allwork

MARCH 9, 2023

These tasks can be time-consuming and take away from the ultimate goal of creating a thriving coworking environment and fostering customer loyalty. Thankfully, coworking apps have emerged as a solution to simplify and streamline operations, allowing hub owners to focus on what matters most: building a successful business.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Write your action steps down, and calendar them to make them a priority. Book additional time each month to simply check-in with yourself, to re-evaluate your goals and assess what’s working, and what’s not. Don’t let February go by with no action taken on your 2015 goals. miles a day. Start there.

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Ideas.Ted

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And collaboration overload isn’t just about the meetings that fill up our calendars — it’s also the endless emails, Slacks, reports and work that every new project generates. Scott, one leader I met, was always trying to help people, from his direct reports to his bosses. Trigger #1: The desire to help others.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

When YOU are inspired, and your business mission and goals are clearly defined, your passion will inspire others. Draw up a short list of goals that you have for the business, and your personal goals. Calendar and acknowledge team member birthdays and other special days. Inspiration is contagious. Pass it on.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JANUARY 19, 2012

Write your action steps down, and calendar them to make them a priority. Book additional time each month to simply check-in with yourself, to re-evaluate your goals and assess what’s working, and what’s not. Don’t let January go by with no action taken on your 2012 goals. miles a day. Start there.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

JUNE 9, 2011

It’s a long time to look back to determine whether they accomplished what they set out to accomplish, whether the risks they took worked in their favor, whether they made the contacts they anticipated, the profits they hoped for, and whether their goals were met. Block out appropriate times in your calendar to do this.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 18, 2015

come in on Saturdays and had 10 Directors reporting to him. Daily Calendars. It is easy to place a wrong time or wrong date on a calendar. Or because so many executives are independent, they place events on their own calendars and forget to inform their administrative partner. WHAT WOULD WE TALK ABOUT? Upcoming Travel.

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Worxbee

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Part of your meeting preparation should be to set defined goals. Many companies seem to book hour-long meetings because it’s a neat slot on a calendar, but often, a lot of side-tracking and daydreaming happens during a full hour (especially when people are sitting at home or in co-working spaces!).

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Executive Assistant Breakthrough

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Learning how to effectively influence people above you in the reporting chain not only makes you better at your job, but also unlocks new opportunities in your career. You see her calendar. You probably know his list of specific development goals. Managing up is an essential tool to have in your executive assistant toolkit.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals. Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Set reasonable goals. Give yourself a gift this year by setting achievable goals that you have a fighting chance to accomplish. Each smaller goal you reach this year will boost your confidence, and take you one step closer to your larger aspirations. What goals did you reach? Reevaluate the past year.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Write your action steps down, and calendar them to make them a priority. Book additional time each month to simply check-in with yourself, to re-evaluate your goals and assess what’s working, and what’s not. Don’t let February go by with no action taken on your 2011 goals. miles a day. Start there.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 5, 2010

Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself. kmmarketing   @ StephCalahan I enter important to-dos as calendar items in my iPhone. Break down into bite size pieces, and put the pieces on the calendar. To dos in back.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 28, 2012

Gained respect from one of my leader’s direct reports who always gave me a hard time. Leading our admins in goal setting sessions and hosting video conference meetings. Assistants are cooperating and collaborating on our executive’s calendars. Professionalism and Confidence. I set healthy boundaries with others.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

You can set a due date, and even sych the due date to your calendar. 2 - Keep Your Team Coordinated and Aligned to Their Goals. It provides seamless communication and coordination, which cuts down on meetings and status reports, not to mention miscommunication. 4 - Reminders, Notifications and Calendar Integration.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today it’s the Mayan calendar that has people in an uproar! This is different than knowing what your leader does such as hold weekly meetings with her direct reports. Align your professional goals with your organization and department goals. Who among us doesn't remember the perceived crisis of Y2K? Observe/listen.

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Allwork

JANUARY 15, 2024

And all of those sort of things are contributing to reported levels of burnout within our workforce. If your workforce is reporting levels of stress or burnout. If the goal is work life balance, there’s some 510, 20%, some percentage of people that are going to. It’s not so much. Frank Cottle [ 00:18:52 ]: Yeah.

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Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

The primary goal is to change your environment from workplace to anywhere else. Kayla Matthews is a productivity blogger and calendar-planning enthusiast. Assignments. Phone calls. Some days the demands of the job seem never-ending. A hectic day now and then is manageable. String too many together, though, and you risk burnout.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In those days I was an office manager with 3 people reporting to me and my salary was growing at less than 3% per year. I did the math and realized that if I ever wanted to meet my own financial goals, I needed to move in to something I was also good at that had the potential for better pay. It was candidly for the money.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Now break that into a few big parts of that goal. If not, I have at least made progress toward my eventual goal, and I can take another bite tomorrow. I look at my to-do list at the beginning of each week and schedule my tasks in my calendar as if they were a client meeting. Keep An Editorial Calendar And Stick To It!

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In those days I was an office manager with 3 people reporting to me and my salary was growing at less than 3% per year. I did the math and realized that if I ever wanted to meet my own financial goals, I needed to move in to something I was also good at that had the potential for better pay. It was candidly for the money.

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