Go Burrows

APRIL 18, 2021

In this episode, Kaleen talks about what it’s like to work with ultra high net worth individuals, tips for project management, and how to distinguish between an individual contributor and a great leader. Her areas of focus include project management, creating efficiencies, event planning, calendar management, and marketing strategy.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes. Organizational abilities: Experts in managing multiple tasks and schedules efficiently, an executive assistant must keep everything on track, from managing calendars to coordinating meetings.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

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. Below are a few: Throughout the year track each project and goal progress, additional duties added and positive feedback from others.

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Study the interviews, speeches, biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women. Categorize projects and tackle related tasks together. Instead, bundle related projects together and tackle them all at once,” says Firas Kittaneh, co-founder of Amerisleep. Then do the same things until you get the same results.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Today’s Day in the life: Diana Brandl, Senior EA at Mister Spex, Founder and CEO of The Socialista Projects, Head of IMA Berlin and National Social Relations Officer, speaker, coach and mentor and all round superstar EA! Plus, all the calendar management, involvement in projects and of course leading my Office team.

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C-Suite Assistants

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When your everyday to-do list is endless and your attention is frequently diverted from key projects and higher-level decisions to tend to administrative tasks, you know it’s time to hire an Executive Assistant. As the founder of a Startup, you and your management team are covering all the bases, and are stretched to their limits.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Even The NOW Year wall calendar starts in January. I also understand that I’m an outlier when it comes to when I make the start of my year, so I still lean in and share how my calendar year went in posts like this. In March I interviewed Austin Kleon for my podcast again. It’s paying off, too. Pun not intended).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JUNE 17, 2011

     Can you really coordinate calendars using Springpad?  The actual coordination of calendars happens external to Springpad, but personal events and reminders set in Springpad can be automatically synced to iCal and Google Calendar.   Do have any future projects you’d like to tell us about?

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Page Personnel

OCTOBER 2, 2022

It means staying on top of diaries and calendars, keeping paperwork (whether digital or physical) filed neatly, and always thinking ahead to what’s next. Proficiency in Microsoft Office and any other tools that might be used in the organisation (such as project management tools) is a must.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

AUGUST 28, 2022

Emily is accountable for: – Managing and planning the CEO’s calendar with all appointments, meetings, and other activities. – Playing an active role in the execution of company-wide initiatives and critical projects. – Helping the CEO arrange activities that enable him to operate in his unique ability.

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Success

AUGUST 3, 2021

Their first impressions are hard to beat and, in an interview, Threes have a way of making past failures look like success. No matter your strategy or forecast for income or goals for the next calendar year, culture is going to trump all of that. There’s a great line that says culture eats strategy for lunch ,” McCollum says. “No

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Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 1, 2023

Discovery calls start filling up the calendar, and proposals start rolling out. Do you have other business development projects or marketing/networking activities that need to be completed during your productive hours? It happens to every service-based business.

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Ideas.Ted

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But in the last year, as the pandemic radically reoriented so many parts of everybody’s lives, I was reminded painfully of what economists call “opportunity costs” I’ve always been productive and disciplined, so I was under the impression that even with all my traveling and various projects, I wasn’t suffering much for it.

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Success

MARCH 31, 2023

She kept the project secret for a year. Sara had a vision for what Spanx could become that very few people shared,” says Gillian Zoe Segal, who interviewed Blakely for her book Getting There: A Book of Mentors , in which she profiles luminaries such as Warren Buffett, Ian Schrager and Anderson Cooper. How does she manage it all? “I

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 1, 2011

We are not a calendar. We can’t have an interview here and not talk about productivity! Do have any future projects you’d like to tell us about? We are a simple solution for keeping business cards and notes together. We help people organize their notes from these first meetings for follow-up. We are not an everyday planner.

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Make or Break Moments

JULY 19, 2010

The first project – transcribe a one hour speech from an audio file. I’m familiar with Elance but a colleague who had a similar project told me that she’d had great success with oDesk - so that’s where I started. So throwing out the high and the low, I started to look for people to interview.

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Office Organization Success

MAY 22, 2015

As the host of the Telesummit, you then get to interview each speaker and they share their expertise with the telesummit attendees. But the reality of it is that it’s a lot of work to pull off: There are the speakers to schedule on your calendar. The interviews to conduct and record. Sounds great in theory, right?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 17, 2010

  A while back I was interviewed by HCPro about managing to-dos.  Also consider color-coding the index cards by project. Immediately add that task to your digital calendar or task list, and set a reminder on your calendar closer to the due date.     * Master calendars.

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Workplace Insight

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Interviewing people involves trying to tease out a bit of personal colour. This is evident in the Workplace Trends conference he runs with his wife Maggie, one of the must attend events in the annual calendar of such things. We are often involved in the pre-project phase to inform the brief. He is also the author of two books.

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Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

As the Personal Assistant to a quite renowned chef, my tasks might vary from the ones of a regular PA, like calendar and email management, to most specific tasks such as taking care of the journalists that come visit the restaurants and to interview Albert. Additionally, I take care of offsite events coordination.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 14, 2010

This daylong event will include a multitude of wonderful programs – over 40 speakers will offer workshops and panel discussions from tax law, loan opportunities, energy conservation projects and “How to Get $1 Million Dollars Worth of Visibility with Little or No Money Down&# presented by Tina Jesson , Visiblity Creator, Brownsburg, IN.

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Loosely Speaking

MARCH 10, 2010

This month on the podcast we’re featuring Tara Fort ‘s interview with Robin Binkley of Best Year Yet (see Robin’s picture below, right). (By Her extensive strategic planning and project management skills help clients track their progress and produce the results they have always wanted. Episode 2: March 2010 [.]

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We are working on a project together and it was the first time I’d visited his shop. Expecting a typical auto repair store with worn carpet, car and truck magazines and ugly metal chairs I was pleased to walk into an inviting waiting area; warm, clean, comfortable.

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Jen Lawrence

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

I’ve taken everything from project management courses to writing workshops. A manager can call for references or give a practical during the interview. Testing and certification are offered during two windows per calendar year. I’ve been there. However, to be honest…it’s not enough. Why get certified?

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Make or Break Moments

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

PICK THE RIGHT CUSTOMERS When you first start out – or even if you’ve been around awhile but times are tough – you want to say YES to any customer and to any project. A website project for a company managing liquidation sales. I didn’t fully explain the value of the original project. The guy was awesome.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 1, 2015

It’s difficult to say I have an average day as it depends what is happening in our calendar i.e. whether we have an event taking place, Board or Committee meetings taking place, if a complaint comes in or if there are press enquires due to a media story that’s broken. There is always lots of diary management and setting up meetings.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

.  Here is an example of why: I was just checking my emails before going to bed (I'm on vacation in Georgia, just south of Russia, 12 hours ahead of pacific time) when I saw an interview request from foxbusiness.com journalist. My calendar syncs with my Apple products as well. Be prepared. 

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Loosely Speaking

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Deadline to enter : March 1, 2010 Sneak Peek at next month’s episode Interested in being interviewed or sponsoring a future episode (or know someone else who might)? Brian was over her shoulder on several of the beginning design projects offering SEO advice and has since decided to join Task Crate full-time as an SEO Consultant.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 15, 2010

Right now I’m using two of my groups to gather stories for my Hate My Customer project. LinkedIn Groups are a great place to share knowledge, get questions answered or spotlight an upcoming event. But it is also a great place to take the pulse of your industry and gauge what trends are on the horizon.

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Make or Break Moments

JUNE 28, 2010

In my interview with the vice president of stores, Peggy Deal, I asked “how will you know you’ve selected the right person for the job?&# “When they start coming to you for the answers instead of me.&# And soon people came to my office for a pretzel and to let me know about a new project they were working on.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 5, 2019

1) We knew a vendor where we literally gave them millions of dollars in business on a previous project in the past year. So while it wasn’t a current/active project, we did know them fairly recently. They had to work late on a project and by the time they finished it was too late to call. They ask when I’m free.

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Make or Break Moments

APRIL 11, 2010

I took his advice and amid many thanks on both parts (we were both so busy putting each other first it was a little silly) I paid and went home to work on my project. I’m painting the basement walls and Tom helped me pick out a paint and mixed the color and told me the roller and pan I had selected weren’t really up to the task.

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Audacious Admin

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

While experience in similar positions may get you the interview, your ability to showcase these soft skills should get you the job. Arrive well before the boss does, stay after the boss is gone to prepare for the next day, and work their calendar with proper planning and recommendations. Not everyone can be an administrative assistant.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 3, 2011

Of course when I check his calendar he really isn't. I prefer having a job that gives me a little more independence and being able to work on my own on projects, but it all depends what you signed up for. That is why when I go on an interview, I interview them as well. Too many cooks in the kitchen is not a good thing.

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Productivityist

JANUARY 19, 2017

That doesn’t mean that other projects don’t get attention during those months, but there is one particular project or aspect of my life that does receive more attention than all others. Monthly Themes can be project-based, category-based, or even based on a particular quality you want to bring to the forefront. Click here. ).

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JULY 17, 2022

.” And then I, I applied to be a PA, which was a productions… production assistant, and I was, you know, gonna… I was hoping to get that job and then, uh, they saw my resume and pulled it out of the pile of PA applicants so that I could apply to… so I can interview to be Conan’s assistant. Jeremy ( 07:26 ): Hmm.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

INTERVIEW WELL Make it a conversation. You are interviewing them too so ask questions. Take notes during the interview so you don’t forget what you wanted to ask. I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I’ve been able to plan and complete a project successfully. How true that is! Minute taking made easier.

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