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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

Allwork

Teams spread across locations and time zones might be working from home, or might meet in the office. Dean agreed balancing remote and in-person time is key for optimizing productivity. But tools providing recorded trainings and transparent company meetings help to facilitate learning.

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The Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

Worxbee

Over the years, we’ve learned what tools you need to reach the top of your game. Each card can represent a deliverable, task, or piece of a process. It includes things like calendar integrations, a habit-tracking tool, and even a pomodoro timer for getting through your work. Calendly will sync with most calendar apps, too.

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Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

Virtual assistants can give you a lot of freedom by taking on repetitive and administrative tasks and freeing up time to attend to other aspects of the business. If you plan to hire a virtual executive assistant, you must decide if you need someone in the same time zone as yourself. Lower overhead and training.

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7 Myths About Productivity: Do You Know These Deceptive Time Wasters?

Worxbee

Doing tasks that require focus during your own best time of day. So a better approach is to match the task to the time on the calendar when you know you’ll have the right kind of energy for it. The fact is, scheduling can be much more complicated than filling a gap on a calendar. What’s the alternative?

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Communicating With Your Manager

Office Dynamics

You may want to have weekly or monthly one-on-one time with some of the key executives you support. 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.

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Preparing your boss for meetings away from the office or at home

Laughing all the Way to Work

What dates and times does he or she have available (keeping in mind time zones for away meetings)? Secure the date and time in his or her calendar, taking into consideration travel time if outside the office. Enter it in calendar. Dealing in real time. Minute taking made easier.

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Are You Too Busy for The Most Important Partner In Your Office? The Importance of Daily Huddles

Office Dynamics

I was fortunate to learn at a young age that daily huddles or brief meetings between an executive and assistant are the most important part of the day and the partnership. They’ve been scheduled on their calendar as well. 99% of the time these are dismissed as not important. Of course, sometimes this just isn’t possible.