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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

Finding the right person for the job for our team and our customers depends on their skills and performance – not on their location. . Be cognizant of the time zones. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. Our culture is based on the philosophy that everyone can be a digital nomad.

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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 Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

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It includes things like calendar integrations, a habit-tracking tool, and even a pomodoro timer for getting through your work. Email Management EAs spend a significant amount of time managing busy inboxes, their own and those of executives. Calendly will sync with most calendar apps, too.

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Partnering with an Executive Assistant Staffing Agency: Benefits for Hiring Managers and Organizations

C-Suite Assistants

The demand for efficiency is at an all-time high, and as organizations grow and become more complex, skilled administrative professionals are needed now more than ever. Complex travel arrangements, calendar management, and keeping up with technical innovations are only part of what an excellent executive assistant needs to do for you.

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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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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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The Blended Role of Executive Personal Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

The demand for highly-skilled, tech-savvy, multitasking administrative professionals who perform business and personal tasks has become so great that a new position is trending—the Executive/Personal Assistant (EA/PA). What if you need someone to do both? What Are the Responsibilities of an Executive/Personal Assistants?

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