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

Allwork

The most critical factors as companies navigate the future of distributed work will be training leaders to effectively guide distributed teams, intentionally designing opportunities for relationship development and mentorship, and providing the tools to coordinate work and access information seamlessly from anywhere.

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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

Worxbee

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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Training On-line

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 Training On-line Recently someone asked me a question about training on-line so I thought I would share the answer in a post. I use a place based in Toronto, Canada called Last Minute Training. Dealing in real time. " Is it that time of the year already?

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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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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. One of the problems with this theory is that it’s training you to divide your attention and lose focus on key tasks.