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How to Plan Events Your Team Will Love (Without the Stress)

Eat Your Career

This is a guest post contributed by Eleanor Whitney, editor of All Hands , a publication about life at work from Managed by Q. Put dates from your timeline in your calendar and use a project management tool like Trello to keep all dates and information about your event in one place. The benefits of team events are well known.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Next Performance Evaluation

Office Dynamics

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. Learning is always a win-win for an employee & manager and progress is easily tracked.

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What It Means to Be a Career Executive Assistant

Worxbee

An executive assistant, on the other hand, often takes more of a project management role. In many cases, executive assistants are so invaluable to their managers that “ask my EA” is the first answer to any question. For example, many EAs find themselves asked to head up new internal committees or initiatives.

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Succession Planning For Your Executive Assistant Team: What HR Leaders Need to Know

Worxbee

There’s your HR department and individual managers, of course, but current EAs can also help. EAs to senior executives often take a leadership/project management role and could leave a huge hole if they left. Who should help to identify talent? Remember that there’s no college degree for executive assistants.

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A day in the life: Laura O’Malley, Team Lead and Executive PA, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Practically Perfect PA

and line manage the two administrators and our reception staff. Currently as well as my day-to-day job I’m working on a development review of administrative staff in the organisation, I’m organising a charity quiz night for all staff and I’m a member of the Health and Wellbeing Committee. What has been your career highlight?

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

However – if we are not willing to speak up and actively list our duties how can we expect colleagues and managers to be aware of this change in office dynamics? We lighten the load for executives and are vital members of any executive management team. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning.

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4 Reasons Why She is in Love with @Asana and Her Team Has Never Been More Productive - App Review and How-To

Stephanie LH Calahan

" Then, I heard this comment: "I use Asana for task and project management, and the app is on my iPhone and iPad, so I can see all of my tasks at a glance and add to them if needed. I’m enjoying a new love affair… with my task management tool! Task/Project Management Tool: Asana. And I am willing to share.

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