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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

Allwork

If you’re living and working in different countries, with changing time zones, collaborating with colleagues around the world can be difficult. It would be a game changer to have access to a platform that lets you easily schedule appointments and meetings without second guessing the time difference. . Calendly subscription .

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Pros and Cons of Virtual Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

If you plan to hire a virtual executive assistant, you must decide if you need someone in the same time zone as yourself. Many prefer a virtual assistant in the same time zone. However, this choice can vary depending on the size of your company, the number of employees, and if it is operating across several time zones.

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Are you worried about job security?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Are you willing to take on new projects and new challenges? Be selective and go for the job that is the right fit and that you have confidence you can do. The answer to all these questions is "we just dont know", but if your company is downsizing there is something you can do to show that you are someone they should keep around?

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Leading and Working with a Multi-VA Team

Denise Aday

A few critical components and my key takeaways from the discussion: Project management – Whether it’s Basecamp, Central Desktop or another project management tool, have a way for everyone to easily collaborate and track client projects. One project is for “Team Aday&# itself. I tend to agree for the most part.

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more. Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects. Being confident, prepared and honing your skills is a great way to handle this.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road.

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An iPhone App In 30 Days – The Challenge

Brilliantly Better

When I started to work for this project (and yes, it was just a pet project in the beginning), all I did was to log daily my progress. Learned how to create a project and what the folder structure means. Can be tricky at times. Did a few tests with some sample projects to see how the building process works.

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