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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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Understanding the Executive's Vision To truly become a business partner, immerse yourself in understanding your executive's vision and goals as well as the company’s. Act as a sounding board for ideas should the opportunity present itself, and then offer what you feel are valuable insights and perspectives on the issue at hand.

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Ep 251: Maria Smith on the Science and Benefits of Goal-Setting

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Maria Smith worked as a sales leader for Fortune 500 companies across three different industries, and now she helps leaders, employees, and organizations understand the science and benefits of goal-setting. Growing up as the daughter of an immigrant parent, goal-setting has always been a way of life for Maria.

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Tips to Be Present at a Networking Event

Jen Lawrence

One big challenge with going to networking events is staying present and engaged. If you want to maximize your experience at a networking event, be present. Don’t check your email throughout the day. Instead, take notes during presentations and post your favorite tidbits later. Set Your Out of Office. Speaking of….

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Writing Meaningful Performance Goals

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“What are your goals for the upcoming year?” But putting these goals into words and describing the specific ways we’ll accomplish them is often easier said than done. And if you’re asked to tie your specific goals in with existing company objectives, it can be even more difficult. Getting Started with Goal Setting.

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Ep 152: Goals for Executive Assistants and Administrative Professionals

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Goal setting can be intimidating. Will you set goals you can’t reach? Will you set goals that are too easy and show your executive you’re not ambitious enough? What if your stretch goals distract you from getting your job done? THE LEADER ASSISTANT PODCAST IS PRESENTED BY GOODY. JillianHufnagel.com.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

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Every day we seem to have a giant to-do list of people to see, projects to complete, emails to write. Experience has shown that when people go after a big goal at once, they invariably fail. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. We’re all busy. So it is with prioritizing.

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Ep 247: Email Management for Executive Assistants

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In this chapter, I cover tactics for managing your own email inbox, as well as your executive’s. Of course, I’d love to hear your email tips and tricks as I’m always down to get more efficient and productive, so please reach out! LEADERSHIP QUOTE Email is the gateway drug of work; Slack is the crack.

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