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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. Being able to ‘feel/read’ their tone of voice and facial expressions or how they express their feelings in email and via text can also be to your advantage.

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How to Find a Mentor Who Will Best Support Your Growth

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Determine what you’re looking for in a mentor Considering which goals you’re looking to achieve can help you clearly identify your priorities and ultimately know what to look for in a mentor. Create a list of your specific goals to help you qualify your potential candidates. During your first discussions, decide when and how to meet.

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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

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As the days fly by toward a new year, now is the perfect time to start setting your goals for next year. While that sounds good in theory, it can be a bit more challenging in practice when it comes to putting your goals in print. What are some goals to consider for the upcoming year? Is your career where you want it to be?

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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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How Using a Time Management Matrix Can Increase Your Productivity

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Because of the book’s popularity, you may also see this productivity tool referred to as the Covey time management matrix. Answering a phone or responding to emails can often feel urgent, but they may distract you from the deeper work you want or need to do. Important tasks, on the other hand, are vital to meeting long-term goals.

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The 4 Most Common Excuses for Not Delegating

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“It only takes a minute to…” True, answering an email , ordering office supplies and data entry only take a few minutes. The phone and email are time-wasters,” Hecht says. “I Maybe your goal is to earn $250 an hour, and you have tasks that need handling that you can outsource for $100 an hour. I can’t afford to delegate tasks.”

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The Power of a Conversation and Taking on Big Goals

Stephanie LH Calahan

Their goal is to meet as many of the people Engel interviewed on his podcast as possible. Considering he has interviewed over 1,000 people, that is a significant goal. Share in the comments or shoot me an email. They decided to leave their home in the Caribbean and travel (via car) around North America. Back to you!

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