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How Hiring Virtual Assistants Can Boost Employee Performance and Work-Life Balance

Success

AppSumo hired 11 VAs to off-load customer support and product management from their “A-level players.” Masarweh says a CEO who manages around 600 people in property management portfolios told him, “It seems like the people that I do have in place are going to leave if I don’t get them support quickly.”

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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

Allwork

Digital subscriptions for learning, social media management, taxes and more are perfect choices for last-minute gifts. . If you’re living and working in different countries, with changing time zones, collaborating with colleagues around the world can be difficult. Social media management solution .

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Guidelines for Effective Email Writing

Jen Lawrence

One of the biggest complaints in today’s modern communications is there are too many emails. Thirty more emails. You’ve read an email and thrown your hands up asking, “What the hell do you want? You may be sending emails that cause this anguish and frustration. Not Every Email is Urgent.

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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

Just forward your confirmation emails to the app (hotel, rental car, airline tickets, etc.), Timeful will suggest the optimal time to complete them. This smart app even “learns” your schedule and adapts to your busy and available times. Project Management Apps: Teamwork is, by far, my favorite project management app.

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How To Combat Decision Fatigue When Choosing Collaboration Software

Allwork

The workforce continues to spread its wings further, with coworkers likely to be operating in various time zones more than ever before. But perhaps more importantly, managers need to set examples in the use of these tools.? . It’s no surprise either.? . You’ve got senior executives who set terrible examples,” said Simon. .

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Management Practices That Make Employees Quit

On The Job

People leave managers A Gallup poll of more than 1 million employed U.S. People leave managers, not companies. In the end, turnover is mostly a manager issue,” Gallup reports. Specifically, Gallup finds that poorly managed work groups are on average 50% less productive and 44% less profitable than well-managed groups.