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

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Employees “were able to take their PTO knowing that someone was fully covering their [tasks] and that they are not coming back to catch up with their emails and reports; they have a teammate they can trust, because they went to the same training as the in-office assistants,” she says. What types of tasks might virtual assistants help with?

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

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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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The Ultimate Executive Assistant Toolbox

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A Wide Network We’re leading with this because so much of what top executive assistants accomplish often comes down to their connections. Every executive assistant should work on building a vast network of contacts and keeping that network “warm.” Your network can be anyone. For example, Unroll.me

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Why Human Connections Are A Business Advantage In A Remote World

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That was pretty revolutionary at the time, but it has worked out well. Her company now has employees in every time zone in the continental U.S. Jodi says there is a multi-layer approach to fostering human connections. The first layer is the most critical and does not require significant cost or time investment.

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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.), Cloud-Based File Storage: Tired of attaching documents to emails and relying on track changes to keep up with multiple people editing the same files? I use the Time Zone Converter by TimeAndDate.

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Ep 148: Natasha Huynh – EA to the President at DMG MORI

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In this episode, Natasha talks about the challenges of working in a cross-cultural environment, across global time zones (check out worldtimebuddy.com fyi), and how she learned to not take things personally. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live.

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Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 18 October, 2008 Guest Blog: Networking Like a Pro This is a guest post from JEM over at [link]. Networking Like a Pro One of the best ways to boost your career and hone your skills as an administrative assistant is to practice networking. . To be able to network, you must have confidence.