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Leading Remote Teams? 3 Ways to Avoid Confusion and Burnout

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Their teams, adapted to a work-from-home lifestyle, are hesitant—even resistant—to return to the office. Although the long-term answer will vary from organization to organization and industry to industry, one thing is certain: more organizations are embracing digital-first teams and a geographically dispersed workforce. Be diverse.

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

Allwork

An effective, accepted, and well-understood culture can keep teams more productive. If your culture rewards innovation, identify what that means in terms of incentives for presenting and implementing new value-driven processes or products. “As If you need to present the same content to teams globally, set up multiple meetings.

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Ep 240: Joe Rare on Email Management and Working with a Virtual Assistant Team

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Joe talks about recruiting, training, and managing virtual assistants, email management, tips for business process standardization, and the biggest mistake he’s ever made in working with an assistant. LEADERSHIP QUOTE Allow your team to fail fast and successes will come even faster.

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8 Tools To Help Build An Efficient Asynchronous Workflow

Allwork

Slack boasts that using the app reduces emails by 32% and meetings by 27%, which could be a major benefit for teams looking to cut down on unproductive activities. The Microsoft Teams app gained major traction throughout the years of 2020 and 2022, rising from 75 million daily active users to 280 million in this two-year time span.

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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. Prep your team and clients for your absence just as you would for a vacation and fully sign off. Set Your Out of Office.

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Ground rules for team meetings

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A really fundamental task for assistants is organising your department team meetings. If your organisation is anything like the businesses I used to work for I bet you organise A LOT of team meetings. Simple ground rules for team meetings. Here are 5 ground rules for team meetings that will really help with productivity.

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Ep 210: Lexi Gunther – Executive Support Team Manager and Executive Assistant to the Head of Product at Cedar

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Lexi Gunther went from being a high school dropout to being a well-paid, EA Team Lead. She has been an EA and thought partner since 2009 and currently works at Cedar, a health-tech company, where she manages the Executive Support Team and is the Executive Assistant to the Head of Product. Either way, I’d love to hear from you!