LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 24, 2024

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Rachel talks about learning your role while onboarding an executive, communicating with an executive who travels extensively, and serving the work. Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2023

Taking time away from work is also essential to mental health and wellness, something that VAs have helped with at East End Taste , a Hamptons-based online publication covering food and sustainable travel. What types of tasks might virtual assistants help with? Their answers can be revealing. But VAs have done more than that, too.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

You become a more valuable asset because now they are relying on you for that task or piece of the project. For years I have coached executives and assistants how to implement processes on everything from daily huddles to debrief meetings, managing email, travel planning, and holding quarterly strategic meetings.

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 23, 2023

Projects : An experienced EA can manage projects and help you with dates and deliverables on larger projects and manage up by tracking progress with the internal team. Many EAs also assist with or produce PowerPoint decks for presentations for projects. Event management is also often taken on by the EA.

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Allwork

JANUARY 24, 2024

For some, a series of email surprises, expensive and time-consuming. Some younger workers accustomed to remote working see this time as part of their workday, working en route and traveling slightly later to avoid the mental toll of rush hour. This article was written by M Moser’s Jeni Durksen for Work Design Magazine.

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Success

JUNE 23, 2021

You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If She relieves me from things I don’t need to be doing like email, booking travel and project planning. The question executives and entrepreneurs launching startups often ask is, “When should I hire an assistant?”

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From other executive assistants to business owners, travel agents, corporate event specialists, the IT people, even the person who has connections for hard-to-get tickets or bookings can all be great “tools” in your network. From task apps to full-blown project management tools, the software has never been easier for task management.

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Go Burrows

APRIL 18, 2021

In this episode, Kaleen talks about what it’s like to work with ultra high net worth individuals, tips for project management, and how to distinguish between an individual contributor and a great leader. Her areas of focus include project management, creating efficiencies, event planning, calendar management, and marketing strategy.

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Success

MARCH 13, 2023

Consider keeping a spreadsheet with key details like the client name, project title, how much you were paid, and how much you set aside for taxes. This way, you can label or tag a file or email, making searching for a specific transaction or dollar amount easier. This makes it easier to follow up on any outstanding invoices.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 21, 2022

If I happen to be away from my desk when something comes up that should be added to my journal, I often take a digital note in the form of an email or a text message to myself. If I’m traveling, I take my notebook with me. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s an accurate and thorough historical record of my work life.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 20, 2017

Travel Planning Apps: Whether you’re the one traveling, or simply attempting to get your executive from point A to point B, travel planning apps can be a life saver. Just forward your confirmation emails to the app (hotel, rental car, airline tickets, etc.), Here are my 10 app category favorites.

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Allwork

AUGUST 30, 2022

You can also reach out to workers via recorded videos and emails. Google Meet, Skype, Slack, Zoom, and other popular resources can be used to conduct virtual video meetings to keep team members connected and projects moving. If you need to present the same content to teams globally, set up multiple meetings.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 26, 2019

There is constant change, new projects and ideas, rework, barriers, coordinating multiple people and meetings, travel, and more. As administrative assistants and executive assistants, we all know there are a hundred moving parts in business. Keeping the information flowing and status updates are critical to everyone’s success.

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Success

MAY 31, 2022

Instead, I traveled halfway across the world to rub elbows with funny, smart and positive people themselves.”. I had a spreadsheet with their names, emails, social handles and publications. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction—toward common projects [and] goals.”.

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Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

Please help me write a professional email to my boss, the senior managing partner, to ask for funds to attend the Project Management Learning Lab in September. This is a full-day interactive virtual training program designed to help non-project managers understand the methodology to lead projects from concept to completion.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 9, 2023

Hallie also provides strategic counsel to key leaders within the organization and leads special projects focused on the growth of the organization. In her free time, Hallie pursues her hobbies: reading, blogging, kayaking, and traveling, preferably to the beach. You can email me at podcast@leaderassistant.com.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place. How will you use Basecamp?

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Page Personnel

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Administrative assistants also often work closely with senior-level employees and executives to take care of organisational duties such as answering phones, booking meetings and making travel arrangements on their behalf. Get a free weekly update via email here and help kick start your career. Website URL

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Success

MARCH 10, 2022

You work hard for your money and have lost track of how many times you’ve gone above and beyond to help a co-worker or put in overtime to finish a project. Some offer reward programs like cash back, grocery points or travel discounts that can be very worthwhile. Not considering how many hours (not dollars) something costs.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 30, 2018

I tried my best to not be tethered to my phone, emails, texting and more. Emails have backed up or even if you were checking email, you still go back through to make sure you didn’t miss anything or you now have to take action on your emails. Some words of advice, if you are traveling soon for vacation.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 24, 2015

Fill out the subscribe box (your email address) in the right sidebar of this page and click subscribe. You will be notified instantly by email each time we add a new post. You can increase your chance of winning great prizes by following one simple step. How would you like to see the world celebrating administrative professionals?

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 4, 2010

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.   We are using email and instant messaging less.    From the article: "the uptick in social networks led to the 28% and 15% declines in email and instant messaging, respectively. .    We still spend 8.3%

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C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 9, 2024

How an Executive Personal Assistant Can Aid in Work-Life Balance An executive personal assistant is a seasoned professional tasked with enhancing an executive’s efficiency by taking on personal and professional scheduling, correspondence, and a whole host of other routine tasks—booking travel, managing appointments, planning events, and more.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Administrators can be involved in many types of projects eg office move, conference, product launch, staff recruitment, Christmas function. Ideas of what needs to be covered to ensure the effective implementation of the project should be discussed. Email: minutesmadness@xtra.co.nz. Twitter: @minutesmad1. LinkedIn: [link].

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes. Include a specific contact person for queries, an email address or a link to the application portal. However, the role has transformed significantly over the decades.

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C-Suite Assistants

APRIL 3, 2023

If you love making your own travel plans and following up on calendar invites and conflicts, calling outside vendors when things don’t go right, and following up on project deadlines and deliverables, then having an EA may deprive you of satisfaction and maybe the money-saving isn’t worth as much to you.

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For couples who travel frequently between homes and businesses and have busy lifestyles, this could mean coordinating professional and private schedules across different time zones and in different regions around the world. This is only a partial list and will depend upon the individual and their requirements.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

Here are some tips and key questions to ask managers and executives as requests for your time are made throughout the week: When possible ask that projects and tasks be given to you verbally so you can ask clarifying questions and better understand the work that is being given to you. Find out who else has information related to the project.

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Jen Lawrence

MARCH 15, 2019

Colors can be used to distinguish between projects, clients, meeting types, activity types. Most email clients will allow you to assign colors and categories to your calendar simply by selecting from a dropdown. Project/Client Training/Development Meeting with Manager 1:1 Meeting Volunteer Work. You name it. How to color code?

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Eco-Office Gals

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Assuming your employees are using email and basic applications the majority of the time, powering a desktop is overkill. According to the US Environmental Protection Authority, light-duty vehicles – the cars, SUVs and vans that many use to travel to work – account for 62% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Use Less Paper.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 23, 2021

They are a roadmap to your task or project that you follow every time. It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. Travel planning. Project management. Email template for circulating date/time options. Meeting Agenda ?

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Bonnie Low-Krayman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Suddenly no longer forced to travel into an office, many staff had the chance to have dinner with their families for the first time in a long time. Don’t be the bottleneck and the reason that a project is stalled since everyone’s work is often dependent on others. The pandemic created a work environment that was unprecedented.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 22, 2020

I was expecting to travel about 50% of my time for these months, and now I’ll be at home. I’ll still work a full day, even if that means I have to get creative with my projects. I was totally consumed by the news and found myself slipping into a deeper depression with every event postponement email I received.

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Success

JANUARY 23, 2023

People who are high in openness might enjoy traveling to new places, eating foods they’ve never eaten before and discussing ideas they’re unfamiliar with,” says Marie Forgeard, Ph.D., lead scientific consultant for the Imagination Institute. Being open to other ideas and collaboration is so important.”

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 2, 2015

But do you always “listen” or do you distract yourself with reading emails while someone is talking to you? Do you demonstrate a professional presence every day, even when someone has upset you? Or maybe you checked good listener. Each of us can do better each and every day.

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Office Dynamics

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Need for access to his email. Blocking his calendar to work on his projects. Executive manages their own email therefore the assistant is out of the loop. #2 2 Struggle: Assistant not getting time with executive to discuss day-to-day events, priorities, projects, travel, meeting, upcoming projects and more. #3

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Clutter Coach

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Or email me at Claire at cluttercoach.net. Working backwards is a technique to use when you can’t seem to find a way into your project. It’s similar to the Time Travel concept I talked about in Podcast 64 back in July. For this technique you need a specific project. You’ve achieved the result.

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