C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Not only are you focusing on how to grow your business through hiring, training and fundraising, but you are also juggling the million administrative tasks that come up during the day. Startups are all about keeping up this momentum and energy, putting systems in place to manage rapid growth and a lot of hard work and innovation.

Social Media 52

Social Media Skills Environment Calendars 52

Productivityist

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

I haven’t taken guest posts in a while but the topic of burnout has come up a lot lately and when Stewart asked if he could write something about for my blog, I jumped at the chance. Furthermore, the amount of work and stress increases if you’re an entrepreneur. Photo by Marcel Hol from FreeImages. Don’t get me wrong.

Health 93

Health Stress Medical Lifestyle 93

BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 31, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic, that number jumped up to 13% and only continued to rise. Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. While that’s great news for employees who enjoy the increased flexibility of working from home, it poses a significant challenge for managers.

Payroll 52

Payroll Project Management Email 2020 52

Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

A key difference is that executive assistants tend to take a project management role, managing several moving parts and not necessarily doing all of the “doing,” but making sure others do. In contrast, virtual assistants are task managers. Do you end up low on energy, perhaps with a bit of brain fog?

Calendars 78

Calendars Email Goals Environment 78

Worxbee

MARCH 22, 2021

In this world, corporations need to level up in order to make their executives more successful in the new economy. However, employees who had high levels of autonomy but decreased levels of emotional stability were prone to becoming stressed out while working.”. For others, it’s the social aspect.

Verizon 52

Verizon Environment Skills Resume 52

Eco-Office Gals

JULY 9, 2013

The idea of “going green” has now become very commonplace in the vernacular of your average individual but one area of our modern society which seems to be lacking is that of the small business environment. Suddenly your costs, environmental impact, and stress take a dive because these factors are now a fraction at where they were prior.

Carbon Footprint 100

Carbon Footprint Budget Agencies Environment 100

Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

Break It Up When you face a large project, it can seem overwhelming. The recipe must be handled as a process, or you’ll end up with a sticky mess. Each complex project consists of several small components. Then work your way down the list.

Stress 100

Stress Calendars Twitter Google 100

Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. Despite this, it was challenging to keep up with the pace of the workload. And in part, again, it didn’t fit that digital environment, didn’t fit the fast pace.

Collaborate 246

Collaborate Goals AT&T Environment 246

Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

But how many times have you found yourself disregarding the advice or suggestions made by another EA/PA colleague, and only because they’re a lot younger than you are and they couldn’t possibly be giving valid advice or making sound suggestions without enough experience in the field to back it up?

AT&T 52

AT&T Administrative Professionals Skills Mentoring 52

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I have tried to research what the next level(s) up is, I can't seem to find any information. Do you by chance know what it takes to get up there? Sincerely, Anonymous” Dear NK, Thank you for the great question and btw, your wording of it was great! :) No need for me to “pretty it up!” I was wondering about career path.

Temping 40

Temping 2012 Salary Job Hunting 40

Productivityist

JANUARY 31, 2014

” Blogging can be as stressful as it is rewarding. The project management triangle applies very well to blogging: you’re always looking for the sweet spot between speed and quality content to provide great value to your readers. If you don’t have a good outline, you simply can’t dress it up.

Microsoft Word 40

Microsoft Word Dropbox AT&T Keyboards 40

Productivityist

JANUARY 31, 2014

Blogging can be as stressful as it is rewarding. The project management triangle applies very well to blogging: you''re always looking for the sweet spot between speed and quality content to provide great value to your readers. If you don''t have a good outline, you simply can''t dress it up. You''re not alone.

Microsoft Word 40

Microsoft Word Dropbox AT&T Keyboards 40

Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Company archive – This is a special case (for your work environment) and it should really be the norm, not special. When you receive an email with a key project or business decision, this should be archived straight away in your corporate project management tool (SharePoint, Asana etc) with the appropriate metadata assigned.

Email 40

Email Keyboards Phones Project Management 40

Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Even finding an extra five minutes a day to work on your organization skills will add up over time. There are 5 core systems I encourage assistants to look at first: Time and Task Management. Project Management. Systems are made up of several or many different procedures. Filing – paper and digital.

Travel 100

Travel Filing Forms Skills 100

Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. We need to see positive action that will make a real difference to getting people back in to work and supporting the UK’s economic growth.

Budget 98

Budget 2023 Health Skills 98

Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

Training budgets dissipated, opportunities dried up, and assistants had larger workloads without staffing backups. Single support executive assistants now juggled multiple managers. It would be easy to simply throw up one’s hands and say, “It’s okay to just survive!” We’ve come through and now, the economy is healing.

Administrative Professionals 100

Administrative Professionals Retirement Training Mentoring 100

Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Obtaining funds from work to complete training in the current environment is difficult. Yes, interpersonal comms, IT related courses to keep up with the changes from when I started 30 years ago on an manual typewriter! I did an NVQ to level 3 and have attended several PA courses to keep my skills up to date. Not yet no.

IAAP 100

IAAP Training AT&T Skills 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

Burnout and stress are morale killers that cost USA businesses $300 Billion per year. One minute of each hour adds up as it triggers processes below the level of consciousness that culminate in peace, greater absorption in work tasks and productivity. It makes my meditation practice much easier because peace is cumulative like stress.

Goals 100

Goals AT&T Email Learning 100

Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Once I feel I've captured every idea on a note, I find a stretch of wall and stick each idea up. I stand back, and begin moving notes until the ideas start flowing into easy categories: Blog, Projects, Home, Family, Health - etc. "Heads Up. I write down one task or to-do on a Post-It, and put it up on a wall.

AT&T 100

AT&T Calendars Social Media Stress 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. No hello, no trying to chat them up, or loiter to see if any celebrities were there. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. And once you’re in, you’re in.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing Temping Resume Agencies 40

Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

I learned tons of stuff about project management , programming, getting things done , negotiation, financial planning and a lot more. Although we’re not always admitting it, our behavior is hugely shaped by our environment, by the people we’re surrounding ourselves with. We’re floating from one environment to the the next one.

2010 40

2010 Health AT&T Skills 40

On The Job

JULY 6, 2009

That means that if you’ve been showing up late for work for 10 years and no one has said anything, you may be in for a rude awakening in your next performance evaluation. I could have given up and gotten another job. Instead, I decided to stick it out and start showing up on time.” Are You Afraid to Take a Vacation This Year?

2009 100

2009 Filing Stress Legal 100