C-Suite Assistants

JULY 26, 2021

Virtual assistants can give you a lot of freedom by taking on repetitive and administrative tasks and freeing up time to attend to other aspects of the business. Some virtual assistants may cover more than one time zone, or you can work together to come up with a coverage plan. This is not necessarily the case.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Administrative Arts

AUGUST 16, 2010

This includes setting up and managing electronic and physical files. Scheduling and Setting Up Meetings. This would include confirming attendees, scheduling conference rooms, setting up conference calls, and managing multi-media needs. Project Management. Managing Office Machinery.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

I currently work as a lawyer and undertake every day many of the types of responsibilities that make up an executive assistant role, such as administration, communication, project management and so on, usually in a very demanding and high pressure context, and before this I worked in various communications/PR roles.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 14, 2010

Generally, the advertiser wants to instill the idea that with the vehicle on offer, the owner can travel through beautiful mountainous areas and confidently go anywhere off-road. Thats why I am recommending them to you with a big THUMBS UP!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 24, 2009

A roadblock in the office is a problem that comes up and on first glance makes you think you are not going to be able to move forward. They will normally try to help you come up with a solution if you explain what happened. Construction Ahead: Planning ahead helps you anticipate last minute things that might come up.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I personally use a Franklin Covey planner because I love the look of the pages, but many other companies make planner pages with the same set-up.  Thinking Through A Pen As a writer, I enjoy being able to open up my planner to jot things down. Keeps all your appointments, contacts and email in one spot so it's all synched up.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

To Do Lists – Task Management. Travel Planning. 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. Travel Planning. Project Management. Ideas, Time & Space.

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Practically Perfect PA

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I have the Assist Conference up and running and I can not begin to tell you the amount of lists I have produced to help me keep on top of all of the details. Rebecca is a PA and Office Manager at Adaptive Labs, an innovative start-up based in Shoreditch. Rebecca will be taking part in our Working Environments panel session.

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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.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Up until a few years ago, I would have insisted that I was the queen of multitasking. I had taken a job as an assistant to three executives, plus my role required project management work. Why was it taking me so long to book travel and get it on calendars? Sign up for my monthly newsletter by clicking here. .

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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.

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Jen Lawrence

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Up until a few years ago, I would have insisted that I was the queen of multitasking. I had taken a job as an assistant to three executives, plus my role required project management work. Why was it taking me so long to book travel and get it on calendars? Sign up for my monthly newsletter by clicking here. .

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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.

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Brilliantly Better

APRIL 16, 2010

Let’s say you want to travel the world and you’re saving money for that. You may get the money and start traveling the world, but you’ll travel with this unspeakable feeling of “something is missing”. For instance, I practiced my long distance travel sensors, going to see Thailand , Japan or New Zealand.

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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.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 4, 2016

During the morning I could be in meetings discussing preparations for a press dinner in New York, catching up with one or more of the Management Team – that could be with the Head of Design or Merchandising Director. Then I usually pick up a piece of cake to share with my assistant Zoe back at the studio when we need a 3pm pick me up!

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