C-Suite Assistants

JANUARY 14, 2021

You may have been employed at a company that has not yet fully reopened, or you may be assisting your children with remote learning. They’ll also manage and distribute information to co-workers and customers. We recommend that you: Set up a dedicated workspace where you won’t be disrupted. Categorize expenses.

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Eat Your Career

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

They facilitate interaction between teams, build relationships and empathy between coworkers, and amp up employee engagement. As the editor for All Hands and an event organizer myself, I’ve had the opportunity to learn from event planning experts. The benefits of team events are well known. However, the planning process can be hard.

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Are you in charge of team projects that have strict due dates? If so, then you know how hectic project management can be at times, especially if you don’t have a centralized platform to keep track of your tasks. Trello Power-Ups. That’s not to mention how difficult communication can be if you use email. What is Trello?

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 30, 2017

Create a mentoring program for employees to lean on their managers and learn about everything from technology to networking. A millennial might learn more about effective in-person networking and lead nurturing from a baby boomer or Gen Xer. Mix up Your Teams. Offer Ongoing Tech Training.

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Worxbee

JUNE 14, 2021

Succession planning is all about protecting the future of your company, so that you can keep key skills and talent coming up through your pipeline. There will always be a lag period as they learn the ins and outs of the role and sometimes, that can be expensive for your company. Here’s why: Succession planning in companies.

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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.

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All Things Admin

AUGUST 16, 2023

On a professional level, change can be simple, like finding a more efficient way to complete a task, or complicated, like learning to support a new executive or changing jobs entirely. The Innovation Mindset (sometimes called the Growth Mindset) sees change as an opportunity to learn and grow. Who can help me shorten my learning curve?

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You don’t have to worry about their chores falling outside of their job description (for example, asking an executive assistant to shop for your spouse’s anniversary gift, or pick up their dry cleaning). An EA/PA manages the executive’s entire life. Because of this, they can more strategically and efficiently manage your schedule.

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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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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 2, 2011

&# - Get to the root of your problem by mimicking a four-year-old child: repeatedly ask “why?&# For example: Filing expense reports is a problem. Is there a way to track or store expenses electronically? Push to come up with 10 or 15 ideas, increasing the likelihood of a gem. Why do you need paper receipts?

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

Event Management, Project Management, Human Resources and Finance have become a big part of my job. I find myself being a ‘Jack of all trades’, and constantly learn, which is rather exciting.” Tasks and responsibilities involving heavy project management are becoming commonplace for the admin too.”

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Audacious Admin

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Character traits tend to be ingrained unlike occupational or hard skills, which are learned and honed over time. It takes a very specific set of skills to assist an executive or manager. Curiosity and Research Ability An assistant with a natural curiosity and research ability benefits the executive or manager in many ways.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Streamline your project management process. Microsoft Excel for Project Management. When it comes to project management, you can buy some pretty sophisticated software specifically designed to keep you and everything on track. However, not all of us have access to these expensive programs!

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 27, 2016

She offers 6 template ideas here that will help you build templates for tracking your to-do lists, logging your expenses, tracking meetings, and project management. This link offers up a ton of links that she’s compiled (and written herself) that will help you use Evernote for your own genealogy project.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. The key to advanced productivity lies in the power of learning. Back in 2011, I took the time to learn new techniques in Microsoft Excel through a course. The value of learning is very clear.

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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. So, it was an incredibly positive event in part because there was this pent-up demand.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

He had a great, cushy job at a studio and decided he wanted to be closer to family so he quit without having anything lined up. He had risen in his career to the mid-level management and has almost been doing his job for 10 years at other well-known companies. I'll give you three examples. I am truly his right (and left) hand!

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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

MAY 11, 2010

With a developing and evolving membership, customers are always engaged in the product, absorbing and learning from new modules, leaving the provider with long-term sales success and the stability of recurring billing. Of course, there are even more benefits to setting up a membership website.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 11, 2010

By learning how to tap into this unique form of marketing, you will be able to increase your potential for earning exponentially. Often, business owners find themselves so caught up in their paperwork or their day-to-day operations that they forget about… Continue reading the rest of this article.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

  Keep reading to learn what my colleagues and friends had to say about the "Great Calendar Debate."   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.   How do you decide what is best for you? 

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Who's the Real Boss?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Perhaps you’re miserable in your role, but sticking around for the sake of demonstrating a half decent tenure, without having to make up some excuse for why you left after so little time. Being heavily involved in recruitment myself, I witness this alwayas as the first criteria that the hiring manager will check against.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

Would hate to pass up this leadership opportunity if it could mean progression for me in the future. Why do I bring this up? Do you want to manage people or actually do the work? So I’m not exactly sure what other high level tasks/responsibilities you may be missing out on when you have to manage the office.

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The Small Business Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The money that leaves a small business is often taken up with overheads that are necessary for the day to day running of the business. « Top 5 Serious Start-Up Mistakes Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? The key is to realize that you don’t need those expensive things or waste energy to look like a proper business.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

A massive family trip to Mexico, where I still kept up with my journalling habit and my routines along the way. I managed to read The Alchemist and The Rise while down there for ten days and swam with dolphins. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. MUCH longer. Good times.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 31, 2015

A massive family trip to Mexico, where I still kept up with my journalling habit and my routines along the way. I managed to read The Alchemist and The Rise while down there for ten days and swam with dolphins. So around this time I committed to using two tools for task and project management. MUCH longer. Good times.

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BMT Office Administration

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Are you a fan of kanban-style task management features to visualize workflows and customer leads? If so, two project management tools lead the fray — Pipedrive and Trello. From assigning and monitoring task progress to customer relationship management, both Pipeline and Trello offer unique advantages for both.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 15, 2023

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. Today’s announcement of 100 per cent expensing for the next three years simplifies claims and makes these decisions easier for business leaders.

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 13, 2016

Sage One provides a full suite of accounting features, including invoicing, quotes and estimates, accounting, expense tracking, one-click financial reporting and full bank integration. Breaking down big projects into manageable chunks is the secret of good project management. Producteev.

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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. Expense reports were taking twice as long to get done. And I just couldn’t seem to get my project reports sent out.

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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. Expense reports were taking twice as long to get done. And I just couldn’t seem to get my project reports sent out.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

Do you want to leave it to your children and have them continue operations or close up shop? Write something up, just in case. Twitter,Facebook, your project manager, your to-do list app, Google Analytics, your bookkeeping software, or your email accounts? Are You A Buttoned-Up or Buttoned-Down Freelance Writer?

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Who's the Real Boss?

MAY 4, 2019

Having all the answers and knowledge at hand of anything and everything that’s asked of you, at any given minute, is not something that everyone can keep up with. Her manager, let’s call him Doug, is so wrapped up in his own world and work demands that he gives Ann no time. Well, the same should apply for assistants.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 17, 2010

Even relatively low-end businesses – dentists, painters, and plumbers – are able to capitalize on the online arena, capturing clients and generating leads at a fraction of the expense a newspaper advertisement would require. Thats why I am recommending them to you with a big THUMBS UP!

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

By taking the time to write down exactly what you want to accomplish, you’re much more likely to get a good product and avoid expensive rework because of miscommunications. beating freelancers up says volumes about the client and their own feelings of business self-worth. Writing a brief has a number of benefits.

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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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