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. It’s about identifying the crucial skills and knowledge your company needs to keep going, as well as key relationships and organizational practices. It’s a battle for talent.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 26, 2015

It has been really interesting reading all of the different job descriptions, the skills that are required and the salaries attached to different levels of the role. I would get incredibly excited reading the tasks which were outside the core skills and I would imagine all of the challenges this role would provide.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 30, 2017

Baby boomers often struggle with mastering new technologies like CRM tools and online project management systems. Either scenario costs companies in productive hours lost and re-hiring and training expenses. Mix up Your Teams. Assign employees to team projects based on their skills and strengths, rather than their age.

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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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Worxbee

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Broadly speaking, these are agencies or companies that have set up to find EAs and match them up with the businesses that are looking to hire. It might seem like a small distinction, but the ability to work in a virtual environment is a specific skill set, as is being able to identify great candidates for a virtual role.

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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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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 equip the workforce with the new skills that the economy needs. These measures would slash energy bills, create 500,000 skilled jobs, and save the NHS £1.4

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C-Suite Assistants

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

High profile business leaders, individuals and professional couples with multiple homes who serve on various boards and are involved with philanthropic causes often require a personal assistant to manage their private lives. An EA/PA manages the executive’s entire life. What if you need someone to do both?

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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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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

You use systems every day – often without even thinking about them – to perform tasks both simple (booting up your computer each morning) and complicated (planning meetings and events). You can create systems for everything you do, but I recommend starting with these five key areas: Time and task management. Project management.

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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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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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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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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. This skill has expedited the growth of my audience from under a hundred to over two thousand email subscribers in eight months. Books remain one of the best ways to learn a skill. But where can you start?

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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. Did he know about PNL and if he had a MBA.

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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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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. Similarly, if you work with a manager you just do not get along with, for whatever reason, that too can impact your attitude, your performance and your internal self talk.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 17, 2010

Ultra-competitive international search terms can attract thousands of competitors, each as skilled and ruthless as the next. 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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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

When we were a smaller agency, I was the EA and Office Manager for a smaller facility. I'm really interested in progressing and developing my skills but feel that managing the office is hindering my ability to focus on the core of being an EA. Why do I bring this up? Do you want to manage people or actually do the work?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Believe it or not, while some EAs do hold tremendous power, because travel is a very expensive and uncomfortable aspect of business, many executives or companies are very specific on what is or isn't allowed and which airlines they will or won't fly. 1) Focus your resume on your skills/talents vs the job title/chronology.

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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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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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