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Ep 264: Rachel Bennett on Serving the Work

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Rachel Bennett is a curious, self-motivator who loves to learn new ways to make life more efficient and effective for her executive. 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.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. I never take for granted the basic ‘platform’ skills I learned in the early days as a speaker.

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Artificial Intelligence at Work: How Office Professionals Can Build A.I. Skills for the Future

Eat Your Career

It simulates human intelligence because it learns from experience and gets smarter (which sounds wild!). Practice & Play The absolute best and easiest way to learn something new is to get your hands dirty. You have to learn how to leverage the software fully and figure out how to implement it into your day-to-day workflow.

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Core Administrative Skills Always Need Improving

Office Dynamics

Basics include: travel planning, appointment coordination, meeting preparation, all facets of communication, organizational skills, and time and project management. As your days are getting busier and you are taking on more projects and assignments, you need these skills more than ever. The basics. Joan Burge.

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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

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. This smart app even “learns” your schedule and adapts to your busy and available times. If you’d like to learn more about our Blog-A-Thon you can do so here.

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What makes a great administrative assistant?

Page Personnel

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. IT literacy – this is essential to an admin role. Looking for your next great role?

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Recruit CRM's Recruitment Entrepreneurs Series Ft. Paul Arnesen

Recruit CRM

While he held full-time, long-term contracts as a Marketing and Recruitment project manager, he has also run online marketing campaigns for different clients in many segments across the globe. Listen to Paul Arnesen talk about travelling throughout the world to setting up Talentroo and being a digital nomad in this podcast episode.