Success

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Scott Lieberman, founder of Touchdown Money, stretch assignments are projects that challenge someone to advance beyond their current skill set or level of knowledge. Oftentimes, I’ll pair someone up with a mentor so they have guidance as they learn on the job.” Why are human skills important?

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Allwork

JULY 14, 2023

It’s okay to acknowledge that you were laid off When you reach that point where you’re being interviewed by a potential hiring manager, it’s perfectly fine to explain that you were laid off in your last job. “If you’ve been laid off and knowledge it, then move on, but learn from it.

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Success

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As with any major project, your goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. The loss of ambiguity helps you manage stress that leaves you powerless and replaces it with the kind of stress that guides your career with discipline and calm. But that’s just the beginning.

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Success

MAY 22, 2023

Rim runs a consulting service for families who have kids hoping to get an acceptance letter to a top school, and though he has always been “deeply involved” with his lead mentors, he recently became a full-time mentor for the day. His goal? “To

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Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. Experienced women who guide and nurture the aspirations of the next generation play a pivotal role in ensuring a more gender-inclusive future. With the U.S.

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Allwork

AUGUST 4, 2023

By harnessing the power of AI, remote workers can leverage smart tools to enhance video conferencing, document sharing, and project management. By harnessing the power of AI, remote workers can leverage smart tools to enhance video conferencing, document sharing, and project management.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

When Harry Hecht, an Orlando, Florida-based mentor with SCORE—originally named the Service Corps of Retired Executives—encounters business owners who are reluctant to outsource, he has them track their time. “I She recommends using sites like Asana.com or Evernote.com for managing projects. Bring it on. Who you gonna call?

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Success

JULY 21, 2023

After giving birth, Frost passed on some of her responsibilities to her assistant, which included helping with emails, invoicing and research projects. This would help you to take that maternity leave without stress.” Frost has an assistant to handle communications and manage invoices during her absence.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mine includes a combination of 1/3 cut manila folders, 1/3 cut color folders, and poly folders that I use for organizing my projects. If your filing system is random and unorganized, start by identifying the categories for your files, such as: Accounting, Legal, Marketing, Operations, Projects, etc. Make Labeling Easy.

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Success

MAY 15, 2022

Was it the project? When stress reaches maximum levels on a team, people feel like they have to protect themselves before they protect the team. Talk to other managers about team dynamics, how they get people to collaborate and the behaviors they encourage. Think about the best team you’ve ever been a part of. The people?

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All Things Admin

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Being asked to learn new technology or software is always stressful. Google Workspace is a collaboration and productivity suite, similar to Microsoft 365, that allows you to create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, manage your email, and attend virtual meetings. Is yours one of them? What is Google Workspace?

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In this episode of The Leader Assistant Podcast, Nicki talks about managing a team of assistants, creating a career development plan, cultivating a team culture, and finding happiness in your role. She mentors, trains, and coaches EA/AAs across the region. And, you know, you manage a team, how big is the team you manage?

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 22, 2018

Career includes women who manage their households, caregivers and retirees. For example: Financial fitness keeps stress at bay thus impacting the Wellness Pillar. Taking care of our bodies and fueling them with the right foods or activity trigger the “happy” endorphins which stimulate creative thinking and help manage stress.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MARCH 25, 2011

It may seem unnatural to manage up in the top down world of business but this is exactly what you must do to be successful in business. Here are 10 tips for managing those relationships above you. Decode your boss’s management style -I’ve yet to see a situation where a boss molds his style to that of his employees.

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Page Personnel

MAY 16, 2021

The final few weeks at your current role almost always turns out to be a very busy period and involves lots of handover: forwarding to emails, advising colleagues of your project updates, informing your clients of their new point of contact, and wrapping up your final duties. So how can you make the move as smooth as possible?

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 26, 2016

Other times, we’re simply drained after being tapped for a major undertaking or high stress project. If inexperience is holding you back, approach someone whose work you admire and ask him/her to mentor you. Approach your manager about taking on increased responsibilities. It’s Become Routine; I Could Do this in My Sleep.

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Worxbee

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You’ll find them engaging in project management, process management, strategic research, reporting and a range of dynamic, managerial functions. Here are some examples of key skills that may warrant development opportunities: Time management. This is a foundational skill for all EAs and most will be time management pros.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Competencies – Calendaring, travel, task organization, projects. Cross-training, Mentoring – Open your heart and be a mentor to others. o Administrative stress levels are higher due to changing priorities and fast deadlines. How will you manage yourself? These core competencies are your stronger core foundation.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Access your 26-point Online Business Management & Marketing SYSTEMS CHECKLIST . One of the ways I do this (in fact it plays a major role in my business) is to produce a monthly Cash Flow Projection report that gives me the big picture for the year. Do you need to work with a mentor or coach to grow your business again this year?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

YOU CANNOT MANAGE TIME! How you manage to focus your attention (or how long you keep your attention focused) will make or break your ability to get things done. Do you have a large list of abandoned projects all sitting at various levels of incompletion? Do you have a list of projects that do not reflect your best work?

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 20, 2015

When we left off with Mad Men, Joan, played by Christina Hendricks had manoeuvred herself all the way from Office Manager to the brink of a fortune. Pick a project or two. Every team has numerous projects going on all the time. All the managers I’ve known recently have relied very heavily on their Pas.

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On The Job

JANUARY 3, 2013

Here's a story I did for Gannett/USA Today on what to do if you're interested in moving into the management ranks. Managers often are portrayed as incompetent nincompoops or royal jerks who should be locked in their cars and never allowed to interact with human beings again. People often forget that managers have managers," he says.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 30, 2014

Are there projects outside your defined role you could help with? Come up with your own ideas, and work with your manager to implement them. Penny Davenport is a successful business coach and career mentor. Be honest with yourself and ask if you have become lazy or complacent. Be proactive; ask to join.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I also haven’t been growing or learning anything new since Day 1 because my boss won’t give me projects. It’s such a shame that there aren’t more managers who are good mentors that help each individual grow and learn more in their roles. You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects.

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Practically Perfect PA

AUGUST 1, 2014

Well first of all make sure you have your usual daily tasks under control and then start asking for more work and more projects. Asking for advice should encourage your Executive to see themselves as a bit of a mentor which in turn should help your relationship develop a certain amount of trust. How do you over-deliver?

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Office Organization Success

DECEMBER 1, 2016

It’s so easy to become distracted by ‘bright shiny object’ syndrome that you move haphazardly from one project to another, never completing anything and having a business that is all over the place, which just leaves you feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. You will get there much faster. Challenge/Mistake #5 – Following the ‘ Shoulds ’.

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Office Organization Success

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Or they see someone else having success with a product or program, so offer something similar to their own clients and subscribers (I remember once a mentor telling me that I’ll always have success if I offer list building. Access your 26-point Online Business Management & Marketing SYSTEMS CHECKLIST . c) 2015 Tracey Lawton.

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All Things Admin

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

One of the challenges of creating administrative procedures is that many people feel overwhelmed by the project. However, thinking of procedures as one big project isn’t the right approach. If you want to make consistent progress on procedures documentation, you need to make it a habit, not a project.

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Success

MARCH 31, 2023

Having stalled until the last minutes, they tear into a project with dust flying and complaints about insufficient time. Every day we seem to have a giant to-do list of people to see, projects to complete, emails to write. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces.

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The Office Professionals Place

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We all know how difficult it can be to maintain a realm of sanity in the workplace when the phone is constantly ringing, clients are popping in and out of the office, a project is due, and you have a supervisor who is behaving like a ‘helicopter mom.’ Do you need someone to talk to during the day when you are stressed?

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

Are you stunting an opportunity for them to develop their project management skills, because as the older assistant you couldn’t be seen to have a younger assistant deliver on something that potentially should be coming from you? I have in fact identified another stereotype that many of us are guilty of also.

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Success

MARCH 14, 2023

For a short, low-stress workout, try 7 Minute Workout , a popular workout app with more than 3 million downloads. Yoga has been shown to help reduce stress and anxiety , improve quality of life and increase people’s positive perceptions of their body. Check out Project Gutenberg for a list of free classic e-books.

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you’ve been reading the GTD book by David Allen , you are probably convinced now that a stress-free productivity is not a matter of managing your time. Be A Mentor. Celebrate to remind yourself that much has been done to bring all your tasks or projects into accomplishment. You need other people.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. And it’s not only important to state them to others, but for you yourself to live your life and to manage your career so you do 99% of the work and that 1% allows others to help you if they wish to get to you the next level.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Because people who have the impostor syndrome feel that they’ve somehow managed to slip through the system undetected, in their mind it’s just a matter of time before they’re found out. ”. Others describe you as a workaholic or micro-manager. You get stressed when you’re not working and find downtime difficult or completely wasteful.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

I hated the mental stress and burden of putting everyone else first and getting only the usual thank you’s and words of appreciation. More importantly, once you figure that out, it can help you MANAGE your feelings and perspective during the day whenever you get frustrated or every hour if needed. I mentored other younger assistants.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 30, 2013

I acknowledge your presence! :) Q: Do you have experience or ideas for encouragement and continued motivation for upper level management? And thank you to new readers who are following my blog! I do check my stats almost every day! Our valuable leaders don't appear on the outside to need this but I think we all need rejuvenation.

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