Jen Lawrence

AUGUST 8, 2022

Simply put, bookending means you check in with your task management systems at the beginning and end of your day. Your task management system could be a physical planner, digital calendar, or wall of post-it notes. In the market for a task management system that truly is one tool to replace them all? Try ClickUp!

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

" Then, I heard this comment: "I use Asana for task and project management, and the app is on my iPhone and iPad, so I can see all of my tasks at a glance and add to them if needed. I’m enjoying a new love affair… with my task management tool! Task/Project Management Tool: Asana. And I am willing to share.

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Eat Your Career

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It pains me to announce that my grand experiment with using electronic time management systems has officially come to an end (sort of). You see, for the past several years, I’ve been using a variety of tech tools to help organize my life and work—appointments, tasks, projects and more. But now, I’m back to paper (sort of).

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

” Running our own businesses isn’t quite as enjoyable as we had hoped, and putting financial stress aside, we seem to be struggling day in and day out. Maybe they even give you a five-star review. There comes a point in every business owner’s journey where they think, “Why is this so frustrating?”

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Success

JANUARY 4, 2023

The stress-reducing power of assertiveness. Obviously, it’s helpful to be able to write your thoughts, step away and review them later before hitting send. Joy then could have reminded him that, as a contractor, he works for her, the project manager. That was nine years ago, and Fanning has never been the same.

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Jen Lawrence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

” Running our own businesses isn’t quite as enjoyable as we had hoped, and putting financial stress aside, we seem to be struggling day in and day out. Maybe they even give you a five-star review. There comes a point in every business owner’s journey where they think, “Why is this so frustrating?”

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

I wrote an entire 80+ Page Guide incorporating the main processes executives and assistants need to have down pat, such as: regularly scheduled meetings, calendar management, meeting preparation, e-mail management, project management, travel, follow-up systems and prioritization. Implement quarterly strategic meetings.

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On The Job

MAY 19, 2010

While many of those unemployed in the last year have managed to find work again, the – sometimes painful – lessons they have learned will stick with them for a career lifetime, they say. “I and Business (including Project Management certification) at www.nefuniversity.org. What toll has workplace stress taken on your life?

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

A few years ago I realized that my personal productivity system, based on Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen, was making me redo and second-guess planning over and over again on projects. If I kept certain projects at the project level, the repetition problem crept back up on me.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

Whilst we desperately try to stomp out the misconceived ideas and dated perceptions that others have of our own roles, I think it’s time also for some self-reflection and time to review some of the stereotypes we seem to have labelled of each other. I have in fact identified another stereotype that many of us are guilty of also.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. State in 5 or 10 years you’d like to be VP of a division. Work on your weaknesses.

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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. Do you want to manage people or actually do the work? Why do I bring this up?

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A few of the stupid things I tried to manage the e-mail: * Folders. I review email twice a day now. When you receive an email with a key project or business decision, this should be archived straight away in your corporate project management tool (SharePoint, Asana etc) with the appropriate metadata assigned.

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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 20, 2010

>> New Clients – START HERE Ready to get started?

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 27, 2010

Tags and Categories: 5 kinds of competition research reports in seo , best sites to research competitors , competition research , competition research method , competitor research tips , great internet marketing training , how to gather competition research on google , internet marketing , keyword research services , market samurai , Online Business, (..)

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The ultimate project management victory: I crossed off my own death today. The graphical representation of a project in Assess – Decide – Do will look more like a spiral than like a Gantt diagram. It doesn’t have to be a positive review, just an honest one. For A Liveline Philosophy Forget deadlines.

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The Marq

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

In his “regular life”, René Rosendahl is a project management professional and Agilist working for Kelley Blue Book. Not only were they useful during the ascent and in the snow, they now took a lot of stress off my knees as we came back down. I’ll be happy to review and post it here, with your permission, of course!

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Andrea Kalli

JUNE 30, 2010

The last five years have seen some remarkable SEO success stories, from Markus Frind’s ultra-popular PlentyOfFish online dating website all the way to unique location-dependent auction websites and trading posts.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 18, 2011

  [link]   When I would get a new manager on my team, I'd encourage them to flip through the book and flag items that appealed to them.  Burnout and stress are morale killers that cost USA businesses $300 Billion per year. It makes my meditation practice much easier because peace is cumulative like stress.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

I was stressed out from the pace of work and also the length of a couple of special projects with a long lead time. We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. A week or two ago, it was one of those weeks where my brain just felt tired.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Use it to manage overwhelm when your world is freakin'! " The playing field of the world is leveling off which means that the competition, pace and stress levels are at maximum. Then create rules so emails automatically go into the folders and you review these folders when needed, once a day, a few times a week.

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Men With Pens

JULY 7, 2010

I let go of lots of stress and very little money – we didn’t even work together enough for it to bring in much money to my business. Review- The Gettysburg Approach to Writing -amp Speaking Like a Professional Reply Mark W. Great points all! Sharon Hurley Hall´s last blog. I will start thinking about this right away.

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On The Job

JULY 6, 2009

recently did a story for Gannett/USAToday on where job reviews may be headed: Performance evaluations have often been derided by managers and employees alike as being unfair, dysfunctional and morale-busting. But performance evaluations and reviews can be used as ammo against people.” Robinson advises: • Write back.

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