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. To access online systems, you have to (duh!)

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Bonnie Low-Krayman

JANUARY 10, 2024

As burnout, stress, and mental health issues increased to red alert levels due to poor onboarding and inadequate training, Quiet Quitting took hold in 2022. By Bonnie Low-Kramen for Admin Professional Today | November, 2023 The Great Resignation of 2020 led to massive and chaotic hiring in 2021. What’s happening now? Quiet Hiring.

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Office Organization Success

JULY 13, 2013

Many business owners are a little confused between an Online Business Manager and a Virtual Assistant – they think they’re one and the same. To put simply, I equate an Online Business Manager with the traditional Office Manager/Executive Personal Assistant in the corporate world; and a virtual assistant with an administrative assistant.

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Jen Lawrence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In the fall of 2022, Harvard Business Review published the results of a case study done with the task-management company Asana. After a few days of evaluating and purging, my stress levels were lower, my processes were streamlined, and I had more space for deep thought. It’s been a wonderful time and task management tool.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 26, 2017

A few years ago I was working as a PA within a large team of highly qualified, talented and very very confident project management consultants. Don’t give yourself undue amounts of stress. It means taking on new challenges, but having a support system in place to help manage your development. Public speaking?

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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. This keeps your system up to date and keeps you focused on your true priorities. Try ClickUp!

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 31, 2023

Now in 2023, it’s projected that 25% of the workforce will engage in remote work in one form or another. While that’s great news for employees who enjoy the increased flexibility of working from home, it poses a significant challenge for managers. However, there’s a difference between trust and having no system for accountability.

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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. Jen Lawrence is a productivity and systems expert passionate about creating ease through systems. We’re buried in emails. Check it out here.

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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. Jen Lawrence is a productivity and systems expert passionate about creating ease through systems. We’re buried in emails. Check it out here.

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Office Dynamics

AUGUST 19, 2013

It is no secret that you work more efficiently, are more motivated and less stressed out when your workplace is well organized. It works on both Microsoft and OS X systems. Rule is a web-based project management and cloud collaboration tool. There is even a name for that: Irritable Desk Syndrome. MindMeister.

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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.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

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. Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

I just have not found a good system yet." " 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! Are you in love yet?

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Worxbee

MARCH 22, 2021

There was a scramble to ensure technology was in place to keep staff connected and able to do their jobs, but more than that, companies discovered they needed clear systems and processes to ensure work went smoothly. Remote systems and processes might look a lot different. Click To Tweet. Implications for going virtual.

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BioTeams

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Enterprises are required to nurture internal processes that work in sync like ecosystems to encourage front line intelligence to feed ideas through to management so that services, products, processes and teamwork ensues collaboratively to deliver benefits to the Value Chain. Accelerated learning within team systems.

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Small Business CEO

APRIL 18, 2019

One survey showing that 73% of staff saw increased work satisfaction while 78% agreed that the system made them more productive. Other studies suggest that it can also reduce stress and improve mental health. Flexible working schedules can hugely benefit staff.

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

Guest Episode Video Transcript  Andrew Filev Founder And CEO of Wrike Andrew Filev is the founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading collaborative work management platform. About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. In just a moment.

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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. Was there something that I wasn’t maintaining there that was causing the hiccup in my system?

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All Things Admin

JUNE 10, 2021

To do this, you need systems. . Whether you realize it or not, you probably already have systems in place, both personally and professionally. 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).

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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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Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 20, 2010

Google’s ranking system is no longer location independent — location and searcher intentions do play a major part in rankings — and maintaining the number one spot is no longer a relatively easy effort. Now, things are slightly different. >> New Clients – START HERE Ready to get started?

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A few of the stupid things I tried to manage the e-mail: * Folders. My system uses two e-mail folders ONLY. 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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Productivityist

JANUARY 31, 2014

Blogging can be as stressful as it is rewarding. The project management triangle applies very well to blogging: you''re always looking for the sweet spot between speed and quality content to provide great value to your readers. Writing one thousand words can be intimidating, but not if you tackle manageable chunks at once.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 27, 2010

It could be something as simple as great content, a very clean navigational system, or even sheer size. Most successful websites have one or two features that completely distinguish them from their competitors. Whatever the important factor is, remember that your website has to be able to deliver something of equal or greater quality.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

To Do Lists – Task Management. Your systems have to be bullet proof if you want your executives to trust you and the partnership to remain strong. What are the most important systems an assistant should have mapped out to move from chaos to control? Project Management. Ideas, Time & Space. Meetings/Events.

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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. However, we are concerned that the budget as it stands does not offer enough funding to realise the promise of a fully supported system from 9 months to 4 years old.

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Brilliantly Better

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

You extended your presence onto its territory, occupied it and now you have the right to eliminate it from your system. 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.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

To be effective in any position you need to be on the forefront of technology and systems use so I have attended many training courses for software and technology. Bachelor in Management. Such as time management and organisation – although as I mentioned above I did hone these skills at university.

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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. But ironically, all that unfinished "little stuff" can stress us out more than the big projects we haven't gotten around to yet.

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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.  Thanks to Robert Prentice of Professional Development Systems. Burnout and stress are morale killers that cost USA businesses $300 Billion per year. Listen First.

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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. Three Steps to Being a Successful Entrepreneur Reply Manav July 9, 2010 at 3:59 am Well written and comprehensively covers the softer aspects of managing freelancers. Great points all!

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

His work is rooted in the belief that success is more than breaking down barriers and clearing hurdles—success is building systems that don’t have barriers or hurdles in the first place. Accius is a recognized leader in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion for men and women over the age of 50, and specifically Black men and women.

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