LEADERASSISTANT.COM

MARCH 28, 2024

This resource is intended to equip you with the knowledge and tools to streamline the hiring process, ensuring a successful addition to your team. Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes.

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Office Dynamics

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Whether your team relationship is just beginning or has matured, you will benefit from these tips. When I coach executive and assistant teams, they think they do a good job of communicating. In last week’s Monday Motivators™, I said the magic formula for a stellar executive and assistant team is People + Processes = Success.

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Worxbee

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From other executive assistants to business owners, travel agents, corporate event specialists, the IT people, even the person who has connections for hard-to-get tickets or bookings can all be great “tools” in your network. Besides fostering relationships with people who can help, it’s about building a good rapport with other team members.

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Page Personnel

AUGUST 26, 2022

They may be the first person that team members talk to when they arrive at work each day. Office managers are responsible for keeping businesses running smoothly. Those in an office manager role need to know how to manage processes, procedures, documentation, project management and communications.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

As entrepreneurs/business owners, we take great care in setting rates, creating packages and tracking the hours we and our teams put in; but are our rates really paying for our expenses? Travel and Transportation: Do you do a lot of consulting, or offsite meetings? Count it, or figure out how much per mile you are spending to travel.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

JANUARY 26, 2011

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    His team is global, so physical solutions (like white boards and sticky notes on a big wall) will not work for him. 

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

Then set a reminder for you or a member of your team to check in on them at regular intervals. Does your calendar scheduler effortlessly distinguish between travel arrangements and regular phone calls when deciding when you’re available? To avoid this, keep a list of what automations you have active and what softwares they live in.

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Jen Lawrence

JANUARY 11, 2021

Then set a reminder for you or a member of your team to check in on them at regular intervals. Does your calendar scheduler effortlessly distinguish between travel arrangements and regular phone calls when deciding when you’re available? To avoid this, keep a list of what automations you have active and what softwares they live in.

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Practically Perfect PA

MARCH 15, 2016

A lot of people assume that EAs just look after the diary and book the travel, but in reality we do so much more. We are the right hand person, the key strategic partner within the management team – we really do spin many plates at the same time and my first job, as Andrew’s assistant was to help him understand my role.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

APRIL 19, 2012

Is your iPhone or iPad your constant travel companion? Weeks before you plan to be away, inform your team and your clients that you will not be available — with several weeks to plan ahead, there is really no excuse for any last-minute, frantic calls to you on vacation. Ban texts from clients and team members. Lose control !

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2016

Sherien Ahmed @sherienSA , PA to Senior Management Team, Venture Trust. Sally Lloyd @salidatious Assstant to Managing Director, CodeBase. Amy : I am currently an Executive Assistant at Skyscanner to the CTO, Director Engineering, Director of Project Management and the Director of HR. The PAs behind the Network.

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Practically Perfect PA

JULY 22, 2013

Within the define phase assistants should also look at setting up a plan for delivery and agree with their managers on how success will be measured. During my hotel accommodation project I used the define phase to focus solely on hotel accommodation and not travel costs or any other types of costs related to my department.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 8, 2016

For projects that appear critical, ask for added background information such as: “Can you tell me more about this project? Find out who else has information related to the project. The primary manager may be traveling and/or unavailable to answer your questions. email, instant chat, phone, text messaging, etc.).

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Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 12, 2014

For assistants we can pretty much guarantee that our managers will access all of their information via their phone (especially while travelling on business) so we have to make sure that we are also mobile ready and that we really do understand what they do with their phones, how the phone operates and who will fix them when they break!

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 1, 2014

Event Management, Project Management, Human Resources and Finance have become a big part of my job. Tasks and responsibilities involving heavy project management are becoming commonplace for the admin too.” I think many of us already know how our roles have diversified in our own firms.

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Loosely Speaking

MARCH 10, 2010

Here’s that link: [link] Robin’s background in business has led her to supporting leaders and teams in the development of their life and business plans. Her extensive strategic planning and project management skills help clients track their progress and produce the results they have always wanted.

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Karen Vivarelli

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This can all be managed by a virtual assistant or a team of VAs. They could be looking for someone to manage their calendar and travel. I recommend using a task and project management tool like Asana or Trello. But what about your email service or project management system and storage system?

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Productivity Bits

MAY 5, 2016

As long as you maintain this boundary, you don’t have to travel far. A message from the Productivity Bits Blog Team. Get Away From It All Short breaks are great, but every once in a while you need a vacation. Use your time off to break free. Don’t contact your work, and make it clear you’re unavailable. Thank You! ~

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Allwork

APRIL 3, 2023

Andrew now serves more than 3000 companies and encourages the use of specific, measurable goals to encourage the team to work together towards a common goal rather than using surveillance tools. What you’ll learn How modern companies are utilizing work management software to become digital and increase productivity.

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Recruit CRM

JUNE 17, 2021

Marketing Manager's Key Responsibilities: Expanding a strategy that will maximise the profits and market share but also considers customer satisfaction. Working along with the creative team. Marketing Manager Requirements and Skills: A bachelor's degree and master's degree in marketing, business administration.

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Small Business CEO

AUGUST 9, 2013

For a senior manager it’s now an effective manner to keep a close track on speed and quality of task completion and productivity levels when data and project management dashboards are synched through mobile devices. She works alongside UK technology specialists, Team Ultra. Smartphone Photo via Shutterstock.

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Success

JULY 27, 2022

For that matter, who needs to travel to a meeting? Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. For project management, Devesh Dwivedi of BreakingThe9to5Jail.com says “I love BaseCamp.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 12, 2010

Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team. WORKetc has successfully combined CRM, project management, and billing into an extremely intuitive and efficient application and they deserve the recognition! I wish others that actually offered unique services would get recognized.

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Who's the Real Boss?

MARCH 11, 2019

Throughout my earlier career, I battled terribly trying to gain the respect of older assistants that sat underneath me within the company structure and who failed to see me as the ‘leader’ of that admin team.

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 26, 2010

This is his Travel log, his moblog, his mobile blogging project. I convinced him that this is the perfect time to document his story, his preparation, and his biking adventure through a blog, social media, and his mobile phone. He’s doing this on a shoestring budget.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 7, 2010

If it can travel through already established relationships, make it something that travels via Facebook. When you are piecing together your blog promotion strategy, incorporate social media platforms that allow a message to spread quickly. 2) Explain it in one sentence.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 7, 2010

If it can travel through already established relationships, make it something that travels via Facebook. When you are piecing together your blog promotion strategy, incorporate social media platforms that allow a message to spread quickly. 2) Explain it in one sentence.

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Andrea Kalli

APRIL 19, 2010

Tags and Categories: #ivaa10 , audio blogs , audioboo , blogpress iphone app , ivaa , ivaa live blogging , mobile blogging , Mobile Devices , theivaa.tk , travel moblog , video blog , virtualassist.net Related content WooHoo!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 24, 2009

There is usually an answer if you look for it or speak to others on your team or in your network of acquaintances. Sometimes deadlines are exaggerated and if you talk to your boss you may find that the real deadline is further out, but if it cant be moved, why not look to your team members for help?

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Andrea Kalli

MAY 22, 2010

Travel HQR 3 AndreaKalli May 29th, 2009 at 8:38 am Hey Alyssa, Glad you enjoyed the links! Andrea compares the two most common fixes. [.] 2 Alyssa Faith May 29th, 2009 at 2:46 am The links/resources you have provided for the twitter background issues are helpful! Thanks for the posts. Looking forward for more workarounds!

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Andrea Kalli

MARCH 25, 2010

These small differences might not count for much offline, but in the world of social media, where word of your personal service can travel, they count for more than you can imagine. Instead of just thinking of your brand, your customers and clients are always thinking of the people behind the business.

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Andrea Kalli

JULY 14, 2010

Generally, the advertiser wants to instill the idea that with the vehicle on offer, the owner can travel through beautiful mountainous areas and confidently go anywhere off-road. Instead, you can use interesting, compelling imagery to captivate your viewers as well as inform them about the benefits of owning your product.

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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. With our growth, we've moved to a larger office and I now have a team that includes a receptionist and office admin. So I’m not exactly sure what other high level tasks/responsibilities you may be missing out on when you have to manage the office.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

To Do Lists – Task Management. Travel Planning. Assistants are not only keeping themselves on track; they’re also responsible for keeping their executive and teams on track as well. There are 5 core systems I encourage assistants to look at first: Time and Task Management. Travel Planning. Project Management.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Ability to link up with home computer calendar and Palm/Blackberry etc Task lists/project manager/calendar Recommended Tool: FranklinCovey's PlanPlus for Microsoft Outlook [link] is a PC Software great for Business Professional Pros of Planning Tool : now works with a Blackberry and uses Outlook that most/many are familiar with using. 

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

Nozbe This is a web-based time and project management app that helps you get things done. Organize your projects and see what you have left to do. When I travel I use a high-capacity thumb drive for all the new files I create, along with the main Businesses directory that contains nearly everything I work on frequently.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 28, 2015

Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. And it is changing again as executives recognize that administrators aren’t just for typing emails or making travel plans. They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more.

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