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“Fast And Chaotic” — Shopify Cancels All Meetings With Two Or More Staffers

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This week, the company announced that it is nixing all meetings with two or more workers in an attempt to right-size its workforce’s calendar and marking its next step in embracing a fully remote workforce. These recurring meetings will now be a relic of the past to give staff more time to work on other projects, effective immediately.

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Why You’re Always Distracted from the Task at Hand

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Somehow his mind tricked him into checking emails and scrolling a bunch of Slack channels. Spoiler: Responding to 20 emails probably won’t make the cut. Most people blame outside events for their daily cycle of distraction, Eyal says. It was an email with the subject line: URGENT. Eyal recommends a timebox calendar.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If Handing the minutiae of backend support tasks off to a qualified professional allows leaders the calendar capacity to focus on their company’s growth and, more importantly, their own personal peace of mind. “My

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Ep 216: Claudette Clayton on Calendar and Email Management, Delegating, and Evolving as the Assistant Role Evolves

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In this episode, Claudette talks about her journey as an assistant, tips for calendar management, delegating, evolving as the job evolves, email management, and dealing with difficult executives. LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS Check out our constantly updated schedule of events for admins and assistants at LeaderAssistantLive.com.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

They are not paid the big bucks to manage a calendar and book flights. On top of that, these leaders don’t do a very good job of managing their schedules because they don’t have time to look at their calendar from a holistic perspective. A great executive assistant looks at the entire calendar for a month—what happened last week?

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How to Create a Powerful, Future-Proof Culture for Remote and Decentralized Teams

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Maintain connection through meetings, recognition programs, and virtual events. Use a cultural calendar to avoid setting meetings on holidays. You can also reach out to workers via recorded videos and emails. Others have responded to employee needs to be fully remote or to work in the office only on certain days each week. .

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Ep 185: Calendar Management for Executive Assistants

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If you look at your role through this lens, then you’ll stop viewing “calendar management” as an uninteresting part of your job. LEADER ASSISTANT LIVE EVENTS. Check out our constantly updated schedule of events for admins and assistants at LeaderAssistantLive.com. THE LEADER ASSISTANT BOOK. LEAVE A REVIEW.